Those magnets on a stick. They're very handy, aren't they.

Especially when, while adjusting the valve shims on the rear cylinder
of the TLthou I drop a 10mm socket out of my oily fingers. And it
finds it's way down, past the camshaft drive gear. Past the camchain.
And lodges about eight inches down inside the camchain casing in the
cylinder block! Thank **** it couldn't / didn't go further down and
into the crankcase.

A few hours of fretting that I was going to get a much bigger bill for
parts than I ever expected and after visiting every DIY / motor store
in the area I finally found one at a Halfords. For a fiver it was
probably quite literally worth it's weight in gold!

Gowon then, larf.

--
Regards from Mike Barnard
Suzuki TL1000S. Green. I is happy.
Worthing, West Sussex.

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I think a classsic car mag was giving these away not so long ago...

 

I made a magnet on a stick out of a broken RC plane control linkage
tube, a fragment of a hard disk magnet and some cable ties. It helped me
get to a metal dowel I'd dropped down and didn't cost a penny.

 

Heh.. I'd have expected to be called a Pikey, or isn't that PC any more?

 

Smashed up car speaker magnet, garden cane and some string managed to
fish the only set of keys I had for the Shite old Golf out of the drain.

 

I bet you've dropped it inside an engine.

 

I made sure it was longer than the internal depth of the engine. The bit
that fell off into the engine, turned out to be lodged behind an intake
valve spring. This was after I'd taken the exhaust and sump off.

 

Heh... it's a classic, you know ;-)