For reasons that I *cough* don't need to go into right now, involving
some mechanical f-wittery (but unusually for me, not a hammer) - I
needed to retrieve a piece of metal wot had fallen right into the sump
of an engine.

I bought a little grapply hook thingy and a magnet-onna-stick thing
(laser brand), but they were too big to go through the access hole I had.

Hence one of these:
http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.a...0Pickup%20Tool

Fished the offending part out in 30 sec.

Saved me rather a lot of dismantling that has.

--
/Simon

On 1 July, 21:13, Simon Wilson <siwil...@nodamnspamn.hotmail.com>
wrote:
> For reasons that I *cough* don't need to go into right now, involving
> some mechanical f-wittery (but unusually for me, not a hammer) - I
> needed to retrieve a piece of metal wot had fallen right into the sump
> of an engine.

Clumsy oaf

> I bought a ... a magnet-onna-stick thing

ah, so a bolt then

Don't you bung up engine orifices with a bit of rag then ? you know
that bolt or nut you drop is always going to land butter side down
into the sump ...

Paul.

On 02/07/2010 00:52, zymurgy wrote:
> On 1 July, 21:13, Simon Wilson<siwil...@nodamnspamn.hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> For reasons that I *cough* don't need to go into right now, involving
>> some mechanical f-wittery (but unusually for me, not a hammer) - I
>> needed to retrieve a piece of metal wot had fallen right into the sump
>> of an engine.
>
> Clumsy oaf

Yup.

>
>> I bought a ... a magnet-onna-stick thing
>
> ah, so a bolt then

Nope.

>
> Don't you bung up engine orifices with a bit of rag then ? you know
> that bolt or nut you drop is always going to land butter side down
> into the sump ...
>

<keeping schtum>

--
/Simon

On 1 July, 21:13, Simon Wilson <siwil...@nodamnspamn.hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hence one of these:http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.a...rostProductNam...
>
> Fished the offending part out in 30 sec.
>
> Saved me rather a lot of dismantling that has.
>
I usually find that whatever I've dropped turns out not to be
magnetic.

--
Malc

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ
<(E-Mail Removed)> typed
>On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:52:38 -0700 (PDT), zymurgy
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>On 1 July, 21:13, Simon Wilson <siwil...@nodamnspamn.hotmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>> For reasons that I *cough* don't need to go into right now, involving
>>> some mechanical f-wittery (but unusually for me, not a hammer) - I
>>> needed to retrieve a piece of metal wot had fallen right into the sump
>>> of an engine.
>
>>Don't you bung up engine orifices with a bit of rag then ?
>
>I do.

As do I. I once left a gap of 19.00000000000000000000000000000000001mm.
The 19mm shim bounced once, then went through the gap without touching
the sides.

Dropping the sump on a ZN1300 is quite a mission.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I've always been a man who's open to persuasion

On 2 July, 09:52, Champ <n...@champ.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:52:38 -0700 (PDT),zymurgy
>
> <zymu...@technologist.com> wrote:
> >On 1 July, 21:13, Simon Wilson <siwil...@nodamnspamn.hotmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> For reasons that I *cough* don't need to go into right now, involving
> >> some mechanical f-wittery (but unusually for me, not a hammer) - I
> >> needed to retrieve a piece of metal wot had fallen right into the sump
> >> of an engine.
> >Don't you bung up engine orifices with a bit of rag then ?
>
> I do.
>
> On one occasion, I left the rag in the engine...

You'd never make a surgeon. The medical negligence claims would kill
you ..

Paul.