[SEL] Biggest part you've lost?

[Jeff Allen]

Best way to find those lost parts is forget about them. Once you cease 
to amuse them they come out of hiding and you usually trip over them.

Jeff Allen

Alan Bowen wrote:

>Bugger George,
>Why do you have to bring up a question like that????
>Mean you are!!!!
>8>))
>
>Right now I sure would like to know where I last laid down the mixer for my Cushman model 21 type
>X.  Or actually the main body of it.  I have some of the bits.  I had it apart to make a new shaft
>for the butterfly valve and aftre I cut a thin slot in a piece of brass rod the main body got lost
>around here some place.   I bought the Famous Worl Traveled Blue Handled Fence Pliers hoping they
>would wander around here and fined the mixer, but instead they are just sitting in there box
>waiting to walk around the Buckley Swap meet with me looking for new toys soon.
>
>Alan Bowen
>
>--- "Best, George" <George_Best at adp.com> wrote:
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>>What's the biggest engine part you've lost?
>>
>>Last night I thought I'd better get the engine I'm taking to Tulare
>>ready.  I'm planning on taking my vertical DUX.  When I got the engine
>>it had no gas tank, so I cobbled up a bracket so I could mount a small
>>gas tank.  It's a old Clinton mower engine tank about 3.5" in diameter
>>and 10" long.
>>
>>A month or two ago I had taken the tank off the engine and put it
>>somewhere.  Damn if I could find that thing last night.
>>
>>You'd think in a 24'x30' main shop room and a 12x15' adjoining room that
>>I could find that darn tank.  Seems to have vanished :-(
>>
>>Got a few more nights to try to locate it, otherwise I'll just be
>>running off what the float bowl will hold.
>>
>>I'm sure we've all lost nuts and bolts and the odd spring or checkball
>>which went flying when we took something apart only to be surprised that
>>there was a spring inside waiting to escape.
>>
>>WAIT George
>>
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