I'm rebuilding a diesel smoke unit. There's a rubber gasket on top of the funnel that's pulling away. So I apply some CA and hold the funnel pinching the gasket in my finger.
( meanwhile, I THOUGHT I removed the tiny screw that holds the funnel to the top of the smoke unit)
I hear some rustling upstairs, better go check on my 1 year old gsd pup, make sure he's not getting into anything.
I walk across the train room throw rug, across the carpeted basement. Up the carpeted basement stairs and into the carpeted livingroom where... Robbie has gotten into the fireplace and scattered ash and charcoal from the night before all across the entire livingroom.
(Smoke funnel still pinched in my fingers
)
I shoo him out of the livingroom, set the funnel on the kitchen counter and go cleanup the mess. I make the last pass with the vacuum ,grab the funnel off of the counter, and head back downstairs.
I sit down at the workbench. Uh oh where in the **** is that tiny screw?
I look everywhere on the bench, check the diesel wheels because of the magnetration, an drag a magnet around the corner of the train room. No dice, I stare at the carpet and think of all the steps across it up into the livingroom. Lost for good I'm sure.
There was a slight rattling in the hoover cannister while I was vacuuming, probably just the small chunks of charcoal from the fireplace.
I'm sure it's not in there ....but...I'll check the vacuum just in case. I grab an old cardboard box pop open the bottom of the vacuum cannister and the first clump of dust falls out and THERES THE SCREW!!!! I didn't even have to dig through the entire cannister load of ash dog hair and everything else.
"Nobody does it like Hoover"...indeed
Bad boy Robbie lol!
