Re: [RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-28 Thread Fai Mao
Somewhere there is a planet that has all my screwdrivers and sockets On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Thomas Lynn Skean < thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: > Yeah, and I bet they still sell 80/20 Striped Sporty Shorties there! > > On Sep 26, 8:55 pm, Jim Cloud wrote: > > Stephen Hawking would

[RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-28 Thread kevin lindsey
I dropped a small bolt at the LBS a couple of days ago. Ordinarily, no big deal, but this time it vaporized before it hit the floor - no "ding-ding-ding" as it bounced and rolled - nothing. No big deal; it was an open tile floor and should have been easy to spot. I leaned over and glanced around

[RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Pesce
I've heard a theory that the socks that disappear from your laundry are magically transformed into the wire hangars that continually appear in your closet. Maybe a similar thing is happening to all this hardware? For me, every time a piece of hardware disappears, it seems a new cardboard box (sta

Re: [RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-28 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 06:52 -0500, Jon Grant wrote: > Rob in Seattle wrote: > > > > > Changing out the saddle on my Saluki yesterday I dropped one of the > > > > bolts from its Nitto Jaguar seatpost, and it vaporized. Absolutely > > > > nowhere to be found. Tore apart the garage looking for it

Re: [RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-28 Thread Jon Grant
Rob in Seattle wrote: > > > Changing out the saddle on my Saluki yesterday I dropped one of the   > > > bolts from its Nitto Jaguar seatpost, and it vaporized. Absolutely   > > > nowhere to be found. Tore apart the garage looking for it. Found the   > > > proprietary washer, but the bolt itself va

[RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-28 Thread Thomas Lynn Skean
Yeah, and I bet they still sell 80/20 Striped Sporty Shorties there! On Sep 26, 8:55 pm, Jim Cloud wrote: > Stephen Hawking would approve your analysis of the situation, quantum > physics is the obvious culprit (those folks in the alternate universe > must have way too many non-matching socks!).

[RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-26 Thread Jim Cloud
Stephen Hawking would approve your analysis of the situation, quantum physics is the obvious culprit (those folks in the alternate universe must have way too many non-matching socks!). Jim Cloud Tucson, AZ On Sep 26, 12:25 pm, Marty wrote: > I can't tell you how many times that has happened to m

Re: [RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-26 Thread Tim McNamara
On Sep 26, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Marty wrote: I'm convinced there's another dimension, where a duplicate of me is rehabbing old bikes, and the little bits magically appear on their workbench just as other me is about to give up rooting around for them. LOL! -- You received this message beca

[RBW] Re: Vaporizing Nitto Jaguar Bolt

2010-09-26 Thread Marty
I can't tell you how many times that has happened to me! If you come across it, look for the two tiny rubber O rings from the bottom of the two old style Silca floor pumps I've restored. I think they vanished before they even hit the floor. I'm convinced there's another dimension, where a duplicate