Also known as Z Spring Theory
Oh, you mean like Kadee coupler knuckle springs?
That’s an excellent example! I’ve lost plenty of those springs over the years and have never seen them again, though I know they HAVE to be here somewhere.
I have long beleived that the fabric of space time has small holes in it. Holes large enough to swallow 4-40 nuts and lock washers. Some of these holes lead forward in time, so a small part falling into one will move 5 or 10 minutes into the future and then reappear just as you have given up groveling on hands and knees looking for it.
Oh, you mean “D—it Springs?”
these are the tiny springs that Kadee calls “knuckle springs” that go PING and disappear into an alternate universe, never to be seen again, and when they go PING, you say “D—it!” [:D]
- Grab irons
- Lift rings
- MU hoses
- Brake hoses
- Coupler springs
- Air horns
… all those wonderfull user applied detail parts, which even the Chinese find to cumbersome to install [swg]
- Grab irons
- Lift rings
- MU hoses
- Brake hoses
- Coupler springs
- Air horns
… all those wonderfull user applied detail parts, which even the Chinese find too cumbersome to install [swg]
That happened to me yesterday! I was trying to install a grab iron on the cab of a Sylvan Scale Mack truck, and PING off it went. Not stuck to my shirt, slacks, or shoes, not visible on the concrete floor - until 4 or 5 minutes later it shows up in my flashlight beam right under my feet as I was sitting in the chair. Hyperspace time warp for sure! [sigh] [banghead] [:D]
Ahh, I see you have the spring that goes, “PING!” (Monty Python fans should all be laughing now)
I know exactly where those springs go. They land right next to my unmatched socks. Either that or they land in one of my kids’ bedrooms, in which case they disappear forever into the abyss.
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I like dstarr’s theory best. [:)]
I always thought they just hid under the heaviest and least accessible piece of furniture with other long lost parts, sniggering and elbowing one another as you swear your head off for an entire evening, until you’re so desperate that you’re searching in the most ridiculous of places. They remain in hiding until you’ve given up on the project or purchased a replacement, at which time they hop to the spot you were sure they landed in the first place, and do their best to look innocent.
Looks like you all have just invented a new area of physics:
Spring Theory. [:D]
John
Kitchen counters and breakfast bars are actually portals to a parallel universe which will suck up virtually any part laid on them only to reappear in a week on the opposite side of the room along with keys, door openers and an empty pizza box.
Don’t you mean Quantum Spring Theory? [(-D]
This is kind of like my blackhole in the floor between my legs theory.
Yep, and right along with the dreaded Tweezer Ping there’s the stomach churning Vacuum Slurp. You’ve been putting off changing the bag in ol’ shop vac, you’ve been working at some job thats particulary dirty on your work bench, and while vacuuming away you notice a split second too late that tiny, important part that you left laying there… SLURP… BURP!
Jarrell
Sure, and one of the basic laws is: “The probability of a lost spring spontaneously winking into existance is directly proportional to the number of springs left in the package.”
John
There may also be a correlation with Quantum Expanding Foam too… and Particle Entanglement… and Spooky Action at a Distance. [:-^]
John
Then there’s the Observer Effect:
The odds of anything breaking down on the layout increase in proportion to the square of the number of visitors to the layout. [xx(]