A small ebay purchase was delivered yesterday, which involved some quite tiny nuts and bolts, plus assembly. So, sat on our electric recliner settee I began assembling it, but working on my lap and unable to get one of the nuts on - I managed to loose it. I have been wearing thin shorts around the house for weeks due to the weather.
I probed down around the recliner for the nut, looked around the floor
- nothing, so I gave up and left the project one nut short. Part of the job, involved some work in my loft electronics workshop, so up I went and did that next, before having to get changed and go out.
My final act at around midnight, was to go back up in the loft and see if I could track down a suitable nut amongst my oddments box. There, sat on the carpet of the loft floor, was the the missing 1.2mm nut. Trying to screw it onto my bolt, I quickly worked out why I had struggled to fit it in the morning - the nut had no thread. Suitable replacement found in my oddments box...