where is my new 5m, metric only tape

[dirtydeeds]

brand new today

now ive lost it

[dunbarhamlin]

Tapes are very closely related to pencils and car keys, I find.
Buggers spend their whole lives finding places to hide.

[colincott]

Glad to see its not just me

[TonyW]

There have been some reports of faulty return spring mechanisms on some of the new Stanley's. The tension is so great that they can actually rewind completely on themselves causing a disruption in the time space continuum resulting in them returning to their original atomic component parts. Look for piles of unexplained debris around the place. Unfortunately the manufacturer will not be able to refund as the product needs to be in the state it was originally purchased ;D ;D
Cheers ;D
Tony

[dom]

Look where you put it just before you lost it. ;D

[colincott]

dom said:

Look where you put it just before you lost it. ;D

[jmk89]

dunbarhamlin said:

Tapes are very closely related to pencils and car keys, I find.
Buggers spend their whole lives finding places to hide.

I reckon that tapes go off for dirty weekends with chuck keys. ;D
Pencils are just real slappers and shoot off for unscheduled assignations all the time.

As for car keys, the only thing to do is what my Dad did (and what happens a lot in the bush in Australia) and leave them in the ignition - where else should car keys be?

[mailee]

Yep I can relate to that. I have three scattered around my workshop and still manage to lose the buggers! Of course as is usual helpful input from SWMBO is 'Where did you have it last?' If i knew that I wouldn't have lost it would I?

[dirtydeeds]

from the answers im getting "metric only" doesnt seem to add to the ease of loss

[dirtydeeds]

FOUND

it was deliberatly and mallisously hiding

............................... in the passenger footwell of my van

[engineerone]

ok,
so what are the odds that by midday tomorrow, you will have lost it again ;D

i now have 5 different tapes, and still can't find them all at the same time. one is a b****y great yellow plastic cased one

do you think the tapes have a training course when they leave the factory??

paul

[dirtydeeds]

dont you start

[Lord Nibbo]

You don't want a tiddler it's too easy to lose.

You want one like mine


Just impossible to lose, it's too big to put in your pocket too, I even thought about buying a wheel set from Axminster just for it. ;D

[dom]

Good grief, a p***ing contest. ;D

[engineerone]

next we'll have a who's 6inches is bigger than whose ;D

paul

[jimw]

I often top up a screwfix order with their 5m "never looose"

They are less than £2 each and are as good as the stanleys
Have about 6 .............somewhere!

Can I sue Screwfix under trades descriptions

[Lord Nibbo]

I guess that one day someone is going to find a pile of ballpoint pens three mile high and right next door will be an even bigger pile of screwdrivers. these two items are what disappear most in our house.

[dirtydeeds]

bloody thing went missing this morning

just got back

and its on the kitchen table looking at me

[dom]

Went out and bought three Fisco tapes today( on special offer at the moment) and got to thinking.
How difficult would it be to to put a small buzzer in the tape that is activated by a button on the workshop wall.
If someone makes a fortune from this idea I want 10%

[paulchapman]

Blimey, next you'll have people downloading personalised tape measure tunes from the internet ;D

Cheers

Paul

[dom]

Ooh yes, then you could have a bluetooth headset and the tape could talk to you.
"Oi, I'm over here " ;D

[jake]

They'd lie.

[engineerone]

what is really scary is that we devote so much time to finding an inanimate object

paul