Does anyone know where...

[GrumpyGregry]

... I left my Shimano cable cutters? Can't find the darned things and I want to re-cable the tandem.

Any clue where I last used them?

 

[ianrauk]

Think you kicked them by mistake under the fridge.
You will find them there along with a few ball bearings, 3p in coppers, a rancid cocktail sausage, a massive ball of fluff and some dry spirally Pasta.

 

[Cold]

Have you checked the top of your head

 

[welsh dragon]

Have you looked in your man drawer. They're at the bottom along with leaking batteries, bits of string, old chargers for things you threw away 5 years ago, and instructions for things that broke or you gave away 15 years ago, along with a 101 other things you've stuffed in there.

 

[Tim Hall]

Want to borrow mine? (although I'm v busy just now, and riding York-hull on Saturday).

 

[Leaway2]

Are they at the end of the cable?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Have you looked in your man drawer. They're at the bottom along with leaking batteries, bits of string, old chargers for things you threw away 5 years ago, and instructions for things that broke or you gave away 15 years ago, along with a 101 other things you've stuffed in there.

I'm not allowed a man drawer.

I have a man shed and a man "tool" cupboard instead mind.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Want to borrow mine? (although I'm v busy just now, and riding York-hull on Saturday).

It may come to that next week. But I'll keep looking and let you know. I just found my best adjustable spanner on the bathroom.

i do have a pair of hefty side-cutters as a fall back. But I'd like to know where they are. It may even be time to tidy the shed and tool cupboard this weekend. And cleanse the spares boxes etc..

*swoons*

 

[welsh dragon]

I'm not allowed a man drawer.

I have a man shed and a man "tool" cupboard instead mind.

MR WD has a man drawer although he doesn't use it at the moment, only because he can't get it open because there is so much junk in it. And he has a man shed with, yep youve guessed it, lots of junk, that he may need one day even though he hasn't needed any of it for at least 6 years.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

MR WD has a man drawer although he doesn't use it at the moment, only because he can't get it open because there is so much junk in it. And he has a man shed with, yep youve guessed it, lots of junk, that he may need one day even though he hasn't needed any of it for at least 6 years.

My man shed is crammed to the rafters with bicycles. There are more under covers in the back garden. Need to get shot of three or four.

Her woman shed, yep his'n'hers sheds round ours, is full of garden furniture and lawnmowers and things.

My tool shed is full of bike tools, spare parts and largely unused DIY tools as, these days, I'd rather get a man in to DIH (Do It Himself) rather than DIM (Do It Myself) it. Redistribution of wealth; good socialist principle. The only DIY I do is maintaining bikes.

The nearest we have to a man drawer is Beth's drawer; a drawer in our kitchen set aside for the vast array of baking and other cooking implements beloved of our daughter!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Well. I found my 'working up close on the bike' glasses. And a single spd pedal ?eh? and the components are all in the component boxes and the tools in the tool boxes and I've chucked a stack of parp away but I still ain't found my cable cutters and my awl. I thought they might be in my gig bag, as they are great for cutting bass strings, but no.

Dang.

 

[Saluki]

Try the airing cupboard or the fridge. That's where I tend to find 'lost' stuff. I have no idea how the things get there. Have you looked at the dog's/cat's basket? Our little Poco steals stuff and takes them to her bed. I found my wrist strap there the other day.

 

[John the Canuck]

it's obviously with the spare cut cables from the last bike you did -- which is where...........................?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

If your garden is looking tidy right now, has someone been using them as secateurs?

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

If your missus is anything like mine you will find them in the garden under a bush rusted to hell. She does that with almost any tool she "borrows". Perhaps I should tell her how much I do actually pay for my tools - comes from years of earning my living on the tools - the old adage of buy it once and it will last a lifetime, but the trouble is that means expensive tools.
Then again I don't think I will! Less trouble that way.
My biggest fear is that my missus will sell all my tools and my all my cycling gear when I am dead for what she thinks I paid for them!