The spring that went "boing"

[Big John]

It's a little known fact that garage floors are a portal to a parallel universe and anything dropped on said floor is immediately transported to another dimension in time and space, never to be seen again. I swear I've dropped stuff, seen where it's fallen and by the time I've bent down to pick it up it's disappeared.

 

[Dogtrousers]

The only option on your list should be:

Clean your garage. Don't start a job before cleaning up. Always. Clean garage, happy life.

I'm really struggling with that concept.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My chauffeur cleans the garage

 

[Dogtrousers]

Well giving up worked this time. Having accepted the derailleur was scrap without the springy retaining clip I had a cup of tea indoors, then went into the garage again to clear up the mess.

There on the floor, where I had looked an hour earlier was the little thing. Yay!

That reminds me of a bit of wheel/cassette fettling I did once. I'd put everything back together and the gear indexing, which should have been fine, was all off. I faffed around with the indexing and just as I was making progress I looked down on the floor and spotted the spacer that should have been behind the cassette. So ... take it all to bits and start again.

For the n'th time I went for your option 9. Vow never to attempt repairs again.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That reminds me of a bit of wheel/cassette fettling I did once. I'd put everything back together and the gear indexing, which should have been fine, was all off. I faffed around with the indexing and just as I was making progress I looked down on the floor and spotted the spacer that should have been behind the cassette. So ... take it all to bits and start again.

For the n'th time I went for your option 9. Vow never to attempt repairs again.

You failed to follow the rule of “99% of problems are usually caused by what has recently been changed”. Shifting problems? Recheck what you have recently changed / fettled. In this case, start with cassette, and / or wheel.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@All uphill I'm glad you have found your spring!
I picked options: give up searching, buy another one, start a thread on CC about it
Life is too short to keep your garage clean!

 

[Reynard]

I tend to dismantle fiddly things inside a large, clear plastic bag. If something goes "pyoingggggg", then it goes "pyoingggggg" inside the bag. I learned that lesson the hard way LOL!

 

[Dadam]

Forget it. It's gone forever. Or until you've replaced it, or completely forgotten you ever tried to service a derailleur.

 

[Dadam]

Clean your garage. Don't start a job before cleaning up. Always. Clean garage, happy life.

No chance. Waaayyy too big a job!

 

[C R]

I tend to dismantle fiddly things inside a large, clear plastic bag. If something goes "pyoingggggg", then it goes "pyoingggggg" inside the bag. I learned that lesson the hard way LOL!

You should patent that idea.

 

[PaulSB]

Usually these things are to be found in the last place you'd think of looking........

 

[silva]

I'd have seen it as a godsend opportunity to go fixed gear.

 

[silva]

You should patent that idea.

And in a hurry, before the oxygen runs out.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

No chance. Waaayyy too big a job!

Go big or go boing.