garage floor monster
 

Beware the garage floor monster is on the loose! This week alone he has eaten my 10mm spanner, eaten the wheel off my gazunder board, mixed up all my sockets, broken numerous drills and left my test meter out in the rain along with the starter charger. Its got to be the monster because none of my workforce know anything about it. Strange thing is he pukes up most of the things he eats in the strangest of places, please tell me i havent got the only one of these .

Bob

I've got some little critters living in my workshop that steal tools pencils keys anything and hide them .Then when you are totally frustrated and fed up with looking for stuff they put them back where you thought they were in the first place:confused: -----Sense of humour eh-----Ill kill em when I catch em:mad:

44mm hole saw done a runner today.. Thing is my garage monster has to cope with My 7yr old. The monster and him combined makes life 3 times more difficult.

TT

he is still up
 

I just heard him fire up the compressor i turned off earlier.

Mine has eaten my brand new 3/8-> 1/2 socket adaptor and still not given back my multimeter. He also sucks all the air out of the compressor even with the valve screwed shut.

r.i.p tt"s hole saw.
 

You can forget the hole saw tt if there is a seven year old and a monster involved unless you can located the nest/camp. I stumbled across one recently and could not believe what treasures were lurking, things that had been missing for years. and series landy if you want some more air i will sqeeze some out of my monster, which end do you want it from? send a stamped addressed envelope and i will send some down.
bob

my mate tom has got a black Labrador that thinks its funny to pick up all your tools a bury them in the surrounding fields

My garage monster brought a load of tut that belongs to my brother- in-law and dumped it all over my garage there is 5 snooker tables some skis some ice skates 10 pin bowling balls 40 cameras 2 playstations and a commadore 64 with games along with a load of mini parts for a car he does not own and it seems that no matter how hard I try 4 months later I am still no closer to getting shot of it so I can start my build anyone hot any suggestions

test meter
 

A test meter is nothing to do with diabetics , i was refering to a blind date.

Start listing bits on ebay and send him the link.

TT

TT

skippus maximus
 

Call in skippus maximus and if the iron content is high he will cross your palms with sheckles and groats.
Bob

Ok the iron content has been weighed in this morning thats £30 into the coffers for my build made the appointment for the local auctioneer to come take a look at the rest and anything left after that will be offered to the skip now I wonder if handyandy is up for cutting my chassis for my mx5 build

garage monsters ? is that the same as the garage fairies

i had a set square move itself then re appear a week later. even after the most categorised garage clean ups and then leaving it for weeks on end without a visit my stuff still vanishes and no one has been out there !

shame the monsters cant be trained and the fairies harnesses might speed my build up again !

how does lady ga ga motivate her little monsters?

:D

fairy vs monsters
 

Different animals ,I think the fairies are as bad, its them that change the tape from the time you measure something to the time you cut your material. They deal with all the lightweight stuff like wrong size spanner in your hand or mixing up wires. The monsters job is different his job is to fxxk you up, letting you drain oil into a bucket with a hole that wasnt there,hiding tools for a month and worshop mayhem. I wonder how many side panels have been fxxked up by these devious critters?

bob

I work with computers, I mainly deal with gremlins in the workshop! And also lots of bugs, but that's mainly down to microsofts evil empire.

This all reminds me of an article I managed to get into Model Engineer magazine in 1998:



That earned me a whole £10! :)

:D Very Good! I hate it when all work has to stop cos you've had a visitation!

I think I may have killed mine - popped in the garage the other day, and the power was off, nothing unusual there (the supply is in the back of a cupboard in the kitchen and regularly gets knocked off accidentally).

I turned it back on and returned to the garage, turned the light on. The little demon must have been in the consumer unit, and began to hum loudly before exploding in a shower of sparks.

So now no more garage demon, but no more electricity either.

ahh so they dont like electricity hmmmm ? ive thought many a time about building a little robot to live in the garage with a full blown lazer jobbie whos sole purpose was to guard from the monster / fairies but i fail with the programming

maybe a set of tights and a cod piece is in order david bowie labyrith stylee seemed all the monsters/ critters/ fairies were scared of him !

you know i think that would work !:D

found one
 

Found one

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...429,r:18,s:286

Bob

And what a fine looking chap

You have my deepest sympathy Bob.

I too have a garage monster, I also have a serious Pixie problem but I guess that must be expected living in the West country !!

At least the Pixies don't nick things, make heck of a mess though .... Just look what they did to my workbench overnight :eek:



I know exactly who the garage monster is & just as soon as I get hold of him I am going to kick him up the ass, that'll teach him a lesson

Has anyone got any tips on how to kick myself up the ass :D :o

What workbench? :p

kin what
 

Bonzo if that lot falls off there you will start a thingolanche which will trigger a tsunami of the coast of cornwall.

bob

Something flicked a switch on my welder last night, between welds, dropping the ampage, the little *****!!!!

[quote=Bonzo;60619]At least the Pixies don't nick things, make heck of a mess though .... Just look what they did to my workbench overnight :eek:



QUOTE]

Any body fancy a game of 'I spy'? And I thought I was a messy buga with tools , material blanks and machine tooling so it would seem I am in a lower league.

There was a weird wave thing at the beginning of the week, water fell away then rose again and not normal tide in tide out stuff either....BONZO what you been up to? and yep it was around Penzance:D :D

Monster has been caught out. A pump he took from the workshop over a year ago has turned up at a mates place. He had given him the loan of it and forgot to tell me:o

Bob

The build has been on the back burner for a while but it's time to get back at it. Of coarse this mythical creature has visited and I spent most of the weekend searching for 1 half of a suspension bush. How frustrating!! No idea how it disappeared.


J

The little bugger keeps turning the wire feed down on me whilst I am welding just go and bug someone else

My monster has teamed up with the wife since she insisted on installing a chest freezer in the garage.
It does make a handy work surface, but she picks some bizarre places to hide anything I happen to leave on top of it :rolleyes:

What is it with woman, I've umpteen bikes in mine. Now she wants to put the BBQ in there!

Honestly

We have such a thing in our garage allegedly its called a freezer - I know it as a workbench:D

Am also in the dog house (again) for trying to teach the dishwasher to be and engine parts washer!

i find if you hang a raw sausage on a bit of string over the center of a bucket of water the garage monsters and pixies try and get to the sausage when they get hungry, fall in the water and dissolve. you need to set this up at night in the dark so they cant see you set the trap for them.
you need to repeat this every few weeks when you think you have a infestation as the "working garage" smell of oil,metal filings and thinners etc. brings them in for miles and try and keep things as tidy as possible to reduce hiding/nesting places

[quote=Big Vern;78621]We have such a thing in our garage allegedly its called a freezer - I know it as a workbench:D



I will donate a vice to bolt to it.:D

Bob

I've spent about half of the time on my build looking for some tool I had in my hand just a minute ago.