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Ok, when I worked at the local Nissan dealer the techs there would take stuff apart and leave screws all over and lose them. When I work at home I find it is best to have 2-3 cupcake pans to put the screws in, so as I remove screws from a certain area they all go in one cupcake spot, then screws from another piece go in another cupcake spot if you catch my drift.
If you put the screws in the pan in the order you took them out, you wont lose anything, and its much easier to put everything back by just doing it all in reverse.
big piece of cardboard or wood and lay the parts out with the bolts/washers/nuts/screws next to where they go on the part so that i see where everything goes and how it goes in
On big stuff (lots of hardware) I do what the techs at the place I used to work at did, which is to use Ziploc baggies (with the label area) and a Sharpie. Sometimes I will just masking-tape the fasteners to the part for stuff like plastic parts. For something like the upper oil pan I just tape them together in the correct order with a note for orientation.
big piece of cardboard or wood and lay the parts out with the bolts/washers/nuts/screws next to where they go on the part so that i see where everything goes and how it goes in
Exactly how I do it lol
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When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.
What keeps me sane, aside from baggies full of bolts- are those magnetic trays. I hang them upside-down when I'm under the car and under the hood. Harbor Freight is the best place for them, since they are so cheap. A 4" bowl is like $3. I do like the cupcake cup idea, however.
What keeps me sane, aside from baggies full of bolts- are those magnetic trays. I hang them upside-down when I'm under the car and under the hood. Harbor Freight is the best place for them, since they are so cheap. A 4" bowl is like $3. I do like the cupcake cup idea, however.
I let my kids play with them so I get the pleasure of driving to the closest parts store to buy more. Sorry, really, I have poltergiests who live in my garage and deliberately move things from where I placed them... honest.
Peace,
Mark
P.S. I also tend to place them on a folded towel, then spray clean them while they're on the towel before re-installing them.
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Around here, it's either threaded back into where it belongs (e.g. head, flywheel) or, it's ZipLoc bagged and put inside (e.g.: tranny bellhousing) or on top of (e.g.: head, clutch) whatever the hell it came from. If it's order specific, we try to re-thread 'em so there's no confusion. Otherwise, it's separate zip loc bags.
I dig that cupcake pan idea... what if you were to buy a set of, say, commercial-strength magnets (like those used for cleaning out fluids or picking up shavings) and bond them to the back of the holes in the cupcake pan???
...I've seen far too many boards and "storage systems" get trashed by our friends murphy and gravity.
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...another thread invasion from Harry, who came back and noticed that everything was suddenly fcuking different. What happened?
Not on the forum much lately since neck injury - we'll be back at it soon, babying the n00bies.
JWT S4, HS 6, Home Depot Intake, Hypercoil 2s w/ KYB "GR-Poo", CF Sunroof Delete panel, and other crap - where's my interior?
Around here, it's either threaded back into where it belongs (e.g. head, flywheel) or, it's ZipLoc bagged and put inside (e.g.: tranny bellhousing) or on top of (e.g.: head, clutch) whatever the hell it came from. If it's order specific, we try to re-thread 'em so there's no confusion. Otherwise, it's separate zip loc bags.
I dig that cupcake pan idea... what if you were to buy a set of, say, commercial-strength magnets (like those used for cleaning out fluids or picking up shavings) and bond them to the back of the holes in the cupcake pan???
...I've seen far too many boards and "storage systems" get trashed by our friends murphy and gravity.
Either Im really tired or youre saying you put nuts and bolts back into the bellhouse? I hope not while its on the car!
What keeps me sane, aside from baggies full of bolts- are those magnetic trays. I hang them upside-down when I'm under the car and under the hood. Harbor Freight is the best place for them, since they are so cheap. A 4" bowl is like $3. I do like the cupcake cup idea, however.
I got a Stanley (Have anybody seing the snap-on prices of these? ) one with enought strength to keep the tools, but I've seing that if I left screws or nuts there for sometime, they tend to magnetize (Sorry for my spelling) & attract metal debris.
If I plan to take out a bunchload of small parts I use to launch (literally) to an old plastic bucket (clean at the beggining of the work) but now-on I'll go for the cupcake tray idea & tools to the magnet tray.
Currently, I'm working on a U13 DET and I've been taking a lot of stuff off of it, not necessarily putting it back on the same day. What I've been doing is putting hardware and parts in ziplock bags and writing on the bags with a Sharpie. I've got about 4 different sizes from really small to really large. I like it because instead of having the parts laying around and getting debris and crap all in them or having them roll away (nuts, washers, and bolts), they're sealed in bags where they can't go anywhere.
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1999 SE-L SR20DET-- Sold!
1997 Maxima-- The bone-stock family machine!
2004 Xterra-- The wife's ride!
I thread the bolt back into what it came out of as often as I can. If its not possible then I keep them separated in little piles for short term projects or bag them up with labels for longer term things. I also have windshield washer jug 1/2 full with spare bolts and nuts from the 93 se-r I parted last year.
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I either use the cupcake pan or small ziplock bags that I can write on for most of my engine work (short term work that is). That's only if I can't screw the bolt or nut back onto it's spot.
I have wanted to do what HJBaker mentioned... magnets on the back of the cupcake pan.
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Monty <--- Another victim of the go-fast crack pipe....
these bowls are nice they come in all kinds of sizes... and they have padding on the bottom that is magnetic that stick on any part of you car that wont scratch anything and so it wont knock over or anything like that plus the bolts are stuck in there. If your planning to fix up your garage go to harborfreight they have a lot of nice toys for us kids
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I either use the cupcake pan or small ziplock bags that I can write on for most of my engine work (short term work that is). That's only if I can't screw the bolt or nut back onto it's spot.
I have wanted to do what HJBaker mentioned... magnets on the back of the cupcake pan.
unless you get the heavy duty pans it won't work because they are aluminum. in my shop we use magnetic trays and $nap-on sells magnetic trays with seperate areas for different bolts/nuts.
I hope not while its on the car!
) one with enought strength to keep the tools, but I've seing that if I left screws or nuts there for sometime, they tend to magnetize (Sorry for my spelling) & attract metal debris.
