Place for Found Pieces / Components

We currently have several machines and tools with impaired functionality because they are missing pieces that likely fell off and, I fear, were discarded.

A bolt left on the ground is most likely a common bolt that someone dropped, but it could be an oddball size item needed to hold a tool together. The regular plastic or metal piece you come across may be trash or scrap, or it may be a critical piece for a machine, which was last manufactured in Upper Wajukistan before the revolution and is therefore difficult to replace.

So I made a repository for small random items you find in the shop; it’s a magnetic tray sitting on the metal shop table under the face shields and sanding belts. Put anything you find and are uncertain of there. (If you have time, you might attach a piece of tape with the location it was found on it.)

Yes, it will be mostly junk, which I will sort and discard periodically. But If it saves someone from having to spend two hours machining a replacement, it will be worth it.

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Very nice Ethan :clap:t2::clap:t2::clap:t2: