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From: rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Rick Brink)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: finding teeny parts you drop
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.134756.7669@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 13:47:56 GMT
References: <51223@prls.UUCP>
Organization: Clemson University
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From article <51223@prls.UUCP>, by gordon@prls.UUCP (G Vickers):
>>In article <1991Jun14.002711.5294@vicorp.com> ron@vicorp.com (Ron 
>>Peterson) writes:
>> A large magnet is great for finding steel parts.
>>
> 
>       I have found that the easiest way to find small parts that have dropped
>     onto the floor is simple to get down onto the floor with one's check
>     flush against it.  With your eye now at floor level scan across the
>     "horizon" and focus on any distruption. 
>     
An addendum, turn off the main light in the room, and scan a flashlight around
the area you are looking in, but held at arms length.  Sometimes, the shadow of
a tiny part is visible moving with the light, even when the part will not 
resolve out from the background.  I've found many a 00 washer that way.