Tools You Lost or Found at PNP or other at other Junk Yards
 

If you have been going to the Junk Yards long enough and often enough, Iam sure we all have lost a tool that we left behind in a car. maybe rolled under a seat, carpet or other debris thrown in a car. maybe left it in the engine Bay and just over looked it. sometimes in plain sight, give it a quick look over, and go down the line looking at another car.

Sometimes we are lucky and find a tool someone else has left for us to stumble onto. or maybe you were lucky to find a complete tool kit in a Mercedes or maybe the blowmolded case under the trunk lid in a BMW.

Usually I find the MB cloth bag empty, (Found 3) or the blow molded case hanging down and empty.

I have found here and there a MB wrench, or the double ended screwdriver that is a Slot/Phillips. found a 10 cresent wrench one time but that is about it. Iam always finding cheap or abused broken sockets, extentions, ratchets, or screwdriver.

Last summer I was dropping the rearend on a W123, and the shocks have to come out in the process. I was using a 17mm gear wrench on the upper 17mm nuts, and guess I must have left in the back seat of that old W123.:mad:

Last week Iam pulling a couple rotors and 2 doors off another W123, take a quick check for tools left, and off I go. next day Iam in San Jose at another PNP and decide to pull an engine. look for my trusty craftsman ratchet, and it isn`t in there along with a 3" extention and maybe a 13mm socket.:wallbash:

This is that nice full polished chrome 11 + inch, tear drop head. item# 44833. think they are about $30. I have 4 other ratchets in the tool box so I was ok, but damn that pissed me off. Luckly I had another new one at home I picked up at a swap meet last summer for $22. can`t have too many back up tools.

This thread things you found at PNP, got me thinking :idea: about the tools I lost or found.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/299589-best-pnp-find.html

Charlie

so far i haven't lost anything at the pull a part... knock on wood... although i did find a nice 17mm gear wrench in the backseat of a W123 :rolleyes:

I lost/forgot my 10mm gearwrench once--something you always need with a MB.

Found a nice pair of needlenose and also a very good Leatherman.

Oh, and a pair of earrings I gave to my wife.

Jeff

Water bong under the seat of a Trans Am...

Tools
 

Here's a picture of the lineman's pliers I mentioned in the other thread.

Jeremy


http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/n...liers_8106.jpg

Pretty and clean what appears to be a 603. nice

Thanks. Three years of my time and a lot of money to make it look that good.

I find sockets all the time, I found a nice carpenter square and a real crescent brand rubber handled adjustable wrench a while back

Found a real nice 1/2 inch breaker bar! Love PNP!

I've found dirty mags, they could count as the right tool for a specific job :D

ah, visiting the 5 sisters on palm Ave...

Funny you should ask....
 

I found a complete MB wrench set all rolled up and tied in the trunk of an 83 SD on Tuesday. PNP assumed they were part of my tool set. :D

Your tool expectation is a bit low.:eek:

Lost: my Cellphone, a complete box of 3/8" drive socket set, a long 24" flat blade screw driver.

Found: $10 bill, some good bargains.

I found a 5 foot shedded snakeskin in the trunk of a BMW one time. I mentioned it to one of the staff at the yard and he said.... "oh, yeah .... You should see him now! We saw him the other day stretched across the road down there. He's about 12 feet long."
Although it was probably just a big black rat or king snake, ... Believe me, I was carefully watching where I was walking in THAT junkyard! And, since I hadn't brought a change of underwear with me.... I sure didn't want to find HIM in the next trunk I checked out!! :)

Post a video of the safety issues, and the proper handling of this specialised tool. ;)


Charlie