While we are staying home all day my wife has me doing more stuff around the house. Today was supposed to be a simple ten minute job to change out a pendant light.
I positioned the ladder below the old light and removed that in about three minutes. Then I took the new light out of it's boxes, some fancy light with a glass cover that needs to be secured to the body with two tiny machine screws. So I wired the new light up in about ten minutes and it came with integrated LED bulbs, tested it and everything is fine and just have to put up the glass cover. Well I have two hands, one to hold the glass cover the other to hold the tiny machine screw and I need a third to pick up a screwdriver LOL and well the screw fell off and I heard tink tink tink...and for the next half hour I was looking for the dropped screw under the refrigerator, under the stove, under the dishwasher everywhere and it just can't be found. I did another search even pulling out all the appliances and nope. I also have a bunch of spare screws #4 #6 #8 #10 #12 whatever size but they don't match. This must be some metric screws.
So I took the spare screw to the nearest big box store, wow a long line waiting to get in, they have a maximum number of customers. Waited 20 minutes to get in and went to the hardware aisle where they have those sizing nuts to try...well what do you know I dropped the only other screw I have on the floor, looked down, nothing. Must have rolled under the shelves. So I laid my head almost flat against the floor and there are hundreds of dropped screws on the floor!!!
Not knowing what I need, I end up taking a package of every metric size screw that's close to the size I had in my hand. A long line to pay too.
Went home and it turned out to be a M6 screw. This time I was careful and didn't drop the screws while putting up the glass cover.
Then I collapsed the ladder to put it away, tink tink tink...I FOUND THE SCREW it was laying on the lowest rung of the ladder!!!
Three hours later, for one screw.
I positioned the ladder below the old light and removed that in about three minutes. Then I took the new light out of it's boxes, some fancy light with a glass cover that needs to be secured to the body with two tiny machine screws. So I wired the new light up in about ten minutes and it came with integrated LED bulbs, tested it and everything is fine and just have to put up the glass cover. Well I have two hands, one to hold the glass cover the other to hold the tiny machine screw and I need a third to pick up a screwdriver LOL and well the screw fell off and I heard tink tink tink...and for the next half hour I was looking for the dropped screw under the refrigerator, under the stove, under the dishwasher everywhere and it just can't be found. I did another search even pulling out all the appliances and nope. I also have a bunch of spare screws #4 #6 #8 #10 #12 whatever size but they don't match. This must be some metric screws.
So I took the spare screw to the nearest big box store, wow a long line waiting to get in, they have a maximum number of customers. Waited 20 minutes to get in and went to the hardware aisle where they have those sizing nuts to try...well what do you know I dropped the only other screw I have on the floor, looked down, nothing. Must have rolled under the shelves. So I laid my head almost flat against the floor and there are hundreds of dropped screws on the floor!!!
Not knowing what I need, I end up taking a package of every metric size screw that's close to the size I had in my hand. A long line to pay too.
Went home and it turned out to be a M6 screw. This time I was careful and didn't drop the screws while putting up the glass cover.
Then I collapsed the ladder to put it away, tink tink tink...I FOUND THE SCREW it was laying on the lowest rung of the ladder!!!
Three hours later, for one screw.
