Tools left behind

[gt1953]

Have any of you left tools behind. I have. Vice Grips on the clutch cable. Found them when I went to adjust clutch again. Wonder what had happened to them.
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72 Squareback
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[Sharp64]

I'm missing a couple of wrenches and I cleaned the crap out of my garage at the beginning of the summer so my guess is... yes.
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[63 vwnotch]

I don't have any tools
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[Singerdude]

I bought replacements for pretty much every tool I own at least 3 times over...

"He who looses tools" would be my Native name in a crappy low budget western about aircooled VW's.

[60ragtop]

back in the early 80's I was working in one shop on a squareback and my magnetic screw starter came up missing. Oh well. Fast forward to the late 80's, I'm working in another shop on the same squareback and I found my missing screw starter hanging from the body under the compartment lid.
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ASA certified in 1987
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[63 vwnotch]

[EverettB]

Not a tool exactly but I left my Bus church key hanging from the back gate latch of my Single Cab years ago while working on it in my driveway.

I could have swore I never drove anywhere before it went missing but it was gone later the same day.
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[williamM]

most found tool was the magnetic wrench used to secure the long starter bolt nut.- back before D heads.
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[airschooled]

I worked on a customer's T4 bus in 2013, and left my ratcheting 10mm box wrench on the distributor timing clamp. Three years later, I bought the bus from them and got my wrench back. I was ecstatic. Totally worth $1500 to get the wrench back.

Robbie
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[Zundfolge1432]

I lost a 13/16 socket and 3/8 drive ratchet momentarily while doing a valve adjustment on a customers car. I found it when I went to start the car it spun around and off the generator pulley nut into the deck lid making a small dent. Neither my boss nor the owner was happy but it was a teaching moment. Here at work a fellow left one bolt in the intake of a jet engine on a DC10. It subsequently was ingested upon starting. It caused 6 million dollars damage and he got a week off. The rest of his career we called him "the 6 million dollar man". You gotta love it.

[Zylinderkopf]

I have a 21 year old son and a neighbor. Both like to borrow my tools. Unfortunately some never make it back.
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[gt1953]

These stories are interesting. By the way I do not leave my vice grips on the clutch cable anymore.
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Volkswagen: We tune what we drive.
Numbers Matching VW's are getting harder to find. Source out the most Stock vehicle and keep that way. You will be glad you did.

72 type 1
72 Squareback
({59 Euro bug, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 73 type ones 68 & 69 type two, 68 Ghia all sold})

[Air-Cooled Head]

Not a tool, but I just found a pair of sunglasses that "disappeared" back at the start of Summer, when I re-charged the A/C in girlfriends car.

Yesterday, I rec'd a shipment for ISP that contained someone's box cutter. Wonder if I should pay the postage to ship it back?
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[rcroane]

[stale air]

Lets pour a little out, for all the tools we have lost along the way.....

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[cdennisg]

[Da TOW'D]

I use a 3/8" 13mm universal snap on socket to loosen the distributor and it went missing in action. I found it a few years later in front of the rear pulley slightly ground down
cheers
Hank
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[0nebadbug]

...Can't even count the sockets & wrenches that always seem to fly out from the frame head area within 1 mile of pulling out of the driveway after doing anything up front.
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