Hi Mike,
Re your PF post about dropping your garage remote.
http://www.pensionersforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,19593.msg646075/topicseen.html#msg646075
You might find one of these useful.
https://amzn.to/3e22ZEr
When I dropped a bottle of hand gel in the car it rolled away under the seat. I ended up going to the kitchen and getting a pair of cooking tongs. Reached no bother and was a happy bunny.
I bought the Jellas one and it's been surprisingly useful.
I've got a grabber, but hadn't thought of trying it - I will try, but not too hopeful
Mike
No, can't reach it with the grabber, nor with the tongs. I have two remotes, one in the house, one in the car, so it's not a disaster, just a bloody nuisance
Mike
Grab a small boy and give him a fiver to retrieve it? 'S what I'd do..
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Grabbing a small boy sounds like a possible 5 years in today's world. :sad:
:grin: Pretty much my thought when I posted..A passing dog then..Or get a longer stick.
Trouble is that the squab of the seat sits in a fibreglass shell which is close to the centre console. neither of which have any flex in them. I've raised a lovely big bruise on the back of my hand trying to force it down the gap - had to desist in case I couldn't pull it back! When, hopefully, Mary retrieves it for me I'll keep in the side pocket in the door instead of in the centre console - one lives and (hopefully) learns!
Mike
Can't you use something like a garden cane to push it where it can be reached? Alternately put a blob of bluetack on it and see it you can get that to stick to it and lift it out.
Thanks for the thought, but the layout of the seat chassis means it can't be moved other than in the vertical plane, but I hadn't thought of Blutak - worth a try
Thanks again
Mike
When working on the building sites I had two types of grabber / retriever devices, which I still have.
One was a magnetic grabber https://amzn.to/3yE0z8w & the other was a claw grabber https://amzn.to/3yDJsUB
My magnetic grabber will lift about 10kg & objects just fly to the magnet when it's six inches away.
there's only a very small amount of ferrous metal (if indeed it is ferrous) in the remote, and I would be leary of bringing a magnet near to it - might it not wipe the programming in the way a magnet can wipe a magnetic tape recording?
The problem is that it about six inches or a little more down between two inflexible surface only about an inch and a bit apart. Because it is effectively lying flat I can't get my grabber to hold it, although I will have another go shortly
Mike
Maybe one of your neighbours is small enough, or has kids who could get it? :hmm:
Success! Despite the seat's 'undercarriage' seemingly making it impossible to move it other then vertically upwards, I somehow managed (don't ask how, I have no idea) to knock it sideways to within grabbing distance, with only another bruise to show!
Mike 👍👍👍👍😁😁
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calm down Raven.... he only picked summit up orf the bleedin floor didnt ee... he used tarbe a Brylcreme Boy you know... :cool: :cool: :cool:
Very True crabbyob BUT, as we get older things like this become a major issue for some of us.....Not to mention a flaming Scunner that does your head in. :tongue:
being an ex-marcher an shooter, i might have stuck a bit of chewing gum or double sided celotape onto a chopstick an fished it out that way instead ob being battered an bruised... :cool:
If the grabber goes down you could stick the blutack on one of the arms.
No blutack? Superglue. Then saw the grabber off it.
Make sure you don't end up with it jammed it you use this tip. :grin:
Quote from: klondike on December 19, 2021, 01:20:50 PM
If the grabber goes down you could stick the blutack on one of the arms.
No blutack? Superglue. Then saw the grabber off it.
Make sure you don't end up with it jammed it you use this tip. :grin:
Knowing me................
Mike