It finally happened

[StuartBaker104]

The advantage of taking up this hobby as one's eyesight has already started to deteriorate is that there is always something bewteen my eyes and what I'm doing. By the way, I love my optivisor, if you are thinking of one of those

[ro63rto]

The advantage of taking up this hobby as one's eyesight has already started to deteriorate is that there is always something bewteen my eyes and what I'm doing. By the way, I love my optivisor, if you are thinking of one of those

Yes, flip up optivisor. Not sure where to get one now maplins has stopped listing them.

Sent from my Honor 5c

[StuartBaker104]

This is what I have

https://www.cousinsuk.com/product/donegan-optivisors

 

[SSTEEL]

Me too, wouldn't work without them.

[Johnnie]

I have a Henry hoover, I take the dust bag out and hoover up. No searching through dust and rubbish the part is sitting there at the bottom of the dust bowl.

[Folkvisor]

I lost an end jewel once and I wondered why everything looked kind of pink when I looked through my loupe. The jewel had enough oil on it to get stuck on my eye-piece; I got lucky that time.

[maclerche]

Vacuuming is a fine method. Remember to mount a nylon stocking in one of the collections, so you will not have to go throughout the large bag through!

 

[Folkvisor]

I used the vacuum method at length trying to find a rare plate screw. I never found it. Then a couple of weeks later I was sitting at my bench in bare feet and I felt something under my foot. It was the plate screw. So, maybe walking around your shop in bare feet might work too.

[measuretwice]

Here's a link to Frank Ford's site, he's a talented luthier and amateur machinist with a site full of useful stuff.  Anyway, I always thought this a clever idea - an inline vacuum screen for finding small parts

http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/ForFun/ScrewFinder/screwfinder.html

[Folkvisor]

Now I use trained fleas. It has its drawbacks but I recommend it.