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....................or do others get this problem?

Yesterday, I needed to remove the battery from the P6. I needed a 10mm spanner. On delving in to the "spanner" section of the toolbox I rummaged through and all i could find were 11mm and 12mm. Eventually, right at the bottom, I found the 10mm.

I then needed to replace the earth strap, which is an 11mm nut.

Back to the toolbox and you've guessed - all i could find were 10mm spanners, which had previously hidden themselves and the three 11mm ones I had found just ten minutes ago had buried themselves at the bottom of the drawer.............................

Do these spanners KNOW I'm looking for them and purposely come alive and hide?
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Yes Neil which is why, after years of rummaging in tool boxes on the floor, I bit the bullet last week and treated myself to a set of Halford's tool chests which happened to be half price. I'm now in the unenviable position of having more drawers than spanners ;)
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What do you need spanners for? What's wrong with a big pair of mole grips?

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If you had wanted a spanner for the 11mm AF nut then you could have sneaked up on a 7/16ths AF spanner. It might not have expected you.....

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Murphy's law says the more draws you have the more stuff you get to fill them, that makes it easier for tools to hide.

My tools are in a big tool chest on wheels (brilliant bit of kit, Christmas present from the Smith tribe many years ago) split into imperial and metric draws, they always find a way of flitting between draws, when I need metric I find AF when I need AF I find metric.

As for those mole grips, they have a frustrating habit of finding the hammer draw.

I blame her indoors, she has a habit of calling me in for food just as I am finishing a job, the tools take advantage of my need to put them away quickly and put themselves into the wrong draw.

Strange thing is it is always the tools I use the most that migrate the most. :) :)

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It's a toss up as to which takes the longer, rummaging around in the bottom of the tool box or getting the spanners in and out of those fancy holding clips.
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My dilemma now is which tools to put in which drawers! Life is never simple . . .
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Neil, my problem these days is putting down a tool then forgetting where I put it and is driving me mad. It must just be an age thing.

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John- snap. Put down my induction ammeter and couldn't find it for a week.

It was in the logical place - on the paint shelf..................................
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