T40 torx bit

[Traveller128]

If you've ever walked the side of a highway, you wont believe how many sockets, wrenches, bolts, etc there are. Many of those are the ones that were lost in the frame or engine bay.

And if you dropped them anywhere that my wife will ever walk, she will find them. I probably have 30 tools she's brought back from walking next to a trail or road. That's the ones we've kept. No idea on the amount of actual nuts, bolts, trailer and vehicle hardware, etc.

A screw fell off a dirt bike on our property. 6+ acres. Of all the little trails we had at the time, she wandered around for 20 minutes and comes back with the screw. We're not talking a large screw, we're talking about 3/4" long and 5mm diameter.

If someone dropped something 150 years ago next to a wagon trail, and it's been sitting there happily rusting or getting covered with dirt, she'll find it. She's literally walked around an area, started to dig a hole and come up with something that was several inches down. No metal detector, just "felt like it was the right spot" she says.

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[PatriotX]

And if you dropped them anywhere that my wife will ever walk, she will find them. I probably have 30 tools she's brought back from walking next to a trail or road. That's the ones we've kept. No idea on the amount of actual nuts, bolts, trailer and vehicle hardware, etc.

A screw fell off a dirt bike on our property. 6+ acres. Of all the little trails we had at the time, she wandered around for 20 minutes and comes back with the screw. We're not talking a large screw, we're talking about 3/4" long and 5mm diameter.

If someone dropped something 150 years ago next to a wagon trail, and it's been sitting there happily rusting or getting covered with dirt, she'll find it. She's literally walked around an area, started to dig a hole and come up with something that was several inches down. No metal detector, just "felt like it was the right spot" she says.

How is she with 10mm sockets?

 

[kah.mun.rah]

My favorite disappearing magic trick with the kids is to show them what happens when you drop a 10mm socket. No matter where you are, it never hits the floor. And the rare time it does hit the floor, it is capable of rolling miles away before you reach down to grab it.

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[kah.mun.rah]

How is she with 10mm sockets?

 

[Jtclayton612]

And if you dropped them anywhere that my wife will ever walk, she will find them. I probably have 30 tools she's brought back from walking next to a trail or road. That's the ones we've kept. No idea on the amount of actual nuts, bolts, trailer and vehicle hardware, etc.

A screw fell off a dirt bike on our property. 6+ acres. Of all the little trails we had at the time, she wandered around for 20 minutes and comes back with the screw. We're not talking a large screw, we're talking about 3/4" long and 5mm diameter.

If someone dropped something 150 years ago next to a wagon trail, and it's been sitting there happily rusting or getting covered with dirt, she'll find it. She's literally walked around an area, started to dig a hole and come up with something that was several inches down. No metal detector, just "felt like it was the right spot" she says.

You ever take her prospecting?

 

[Traveller128]

How is she with 10mm sockets?

So far, pretty damn good! She finds what I drop, mostly. If it hits the floor or the dirt, she'll probably find it.

 

[Traveller128]

You ever take her prospecting?

Yes, but she's mostly interested in "treasure" which to her is pretty rocks, petrified wood, rusty crap from 150+ year old mining areas, and anything that looks like it was worked, like arrow heads. She has picked up stuff from unlikely places, that is pretty darn interesting. She is majorly interested in anything old, that someone touched and used. She loves old stone tools, and the aforementioned rusty crud that we find in old mining and homesteading areas. She loves old pottery pieces, colored glass, tools, horse, mule and oxen shoes, etc.

Now if I could just get her to be interested in precious metals, we might could quit the day job...

 

[Dryver]

I dropped the Torx 50 bit for the hardtop bolts down between the seat and console and haven't been able to figure out where it ended up.

My son and I lost a long handled flathead in the engine bay of his 1997 Volvo 850 and never did find it.

 

[JEEF]

The same thing happened to me the first time I took the doors off too.

The first door I removed. Driver's door. Sucks. I've never been able to retrieve it. I've got other Torx bits, I just don't like knowing it's in there somewhere.
At least it doesn't rattle.

 

[bjm00se]

Thread bumpity bump. This exact thing happened to me today, and I found this thread while searching for a way to order a replacement T40.

It upsets me more than it should. Why can't anything every be just easy, you know?

EDIT this is the replacement I ordered just now:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZWDN3TS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

[SaintNick]

So I am taking my doors off and the t40 torx bit falls out of the ratchet and manages to fall into the crack between the frame and the skin of the jeep...what are the chances...fortunately had another torx bit that size so I could get the other door off....would have looked silly driving with driver door off and passenger door on. Anyone else have this happen or is it just my dumb luck?

We must be related because I once had my keys fall out of my pocket because I was using my foot to flush the toilet at the gym. WHOOSH! Gone forever.

 

[Heimkehr]

Tractor Supply Co sells Torx bits a la carte. I was just perusing their selections yesterday before schlepping a 35 lb. sack of bird seed to the register.

 

[YBABRAT]

Within a week I found working on my JL a black hole for tools, fuses and fasteners. I have come to a conclusion jeep engineers have a wickedly dark sense of humour with tinkering. I think they are related to the guy who created the Jesus clip. Millions have experienced them things and said "Oh Jesus!", when they squeeze through pliers and fling themselves into oblivion, never to be seen again.

 

[Camaroboi13]

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