Defeating the carpet monster

Hobbes · June 17, 2015, 11:35:42 AM

A more elaborate version of the 'panty over the vacuum nozzle' trick:

http://hackaday.com/2015/06/10/super-cheap-vac-attachment-helps-find-small-dropped-parts/

Captain Canada · June 17, 2015, 11:57:32 AM

Nice one !

I just use my shop vac sans bag. Just be sure to empty all the dust and cat hair before you start

Old Wombat · June 17, 2015, 05:23:04 PM

There is no defeating the Carpet Monster!

If you deny it the occasional small part, it will take a complete model when you're not looking!

zenrat · June 18, 2015, 02:42:06 AM

Quote from: Old Wombat on June 17, 2015, 05:23:04 PM
There is no defeating the Carpet Monster!

If you deny it the occasional small part, it will take a complete model when you're not looking!

ROTFLMBFAO

scooter · June 18, 2015, 03:13:52 AM

Defeat the Carpet Monster? Kick him out in the first place.

zenrat · June 18, 2015, 03:30:23 AM

I have concrete. He still gets bits I drop...

Captain Canada · June 18, 2015, 07:54:27 AM

It's a tough call between concrete/ smooth floor vs. carpet. Parts bounce and become easy prey for the carpet monster, but they may stick to a carpet giving you just enough time to find them before he does.....

zenrat · June 19, 2015, 01:26:18 AM

It nearly got a 1/76 leaf spring today. It doesn't help that I painted my concrete a shade of grey very close to the colour of current Airfix styrene.

Captain Canada · June 19, 2015, 10:56:32 AM

It ate a part of my MG fuel tank yesterday....the bugger.

zenrat · June 19, 2015, 08:02:10 PM

The Parts Box do a model of the little beasty.

zenrat · June 20, 2015, 12:45:21 AM

Today it ate a 1/76 steering wheel.
I was able to pinch the one from the Godwit beaching jeep to put on the Morris Truck but then of course I had to find one for the jeep. I couldn't pinch one from one of the 2 Airfix Land Rover kits I have in the stash as a) i'd then need to find one for the kit I pinched it from and b) the Bloodhound Landie doesn't have one anyway (no interior at all).
Have you ever tried scratchbuilding a 1/76 steering wheel? Not my usual thing at all.
I used a thin slice off the end of some styrene tube and a small length of teeny tiny rectangular strip (took about 4 or 5 goes to get it the right length).
It didn't help when I decided to put on one of those "spin the wheel fast knob thingos" you get on trucks, rollers and old people's cars which was of course REALLY tiny.

Hah! just remembered. I have a couple of white metal steering wheels in a 35mm film pot somewhere which came with my boxes of Heyford. D'oh!

NARSES2 · June 20, 2015, 01:13:43 AM

Now is the Carpet Monster a separate species from that creature which inhabits hard floors or simply a sub-species ? Indeed is it the same creature that adapts to different environments ?

We need Springwatch on the case. Michaela Strachan can stake my modelling room out any day

Rheged · June 20, 2015, 01:40:52 PM

.......and how will staking out Ms Strachan in your modelling room trap the carpet monster?

scooter · June 20, 2015, 02:08:54 PM

Quote from: Rheged on June 20, 2015, 01:40:52 PM
.......and how will staking out Ms Strachan in your modelling room trap the carpet monster?

*must pull mind out of gutter...*

Steel Penguin · June 20, 2015, 02:18:55 PM

nonononono
Our learned friend said she could stake out his modelling room.

id recommend good hardwood stakes, and then bury the now dead carpet monster with several handfuls of rice and its mouth filled with garlic, and plant a dogwood tree over the unmarked crossroad that you use.