Lost ring!

[trixie88]

gaffer tape.....fold some gaffer tape....lengthwise so that sticky side is on the outside...
wind it round the coathanger ...... ring should stick to that.....careful how you bring it out...

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I like that idea.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Baz hasn't posted back yet with any ring news.

Maybe he's fallen in along with his phone and all three are now stuck down there...

 

[Nesting Zombie]

I’m sure his. Ring. Is fine.
He’s probably just got his hand stuck & is
now trying to build something to help retrieve it

 

[barryd]

Argghhhh! The homemade inspection camera works. I can see the bloody ring but just cant get to it with anything. So we drive 78 miles to Salcombe and hope that it moves. It kind of did move back into sight under some pipes but its just impossible to get at with coat hangers or anything. It just gets shoved out of sight again and its just too awkward to get an arm in properly. I think the only answer is going to be to try and dismantle the van. Well the seating area woodwork. Unless I can somehow get the wooden trunking between the two dinette seats opened up but I suspect that runs under the seat frame.

The next job I think is to see if I can find the right tools to get at the screws to remove the bed supports so I can then hopefully remove the hinged frame on top. It looks impossible to me.

 

[mariesnowgoose]

I’m sure his. Ring. Is fine.
He’s probably just got his hand stuck & is
now trying to build something to help retrieve it

Well I know some folk can be accused of wandering around with their finger stuck up the erse, but a whole hand...?! Ouch!

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Argghhhh! The homemade inspection camera works. I can see the bloody ring but just cant get to it with anything. So we drive 78 miles to Salcombe and hope that it moves. It kind of did move back into sight under some pipes but its just impossible to get at with coat hangers or anything. It just gets shoved out of sight again and its just too awkward to get an arm in properly. I think the only answer is going to be to try and dismantle the van. Well the seating area woodwork. Unless I can somehow get the wooden trunking between the two dinette seats opened up but I suspect that runs under the seat frame.

The next job I think is to see if I can find the right tools to get at the screws to remove the bed supports so I can then hopefully remove the hinged frame on top. It looks impossible to me.

How about a magnet, or I'm I just being totally daft and magnets only work with steel or iron and not other metals...?

 

[Nesting Zombie]

Can you just cut a new small inspection hatch in so it makes things easier to retrieve when it happens again

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Can you just cut a new small inspection hatch in so it makes things easier to retrieve when it happens again

You seem very certain it will happen again, Paul...

 

[Fisherman]

You seem very certain it will happen again, Paul...

I reckon this is a rouge, Baz it’s trying for 1,000 posts on this one.

 

[barryd]

Can you just cut a new small inspection hatch in so it makes things easier to retrieve when it happens again

Well the hole it slipped down is just about big enough to get a hand in but not all the way down.

 

[barryd]

You seem very certain it will happen again, Paul...

It bloody will. She is still storing her stuff on the seat near the hole and has made no attempt to block it up. If anything else goes down there it could get really heated in this van and no mistake!

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Cover it with Duct tape, easy to take off if there is a need.

 

[Nesting Zombie]

Well the hole it slipped down is just about big enough to get a hand in but not all the way down.

Lubricant !

 

[Nesting Zombie]

Ooops,
Sorry I thought I was on a different site for a minute then

Maybe go to a vet to see if they can help

 

[Pudsey Bear]

PAUL!!!

 

[Nesting Zombie]

 

[barryd]

Cover it with Duct tape, easy to take off if there is a need.

Once its out (if its ever out) ill sort it for sure. Ill stuff her favourite teddy bear in it or something.

 

[Neckender]

If anything else goes down there it could get really heated in this van and no mistake!

That would cure you’re gas problem then Barry.

 

[merl]

Well the hole it slipped down is just about big enough to get a hand in but not all the way down.

Oh C'mon Barry, you'll be no good in a zombie apocalypse. if you can see it you can fish it out surely? Tape some spoons end to end until you've got enough length and then wrap one end with some inside out gaffer tape so the sticky is on the outside.
Remember to un-tape the spoons when you've finished or you'll have trouble eating your cornflakes tomorrow morning.