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Author Message   David_nebenzahl Tinkerer Username: David_nebenzahl Post Number: 228 Registered: 12-2009 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 07:03 pm:    Regarding the ever-present problem of having little parts go "sproinggg!" into the fifth dimension, never to be found again, I use the method favored by many repairers-of-things-with-little-teeny-parts: a simple piece of cloth laid over the workbench. (Mine is a piece of lightweight white canvas, or maybe what they call "duck", not as heavy as, say, tent material.) Little parts that fall on it usually don't bounce off it, but just stay put. Usually.