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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 872887" data-attributes="member: 325666">Thanks mate ..you're very kind ..I've been seeing problems and solving them most of my life...just dont understand why the manufacturer didn't do a better job of the design.Like the time I was 9 years old and dropped half a crown down the grating in front of a bakers shop ..I went home and created a spring loaded retrieval stick ...and realising it probably wasn't just me who lost money this way ..started rooting in the leaves dirt and crap ..After that most saturdays you'd find me face down near a grid/grating topping up my pocket money ..much to the amusement of passers by ..I had the last laugh though..I was never short of pocket money.More recently a young woman picking up her kids from the local school was seen weeping outside my shop..Being a nosey sod I went out to ask what was wrong ..?She sobbed that shed dropped her car and house keys down the grid by accident and was panicing how she would get home ..and then the cost of replacing them all ..Shouldn't be a problem I said ..provided they are on a keyring and at least one of them is a mortice lock key..I went back in my shop ..grabbed a speaker ..cracked it open ..retrieved the magnet popped it in a plastic bag ..tied a length of wire to the handles ..and went fishing ..within 2 minutes she had her keys back and couldn't thank me enough..See a problem ..see a solutionDon't think I'll ever patent anything ..lazy I guess..Or automatically assume it's already been done ..as to me it often seems obvious.cheers buddy.Evan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 872887, member: 325666"] Thanks mate ..you're very kind .. I've been seeing problems and solving them most of my life...just dont understand why the manufacturer didn't do a better job of the design. Like the time I was 9 years old and dropped half a crown down the grating in front of a bakers shop .. I went home and created a spring loaded retrieval stick ...and realising it probably wasn't just me who lost money this way ..started rooting in the leaves dirt and crap .. After that most saturdays you'd find me face down near a grid/grating topping up my pocket money ..much to the amusement of passers by .. I had the last laugh though.. I was never short of pocket money. More recently a young woman picking up her kids from the local school was seen weeping outside my shop.. Being a nosey sod I went out to ask what was wrong ..? She sobbed that shed dropped her car and house keys down the grid by accident and was panicing how she would get home ..and then the cost of replacing them all .. Shouldn't be a problem I said ..provided they are on a keyring and at least one of them is a mortice lock key.. I went back in my shop ..grabbed a speaker ..cracked it open ..retrieved the magnet popped it in a plastic bag ..tied a length of wire to the handles ..and went fishing .. within 2 minutes she had her keys back and couldn't thank me enough.. See a problem ..see a solution Don't think I'll ever patent anything ..lazy I guess.. Or automatically assume it's already been done ..as to me it often seems obvious. cheers buddy. Evan [/QUOTE]

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