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If you've ever had to work in an auto shop or even on your own car with the wheel off, you may have experienced the pain of accidently kicking your lugnuts on the ground and spending a good portion of your day looking for them. Basically, I would propose a simple can to attach to the car lift that would
have a spring loaded opening at the bottom to retrieve your lugnuts when you're ready for them. This may not appeal to a lot of people, but for those who have kicked 'em, you'll appreciate this.
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Are they magnetic? The nuts, I mean. |
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This would be extremely useful on boats, too - many's the nut I've abandoned rather than put my hand in that nasty, oily gunk in the bilges... |
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I don't think they need to be magnetic. They would just be in a can that you would open out into your hand when you need them. I don't want to get the car companies involved if I don't have to. |
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What I was getting at was that if they're magnetic, you can just use a magnet. Stick the magnet to the car, and the nuts to the magnet. Tear one off the back of an old speaker. |
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That's not a bad idea, but I know a lot of lugnuts have stupid plastic sleeves that go over the metal. Have fun getting all the car manufacturers to comply with magnets. Plus, magnets might leave ugly red and green splotches on your car (if your car is made out of t.v.'s (just ignore me)). |
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//Have fun getting all the car manufacturers to comply with magnets.// |
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I meant you could stick it to the chassis underneath. But this is starting to get irrelevant. |
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"And the lord spake, saying, 'Noah, in addition to my creatures which thou art saving, thou shouldst also sew pockets into your pants. You will learn why in four thousand years.' And Noah did listen." |
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Seems to be an overly complex [+] way to solve a problem, when the solution already exists in the forms of pockets or hubcaps [-]. |
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Since this website is about making things easier and lazier for people, I thought the idea of opening the bottom of a can and allow the nuts to fall out in your hand (hee hee) would be easier than pulling them off of a magnet. Now in the true spirit of this website, the next anno should be about a toggle to magnetize/demagnetize and so on... |
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Perhaps a stud hat, so you can screw the nuts to your head. |
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Perhaps a magnet hubcap would be in order. This would also help (a little) in preventing the loss of hubcaps. |
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