On Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 8:27:51 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:26:16 -0700 (PDT), Uncle
Monster wrote:

On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 5:13:27 PM UTC-5, Doug Miller wrote:
gary wrote in
:

Thanks all for your suggestions.

I was able to loosen the screws just enough to get the lenses
out of the old frames and put the lenses in to the new frames
without removing the screws and having them disappear into the
carpet never to be found again.

Always do such work over a table or countertop so that if you drop a screw you'll be able to
find it easily.

I'd always lay a white towel or washcloth on my work table whenever I was working on something that was held together with tiny screws. Tiny screws and parts won't bounce or roll off the terry cloth. Another thing I used to do when repairing a lot of stuff was to use a muffin pan for separating the different screws and parts during each step in the disassembly process. The pan works well to hold the different parts when building an electronic project. One thing about the pan though, think about some double stick tape under it to hold it in place on the workbench in case you're clumsy, like me. ^_^

What's good are those pill dispensers with a section for each day of the
week. When I took apart a camera, first stage screws went in Sunday,
next stage Monday. I used all 7 days.


I have two of those 7 day plastic pill boxes. One marked AM and the other PM. I was taking a ton of medication at one time. Those boxes would be good for keeping the parts separated when you must wait a while to reassemble something when waiting for replacement parts to arrive. I have dozens of compartmentalized plastic boxes of all sizes that are the best things ever for carrying screws, nuts, bolts and other parts needed for a service call or installation. I've used some of them when disassembling a piece of equipment to do as you do to separate the parts. I also made notes and used my digital camera to take pictures of the parts removed so I'd know exactly how to reassemble the item I was working on. If you have one of those smartass phones, I suppose you can use it to document your repair job. Ain't technology amazin? ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Pill Monster