Yesterday, my manager decided she would help by replacing a kitchen
light bulb over the kitchen work surface. The lampshade is held on by 3
stupid screws. She detached the glass shade without breaking it and
after replacing the bulb proceeded to screw the shade back up. The screw
have about 5 turns so if you undo them slightly too much, the damn
things fall out. This of course happened. She now knows that if you drop
a screw 3ft from an uncovered sink that it will always fall down the
plug hole.Having recovered her poise and belatedly covered the sink, I
was now stuck with the problem of finding her a new screw. (No Adam, not
that sort!) Anyway, I thought IKEA lampshade, it must be metric. Wrong
again, nothing metric would fit. Having severe squirrel ten/1ncies, I
have a very, very large junk collection and by luck, I found that the
screw was 3/16 Whitworth and in one of my drawers was an exact
replacement for the lost screw. She then refitted the lampshade without
dropping another screw, for which I was very thankful. Junk is good!