On 04/12/2017 20:28, jim wrote:
Capitol Wrote in message:
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!


Presumably the original screw is still sat in the sink's waste trap?

No need to cover the sink. Just put the plug into the hole!

--
Adam