Messaged some of the guys who did the cache, they pointed me towards something like this. Got it off of harbor freight, it’s named “magnetic pickup tool.”

  • Dr. Wesker
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    116 months ago

    These are useful in general.

    Dropped a sock behind the washer? Use the grabber.

    Drop a bolt down in an engine bay? Use the grabber.

    Wife too far away to physically annoy? Use the grabber.

  • @Fermion@feddit.nl
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    56 months ago

    My family called these the elephant nose pickers and now my brain refuses to commit any other name to memory.

    • /home/pineappleloverOP
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      6 months ago

      Which part of them resembles an elephant nose? Or is that it’s so long it must be only used for picking the nose of an elephant?

      • @Fermion@feddit.nl
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        56 months ago

        They’re long and flexible to get boogers from way up in the elephant’s trunk. At least that’s the juvenile humor logic.

        Usually they’re sold as a retrieval tool for dropped bolts in an engine bay. Nobody wants to have to pull a bunch of components to get something you dropped in an area where hands can’t fit.