Originally Posted by
Johno59
My question to the Forum has anyone else found something dropped/misplaced when all hope was lost.
Oh, yes. I dropped one of the proprietary tapered spacers used to mount the inner ring on an Avocet triple crank:
Searched everywhere, swept the shop, etc.;no joy. Eventually gave up and resigned myself to not having a working Avocet triple crank. Bought another entire Avocet triple crank instead. Literally years later I found it when tidying the shop.