My guillotine has a metal guide. When I moved, the little spring, washer and nut that hold the guide to the ruler disappeared. I’ve been using a clamp to hold it in place. But the clamp causes the far end of the bar to lift up, so then I had to use tape to keep it down…
I finally called the guillotine manufacturer and bought the spring, washer, nut…
I took pictures of them, then carefully put the parts on the guillotine to figure out how it all went together. Immediately, the spring launched into the air, bounced on the floor and ended up under the cabinet next to the guillotine.
As I started to take the baseboard off, I remembered we had a retractable magnet (an indispensable tool!).
I waved it around in the slot under the baseboard and the magnet picked up the spring for me. I gingerly put it back on the guillotine and managed to get the guide back together without another mishap.
