Originally posted by em-man:
I work with a guy who does something similar, except he's anal retentive about it. While he was working on a large pump assembly, I discovered his cardboard with all the bolts in order...and numbered...and clean as a surgeon's scalpel.
I scrounged up three similar bolts from a dead pump. I cleaned and numbered them and placed them on his cardboard. Several weeks passed before he got the parts needed to re assemble his pump. Several extra days passed before he could admit to having parts left over and needing "Somebody to take a look at this, 'cause I just can't figure it out".