Dropped Needle On Floor

Suppose we have a floor made of parallel strips of wood each the same width and we drop a needle onto the floor.

Dropped needle on floor.

Have you ever dropped all of your common pins on the floor and had to play pick up sticks. I was at work pulling out my cell phone from the same pocket as my insulin bottle was in. Or a magic needle finding spell. I m about to do an inoculation and i dropped the syringe on the floor no needle it shipped separate have to put on before inoculating my question is should i trust just flame sterilization of the needle to be sufficient or should i dip the entire syringe in denatured alcohol 100 to use it s solvent properties to remove any nasties that got on to the body of the syringe.

Put the flashlight down at carpet level and shine the beam across the carpet. Apparently the needle shines in the light. Buffon s needle was the earliest problem in geometric probability. Same thing with thumb tacks if they are all metal.

You could try a vacuum with a stocking tied to the end it might catch the needle. In mathematics buffon s needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by georges louis leclerc comte de buffon. What should i do. Just dig out a trusty magnet and they come right up.

I do worry that my dogs will find it before me but dh has been great at crawling around with a flashlight. I have been lucky so far that it has been found in the sofa on the floor on my sleeve under the sofa how does that happen. I dropped a needle on a carpeted floor. About 1 2 an inch.

Well the insulin bottle came out at the same time fell on the floor and broke. That might find it. Get a flashlight and darken the room. Will a magnet pick it up.

If you have a strong magnet put it on a short pole and sweep the floor and furniture with it. How do you find a sewing needle on a carpeted floor. It s somewhere on my desk or on the floor. I was felting and saw that the needle snapped but i don t think it s stuck in the thing i was felting.

It s the very end of the needle so it s very tiny. I ve been looking very very carefully but i still can t. It s really small and i ran a strong magnet over it and nothing happened. I ve been crawling around trying to find it to no avail.

If you have hardwood flooring it s possible that the needle is lodged between boards or by the baseboard. Well no more grab a magnet and just wave it over the pins and they come right up. I have tall carpet all over the house i was walking bare foot on my room when i felt as if i ran a tiny knife under my big toe i kneed but i did not see a thing less find it i was afraid but i ran the palm of my hand across that section and it pinched me i looked no luck. Any suggestions on how to prevent a dropped.

Which leaves one choice left.