Originally Posted by
ArchaicArcane
I've totally done that! I even got to the point where I dropped another screw about the same size to see where it landed to give me a fighting chance. The last screw I dropped landed in another machine. Good grief! Took me 2 days to find that one.
I find it helpful to hold the tips of my screwdrivers to a magnetic parts dish. It keeps just enough magnetism to hold those little ones.