First Law: It will always take three times longer to finish the restoration than you originally estimated.| Corollary 1: If parts had to be scratch built, they will appear in Swap Shop or at auction within one month.
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Second Law: Any part, when dropped, will roll into the most inaccessable corner of the workshop.
| Corollary 1: If it is heavy, it will hit your toe first.
| Corollary 2: The part will be the one that has taken the longest to make. Corollary 3: It will be the most delicate part. Corollary 4: When you find it, it will be by treading on it. Corollary 5: You will find it immediately after you have made a new one.
Third Law: The tool you have just finished with and put away will be needed again immediately.
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Fourth Law: Your only suitable small drill will always break at 6pm on a Saturday.
| Corollary 1: Further progress hinges on that one single hole being drilled.
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Fifth Law: The necessary book or drawing was loaned to a friend last week.
| Corollary 1: He has now gone on holidays.
| Corollary 2: He will not be back for at least a month.
Sixth Law: The only tin of paint or stain of the correct colour has dried up.
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Seventh Law: It never works first time.
| Corollary 1: The problem is always the last place you look.
| Corollary 2: The only circuit diagram you have is partly unreadable or is for a different model. Corollary 3: All the wires in the form are the same colour. Corollary 4: Your meter has flat batteries.
Eighth Law: (sometimes known as the exhibitor's law) It works better if you plug it in.
| Corollary 1: You left the essential power lead at home.
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Ninth Law: (second exhibitor's law) The reliability of a display is inversely proportional to the number and importance of the people watching it.
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Tenth (and all encompassing) Law: It won't work.
| Bell's Axiom: If it won't work, hit it with a big hammer.
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Murphy was an optomist!