Messaged some of the guys who did the cache, they pointed me towards something like this. Got it off of harbor freight, it’s named “magnetic pickup tool.”

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    16 days ago

    My family called these the elephant nose pickers and now my brain refuses to commit any other name to memory.

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      16 days ago

      Which part of them resembles an elephant nose? Or is that it’s so long it must be only used for picking the nose of an elephant?

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        They’re long and flexible to get boogers from way up in the elephant’s trunk. At least that’s the juvenile humor logic.

        Usually they’re sold as a retrieval tool for dropped bolts in an engine bay. Nobody wants to have to pull a bunch of components to get something you dropped in an area where hands can’t fit.