Strangest Place You've Found a Spring

[Gfish]

I got a 66 in today.  I carefully eased the bridge out and there's no dog spring.  I look around the bench, in the folds of my shirt...no spring.  After I pull everything apart, I was about to degunk the inside of the handle side bearing and something metallic caught my eye.  It's the dog spring, of course, and it must have been there for awhile because it was overly compressed.  I imagine someone thought it belonged in there, because I can't think of an easy way for it to get there with a spool in place.   Not sure if it is salvagable.  Any stories?

You could use a tiny coil spring in the bushing to eliminate spool side play and mabey make it more adjustable...

[Dominick]

Mystery solved.  Gfish did it.    Dominick

[tholmes]

   I crawled around on the floor once looking everywhere...only to find it in my
beard! 

I've done exactly the same thing!    Looked all over for it, replaced the spring with a spare.  When I went in the house, my wife said "You've got something in your beard". Sure enough, there was the spring.
I've found them in shirt pockets too.

Tom

[Mjg378]

Looked all over the floor.  Had the flashlight out.  Called my boys to help but no luck.  My wife walked in, immediately spotted a smudge  up on the window, there it was.  
MikeG

[Bryan Young]

I've lost many springs in the carpet of my home.  Many times I will find them after I put in a new spring into the reel...in front of my face or hanging on something nearby.