doh
 

The wife is getting a bit tetchy with the granddaughter (all of 16 month) and lets her pick up and play with my mobile. Next thing rattle rattle as she drops it behind the lounge radiator.

No way is it coming out without the rad off. Need to drain the thing off and lift it off the mounting brackets.

Still an improvement on my mates who builders dropped theirs into the cavity wall and knocked out a couple of bricks in the hallway to retrieve it, ringing it all the time to confirm location, quite a nasty surprise when he came home to inspect his extension to find out they had wrecked his hallway and done £400 of damage to recover a £20 mobile

Re: doh
 

why drain it?

Re: doh
 

Because I need to disconnect it from the pipes in order to lift it. If I don't drain it off then there is a few gallons of nasty black water all over my lounge.

Re: doh
 

i thought you might just be able to lift it off the brackets enough for the phone to drop

Re: doh
 

If only

Re: doh
 

poke it with a pointed stick?

Re: doh
 

bit of stick with araldite rapid on end. place against phone, wait hour, lift out phone. clean off glue.

Re: doh
 

i would try everything before draining the rad. stick ideas good:)

Re: doh
 

I do it all the time for things I cant get back with a magnet on a stick. I usually find a bit of hot melt glue (glue gun) on a bit of dowel works on most 'recoveries', sets in 1 minute and easy to peel off, but the phone may be jammed or too heavy, but araldite will pull it out no worries.
I used this method to recover a bulb that had fallen into my SV headlamp.

Re: doh
 

Sounds like a topic to start a poll off hovis...

'I didnt answer my mobile phone because:'