[Steeveedee]

Get some of those super-strong magnets and put them on some steel rods. They'll catch the screws if you drop them. I have these extra-large mitts that make me use expedients like those magnets. Now that uncle Arthur Itis is settling in for a lifetime stay in various parts of my body, I find myself using more of that sort of thing. Of course, a replacement base gasket is cheap enough, too.