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What Does Your Workarea Look Like?
I have always liked seeing other people's workshops....one can learn
alot as to how they are arranged, the tools and test equipment being used and how small parts are stored. Layouts of benches, seating, lighting and power always seem to be customized in a manner that are different. Care to describe your workspace to us? Links to pictures and descriptions of why you laid it out the way you did would be great. Thanks TMT |
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Too_Many_Tools wrote in message
ups.com... I have always liked seeing other people's workshops....one can learn alot as to how they are arranged, the tools and test equipment being used and how small parts are stored. Layouts of benches, seating, lighting and power always seem to be customized in a manner that are different. Care to describe your workspace to us? Links to pictures and descriptions of why you laid it out the way you did would be great. Thanks TMT Did you mean Workarrhoea ? |
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"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message ups.com... I have always liked seeing other people's workshops....one can learn alot as to how they are arranged, the tools and test equipment being used and how small parts are stored. Layouts of benches, seating, lighting and power always seem to be customized in a manner that are different. Care to describe your workspace to us? Links to pictures and descriptions of why you laid it out the way you did would be great. Thanks TMT I think that "why you laid it out that way" is a bit more like why it started out that way. How it is now, is the way it evolved as the junk built up, and the bench space diminished until only the important areas like 'coffee cup station', remain ... Arfa |
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: "Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message oups.com... I have always liked seeing other people's workshops....one can learn alot as to how they are arranged, the tools and test equipment being used and how small parts are stored. Layouts of benches, seating, lighting and power always seem to be customized in a manner that are different. Care to describe your workspace to us? Links to pictures and descriptions of why you laid it out the way you did would be great. Thanks TMT I think that "why you laid it out that way" is a bit more like why it started out that way. How it is now, is the way it evolved as the junk built up, and the bench space diminished until only the important areas like 'coffee cup station', remain ... Arfa Hey, no fair peeking! ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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: *snip* I think that "why you laid it out that way" is a bit more like why it started out that way. How it is now, is the way it evolved as the junk built up, and the bench space diminished until only the important areas like 'coffee cup station', remain ... Arfa I've often said that mousepads aren't there to improve the tracking of the mouse, they're there to reserve space for it! (s/mousepad/coffee cup station/, s/mouse/coffee cup/) Puckdropper -- Wise is the man who attempts to answer his question before asking it. To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm |
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Too_Many_Tools wrote:
I have always liked seeing other people's workshops....one can learn alot as to how they are arranged, the tools and test equipment being used and how small parts are stored. Layouts of benches, seating, lighting and power always seem to be customized in a manner that are different. Indeed, I hope folks do respond to this request and post photos; I too am always seeking layout and storage ideas and especially creative solutions to small-space issues. Regards, Michael |
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... Too_Many_Tools wrote: I have always liked seeing other people's workshops....one can learn alot as to how they are arranged, the tools and test equipment being used and how small parts are stored. Layouts of benches, seating, lighting and power always seem to be customized in a manner that are different. Indeed, I hope folks do respond to this request and post photos; I too am always seeking layout and storage ideas and especially creative solutions to small-space issues. Regards, Michael Hint for increasing storage space. For doubling the storage capacity of an existing wall of steel cased,plastic drawered component storage cabinets. Obtain some extruded aluminium channel sliding door gear used in domestic clothes cupboards etc. Fix the runners to the top of the cabinet/ cabinets.Fix channel to ceiling joists/stout shelf in front of and above(to avoid fouling top layer of drawers) the existing wall mounted cabinets. Fix a couple of PTFE slabs to base/rear to run against a sheet of wood or metal fixed under the existing units.Cabinets can be doubled up,pop-rivetted together vertically with bridging plates across the joins. Sometime I must put in 20 or so power sockets around the work bench to rid some of the workarrhoea of tangled cables from using only a single 6 way ganged outlet strip. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:03:44 -0700, Too_Many_Tools
wrote: I have always liked seeing other people's workshops....one can learn alot as to how they are arranged, the tools and test equipment being used and how small parts are stored. Layouts of benches, seating, lighting and power always seem to be customized in a manner that are different. Care to describe your workspace to us? Links to pictures and descriptions of why you laid it out the way you did would be great. Thanks TMT The basement bench looks better since the older daughter's mother-in-law had her kitchen remodeled and I got some wall cabinets to organize parts (read: hide the junk) Tools (30 year accumulation): Fluke 77 DVM (received as a "test and report" item and was never asked to return it), small $4 DVM for quick checks, Tektronics 545 scope (hand-me-down - but it still works), Heath voltage/current regulated DC supply (hand-me-down), Variac (gift from a friend), adjustable temp soldering station, Dremel tool with many bits, Heath audio generator, cheapie kit square/triangle wave generator, bench drill press, utility knife, miscellaneous files Assorted parts cabinets: 1/4w resistors, 1/2w resistors, non-electrolytic capacitors, logic chips, microcontrollers (mostly PICAXEs) and accessories (protoboards, sensors, LCD displays, etc) My amateur radio hobby has been relegated to a far distant back burner, somewhere behind time with the grandkids (http://www.jecarter.com/personal/grandkids.html ), microcontroller projects (http://www.picaxe.us/projects.html ) and PDA software development (http://www.jecarter.com/nsbsource.html ) John |
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We got half a dozen Rubbermaid roll-around carts some years ago and they're
great. Makes big items easy to move and/or work on. They even have little troughs for holding loose hardware. The edges of the work surface have a slight dip at the edge, to make it harder for things to roll off onto the floor. We use Sencore capacitor testers a lot, but there are times when we don't. We bought some old Tektronix roll-around oscilloscope carts at a hamfest and strapped the Sencores to them. Roll 'em up to the bench when you've got caps to test, put 'em back in the garage when you're finished. |
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A canvas tool/tote bag from SEARS, A large cardboard carton (Logo states a
ream of printer paper was in it at one time), and a 5 year old company supplied E-150 with well over a centruy on the clock. Work area is where the product is located, hard wood floors, cement basement, deep plush carpet, or any conbination of the above. The company (C/C) believes in 'ensitu' service for the end consumer; i.e. no local service facilities with stationary work benches, equipment carts, or even parts bays. The vehicle has a meodorce assortment of replacment parts and generic components. Supplied items include a 2.5 year old laptop with a 40gig hd that houses our communications, VPN, Part Handling, Scheduling, and Service Literature. Needless to say, many times the first call is diagnostics and triosh only. After diagnostics, parts are ordered with a necessary 4-6 day wait for them to be delivered, then to have the call rescheduled. Dispatch is located 1100 miles away in another time zone, ocassionally there is a language or scheduling problem that arises, especially when the dispatched technician finds out, upon arrival, the product is in a location or mounted in a way that it can not be accessed. Technicians must procure their own service related tools, however meters, scopes, generators, etc are company supplied. There are days one longs for a stationary work bench with all the ammenities but then reality sets in. We would miss the dog doo in the front yard, the dead mouse smashed under the DLP Stand, and of course the scurrying of all the nice little critters towards your tool pouch when they are exposed to daylight once the back panel has been removed. Then to graciously exit the facility without insulting the customer because of the conditions thay aparently care to live in. Cheers BTW currently over 4 decades playin with teles in many many differing configurations and conditions. Quit? no, just adjust the horizontal hold and turn out the lights. A/J "Matt J. McCullar" wrote in message . net... We got half a dozen Rubbermaid roll-around carts some years ago and they're great. Makes big items easy to move and/or work on. They even have little troughs for holding loose hardware. The edges of the work surface have a slight dip at the edge, to make it harder for things to roll off onto the floor. We use Sencore capacitor testers a lot, but there are times when we don't. We bought some old Tektronix roll-around oscilloscope carts at a hamfest and strapped the Sencores to them. Roll 'em up to the bench when you've got caps to test, put 'em back in the garage when you're finished. |
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