Clean desk men ...

[Carlos]

Hi!

I always thought my workplace is the only one that looks crammed, but even Jack Orman seems to work like this

[Mike Burgundy]

LOL
as usual, the only tidy bit is inside the boxes
Very, very familliar.

[petemoore]

I could use a coal shovel to great avail cleaning the shop area...
 Thing is there are parts in the huge piles of "garbage"...I haven't developed a better parts 'strainer', I still have to pull them out or pick them up by hand.
 As long as I sit in the same position, I can find something...if I move and try to remember where [it' was, it may take longer or I'll have to turn the whole place upside down to find it.

[Ansil]

lol now if only he had left the book open with the tofu schematic in the picture.   darn. ohwell...................

[ErikMiller]

Jack's bench and mine are Separated At Birth twins.

The salvaged door as a bench, the baggies, pots rolling around, eyeglasses on a stack of schematics, breadboard with wires a-dangle, 3 multimeters, no room for a single added item....

Add a PanaVise and a computer monitor, and it's Euthymia Labs.

[nightingale]

here's mine:

[ExpAnonColin]

Mine a little while back (it has since gone through some serious cleaning):



-Colin

[amz-fx]

I always thought my workplace is the only one that looks crammed, but even Jack Orman seems to work like this

There's an overflowing garbage can to the right of the chair that needs to be emptied.  On the floor on the other side of the chair is a box of parts that just came in from Mouser that have not been filed yet. The Panavise and Dremel press are on the right of the desk out of the picture. To the top there is a metal parts bin with dozens of drawers full of resistor and capacitors.

Is there one of us who doesn't work like this?  Let's see a pic!    

More about my work-in-process: http://www.muzique.com/projects.htm

regards, Jack

[Paul Marossy]

I have the cleanest "work bench" of you all. Mine looks completely clean when I'm not working on something. I have to pick up everything and put it away in the place that they go each time I am finished. Mine is the floor of my home office...  :oops:

I'm thinking that a second computer desk could be kinda cool for a workbench. If I get one like the one I have now with a high shelf, I could have a place to put my scope, my signal generators, various test equipment, my soldering iron, etc. The sliding shelf where the keyboard goes could have stuff on it like a DMM and various tools that could be put out of the way when not needed saving space on the desktop. The only hard part is keeping little fingers off of everything.

I think I know what I might be getting for Christmas this year....  

[nightingale]

the problem with mine is:
that my ethernet connection/laptop is upstairs, bench in basement... so i'm up and down the mini stairs 50 times plus every sunday... i need to diy a 55 foot ethernet cable...lol!

[smoguzbenjamin]

Have you considered wireless networking? Might seem expensive but it's handy as hell!  

[nightingale]

i will look into that for sure~
right in time for xmass...
thanks,

[Brett Clark]

Well, this is what mine looks like right now:

[Mike Burgundy]

Actually Jack, I do occasionally have a different modus operandi.
On the floor (no kidding - a salvaged old enamel-coated shelf makes a nice workarea).
But only if my two (2) workbenches have overflowed to a degree that working is impossible without causing a mild village-swallowing avalanche.

It wreaks havoc on one's back thouh, so it's not recommended. Also my cat doesn't seem to get the hang of hot soldering irons (whiskers...)

[smoguzbenjamin]

Poor cat. I try 'n' tidy up every now and again. Mainly because my guardian's gotta clean and she gets pissed if there's too much rubbish lying around....

Damn I wish I had a digital camera.... :roll:

[Paul Marossy]

Well, things are looking up. I just rearranged half of my house (literally) getting set for our second child and I found a way to get a "workbench" area. It's not quite what I would like to have, but that will come eventually... it will be a lot better than what I have been doing.