Whats your Work-Bench/lab look like? Post some pictures of your Lab.

[frpeebles]

From no lab at all to this mess in just a month.

[terabyte]

ok i just got the study done a couple of weeks ago.  I temporarily set my bench top on two saw horses whilst i built this;



and well tonight i slid it all over

[carloscuev]

Hell, here's my humble setting works nicely for me ! I think I'll always want more and more equipment !

[free_electron]

ok i just got the study done a couple of weeks ago.  I temporarily set my bench top on two saw horses whilst i built this;

omg. it's a realy ikea jerker in the corner ! I wish they would make those again ! i have two of them they are so comfortable. you can assmeble them with the work surface at the height you awnt , top instrument shelves ...

[Kibi]

omg. it's a realy ikea jerker in the corner ! I wish they would make those again ! i have two of them they are so comfortable. you can assmeble them with the work surface at the height you awnt , top instrument shelves ...

I noticed that you had two. I also have two, they are fantastic. I check ebay every once in a while to see if any are up for sale in my area just so that I can have another one.
The beauty of them is even if you don't have the space at any point in time, it takes up no space at all once dismantled.

[free_electron]

they fly by on craigslist once in a while too...

[terabyte]

good catch guys.  yea I love that desk.  I'm not sure why they discontinued it. I ran to Criagslist to get one after I saw this picture;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aud1073ch/2263840941/#sizes/l/in/faves-thespeedphreak/

I thought about getting another 1 or 2 for my bench but I wanted something big and this was cheaper. I built my bench to be the same height as my Jerker station

[Spawn]

Since this is bumped up again and I am almost done with my bench after two months I think it is time to post here.
Still need to put some electric tools there and need to find a place for the wire reels I got, but other than that it is done.

Al my stuff was in a closet and I realized I got too much to put on the bench, on the photo you see 4 drawers under the bench, that was my bench with 4 closets under, it was pretty small and not workable, I am using that as storage now for things like sprays and chemical stuff.

I got green light from my wife to use more space in the room. New bench is 95cm high, 85cm deep and 185cm wide, the shelves are 50cm deep. Bench is made from an old closet made out HDF, the door is my work space and the side plates are the shelves, the white back plate where the shelves are on is the back of the closet.
All my hand tools like cutters but also mechanical tools are in my Gedore Adjudant tool trolley, it is fully loaded.

The bench is not big and I don’t have much equipment but it is more than enough for me.

[robrenz]

Very nice! 

[T4P]

Since this is bumped up again and I am almost done with my bench after two months I think it is time to post here.
Still need to put some electric tools there and need to find a place for the wire reels I got, but other than that it is done.

Man, i have always loved the look of your lab along with that many power supplies 

[Spawn]

Thanks guys

Unfortunately I don’t have new equipment like DSO or newer model function generator, but it is still good enough for me, I paused for very long time and that’s why  my equipment got stuck on 90’s early 00’s

[terabyte]

Spawn that is BEAUTIFUL!

[free_electron]

i like the big fire extuinguisher on the top shelf

[Tube_Dude]

i like the big fire extuinguisher on the top shelf

He is a wise man... 

[Spawn]

Thanks again guys

free_electron, it is a 3 liter extinguisher but enough for a small room like this
Got a 2 liter version in my Grand Voyager, people underestimate how fast one liter extinguisher goes empty.

Tube_Dude, I would be even wiser man if I didn’t use a water and foam fire extinguisher on a electronics bench, but I don’t like the idea having a powder extinguisher blown on my equipment because the corrosion it makes after a while, with this water and foam I can cut the electricity then extinguish the fire and dry up the mess.
Let’s hope I never use it

[nick.sek]

here is my lab

[SeanB]

But CO2 is better than dry powder, less mess to clean up in small accidents. Best is Halon, but that is no longer made.

[free_electron]

Real hobby labs have one of thos big red 'mushroom' pushbutton ona bog yellow box mounted on the wall. If you hit that the lights turn off , red spinning lights switch on ( those old rotating warning lights , not a simple flasher ) and bathe the room in an atmosphere of danger. Meanwhile a booming voice transmitted from a speaker proclaims "Warning : Halon Release imminent. Evacuate the room immediately" and then counts down 5 4 3 2 1 and then the blast doors fall out of the ceiling and then halon is released from the ceiling floodgates.

at least that's how i always imagine it when i set something on fire... typically my spraybottle of wate rto wet the soldering iron sponge does fine ....

if i ever get my hollowed-out-volcano lab i'll definatley need to get me one of those...

[T4P]

But CO2 is better than dry powder, less mess to clean up in small accidents. Best is Halon, but that is no longer made.

Yeah... Halon's not something you want to use on your hands

[SeanB]

Halon is no worse than R22 or R134A, and at least will stay as liquid when neat room temperature. I still have a few halons that I can no longer get serviced, so they are in storage as there is no way to dispose of them other than releasing to atmosphere, and I would rather use them on a fire instead. No halon bank near me to take them ( and pay for the gas of course).

[free_electron]

?!? halon is gas ... no need to worry to get it on your hands.. you need to worry not the breathe it .. it will kill you , and very quickly

[Bored@Work]

Real hobby labs have one of thos big red 'mushroom' pushbutton ona bog yellow box mounted on the wall. If you hit that the lights turn off , red spinning lights switch on ( those old rotating warning lights , not a simple flasher ) and bathe the room in an atmosphere of danger.

This is to make it harder for our hero to find the exit.

and then the blast doors fall out of the ceiling and then halon is released from the ceiling floodgates.

At work we now have mostly Inergen systems. One is supposed to have a higher chance of surviving if one happens to end up at the wrong side of the pressure-tight doors when it is released. Still not something I intend to try any day.

[Monkeh]

?!? halon is gas ... no need to worry to get it on your hands.. you need to worry not the breathe it .. it will kill you , and very quickly

That's a myth. Halon itself is fairly harmless (1301, 1211 is slightly toxic but is nearly never used in flood systems).

[T4P]

?!? halon is gas ... no need to worry to get it on your hands.. you need to worry not the breathe it .. it will kill you , and very quickly

That's a myth. Halon itself is fairly harmless (1301, 1211 is slightly toxic but is nearly never used in flood systems).

I do not know, but i have been taught that Halon is harmless... sure i know now.
Certainly all train stations in my country use halon as an extinguisher ...

[Monkeh]

?!? halon is gas ... no need to worry to get it on your hands.. you need to worry not the breathe it .. it will kill you , and very quickly

That's a myth. Halon itself is fairly harmless (1301, 1211 is slightly toxic but is nearly never used in flood systems).

I do not know, but i have been taught that Halon is harmless... sure i know now.
Certainly all train stations in my country use halon as an extinguisher ...

1211 is apparently slightly toxic, 1301 has no permanent or damaging effects. It does, however, impair you somewhat. The danger comes from high temperature fires. Halon 1301 + high temperatures produces hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen bromide. Mixed with water (see: eyes, respitory tract) they become hydroflouric acid and hydrobromic acid. Continued exposure to that in the air in sufficient quantity will quickly become dangerous. Not, however, as quickly as a 60% CO2 flood system will kill you (about 30 seconds.).

Halon is much safer and more effective than CO2 in most situations. It's also, however, a CFC, and even at a low mix ratio (5-10% vs up to around 75% for CO2) that's a lot of gas. Hence the green nuts decided we should instead use CO2, which is fatal if you get stuck in the room with it.