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

[aroby]

Ok, glad to see some like vintage stuff here... LOL

Is a bit messy but have been busy with projects again.  At least it keeps me out of trouble....

Awesome

[mrflibble]

Ha ha. You have a funny idea of 'messy'.

Indeed! I wish I was able to maintain that level of messiness. 

Nicely done setup! 

[DaveW]

I love the fact that this thread has been running for me to be able to post my previous workshop on page 13, buy a house, build a workshop from scratch and now be able to post some more pics. Anyway... I ended up covering about half my back garden with a garage/shed to keep my tools in, I've split it up into a couple of sections, one for mechanical and one for electronic engineering.

The electronics side is made from two custom steel benches, plywood tops with a roll of ESD mat on top. The shelves are divided into 1m bays which can be moved up and down quickly and reconfigured. I've got storage underneath the benches for anything bulky, the workshop PC etc. All the workshop test leads are hanging from a cable hanger which I routed out of a bit of ply and the latest addition is the rotating storage cabinet for all the bits and pieces

[DaveW]

And the mechanical side, I installed a folding door to close off the electronics area when things got dusty.

[babysitter]

Use a big fan (and a HEPA filter maybe) to get overpressure in the electronics compartment, will help keeping dust out of it. Cleanroom style. Even giving friendly advice while being jealous

[nanofrog]

I love the fact that this thread has been running for me to be able to post my previous workshop on page 13, buy a house, build a workshop from scratch and now be able to post some more pics.

Always a work in progress... 

Nice setup BTW (envious of your mechanical side). 

[robrenz]

+1

[sotos]

And the mechanical side, I installed a folding door to close off the electronics area when things got dusty.

You’ve spent a lot of money out there.
I’m jealous.

[fpliuzzi]

Always enjoy seeing the variety of workspaces that people put together to suit there various needs. Here are a few photos of my over-stuffed general-purpose workspace in the basement of my home.

(the lighting isn't as poor as these photos would suggest)

[robrenz]

Very nice 

[Vgkid]

DaveW - Is that a Solartron 7065/55?

[DaveW]

Use a big fan (and a HEPA filter maybe) to get overpressure in the electronics compartment, will help keeping dust out of it. Cleanroom style. Even giving friendly advice while being jealous

That's a fantastic idea-shall have to take that idea. Wonder how to work out how big a fan is needed...

You’ve spent a lot of money out there.
I’m jealous.

I try not to think about it!

[DaveW]

DaveW - Is that a Solartron 7065/55?

Yeah, a 7065. Lovely DMM to use a lovely construction inside. Picked it up at an electronics car boot sale for £25 marked as faulty and was hoping to do a repair video, but all the measurements agree perfectly with my HP 6.5 digit and it works fine. Not sure whether to be pleased or disappointed!

[ovnr]

So, been meaning to get this done for quite a while, but :effort:. Also decided to clean before posting pictures of it...

Click for larger images.





Obligatory "everything turned on" picture:


Smaller stuff that lives in a drawer:



Parts storage is in the hallway leading into this room - three full-size bookshelves full of boxes of varying size and contents.
Plus random crap pretty much everywhere. One huge advantage of SMD parts is that they don't generally hurt when you step on them!

Edit: I should point out that the pictures are missing my shitty cheap Manson PSU, which is sitting partially disassembled in a box waiting for replacement potentiometers - old ones were completely shot.

[GreyWoolfe]

Very nice, onvr.

[Vgkid]

DaveW: you can see my teardown hopefully this week, with troubleshooting following. I will need to order a 10v reference first.

[d3javu]

Very nice arrangement Sebatian and ovnr . Seems like you guys really put a lot of thoughts into what goes where... let us see how the place looks like in a month time

[mswhin63]

I was thinking the same thing. I will eventually post my bench, started off nice later started working and what a mess. 

[calexanian]

My home bench and lab look like.... Turning around and looking.... A locomotive crashed through a surplus electronics store...

[george graves]

I think Toddfun has a nice set up, beside being in a garage.  I prefer a real room. 

I use a L shaped set of desks.  Dave's is one long desk - that would drive me crazy.  Scooting long a 20 foot long bench, and long test leads.

L or U shaped is much better IMHO. 

Here is Todd's - he has a good youtube channel as well - worth subscribing to.

[LektroiD]

This is my modest setup, which is enough for my projects which are mostly analogue synthesizer builds.

although a digi-scope would be nice...

[mtdoc]

Nice LektroiD.

You have a Bel Merit MT-100!  That's the first one I've seen other than the one I picked up for $9.99 at a local Thrift store.

[trophosphere]

My updated lab plus a close-up.

[sotos]

My updated lab plus a close-up.

Can you tell us what you have there on the bench?

[robrenz]

I think I see a new Keithley power supply on the left.