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

[calexanian]

BTW, it's hard to tell, but is that a Metcal solder station in the upper right corner of the first pic?

I'm sure that's a Metcal MX-500 soldering system like this: http://wiki.ladyada.net/tutorials/library/smt/metcaliron.html

MX-500 is what I use for surface mount. Love those wide blade cartridges. I can drop out through hole 2803's in a few seconds and flip the board over and drop a new one in! A common repair on our boards. Also we use 16X2 lcd displays with a 14 pin header (We don't have backlights on them) and just heat that header in two shots and whip the display right off nice and clean.

[briandorey]

Heres a pic of my loft workshop. Had to  update the test meter shelving after treating myself to a Rigol DSA815-TG last week!

Got a 360 pano version with zoom on http://www.apexviews.co.uk/tour/113

[con-f-use]

Heres a pic of my loft workshop.

Can I move in with you? I'm an excellent room mate and I cook well! Pleeeease.

Did you post that earlier in this thread or is it an update? I seem to recall a lasercutter somewhere?

[mcinque]

My reaction to briandorey lab:

[briandorey]

Heres a pic of my loft workshop.

Can I move in with you? I'm an excellent room mate and I cook well! Pleeeease.

Did you post that earlier in this thread or is it an update? I seem to recall a lasercutter somewhere?

I did post a few months ago but have since got a new scope, signal analyser, added new storage shelving and built the diy pick and place machine. havent got room for a laser cutter

[robrenz]

Yeah Very nice!

[Hydrawerk]

A nice lab.

[Spawn]

Some update from my lab, I couldn’t do anything last 10 months because of my work first, than vacation and when we came back we bought a bigger house so I was busy with that another couple months.

Anyway I had finally some time to build my lab in the new house, room is smaller than old one but space is all for the lab, in the old room I had to share the space with a freezer, washing machine and dryer, so now I got more space. We have bigger rooms but couldn’t agree with my wife to use one of those 

The bench is same as old one, I just took it off and mounted here in the new house, but I build a new corner for my machines and also got myself a tool board.

Like I said room is narrow but it is enough to do my thing, luckily my machines are in miniature form so I can put them on the bench and do my work:


Bench is same as before, didn’t change much:


The new machine corner, have to something about the wires later on:


And the tool board:



Well finally I can start with my projects and keep up my Youtube channel from now on 

[robrenz]

Beautiful shop there Spawn 

[amiq]

The new machine corner, have to something about the wires later on:

Would love to see some reviews of these Proxxon tools ...

[calexanian]

Yelling over at my bench, "Why can't you be clean like that?" Oh, wait..... 

[AmmoJammo]

[AndersAnd]

Bench is same as before, didn’t change much:

Nice and very tidy lab. The only thing I don't like is the oscilloscopes not being placed in table height. I can't believe how most put their oscilloscopes up on a shelf in this topic. If you use it regularly it's much more ergonomic to have it in table height tilting slightly upwards.

But what are you doing with what looks like at least 17 multimeters?  Are you collecting multimeters instead of stamps?

[SLJ]

Nice and very tidy lab. The only thing I don't like is the oscilloscopes not being placed in table height. I can't believe how most put their oscilloscopes up on a shelf in this topic. If you use it regularly it's much more ergonomic to have it in table height tilting slightly upwards.

The problem with many older scopes is the depth.  My old Tek stays up on the shelf as it would stick out too far on the bench. The smaller DS stays on the bench though.
It would drive me nuts to have one way off to the side. I like them in the center so I don't have to constantly turn my head.  It's kind of nice having the Tek on the shelf right in front of my face as it's easier to see and operate with my older eyes.

[Spawn]

Thanks guys 

Would love to see some reviews of these Proxxon tools ...

I wouldn’t know which one to review, most Proxxon’s I got are for mechanics work, Proxxon soldering station is out of production for long time, maybe the drill press and table saw are intresting for electronics job 

For those who never seen a Proxxon soldering station:

The only thing I don't like is the oscilloscopes not being placed in table height.

But what are you doing with what looks like at least 17 multimeters?  Are you collecting multimeters instead of stamps?

Like SLJ mentioned the CRO scopes are difficult to put on your bench because of their depth, and I don’t use the scopes constantly like most guys here if I did I would get a DSO and put it on the bench indeed.

Yes I am collecting stamps AND mulitmeters  I got over 30 I think:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/show-your-multimeter!/msg248927/#msg248927

[SolidFloyd]

Hi all,

Just wanted to share some pictures of my basement lab... The lab function as a hobby room for my rc-helicopters and as a lab for my electronics projects.
My wife and I bought an old hose for approx.  1.5 yrs. ago, the biggest room in the basement used to be some kind of a storage room for gardening tools, plants, garbage and a whole lot of other shit.

The floor was nasty and there had been a flooding there some years earlier due to some clogged draining (fixed now). Due to the flooding there was some rot in the wooden cladding on the walls and the outer door was full of rot (yes, my lab has its own outer door, meaning I can drag new equipment and stuff inn without the wife ever noticing it  ). Overall, it was not a nice room (sorry have no pics|O)....

I was allowed by the wife to use it for whatever I wanted... so I started some remodelling and this is what came out of it, it is still not yet completed, still need to add more shelving and storage containers, and I am thinking of making an additional bench on wheels...

Some of the pictures are from when I just had removed the old walls and cladding, some are from after the new walls where put up and some I just took a few days ago (sorry for the quallity, mobile phone you know...)

[Vgkid]

Whats in the safe?

[SolidFloyd]

Whats in the safe?

Sadly nothing of great  value...  For the time I am using it for storaging all my lipo batteries for my rc helis....

[leppie]

My current setup

[nanofrog]

My current setup

Nothing to be embarrassed about IMHO. 

Keep in mind, some, if not most of the benches you see with loads of gear on, took their owners years to acquire.

[GreyWoolfe]

My current setup

Confucius say, "Journey of 10,000 miles begins with first oscilloscope."

[Frost]

Confucius say, "Journey of 10,000 miles begins with first oscilloscope."

And the Tek 465 is a nice one.

[echen1024]

Confucius say, "Journey of 10,000 miles begins with first oscilloscope."

And the Tek 465 is a nice one.

And lots of power supplies.

[linux-works]

I'm still looking for a good shot of most of my gear all on the work table at once, but here's a shot of my toy collection, at least in terms of one special kind of toy:



bought on ebay a year or two ago when I was going thru a buying binge, right after I heard about the PDI precision units

[nanofrog]

I'm still looking for a good shot of most of my gear all on the work table at once, but here's a shot of my toy collection, at least in terms of one special kind of toy:

bought on ebay a year or two ago when I was going thru a buying binge, right after I heard about the PDI precision units

Nice little collection there.  Care to part with any?