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

[PA0PBZ]

I did the same only under my workbench, using cheap plastic gutter. Just throw in the power strips and network and usb cables.

[steverino]

I've got a garage I've converted to a  woodshop and these look like a great way to run cables without conduit.  Thanks all.

[SeanB]

I used a few offcuts as pigeon proofing in the roof drains, as I had a bit left over from doing some work with it.  Works well to keep the debris from going down and blocking the pipes, though the flying rats often use it as a convenient nesting platform, using assorted drinking straws and twigs. Easy to clean though, I use a scrap wire length to lift it up and dump over the edge of the drain, clearing out the nest eggs and all.

[tatus1969]

I have a convertible lab.. Or with other words, I am using our living room to the annoyance of my wife

[Falkra]

Sure that women acceptance factor may be low.
Same here... convertible lab (because of lack of space).

[Radio Tech]

Very interesting looking kart you have there.
I ran the World Karting association circuit for eight years. Four of the latter years I was the local WKA certified tech.  Now just a closet full of trophies and 3 championships.
The wife hated when I used to bring stuff into the house.

[rrinker]

 You stole my dogs.  I too have a black and fawn pair of pugs. Neither interested in electronics, except perhaps to eat some of it.  I have to carefully police anything that falls on the floor. The bench it too high for them to get into anything, thankfully.

[tatus1969]

Sure that women acceptance factor may be low.
Same here... convertible lab (because of lack of space).

guess how low it was when I blew up this one here

[tatus1969]

You stole my dogs.  I too have a black and fawn pair of pugs. Neither interested in electronics, except perhaps to eat some of it.  I have to carefully police anything that falls on the floor. The bench it too high for them to get into anything, thankfully.

I know what you mean, our dogs are also only interested in electronics if it helps them jumping onto the laid kitchen table by distracting their owners

[tatus1969]

Very interesting looking kart you have there.
I ran the World Karting association circuit for eight years. Four of the latter years I was the local WKA certified tech.  Now just a closet full of trophies and 3 championships.
The wife hated when I used to bring stuff into the house.

it's only 3HP and limited to 30km/h but it was fun building it together with the kids. And of course the electronics stuff: 100V / 40A brushless motor drive with FOC, driving a motor that once was 48V / 15A rated 

[jonovid]

I am using our living room to the annoyance of my wife

live dangerously! 

more of my lab,  man space

[rrinker]

 Nice one. Storage is what I lack in my spare room space. Does that panel with the black bins slide back and forth to allow access to the blue tubs on the shelves behind?

[Gary350z]

I ran the World Karting association circuit for eight years. Four of the latter years I was the local WKA certified tech.  Now just a closet full of trophies and 3 championships.

Awesome!
Great interests: karts and electronics.
3 championships.

[george graves]

I ran the World Karting association circuit for eight years. Four of the latter years I was the local WKA certified tech.  Now just a closet full of trophies and 3 championships.

Oh wow!  WKA President? Awesome - how long ago was that?

I started karting when I was 10  - back in the mid/late 80's. My father was an SCCA weekend racer - so it was just natural he put me in a kart. Loved it.  If I recall correctly there was two origination.  WKA and something like the "AKA?"

Would love to hear more for sure!  That's outstanding!

[TerraHertz]

Not my workshop, but some may enjoy seeing this. The livingroom workshop of that Chinese maker-girl in Shenzhen.


I am seriously envious of her tools cabinet. Those things cost a fortune here, and I've never been able to afford one. Instead I use assorted old 3 and 4-drawer metal filing cabinets, that are all street-finds. And now I don't have room left for a flashy tools cabinet anyway.

[Vgkid]

@ THz:
Do you guys not have an equivalent of Harbor Freight/Princess Auto/Canadian Tire, in Australlia.

[jonovid]

Do you guys not have an equivalent of Harbor Freight/Princess Auto/Canadian Tire, in Australia .

when it comes to tools. shipping weight can be a bit too high. also local bricks & mortar store's are too expensive .
 many online au  store's have little or no savings over local bricks & mortar . as 90% of tools sold, came from china anyway. 

[TerraHertz]

@ THz:
Do you guys not have an equivalent of Harbor Freight/Princess Auto/Canadian Tire, in Australlia.

A few, like Bunnings and Super Cheap Auto. And, ha ha, Total Tools, which always makes me laugh. If you have to ask...

As for pricing, an example: https://www.bunnings.com.au/trojan-680-x-460-x-1520mm-16-drawer-tool-chest-and-trolley_p6120306
Au$570 just for a stack of drawers. I can't immediately find one online like that one in the video.

[eugenenine]

Might be easier to get wooddorking tools and make a tookchest than to get one.

[TerraHertz]

Might be easier to get wooddorking tools and make a tookchest than to get one.

My woodworking skills are OK. Pic 1 is of the foyer of my workshop - the entire building that I built by myself (except brickwork. And I can bricklay, just not fast enough for the schedule at that time.) But the thing about those tool cabinets is the space efficiency (thin wall steel drawers), nice roller slides, and ruggedness. I've done wooden drawers with roller slides, they work nicely, but wood is only good for big drawers where the wood thickness isn't a significant space loss.

Anyway, file cabinets are OK. See 2nd & 3rd pics. It would just be nice to have some shallow drawers for hand tools. I have too many to keep them all on the pinboard, so the rest are loose in toolbags and chests. Hence lots of rummaging when i want something I didn't use recently so it sank to the bottom somewhere.

[Cubdriver]

THz, sounds to me like a good excuse to justify buying a kick shear and bending brake!   

(Of course they may be harder to find than a tool box...)

-Pat

[TerraHertz]

THz, sounds to me like a good excuse to justify buying a kick shear and bending brake!   

  What, like this one? (scroll down to near the end)
http://everist.org/NobLog/20151012_spring_diversions.htm

[Clarification: that's a different building to the one above that I built. This old garage is my mech-workshop. They are interconnected.]

But I still don't have a spot welder. And making a full cabinet like that just isn't worth it.

[jonovid]

I still have books from the 1980s.  Not for sale

[eugenenine]

Our small town library ordered the robot builders bonanza for me.  They had so few 'customers' that they could pretty much order anything we requested. I checked it out over and over again.

[djos]

Here's my little workbench in my garage, it's in a nook that the original builder added to the design and one of the reasons we bought the house.