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

[paulca]

Since new photobucked's policies, my pictures are not showing anymore on that link.

A big reason why using EEVBlog's image features is recommended.

I have been using Imgur for years.  However, it would seem it's started to get an increasing amount of dodgy NSFW content and a lot web filters block them now

[Spawn]

It is a good thing that the lathe is a compact. Works well with the room.

My dad also had an EMCO, but not as fancy as yours. We sold it after he moved to a retirement home.

You do have a nice setup though, very neatly organized.

Thank you  Emco is nice lathe indeed, can handle a lot for its size, for the price what I paid I could get a new Chinese lathe, but Emco is a lot better quality, my Compact 5 is from 1982 and it is still in great shape, I was planning to get it's bigger sister Compact 8, but it was just too big for my bench. It is convenient to have a lathe and milling machine.

A big reason why using EEVBlog's image features is recommended.

Back then I was using photobucket for a long time on a lot of forums, most of those forums didn't have upload functionality.

[paulca]

Didn't know it degraded into such disgusting content. Haven't been back to imgur for years, since they required an account to upload photos.

Think it's the usual story.  They went much more heavily ad supported.  OnlyFans leaks... drives ad traffic.  Money.

It's not like you can stumble on it or anything I haven't seen any, I was informed by several people it's blocked on quite a few popular lists now.

[Smokey]

An update of my lab after exactly 9 years ago I posted here.

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We do have bigger rooms, but can't agree with my wife to move in one of those, she says "Space is not your problem, you get too much stuff, and you will fill another room in couple years" Don't tell her, but I think she is right 

And I thought I packed a lot of stuff into a small space.  You are my new personal hero.
I do at least have a room for the electronics lab and the machine shop in the garage.  I can't imagine having to clean chips and cutting oil off the electronics stuff.

[gamalot]

Yet another Chinese product with obvious spelling mistakes on the huge logo. I hope they will be more careful next time. 

[Spawn]

And I thought I packed a lot of stuff into a small space.  You are my new personal hero.
I do at least have a room for the electronics lab and the machine shop in the garage.  I can't imagine having to clean chips and cutting oil off the electronics stuff.

Yeah, it is all I got, unfortunately, I designed a cover on the carriage to keep the chip in front of the machine, but the chips still fly all over to back, just not much as normal, I just cover the airbrush paint bottles and electronics part of the bench with a table cloth, couple minutes of work to cover those, I am not a daily lathe user, so it is manageable.

You see the biggest mess I had couple months ago in the picture below, normally I only make small pins and small parts, so there is not much chips flying around, but the work piece in the picture needed to be milled first and I took another 3mm of the face on the lathe, that leave a lot of shavings all over the room, cleaning everything took almost longer than the job itself 

[Warhawk]

An update of my lab after exactly 9 years ago I posted here.

Since new photobucked's policies, my pictures are not showing anymore on that link.


Luckily I could save my pictures from photobucket, so here how my lab looked like, I just moved in to my new house back then and got one of the rooms to use it as a lab.


I was really happy with the new space, I thought it was big enough, and I was wrong... I wanted all my stuff in there for my hobbies, not just the electronics lab.
So... Welcome to my mess:


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What is the name of the system that holds all your screwdrivers, hammers, etc. I am looking for something like this too.

[PlainName]

Fixed, thanks

He does a fantastic job of organizing stuff and keeping the place usable. But we don't need to see the entire photo set a zillion times. Imagine if we all just blindly hit quote...

[pcprogrammer]

So why did you do it then 

[Spawn]

What is the name of the system that holds all your screwdrivers, hammers, etc. I am looking for something like this too.

It is called pegboard, I got it from Conrad back then, but this model does not exist anymore.


_{... I start to regret posting the pictures that way, I just wanted to give explanation between the pictures.}

[pcprogrammer]

_{... I start to regret posting the pictures that way, I just wanted to give explanation between the pictures.}

Don't. Your post was perfectly fine and enjoyable.

It is the laziness of quoters that is the problem. Warhawk could have deleted parts of your posts in his quote to only show the picture with the pegboard.

[Warhawk]

_{... I start to regret posting the pictures that way, I just wanted to give explanation between the pictures.}

Don't. Your post was perfectly fine and enjoyable.

It is the laziness of quoters that is the problem. Warhawk could have deleted parts of your posts in his quote to only show the picture with the pegboard.

You're correct and I fixed my quote.
Thanks for highlighting this.

[PlainName]

So why did you do it then 

To illustrate for those without imagination.

[Spawn]

Don't. Your post was perfectly fine and enjoyable.

Thanks, I was feeling bad, but the guys solved the issue luckily. 

I am trying to rearrange my multimeters on the shelf, I like to see them all (sort of showcase for myself), but it is not an easy task if you have too many multimeters, I bought an old frequency counter today so that has to be placed somewhere too.

Added a picture how it looks like now, the frequency counter will be placed on top of the function generator and the Fluke 8010A have to go somewhere else... I'll figure something out.

[EEEnthusiast]

Finally got my lab room clicked..

[tautech]

Finally got my lab room clicked..

Holy shit Batman, how deep are them desks ? 1200mm ?

[EEEnthusiast]

Finally got my lab room clicked..

Holy shit Batman, how deep are them desks ? 1200mm ?

Those are about 90cm deep. I got them from a guy who makes lab tables. Metal frame with plywood planks.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Are desks/benches ever wide enough?

[paulca]

My main desk is an old, pre-LCD monitors, corner desk.  It's 200cm long and has a curved 1/4 which has a depth of 160cm, the rest is 120cm deep.  Sitting in my normal position I can't reach the monitors with my arms outstretched.  Enough width for 2 x 34" ultra wides + 2 speakers across the desk.

Anyway.  Here is my new desk "BIG" light.   It's a 100W LED grow light.  "daylight spectrum", 49% cold white, 49% warm white, 2% near IR.  That's a LOT of light.  I left it on while I made this post and while I'm facing away from it I can feel the heat of it on the back of my neck!

This is the kind of light that will only be on while I'm doing intrique work.  It has a dimmer and might spent most of it's time at 25% or OFF entirely.  I expect it will be very useful when soldering smaller components to reinforce the Mscope lights.

[PlainName]

What's that light on the left (if it is a light)?

[jonpaul]

tektronix 7000 plug-ins cull, restoration, repair, this week. most circa 1970s..1980s.
jon

[srb1954]

tektronix 7000 plug-ins cull, restoration, repair, this week. most circa 1970s..1980s.
jon

I am impressed with your workbench - it is not often that you see a workbench deep enough that you can place a 7000 series mainframe on a workbench and still have some usable working space in front of it. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/clap.gif

Otherwise, you seem to have the usual 7000 series and TM500 problem: too many plug-ins and not enough mainframes to plug them into.

[jonpaul]

Srb many thanks only a fraction of TE back to 1970s.


Workbench (one of 4) was custom modified with backwards sloped upper shelf and 4' depth
has added close spaced mains outlet stripes on back shelf.
not shown... 576, TM500 MF 1,2,3,4,5,6 wide, 246xB scopes, 7104, HP SAs, calibration lab, tool chest

Jon

[rdl]

That resembles a LED plant light I have. Mine has no clamp, just a really long cord so it can be hung from the ceiling.

What's that light on the left (if it is a light)?

[paulca]

What's that light on the left (if it is a light)?

There are two a smaller 25W grow light I was trying, but the flexi arm it's on it is rubbish.

Then there is the "manicure" light.   Very, very handy, you can bring it in 4 inches over what you are soldering and turn it's CFL ring light on.