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

[eugenenine]

I think mine is smaller


I had to make a small portable table.

[apelly]

my little lab..

Wow. A place for everything and everything in its place. 

Bit of an issue if he ever gets another spanner though...   

[TerraHertz]

Not so fast....the RÖLLEKA - Memory foam pillow is the best pillow I've ever used.  Not to mention storage units things, and a dozen others.  Check http://www.ikeahackers.net/  - it's kinda awesome!

Hey, it is! Thanks for the link.
I like this one: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2016/02/sneaky-ekby-alex-tool-cabinets.html

My Ikea Ivar shelving setup in my study is quite hacked too. Lots of Ikea stuff is great, if you consider it a raw material starting point.

[bitseeker]

Lots of Ikea stuff is great, if you consider it a raw material starting point.

I-Kit-A

[AF6LJ]

the work bench looks like chaos  (building an amplifier  )

greetings
Martin

That's not chaos, that is creativity tunneling into streaming consciousness.

[moz]

my little lab..

I'm impressed that you have an anvil in there. I'd be terrified that the vibration would cause problems (but then, I mix metalwork with woodwork so I have many, many problems... welding splatter on sawdust is almost as bad as grinder dust in electronics projects).

I use a fairly large wheeled toolbox (see attachment, note that the side attachments including handles are optional) as my electronics workbench because the drawers are just the right size to hold tackle boxes full of little electronics bits and it's nicely mobile. It also slides under the standing desk with my computer on it when I need it to. But then, I have very few electronics tools and that wouldn't really work if I had a scope and all the other stuff on it too. Apparently I got lucky, because looking online ones like mine seem relatively rare - it has at least 5 of the shallow 6cm deep drawers plus two ~10cm deep ones. But it seems you can also get double-wide versions (or just buy two).

[tautech]

the work bench looks like chaos  (building an amplifier  )

greetings
Martin

Might you have a scope to check its performance ? 
Or more than just one ? 

[firstcolle]

Bit of an issue if he ever gets another spanner though...   

I do not think I'll ever need another spanner   

to be honest the majority of stuff in there it belonged to my father that bought and kept in order all over the years ..

[dimkasta]

Wow, you guys are tidy...

My bench normally looks like there are elves moving stuff around when you are not looking.
Mid-project, it looks like thieves just looted the area and broke everything with a sledgehammer.

[firstcolle]

Wow, you guys are tidy...

My bench normally looks like there are elves moving stuff around when you are not looking.
Mid-project, it looks like thieves just looted the area and broke everything with a sledgehammer.

 

[nfmax]

Bit of an issue if he ever gets another spanner though...   

I do not think I'll ever need another spanner   

to be honest the majority of stuff in there it belonged to my father that bought and kept in order all over the years ..

Be carefull! accumulating too many tools and things-that-might-come-in-handy-one-day in a confined space starts to distort the fabric of the space-time continuum. Eventually, it creates a wormhole into W-space, which interconnects all messy workshops everywhere in every possible universe. You might go looking for something in a box you are sure you had hidden somewhere behind the third equipment rack, take a wrong turning, and only emerge into (what passes for) the light of day in the Street Of Cunning Artificers!
 

[McBryce]

Be carefull! accumulating too many tools and things-that-might-come-in-handy-one-day in a confined space starts to distort the fabric of the space-time continuum. Eventually, it creates a wormhole into W-space, which interconnects all messy workshops everywhere in every possible universe. You might go looking for something in a box you are sure you had hidden somewhere behind the third equipment rack, take a wrong turning, and only emerge into (what passes for) the light of day in the Street Of Cunning Artificers!
 

Or it might earn you a serious earful from the wife, which is a much scarier scenario than just messing up the space-time continuum.

McBryce.

[Martin.M]

Might you have a scope to check its performance ? 
Or more than just one ? 

always when i put 50$ in the little box for my first brandnew scope the catalog price of the model what  i need is 60$ higher then before. 
So that very glowing amplifier must be checked by one of the oldies, what else

greetings
Martin

[dimkasta]

Be carefull! accumulating too many tools and things-that-might-come-in-handy-one-day in a confined space starts to distort the fabric of the space-time continuum.

 That would explain a lot in my house.

Here we go... Currently between projects doing some light pcb testing.



That used to be a kitchen...
Cupboards are filled with electronic and electric awesomeness.
Both sides of the room.

[bitseeker]

And a drill press in the shadows?

[dimkasta]

Yep
Next to the belt sander

I use the metal and woodworking tools out at the balcony.

[GreyWoolfe]

Be carefull! accumulating too many tools and things-that-might-come-in-handy-one-day in a confined space starts to distort the fabric of the space-time continuum. Eventually, it creates a wormhole into W-space, which interconnects all messy workshops everywhere in every possible universe. You might go looking for something in a box you are sure you had hidden somewhere behind the third equipment rack, take a wrong turning, and only emerge into (what passes for) the light of day in the Street Of Cunning Artificers!
 

Or it might earn you a serious earful from the wife, which is a much scarier scenario than just messing up the space-time continuum.

McBryce.

I second that.  Messing with the space-time continuum is a piece of cake compared to pissing off She Who Must Be Obeyed.

[dimkasta]

Ursula Andress gets pissed off because of our equipment? 

[frenky]

My stress release...

[Sredni]

Wonderful thread, but guys, do you realize that many of you are giving away their GPS position when they post pictures with original Exif data?
I've just looked up a couple of 'labs' and Google Maps brought me right at your doorstep.
Apple and Samsung are usually to blame for this.

Just so you know.

(It would be better to post a cropped version of the original picture, possibly with programs that remove the GPS data - or better yet exchange it with the coordinates of Wrigley Field).

[dimkasta]

My stress release...

There is an 898D in every bench these days

[Vgkid]

Wonderful thread, but guys, do you realize that many of you are giving away their GPS position when they post pictures with original Exif data?
I've just looked up a couple of 'labs' and Google Maps brought me right at your doorstep.
Apple and Samsung are usually to blame for this.

Just so you know.

(It would be better to post a cropped version of the original picture, possibly with programs that remove the GPS data - or better yet exchange it with the coordinates of Wrigley Field).

Funny you mention this. I always keep the gps turned off on my phone(eats batteries) and always crop my images. So generally the exif data, gives info about the phone.

[moz]

Wonderful thread, but guys, do you realize that many of you are giving away their GPS position when they post pictures with original Exif data?

I've seen worse. Seriously. Adult fans of Lego post pics with tens of thousands of dollars worth of Lego and GPS co-ords down to the metre(I've used those to navigate to a house before). And a lot of people collect whole Lego sets which are very re-sellable.

I suspect the same applies to a lot of the pics here. Sure, to a dedicated electronics hobbyist the tools are worth a lot, but on ebay not so much. The parts? Ha!

Instead I post pics like this one, where you have to know a little bit to even guess the replacement cost. Better, the value as random parts is small and hard to realise but there's a lot of labour required to re-assemble the sets (and the consequent pay per hour is not that great).



And some of the tools are pretty identifiable.  It's like the muppet who stole my obviously one-of-a-kind custom bicycle. Cops brought it back half an hour after I reported it, saying "we saw this guy shortly after getting your photo through the computer". They were not actually rolling their eyes, but the only further news I got was an email saying "he pleaded guilty".

[MarvinTheMartian]

Your bench appears to be missing your electronics gear! 

[Sredni]

Sure, to a dedicated electronics hobbyist the tools are worth a lot, but on ebay not so much. The parts? Ha!

I wasn't thinking as much about theft as to the chance of finding someone with a baseball bat out of your door yelling "Say 'it's only a 400 dollar oscilloscope' one more time, mother*******! I double dare you!".

No, seriously, I am a bit paranoid about divulging real life data on the Internet and I would want to know if I gave away my exact coordinates unknowingly. Many people do not mind, but some might want to gag their cameras/cellphones.