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Show me your workbench!

Very nice PaulC! Did you build that bad boy yourself? I am contemplating such a manuver, although the wife sees it as a "storage unit" I should be able to wrangle a small corner of it for my purposes.

Russellc
 
sejose said:
When I get around to it...
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Scott
 
Thanks Redboy. Now I don't feel near so bad about the mess mine is in at the moment.

Anyone else get a feeling of deep inferiority at seeing MarkTheFixer's place?
 
Russellc said:
Very nice PaulC! Did you build that bad boy yourself? I am contemplating such a manuver, although the wife sees it as a "storage unit" I should be able to wrangle a small corner of it for my purposes.

Russellc
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A local company put up the basic building, bare floors, just studs inside, metal outside, in just a day and a half. They said if I would have the air conditioner on hand when they built it, they would build it in for me at no extra cost. That left all three windows usable as windows.

I put in insulation, wiring, wallboard, painted. My daughters put in the floor tiles. I built the workbench in place, hung the light fixtures.

A few weeks later we put in the little dormatory size refrigerator.
 
PaulC, maybe some day I will have a great little space like yours. I am envious. I imagine with the two and a half acres, I should have the room somewhere.
 
Congratulations everyone on some terrific spaces. They all showed that they were a place to enjoy your passion for quality.

As a newcomer to all of this, I saw a lot of equipment that left me stumped wondering what it is for. Can anyone recommend a thread that might explain some of the equipment, beyond a soldering iron and a can of Deoxit, that would be useful in the early stages of learning to rebuild electronics? Thanks.

Regards,

D-Ray
 
You asked for it

I don't know where this post went, but here it is again.
 

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dr*audio said:
Very nice shop, Paul! I'm taking notes for the next house!
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+1. I'm envious. One thing I learned last time I built a workbench was to leave a couple inches of the work surface overhanging the front. That gave me a good place to clamp pieces down that wouldn't fit in the vice.

As of right now I have a corner of the garage with another corner for storage of various in-process projects and bits and pieces. My workbench is overrun and most of my work happens on a Black and Decker workmate. I'm in the process of cleaning up the bench and getting some stuff out of the garage so I can recapture a bit of working room. One of these days I'll take a picture or 2.

Ray
 
Keep in mind this is an apartment...not a house!

Things are getting a little out of hand!
 

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bricktop said:
Keep in mind this is an apartment...not a house!

Things are getting a little out of hand!
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I'D SAY- Where is the Mrs. going to put her SNOWBABIES collection???

Just funnin' with you... Seriously, this looks more income producing than it does a hobby.
 
Had the camera out playing. This is more of an audition center than a work-shop. More of a mess than anything else. Most of my efforts so far are cleaning and deoxit. And, don't worry, I'm not running the receivers stacked like that. I had just cleaned up the thrift store Sansui R-5 and wanted to see how it sounds.

Regards,

D-Ray
 

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d-ray657 said:
Had the camera out playing. This is more of an audition center than a work-shop. More of a mess than anything else. Most of my efforts so far are cleaning and deoxit. And, don't worry, I'm not running the receivers stacked like that. I had just cleaned up the thrift store Sansui R-5 and wanted to see how it sounds.

Regards,

D-Ray
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And I thought I couldn't find a flat surface to work on... I actually stopped trying to put a "workbench" anywhere because there's always 'stuff' on it and no place to work.

In answer to your question about equipment- a scope and DMM can come in handy depending how deep you go into repairs. I use a meter all the time but I've got a 100MHz scope sitting in the basement unused for the last 10 years. I know the scope will come in handy trying to trace where a signal stops midway through an amplifier but, knock on wood, I haven't needed it.
 
Blast said:
And I thought I couldn't find a flat surface to work on... I actually stopped trying to put a "workbench" anywhere because there's always 'stuff' on it and no place to work.

In answer to your question about equipment- a scope and DMM can come in handy depending how deep you go into repairs. I use a meter all the time but I've got a 100MHz scope sitting in the basement unused for the last 10 years. I know the scope will come in handy trying to trace where a signal stops midway through an amplifier but, knock on wood, I haven't needed it.
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Really handy for measuring distortion and output power too.:yes:
 
My prison:
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Just enough electronics to get the job done...scope, couple of sig-gens, and a pair of distortion analysers. I'd love to add a nice spectrum analyser...
 
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