Messy work bench....

Oh man. The house I've been working on for several months was like this when the clients father passed away. Had lots of money and liked auctions. The barns were worse than this. The major dissapointment was that all the piles of stuff, it was all just garbage. Nothing had value, nothing worked, everything was broken or half fixed. The auctions he went to and bought were old factories selling off old broken tools and machines. Shame...
 
Thanks you guys, you make me feel better, when I can't see my bench, I clean it. Because I can't find what I'm looking for. I guess I'm a neat freak compared to you guys. Crank, you win man. All the others, you could get to what you needed with a little work. With yours, your never going to find it.
 
Hukshawn said:
Oh man. The house I've been working on for several months was like this when the clients father passed away. The barns were worse than this. The major dissapointment was that all the piles of stuff, it was all just garbage. Nothing had value, nothing worked, everything was broken or half fixed. Shame...
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Shawn--I think everything I have works---well---well--there may be a couple items that need fixing--that's why I am a hobby machinist and like old machines---Dave
 
woodchucker,
My friends start a pool every time I clean my shop to see how long it will last. I'm like a drunk falling off the wagon. My current excuse is I need to get to a gun show to sell off years of brass, ammo, scopes, parts, ad infinitum that are eating up a lot of space. My model boats are filling all of the other hiding places. I'm tempted to rent a storage unit to get stuff that I plan to sell, out and then whittle the pile down from there (using the cost as a motivator). I'm at a point I want to streamline what I own and eliminate all of the clutter.

Mark
 
No pics, but Crank and Dave Smith are the closest thing to what I have going on out there. However, there is hope. I have been spending a lot of evenings and weekends working on my mess. Hung more and brighter lights, hung shelves, painting wall cabinets, emptying trash from the shop. Organizing as I go. The other night I finally got my stainless steel bench top slid under my metal lathe. Today I repainted a wall white, installed a new LED light over the lathe and hung a couple of shelves on the wall for tooling behind the lathe.

I plan on having it cleared out in a few months. I am doing more than simple cleaning, I am painting and improving things as well which adds more time to a shop cleanup. When I started you could barely get from the man door to the bench. Now at least that much is a clear path.
 
And... Speaking of colored bulbs... I have a few pink bulbs on my workbench that my wife bought for a lamp in her classroom... she is a 6th grade teacher...

Should I have admitted that? Oh, well...

-Bear
 
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