Topic: What's on your workbench?

[Francois]

Since everybody is busy with all sorts of stuff this week, I thought I'd share my own busy workbench.
This week, it's not 3D printing or weird lens making. But more along the lines of furniture building.
I needed to add some storage to my unbelievably tiny workshop (only 6x8 feet). So I devised this two sided storage rack on casters. I'm amazed at the amount of stuff I can fit in there!
For those wondering, it's the one with the pegboard.
On the bottom I store my heavy tools so that there is some ballast down low. I think on top I will put electronics stuff. On the other side I have a shelf for my filament spools. I'm still not sure what I'll put on the other side. But one thing's for sure is that I'll figure it out.

[Pete_R]

On my bench this week has been a Contax 159 with a busted shutter. Not sure how this happened but I got the job of fixing it. A replacement shutter was the only solution. Camera currently has a film in it to test it after repair.

[Francois]

I've seen fingers poked through but never anything that looks like somebody took a can opener to them!

[zapsnaps]

Nothing!
(I'm still hoping to acquire a workbench. Sigh. Perhaps in the next house...)

[Francois]

Not even a closet workbench or anything?
Poor guy... 

[John Robison]

Too embarrassed to show my messy workbench. Nothing special, just a regular bench in the garage. Unheated but I don’t mind the cold except when glueing something I bring it into the house.
One thing I really need to get around to getting is a bench vise. That is my next tool purchase.

[02Pilot]

My benches are covered in six layers of stuff, so it's hard to tell what's there. That's the downside of having lots of bench space - you can fill it with a lot more stuff and then leave it there to get in the way. All my time has been consumed with car and house projects; I can't remember the last time I did anything to a camera other than load film.

[Bryan]

I have two work benches.  This first one is a pinhole shot of one in my carport with a beat up old vice.  The bench came with the house when I bought it 25 years ago and I think I salvaged the vice from a job site or someone gave it to me.  This is about as clean as that bench ever looks.  I use it to mostly to bang on stuff, bend stuff and cut stuff. 

Vise Pinhole by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

This is my indoor work area.  It's pretty crowded with stuff most of the time.  I use this area to work on cameras, edit movie film, use the microscopes, etc.  You can see my Bolex V180 Duo 8mm/Super 8 film editor on the left.  The darkroom timer next to it is used to turn an overhead swag light on and off.  Most of the stuff on the right is microscope slides and tools and supplies for making slides. 

[Francois]

I must admit that the other side of the shop is really messy right now. That's mainly why I started that new pegboard cart project. I really like Adam Savage's concept of first order retrieval. When the tools you need are easy to put back in their place you can put them back as you work in a very natural manner.

[Bryan]

I must admit that the other side of the shop is really messy right now. That's mainly why I started that new pegboard cart project. I really like Adam Savage's concept of first order retrieval. When the tools you need are easy to put back in their place you can put them back as you work in a very natural manner.

That’s why people often draw an outline of the tool on the peg board.  Everyone knows right where it goes and you know what’s missing if someone doesn’t put it back.  My father was strict about putting tools back where they belong after we used them.  My brothers and I probably would have had them scattered all over the house if he wasn’t so strict. 

[Francois]

And if you use my dad's method, you'll never get anything done in a timely manner.
Here's only one side of a two door garage which he fiercely protects showing teeth at the slightest attempt to throw anything out.
The other side is almost just as bad if it wasn't that his desk is there.

BTW, if you look closely you'll find an 8 foot workbench with 36 drawers on the left side of the image. I know it's there because I wrecked my back trying to move the effing thing and in the process bent a steel dolly that's designed to carry something like 400lbs.