My new work bench

[Yamamaya42]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I'd recommend having a test equipment shelf high enough above the bench that you can have an computer monitor or AIO PC (I got an old one free from work that I use) on the wall behind the bench to display downloaded schematics and such. The less test equipment you have on the chassis space of the bench the cleaner your work area....and that is important if you tend to have multiple projects going at once like me.

I have enough test gear that I have an overflow shelf that I keep the stuff I use least on.

It isn't bad to have a working TV, VCR and stereo on the bench both for entertainment (I've been known to recap to music or while a TV program I'm following is on), and for diagnostic purposes. You can feed audio into and out of a good stereo for troubleshooting audio stages (and use it to test component stereo/HIFI gear if you work on that), the bench TV can check signal, alignment and test pattern sources, the VCR can act as a source of RF and composite video and can take composite video in for troubleshooting other signal sources.

This was told to me by my HS English teacher, and I still live by it to this day!

https://i.etsystatic.com/6029295/r/i...82725_ogv3.jpg

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

This was told to me by my HS English teacher, and I still live by it to this day!

https://i.etsystatic.com/6029295/r/i...82725_ogv3.jpg

Lol. Well then despite what others have told me , you have convinced me I'm quite sane.
The first few years, between test equipment and tools my bench would become such a mess I'd have to spend time just to make a space big enough to set a chassis.


The glowing computer monitors are my working from home day job rig.....With them gone I could work on 2-3 things at once a lot easier.

I have to work messy to work efficient, but there's limits to where that works against me...I more or less have found my balance...Next time I move I want to reshuffle my service literature file cabinets, test equipment/parts chassis/project set/display overflow shelves and tube caddies to put the things I need adjacent to my bench closer to it.

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

This was told to me by my HS English teacher, and I still live by it to this day!

https://i.etsystatic.com/6029295/r/i...82725_ogv3.jpg

Yup. And to paraphrase, "Perfectionism is the manic form of fuddyduddy-ism."