Shop Is your shop messy or spotless?

[Susquatch]

Sadly mistaken on that one my friend. It may not be as bad as in the east but there are all sorts of rusted out vehicles around here. They use far far more salt/ice melting compounds on the roads than they used to. Plus with the stupid body design (dirt hang up places) of many vehicles it is common to see rust holes on 8-10 year old vehicles.

Ya, it was only meant as a relative thing - sorta like the cost of machinery in the east vs the west.

There is no doubt that the difference between East and West is huge, even with the salts and crappy body designs. But I agree that it's still a problem.

The real point is that putting a car in a garage out west is not going to kill it. But doing that here in the rust belt is an invitation to disaster without rust proofing and regular maintenance.

 

[PaulL]

I really don't know which box to check. Likely better to have @David_R8 or @PaulL who have visited check the box for me. I'm likely to fib...

I'm in a tidy phase. Helps that I have a couple of friends who come by on Wednesdays for "machinist and bluegrass night". If I don't keep it tidy no-one gets anything done.
Incidentally, our little old-time string band is short a mandolin player. Any Victoria folks play mandolin?

 

[jcdammeyer]

I'm in a tidy phase. Helps that I have a couple of friends who come by on Wednesdays for "machinist and bluegrass night". If I don't keep it tidy no-one gets anything done.
Incidentally, our little old-time string band is short a mandolin player. Any Victoria folks play mandolin?

I wanted to. Never got around to it. Same strings as violin which I played for a number of years before changing to Tenor Sax. In fact was in at Tommy Lee's getting stocking stuffers for our son and went looking for Mandolins. Only Ukuleles.

 

[TorontoBuilder]

I'm in a tidy phase. Helps that I have a couple of friends who come by on Wednesdays for "machinist and bluegrass night". If I don't keep it tidy no-one gets anything done.
Incidentally, our little old-time string band is short a mandolin player. Any Victoria folks play mandolin?

I play the double bass

 

[BMW Rider]

I play the radio.

 

[Susquatch]

I play the double bass

before changing to Tenor Sax.

Any Victoria folks play mandolin?

I used to play the guitar. Can't anymore. Hands got too fat.... Er.... I mean too big!

But I can sing! I'm especially good at singing when there is a full moon to sing at! Sometimes the yotes around here sing harmony with me.....

 

[DPittman]

I play the radio.

I can't even play that as well as most

 

[SomeGuy]

I can't even play that as well as most

In one of my lives, I DJ'd at weddings, schools, and corporate events lol

 

[SomeGuy]

Found one picture for proof lol it was a long long time ago, this is circa 2003ish

 

[whydontu]

I'm in a tidy phase. Helps that I have a couple of friends who come by on Wednesdays for "machinist and bluegrass night". If I don't keep it tidy no-one gets anything done.
Incidentally, our little old-time string band is short a mandolin player. Any Victoria folks play mandolin?

I build analog synthesizer modules, so I can make eep-eep-ep—boing-wowiwowow-kalink-thrubb noises interspersed with 80s drum machine mechanical beats. Probably not what you have in mind.

 

[jcdammeyer]

Found one picture for proof lol it was a long long time ago, this is circa 2003ish

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At least you have some photos for memories. I spent a year as a DJ at CJOI 1440 AM. Not a single photo.

 

[Susquatch]

Found one picture for proof lol it was a long long time ago, this is circa 2003ish

I just want to know who the two are that are eating off their floors, so If we ever have a forum get together potluck to not eat what they brought .

I think we might have discovered one of our two suspects @Dan Dubeau ! Looks to me like somebody was licking that floor!

Then again no. He posted photos of his shop and it wasn't that clean. I saw stains by the car tires and he could not close the lid on his tool box cuz there was too much in it.

 

[SomeGuy]

I think we might have discovered one of our two suspects @Dan Dubeau ! Looks to me like somebody was licking that floor!

Then again no. He posted photos of his shop and it wasn't that clean. I saw stains by the car tires and he could not close the lid on his tool box cuz there was too much in it.

Hahah believe me, my shop floor is not that clean.

At least you have some photos for memories. I spent a year as a DJ at CJOI 1440 AM. Not a single photo.

I'm sure I could find some other ones, but I'd have to fire up an old old computer.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

I think we might have discovered one of our two suspects @Dan Dubeau ! Looks to me like somebody was licking that floor!

Then again no. He posted photos of his shop and it wasn't that clean. I saw stains by the car tires and he could not close the lid on his tool box cuz there was too much in it.

It could have been marinara sauce, not tranny fluid stains.

Toolbox lids aren't meant to be closed. Its only to make them smaller for shipping to the stores.....

 

[PaulL]

I build analog synthesizer modules, so I can make eep-eep-ep—boing-wowiwowow-kalink-thrubb noises interspersed with 80s drum machine mechanical beats. Probably not what you have in mind.

I often help a buddy with the synths that he collects - I'm not afraid of (de-)soldering. Mostly we make them better ;-)
I will admit to frying almost every op-amp I've ever worked with. Pure incompetence.

 

[DavidR8]

I build analog synthesizer modules, so I can make eep-eep-ep—boing-wowiwowow-kalink-thrubb noises interspersed with 80s drum machine mechanical beats. Probably not what you have in mind.

Ok I nearly spit out my tea reading this.. awesome!

 

[jcdammeyer]

I often help a buddy with the synths that he collects - I'm not afraid of (de-)soldering. Mostly we make them better ;-)
I will admit to frying almost every op-amp I've ever worked with. Pure incompetence.

Hopefully at least a few failed with magic smoke emitted. No fun if they just sit there dead.

 

[PaulL]

Hopefully at least a few failed with magic smoke emitted. No fun if they just sit there dead.

Certainly easier to tell they are dead when they let the smoke out. It's when they just sit there, inert. You debug for a while and then "bing!" you remember that you fry every op amp you work with, replace it, and off to the races.

 

[140mower]

LOL....... I think that seeing the turn this thread has taken, I understand why we can't keep our shops clean.

 

[Carbob]

My place looks like the beach at low tide!! The work space wears many hats, and they are all competing for space. Machine shop, woodworking shop, welding shop, repair shop, hang-out, and each hat requires a different set of tools. Wish I was one of those more organized people I keep hearing about, but that just isn't me, sadly.