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Shop Is your shop messy or spotless?

Shop

What does your shop look like?

  • A total junk yard

    Votes: 8 9.8%

  • Organized Chaos

    Votes: 40 48.8%

  • Well used but messy

    Votes: 28 34.1%

  • Jam packed but room to move

    Votes: 23 28.0%

  • Not enough tools to be really messy yet

    Votes: 6 7.3%

  • Everything has a place & is in it

    Votes: 16 19.5%

  • No clutter anywhere - nothing on surfaces

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • Spotless - you can eat off the floor

    Votes: 2 2.4%

  • Showroom Shop

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    82
One of my favorite recent additions to my shop is "project bins". Each project gets a plastic tote containing all the pieces in process, from raw stock through to finished. This has done wonders for keeping my benches clear(er) and my project parts together, and the little bins stack and accept sharpie really well. Amazing what spending $30 at Industrial Plastics did for me.
 
PaulL said:
One of my favorite recent additions to my shop is "project bins". Each project gets a plastic tote containing all the pieces in process, from raw stock through to finished. This has done wonders for keeping my benches clear(er) and my project parts together, and the little bins stack and accept sharpie really well. Amazing what spending $30 at Industrial Plastics did for me.
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princess auto is your friend in this regard. They have the perfect sized totes for most projects. Strong enough, just the right size to be easy enough to lift without getting hernia and yet large enough to hold everything.
 
PaulL said:
One of my favorite recent additions to my shop is "project bins". Each project gets a plastic tote containing all the pieces in process, from raw stock through to finished. This has done wonders for keeping my benches clear(er) and my project parts together, and the little bins stack and accept sharpie really well. Amazing what spending $30 at Industrial Plastics did for me.
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That's what I do. There is one problem though. After a while you have 42 different plastic project boxes. :eek:
And now the AR3 Robot Arm is already too small and I need to upsize it. Can't even see the bearings under the connectors and switches. The 3D printed parts don't even fit in this one.
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I say mines fine but my son says the opposite telling me he will clean it in the summer so it looks like I’ll be sleeping in the garage.
 
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