Your workbench!

[funk]

Wondering if anyone has cracked being able to have a 'workbench area' they can lift out and put away as and when needed. For the brave, show us your workbench! 😂

Keep finding myself with a pile of things I intend on sorting in a batch because of the agro of getting everything out and putting it away again.

 

[Phils Arcade]

If you have the ability you could design your own and have a workbench that pulls out from under another worktop. Leave enough room that slimmer items can still be left on the bench and not get crushed when putting away.

For me it's a dedicated work area. I had LED lamps overhead with polarised filters fitted to try and reduce glare from the boards, which worked to some extent.

With the new workshop I'm trying to think what I need now and in the future and work around that. No doubt that'll change over time.

 

[Spanky]

I have an Ikea workbench, cos I'm middle class.

 

[TheDaddy]

Well is does not look great but sort of works , Draws are full of stuff :-



Lots more I could do I suppose but I am lazy

Dave.

 

[yoganuggy]

Everything sits on a piece of plywood in the garage that I lift into the kitchen onto the 1m wide cooker with the extractor fan on.

Hot air station, soldering iron, desoldering pump, box of crap (solder, braid, wire, flux, and a million other bits).

 

[Retroman839]

A second hand bureau is
My solder de solder station also currently my bread bin & toaster area.

I can have a crumpet while I work.

 

[Chihiro]

This is my bench at work:

 

[jbtech]

 

[John Bennett]

I spent ages decorating our front room in a victorian style and designing+hand-making cupboards. I was so proud.

I then completely covered a table in the corner in tools, to the point I can't see the bench underneath . My workmate said it looks like Doc Brown's living room.
So I might resurrect this thread in a year or two when I come up with a solution I can bare to look at. I was thinking a custom cupboard with pull-out levels depending on whether I want to work on boards or fry BGAs.
Or by that point one of the kids'll have left home and I can nick their room (wishful thinking).

 

[Retroman839]

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I think my scope is very similair to yours
Tecktronics ?

I’m taking on a new house.
Extention , loft convertion
Just doing bathroom

Plan is to build 2 spaces 1 for my cabs to play
And a sick bay - This will go down the side of the house and will have my bench in etc .. eventually 🥵

 

[jbtech]

I think my scope is very similair to yours
Tecktronics ?

Hi, this one is an Iwatsu SS-5321, 3 channel 250MHz though we also used Tek 465s, 475s and 466 (I think) was the analog scope with 'floodgun' storage around the same era. It's about the same vintage as most of the games I work on now.

I then completely covered a table in the corner in tools, to the point I can't see the bench underneath

My little test bench is just a 4' x 2' table underneath but fits in a space where I can leave it set up and just come back to a repair when I have a bit of time. I try to finish one repair before starting another but it doesn't always work out that way!

 

[Retroman839]

Yeh mine must be one of them tek models..
I’m just currently looking at testing lopt
In and out of curcuit
So the scope will be coming into play again.. so will work out where I will put it down!! As I don’t have a test bench!

I need a kitchen as I have kids to feed in the evening… but then I will most likely do side timber frame room fully insulated water tight.. so will have a place for working on monitors etc.

 

[John Bennett]

For future reference, the aforementioned test bench, as of this-morning.
I can't make it any worse, so something to aim to improve