This video is full of all the cool things I have seen people do over the years seeing shops. I agree, almost everything he shows is worth taking the time to set it up. Long vid, watch a bit go look at your work area, come back and watch some more…then watch it again after your next project.
I thought I was fairly organized, but this makes me want to do some more.
He never mentioned that roll of paper on his table. The last shop I worked at had that and it came in handy all the time. Pull it out to cover the table when you know you are about to make a mess, take something apart and use it to write on and take notes to label parts, leave notes to others that might use the space…packing material.
Giant rolls are $30 (24"x1200’), small rolls are under $20. I have several rolls here and never thought to mount one on my table, I will be doing that today. I mounted up a scrap piece of HDPE (mp3dp v1 bed) to the end of my table as a cutting board. How did I not think of that before?!
Love the remote switch for the vacuum, I got a cheapo one for my ridgid off Amazon and it’s a game changer. Saves me having to trip over all my crap to go turn the shop vac on and off because my shop does not look like his
It’s funny how the longer you work at it the differenter you work from everyone else!
I’m slowly working my way through the video - the fold-up vices? Nahh. They just mean you have wasted space under your workbench, and in my case are just one more thing not to put away.
I’ve found over the years that if I have to swing it out, lift it up, bolt it to something, I end up using something else. I have a much smaller area, with what just might be more large gear (not boasting) and have one only folding thing, a table/bench with no top, that becomes my workhorse when the car is out of the garage. Everything else is on wheels, to aid cleaning,
My shopvac has a 6m (20ft) hose and an auto start if it has to be attached to a tool like the ROS or Domino.
I’ll update as we go along - but don’t get me wrong - everything in it’s place is great including the “putting things away” message.
When things get out of hand for me, I have a rule that I put five things away every time I walk into the shop, so it’s never a big task.
My shop is in a constant state of ‘organized mess’. I’d love to have things more organized, but then I start another project.
My biggest issue right now is that I have a CNC machine taking up 3/4 of my 4’x8’ work table. I think the project to get that into it’s own enclosure is still 2 or 3 projects away.
At that point in life where I have to augment hearing and vision, I wonder if a bit more hearing protection used in former times might have saved some of my faculties for now!
In a case of too little too late, I use hearing protection pretty much whenever something with a motor is turned on - and the shop vac does put out serious db.
I was accidentally under an F-15E at 80% power with no hearing protection on once. Caught my hardshells on a bomb fin and knocked them off. My ears are screwed anyway.