Bad habits in the workshop
06-04-2004, 07:08 AM
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Bad habits in the workshop
What bad habits if any do you have in the workshop?
I'll start off with this one. Here lately, I've been finding myself walking out of the shop forgetting to turn off the heating iron. The past several nights I've done this only to wake up the next morning walking out to the shop and finding it on. [X(]
I wrote myself a big reminder and taped it to the door by the door knob in hopes this will help.
I'll start off with this one. Here lately, I've been finding myself walking out of the shop forgetting to turn off the heating iron. The past several nights I've done this only to wake up the next morning walking out to the shop and finding it on. [X(]
I wrote myself a big reminder and taped it to the door by the door knob in hopes this will help.
06-04-2004, 11:09 AM
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Failing to put the cap on a bottle of CA that I'd just used to draw into a Dave Brown pipette! I'm just too messy, I spend 6 to 8 hours cleaning up after building a plane. If I could just disipline myself to put my tools back as I use them! It is especially bad after a session of covering. Monokote scraps are hard to sweep up! I'm going to put a 30 gallon waste bin right along side the bech and see if that helps.
Blackie - I set my shop up so that all the outlets behind the workbenches are 12" above the work bench top. When I leave the shop I pull out all the plugs!
John
Blackie - I set my shop up so that all the outlets behind the workbenches are 12" above the work bench top. When I leave the shop I pull out all the plugs!
John
06-04-2004, 11:39 AM
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RE: Bad habits in the workshop
The workshop always gets too messy. I don't want to waste time cleaning it up, so the daily maintence duties (like charging batteries, tightening bolts, straightening landing gear wires, repairing/tightening covering) slowly starts moving to the living room. When the girlfriend starts complaining, that means it's getting too messy in the living room. Then I have no choice but to waste a day cleaning up.
After cleaning up, it's like a whole new workshop and I vow that I will put everything back in its proper place after using it.
The cycle repeats every couple weeks.
Juice
After cleaning up, it's like a whole new workshop and I vow that I will put everything back in its proper place after using it.
The cycle repeats every couple weeks.
Juice
06-04-2004, 11:49 AM
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RE: Bad habits in the workshop
I also used to leave he soldering iron or covering iron on when I was through with a building session. When I had my new house built I had all the electrical outlets wired through one switch which was by the door on the way out. It has a red monitor light on it so I can see if I've left anything on. Have one outlet, not connected to the series, it's for the battery chargers. All my battery chargers are peak detection so I don't have to worry about them staying on overnight. I've also started a routine that involves cleaning up the shop after every flying session. It's terrible to be so well organized.
06-04-2004, 04:30 PM
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RE: Bad habits in the workshop
messy messy shed, 5 mins cleaning would work but i leave beacuse i have to do something else and i work right to the last min..
worse habbit, not being in there enough
worse habbit, not being in there enough
06-05-2004, 05:39 AM
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RE: Bad habits in the workshop
After about the sixth beer I either need to quit building for the night or quit drinking for the night. You get a few to many in you and ya tend to get sloppy about your building.
Yes I've cut a few things apart the next day that was glued on crooked or cut wrong.
Yes I've cut a few things apart the next day that was glued on crooked or cut wrong.
06-05-2004, 10:26 AM
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Here lately I have had a problem with the old exacto knife. I am pretty well bound and deteremined to cut things in the wrong manner. The last time cost me 5 stiches internally and 8 on the outside. I now have a real niffty scar on my hand as a reminder. I also have a sign on my wall, drawn by my son on the correct ways to cut things. Good Luck, Dave
06-05-2004, 05:26 PM
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RE: Bad habits in the workshop
Bad habits? Does scratchin' and pickin' your nose count?
Many of us builders have a bad habit of "hangar building"......sit and look at the semi-finished airframe, and try to think up forty different ways to accomplish the next step easier or better than the way it was designed, and finally give in and do it the way the kit said, and it takes five minutes! I can also wipe out about two weeks when I get one framed up and on the wheels, all assembled, while I admire my work, and use the excuse that I am planning the color scheme!
Other habits? Sure.....run my belt sander without a face mask and breath in the balsa blizzard, smell too many CA fumes, etc. I would drive an OSHA guy nuts, I suppose.
Clair
Many of us builders have a bad habit of "hangar building"......sit and look at the semi-finished airframe, and try to think up forty different ways to accomplish the next step easier or better than the way it was designed, and finally give in and do it the way the kit said, and it takes five minutes! I can also wipe out about two weeks when I get one framed up and on the wheels, all assembled, while I admire my work, and use the excuse that I am planning the color scheme!
Other habits? Sure.....run my belt sander without a face mask and breath in the balsa blizzard, smell too many CA fumes, etc. I would drive an OSHA guy nuts, I suppose.
Clair
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06-05-2004, 06:55 PM
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RE: Bad habits in the workshop
The 'V' tail is a prototype a friend designed and he might bring it out in kit form. It's a sport model for a .46 and unlike most V tails it will knife edge all day long, now all I need to do is finish the darn thing![&o] The shop is actually a bit cleaner since these were taken and the kits you see are only about a 1/3rd of what I have, got them stuck away all over the place and that's my bad habit!!!![X(]
06-05-2004, 07:20 PM
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RE: Bad habits in the workshop
Philly:
Art may deny it, but I have NEVER seen his shop that neat. He must have spent quite a few hours prepping it for the picture.
Haw.
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Art may deny it, but I have NEVER seen his shop that neat. He must have spent quite a few hours prepping it for the picture.
Haw.
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06-05-2004, 08:45 PM
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ROFLMAO zagnut. Very good. Now I have a very bad mentalk image in my head AGAIN!! I just fixed the wall from the dents i put trying to bang the picture out of my head!!
sean
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working naked....CA creates an awesome bond between skin, hair and vinyl[:@]
i now know better and wear a thong in the shop
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working naked....CA creates an awesome bond between skin, hair and vinyl[:@]
i now know better and wear a thong in the shop
dave
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RE: Bad habits in the workshop
Not all of these are my experiences some are friends I have witnessed but the * denotes personal experiences.
*1. Drinking while working on important part of airframe.
2. Smoking while mixing castor oil in Nitromethane...
*3. Arguing with girlfriend while in work shop
*4.Watching an important ball game on TV while holding 2 parts together waiting for glue to set.
5.Starting a G62 on a Extra 300 buy yourself in the shop....
*6. When you lose track of time and look outside the sun is coming up..[&o]
*1. Drinking while working on important part of airframe.
2. Smoking while mixing castor oil in Nitromethane...
*3. Arguing with girlfriend while in work shop
*4.Watching an important ball game on TV while holding 2 parts together waiting for glue to set.
5.Starting a G62 on a Extra 300 buy yourself in the shop....
*6. When you lose track of time and look outside the sun is coming up..[&o]