Let's see your workshop
 

Got inspired by a thread on a Norwegian forum where people are showing pics of their workshop.
I am sure there are many interesting workshops out there! Some are small, some big, tidy, spartan, luxurious etc., so let's see them[8D]
Maybe we all can pic up some ideas on tool organizing, layout and storage etc.

My workshop is very small. Only measure 3,8 x 2,15 meters (12 by 6,5 feet). I also store all my stuff there except from when I am building assembling something. Then to get some working space, some of it has to be stored in the basement living room to my girlfriends great annoyment:(

I showed you mine, so let's see yours....:D


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You are sick, sick, sick !! :D A work shop is a place to work..there should be tools, covering, bits of wood, half built kits, assorted radio gear, plans, sandpaper, chargers, paint, half filled containers of yesterday's epoxy, push rods, carbon fibre, screws and bolts of every size strewn all over every horizontal surface ----- just like my shop! ;)

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I think now is the time for a trip to IKEA! Looks good.

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My little work space for my Bandits. 12x37x12, heated

William

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Little??:D I would (almost) kill for a room like that!
Loved the way you store the planes ''knife edge'' on the wall[sm=thumbup.gif]
If I only had walls big enough....[:@]

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Ya baby just built it last year and I kick the cars out in the winter so I can work on my projects while it snows out side. Planes are in every room in the house so I needed more space for the hobby.

William

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Cars can take the snow and the cold. Our precious planes don't.
If I had planes in every room, SWMBO would probably say; if the planes don't go, I will!:D

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Very nice William

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I am real glad i started to check out rcuniverse as many times i questioned my sanity concerning my love of r/c planes and helis but after reading posts from the folks here i now realize that i am totally sane, just r/c crazy.

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I like this thread... Lets see them all..

Eddie

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Will, Did you trade the car in for the MOPED in the corner?[sm=RAINFRO.gif] I got a crappy Ford Pinto but LOTS of sweet jets:D:D Its all worth it right? Keep the pics coming! -Patrick

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Really proud of how the new shop has turned out. 5 years ago, the wife and I built a house, and I was able to grab a good chunk of the walk out basement. Main shop work area is 20 x 20 with nothing in the middle of that. Builder wanted to put a support pole in the middle of a steel I-beam and I asked how much it would cost to upsize the beam to eliminate the pole. $135. Easy answer.. pole gone. Also, have put a ton of lighting in the main work area. May put more, but the pic you see below will have to do for now. Also, the outlets in the ceiling, you see amongst the lights, are wired on the same circuit as the lights themselves. That way, if I plug anything into them, such as soldering irons, or dremels, the power goes dead to all those outlets when I turn the lights off and leave the shop.

Off the main room is 2 other rooms. A 9 x 14 area, for plane storage, field gear and a secondary work bench. The shelves I built myself out of 2 inch tubular steel. It took quite a bit of head scratching to come up with a system to hold multiple 4x8 sheets of wood only on one side, and make it adjustable.

Last room (which leads on out of the walk out basement, is a dedicated paint room, 11 x 14. Before I finished out the area, I ran a copper pipe from the garage down to the shop, for compressed air, so the noisy compressor can sit up stairs, and I can paint in peace below. After some learning what's needed, I've got 4 vents cut into the interror walls of the paint room, that have removable grills on both sides of the wall. Between these grills, I put filter material, so that clean, climate controled air, is drawn into the room. For the exhausting, I've got 2 ceiling 'fart' fans, and a 16 inch hazardous materials fan exhausting out of the room. As you can see, the fan is mounted with wing nuts, so that when not in use, it can be easily removed, and an insulated cover plate put in place, sealing up the wall, so heat / AC is not lost out of it. All the air in the room is turned over, about every 45 sec to 1 minute... really sweet. I need to impove the lighting a bit yet in here. Thinking about mounting some floresents on the walls, horizintal, about 5 feet high or so... not sure yet tho. Don't have a pic of the paint room itself, just the work area for paint mixing, and the fan, as the room is just an open square.

Anyhow, on with the pics.

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Bare vanlig nordman.

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Lance, Thats awesome dude! Thats gotta be the best workshop ever! When you gonna fly with us? We wanna see that SR71 fly. Hope to see you next summer. -Patrick

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My relaxation room

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Other side

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Tools

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Now that is a WORK shop!!!... just what I was talking about!!

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I am 100% in agreement with Nony, this is how workshop should not like exhotic car show room....But i would love too PSA L1011, Big Herculies and SR-71...Awsome birds...my room is full of planes, mostly plastic kits and my old GP Learjet, but rest are in Basement...

Sammy

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This is where I live! :)

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my workshop: a bed and a table [X(].
Saving up for a shed now [>:]

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OK, My workshop is at the opposite end of the scale (one huge mess). But I like it.

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I like yours the best Tom, it looks sort of .........familiar. I must use the same system of organising! - John.

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What a Great Thread


Eddie Ur shop still intact let's see some photos of her??

Ian

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My employer is nice to me. :D We have shop that we use to build engineering prototypes, but all my colleagues just call it the "aircraft factory"...... I like to keep things clean and tidy, makes work a lot more pleasent.

- T

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My shop is kinda crowded right now. My Dad is getting back into the hobby after a 15 year absence, so I have brought all of his prop stuff down from my attic. The 2 stacked tables are 4' X 10' and when I built them, I thought I would have plenty of storage space.[:o] There are 2 - 1/5 scale warbird fuselages (Byron Mustang & DCM Airacobra) on the floor under the tables.

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For a while I thought, many of these pictures were of the same shop... stuff everywhere...

Looks like my wife’s closet. What a mess… I moved out my house, into my shop. Got another shipping address so
The brown truck of happiness, goes right to it.

Don’t let anyone tell you to clean up that mess…. Its your mess, and that’s that way you like it.. !! hahah

Lets see some more..

Eddie Weeks

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Ok, here goes with Eddie's resizing software, my shop as of a few minutes ago. Worked all night last night, so mess am I !

http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_0293.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_0294.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_0295.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_0296.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_0297.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_0298.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_0299.jpg

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I have drop down air and electric which is nice. I'm soon adding above the garage door area a very large 8 by 16 storage system similar to what I installed at my brother's house

http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_1218.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_1219.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_1220.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_1221.jpg
http://seanreit.dynalias.net/pics/shop/100_1222.jpg

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The bike lift was only a test of the system that was spoken about here before for use as a model lifter. I'm personally not happy with it and like the storage area like what I installed at Ryan's better. I'll probably take the bike lift down soon, I don't think it's good for model use.

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My shop seems small compares to some of you guys shops.
;)

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Sean... you have a ways to go before you can touch some of those other shops

They had WAY more stuff.... not sure what a lot of it was, but way more stuff... hahahah

Eddie

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My Kramer portrait should get me a lot more points than anyone else involved. As regards stuff, not all the cabinets are open, and all teh ready to fly airplanes are in my trailer, maybe that should be another thread ?

Ya, stuff.................... I'll show you my stuff at Fl. Jets ;)

Later punk.

Also, what's the status on the megabar, i'm over here making more molds cause I got nothing better to do.

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My former shop. Have yet to unpack it - still in boxes in the basement.

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This is my workshop. It is actually three connecting rooms, painting area, assembly, and some office space and model storage. It's all in a big enough mess for nony to be happy.

John Swanson

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Ya gonna miss her??????????????????Ha Ha just kidding.

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Hi Ståle!

You know mine is just as big as yours - and you've seen mine before, but here is a picture anyway!!:D
Getting kinda cramped when it has to double as a home office!!

Still, seeing yours, I guess I have to have a Christmas clean-up one of these days!!

See you next week!

Tor

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Heres a few pictures of mine, Do i get the prize for having the most untidy??

Bye the way there was ice in a jar of water i had left in there to do some soldering. Its a bit cold here right now!

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Birdseed, You win, I thought mine was messy but you take the cake.


Regards

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Maybe not the first cupple of days, but she does come in handy sometimes:D (also just kidding):eek: