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Show us your WORKING Work bench

softailgarage

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Inspired by another thread. We've all seen the nice, neat, sometimes staged photo's of workbenches, tools all shined up, everything in its proper place. We all know that when there is a project going on or repairs being made, the bench isn't always so neat & tidy, so stop what your doing, don't clean a thing and show us your workbench as it is currently.


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bobcatdan

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I'll have to remember to take picture next time their full of ****.
 

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bobcatdan

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Boy that's an old picture, **** ton of old plow truck parts laying around now. Very badly need to haul scrap in.
 
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Ok, you got me.

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What it really looks like today.
 

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Pretty much how it usually looks other than the little snapon box just landed on work bench today,,,a $15 kijiji deal
 

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matt_i

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@ Mr Rossco, I am very intrigued by the electrical panel turned 90 degrees.....storage box or active electrical panel? :)
 

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@ Mr Rossco, I am very intrigued by the electrical panel turned 90 degrees.....storage box or active electrical panel? :)

Like that when we moved in.

200amp service. 100amp feed to the house.

Personally ide have buried it in the wall if I built the place.
 
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Putting my bench built from 12" i beam to use with my axle project/build. Axle weighs in at 700lbs in the first picture.
 

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bobcatdan

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This thread needs more traffic, love the shop ****. Here's my benches up to minute update. Not too much bench work, just new parts waiting to be installed.
 

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3x the workbench(es), 3x the mess.

The 'House' bench, cabinets recently added, household maintenance and home improvement stuff

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The 'Hobby' bench. Reloading, model and replica sci-fi prop building, electronics

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And the rolling table, used for automotive, upholstery, large sewing projects, and chiefly woodworking / furniture building. It's about to be upgraded / merged with Ron Paulk's portable workbench designs. I'm building his modular / portable woodworking bench design, but modifying my rolling chassis to host it when set up at home. In use elsewhere I'll use his trestle leg design.
The rolling table lets me 'grow' my woodworking area when I'm working on a project and I can roll it outside for sanding messes and finishing stink.

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And the only time any of them are NOT a mess is when I'm clearing the deck(s) for the start of a major project.

Addendum: The only thing I keep orderly are my tools. They are racked / put away at the end of every use session, otherwise I'd lose them in the mess and since I'm working in multiple places it cuts down on having to hunt around for where I left some particular tool.
 
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I finished my major yard project yesterday which apparently used every measurement, digging, cutting, drilling, and hammering implement that I have... oh, and electrical too.

I literally just filled my cup of coffee up and was headed out to clean this up, but found this thread and thought I'd post ALL of my work surfaces looking well used.

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Ok, now I'm intrigued..........

What looks like a US/Canadian style breaker box & a UK/Irish 13A twin switched socket :headscrat

Ha ha Good eyes.

Well, the old man shipped my Techics stereo system from the UK. 240v single phase. So I had to figure that one out.
 

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Believe it or not but I've been cleaning the shop for the last two days. Still a lot to do yet.

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Turbo, we are down under, everything is the wrong way around.:lol:
I work for an OEM pump company, we specialise in the build and repair of submersible water pumps. Having the vice mounted on the side of the bench make it easy to place the rotating assembly’s in the vice clamped by the shaft/rotor, a more comfortable work height when building pumps, filling and draining the oil housing with the shaft/rotor is set horizontal.
 

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