Show Your Workbench

[deadastronaut]

heres my little corner of chaos, destruction, distraction, and repair and despair....

[~arph]

Wow! Well, make your company logo famous - post picture here! T.

Allright,



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BTW: We're hiring developers!  www.dexels.com

[Kearns892]

Here's my (dorm) workbench.

Haven't been able to build for a while, but I can still build vicariously through the pictures thread!

Should be reunited with my (real) workbench over winter break and hopefully have more to report then.  

[Perrow]

So here's my messy little cave today:



Those with sharper eyes will notice (among other things) not only a Dremel, drill bit set, Orange amp, Behringer usb audio interface, my belly, my thumb (part of one of them), three catalogues from different Swedish stores, a tabletop calculator and the IKEA shelf GORM but also the case of beer hidden away behind the amp.

I've salvaged about ten germanium diodes from the boards visible in that image.

And on a slightly more photogenic day the working area looks like this (since this picture was taken I've drank the coke, but the empty can is still visible in the picture above):

[differo]

Nice becnch there Perrow! I can see that we have same soldering iron, some tools, drill bits, and storage bins! Greetings from Malmö;)

[deadastronaut]

@perrow. don't hide the beer!....
aha. im getting a dremel for xmas, with the drill press....my missus doesn't know that i know......i sneaked a peek
like a child ....honestly i felt about 5 again.. ....naughty naughty....

@perrow
@differo
whats the smallest and largest bits it can take?

[Perrow]

My Dremel currently takes 3.2mm bits, there's a chuck that lets it take from 0.5-3.2 mm. Got the Dremel, the stool and the amp for my 40'th birthday this year.

The beer is hidden because of the stuff that's currently stacked on top of it, it's as accessible as I need it 

The beer is actually left over from my birthday, as is the charcoal on the shelf there (yellow bags behind the amp) and a few bags of chips (crisps or thins depending on where you live) stored in a paper bag just outside the picture. Stocked up on so much good stuff and people just didn't eat and drink as I thought they would.

[Perrow]

aha. im getting a dremel for xmas

And try to find these:



Diamond cutting weels (@differo: 129 kr på Clas Ohlson) they'll make you wonder why they make the other kind.

ps. The holes in those discs are really the same, and correct, size. Just looks wierd in that image.

[deadastronaut]

happy 40th...great prezzies...

i never have beer or food left over, me and my friends drink n eat  till we drop....

so the largest it can handle is around 3.2mm then?....just wondering because i always drill small pilot holes in my enclosures before the big 7mm/10mm guns come out

for accuracy...

yeah,i'll have a look around for bits for it....cheers.... roll on xmas day when i can actually touch it....legally..

p.s had a look at your site...nice...

[Güero]

[differo]

@perrow - man tackar!:) I actually use that diamond disc a lot, to trip the PCBS to shorten pot lugs to even them out and what not, VERY usable. But I have only one, that came with some large accessory pack that I bought (på Jula) for like $15 and I'm so afraid that it will breake (literraly I cut like 50pcbs with it in no time).
@astronaut my dremel is like perrow's, it takes up to 3,2 mm but anything less then that is good too, so I can use cheapo hss mini drills too.

[deadastronaut]

@perrow - man tackar!:) I actually use that diamond disc a lot, to trip the PCBS to shorten pot lugs to even them out and what not, VERY usable. But I have only one, that came with some large accessory pack that I bought (på Jula) for like $15 and I'm so afraid that it will breake (literraly I cut like 50pcbs with it in no time).
@astronaut my dremel is like perrow's, it takes up to 3,2 mm but anything less then that is good too, so I can use cheapo hss mini drills too.

cool....cant wait to open it up...i have a small minicraft drill, which is ok, but i'll prefer the drill press....

what sort of drill bits do you guys use for the pcb's in the dremel...the 0.6mm ones i get tend to snap too easy..even when very careful...

[differo]

I used to drill with 0.8 but nowadays I find that too big, much easier to use 0.7 for components and actually 0.9 for wires/pots as that's adjusted to the wire I use. Also, 0.8 snapped after A LOT of holes:) Drill press and off you go with drilling holes in pcbs. It takes me 20 minutes for 20 boards. repetition makes perfection:)

[metalero30]

i buildit myself

[a soBer Newt]

Inside doing some layout work for a re-boxing a project of mine more info at my blog

Out in the garage

me and my ugly mug

[Perrow]

And we have a winner in the "longest time since I cleared my desk" competition 

[a soBer Newt]

And we have a winner in the "longest time since I cleared my desk" competition 

haha cassettes came out before i was even born, its actually one of the adapters for your car if you only have a tape player.  I was thinking I could use it for a tape echo unit.

[chadder]

my new place = finally enough room to have a good set up.  still in the works.


almost done sorting through boxes of stuff from 3 different bench moves around Boston


all sorted and almost everything i need.  i need to start with a clean desk before i do anything or else i cant work 

[John Lyons]

Sorry about your hand, hard to solder with only one now? 
Are those reindeer true bypass?

[a soBer Newt]

Sorry about your hand, hard to solder with only one now? 
Are those reindeer true bypass?

Actually my hook is nice heat sink for components, sadly no they are not true bypass.