vinito
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Today I started digging back into what has turned out to be a restoration project. It started out as a much smaller specific thing that has mushroomed, but that's not really a surprise.
Anyway at first scan I realized that my work area is just awfully laid out to be very functional. I have so may things spread out now that it's becoming difficult to walk around and that is not healthy of course. Then I realized that this whole time I don't even have any sort of bench to work on either. I've been taking smaller assemblies in to my job since I have after-hours access to it and there is plenty of bench space there. But it just seems a little stupid and certainly less than ideal to not have some sort of even minimal bench in my own work space. This is because it's normally just a garage and not a work space, but still...
So for the next few hours my plan is just to straighten things up so at least I can get around to do stuff and have things, including tools, much more organized than it is currently. And I think if nothing else I'll convert the top of the table saw, which isn't being used at the moment, to be a minimal workbench. It's amazing how doing just a couple little things like this can really change your experience to be much more comfortable. I guess I find myself here because at the beginning the scope of the project was a whole different beast than what it has evolved into, but it's amazing that I thought I could get anything at all done with the "shop" in the condition it has been in.
Anybody have some neat tricks about how their work areas are set up that help things go smooth or just help a lot? The next few projects in my queue are : replacing axle and idler bearings, sprockets & chains, removing all hydraulics to empty the shell of the machine so I can then clean and paint, tidy up the brittle wiring, fix the hacked-together engine exhaust pipes, then a whole lotta re-assembly. Seems pretty basic, but I'm sure you old hands have a couple neat tricks. I wish I just had a 30x60 building with 12' ceilngs to work in - maybe some later date, hehe.
Sorry if I'm just rambling on here. I'm just taking a little break to warm back up before I go out to finish organizing the shop.
Anyway at first scan I realized that my work area is just awfully laid out to be very functional. I have so may things spread out now that it's becoming difficult to walk around and that is not healthy of course. Then I realized that this whole time I don't even have any sort of bench to work on either. I've been taking smaller assemblies in to my job since I have after-hours access to it and there is plenty of bench space there. But it just seems a little stupid and certainly less than ideal to not have some sort of even minimal bench in my own work space. This is because it's normally just a garage and not a work space, but still...
So for the next few hours my plan is just to straighten things up so at least I can get around to do stuff and have things, including tools, much more organized than it is currently. And I think if nothing else I'll convert the top of the table saw, which isn't being used at the moment, to be a minimal workbench. It's amazing how doing just a couple little things like this can really change your experience to be much more comfortable. I guess I find myself here because at the beginning the scope of the project was a whole different beast than what it has evolved into, but it's amazing that I thought I could get anything at all done with the "shop" in the condition it has been in.
Anybody have some neat tricks about how their work areas are set up that help things go smooth or just help a lot? The next few projects in my queue are : replacing axle and idler bearings, sprockets & chains, removing all hydraulics to empty the shell of the machine so I can then clean and paint, tidy up the brittle wiring, fix the hacked-together engine exhaust pipes, then a whole lotta re-assembly. Seems pretty basic, but I'm sure you old hands have a couple neat tricks. I wish I just had a 30x60 building with 12' ceilngs to work in - maybe some later date, hehe.
Sorry if I'm just rambling on here. I'm just taking a little break to warm back up before I go out to finish organizing the shop.