Yves, one thing I have that greatly helps keep my tools organized is a magnetic tool holder.? I mounted it under the shelf above my bench so that it keeps all my hand tools off the benchtop but close at hand.? Anything beyond the tweezers, pliers, cutters, scalpel, torque wrenches, scissors, screwdrivers, etc that I use all the time are in toolboxes farther away in the garage.? I think I paid around $5 for the magnetic tool holder at Harbor Freight - money well spent.? ?Jim Ford? ? ?P.S. Also under the shelf are mounted (left to right) a distribution amplifier, a Leo Bodnar GPSDO, spools of wire and solder, and HP 8495H and 8494H programmable attenuators.? Can't spare any bench space for those!
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 5:21 PM, Yves Tardif
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Hi Larry,
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Modest but very well-organized lab.
My tools are not so well organized, maybe I should take an example from you.
I admit that sometimes, it's total chaos in my lab.
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The choice of your equipment is varied and offers a lot of possibilities.
You have HEATHKIT equipment, it reminds me my uncle had bought some HEATHKIT equipment, and it was me who repaired them... I liked it when he came to see me for that... memory.
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Yves
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This has morphed into an interesting thread! Here is my modest shop, built into the sliding-door closet of my home office. Close the door and it is out of sight. I see lots of familiar HP and Tek equipment in others' photos.
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Date: 9/18/24 3:40 PM (GMT-08:00)
Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Introduction
Great to see others' labs!
Here are my two labs -- the first (my main lab) is in my garage here in Silicon Valley.? Besides what you see, there's a whole bunch of "gee, maybe I could use that in a project," or "that'd be fun to get working," stuff filling every available surface, picked up at various swap-meets and the local surplus stores (now sadly vanished) over the years.? I'm about to hit 70 and have realized that I'll never use a lot of it in the time remaining -- tempus fidgits, after all.? And so I've been carting it off to the local swap-meet to sell.
The second image is my more recently assembled home-away-from-home lab, again, in a corner of that house's garage.? ?(On the bench is an HP 3430A Nixie-tube DVM that I'm working on).??
