FEATURED Let's See Your Workshop, Workbench, Shop or Other...Wherever you Mod!

hokiealumnus · Sep 28, 2011

We all have our little havens where we tinker with hardware. Whether you're into making your own cases, electronics modifications, or just building computers, you have to do it somewhere. Your room, your garage, your shop...let's see what you've done with the place! I'll go first.

We live in a townhouse and there is no shop or garage to be had, so we built one! On our third floor there is a bonus room (our office) and a walk-in attic. Said attic had just about a two foot alcove in which we could build a workbench. So, we hung plastic on the studs to cover up the insulation and built a workbench.

It's HOT in there in the summer and COLD in the winter, but when you open the attic door the temperature equalizes surprisingly quickly. It's never as cool or as warm as it is in the rest of the house, but it's reasonable to work in. All-in-all it's a great space to work on computers and radios. Here's a photo of mine.

So let's see it OCF, where do you work on your projects?

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MattNo5ss · Sep 28, 2011

Pretty good mock up workshop in the spare room you got there... Sounds like a good place to bench in the winter. Is the giraffe pot sitting on the ground? :shock:

I'll get a pic of my disaster of a room this afternoon

Archer0915 · Sep 28, 2011

hokiealumnus · Sep 28, 2011

Wow Archer, I'm jealous. That's one heck of a lab you have there!

MattNo5ss said:
Pretty good mock up workshop in the spare room you got there... Sounds like a good place to bench in the winter. Is the giraffe pot sitting on the ground?

I'll get a pic of my disaster of a room this afternoon

Thanks! It is definitely nice to use in the winter. Summer not-so-much, but winter is great.

Haha...Giraffe Pot is two pieces and didn't have his top hat on, so he's a little short in that picture.

Also, for anyone posting, I'm adding this to the OP:

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Archer0915 · Sep 28, 2011

I plan on walling it in soon and putting in better cooling.

MattNo5ss · Sep 28, 2011

I don't think I've seen that many CRT type displays since our Apple II computer lab in 2nd grade... Number Munchers and Oregon Trail FTW!

Archer0915 · Sep 28, 2011

MattNo5ss said:
Oregon Trail FTW!

Oh yeah.

GoD_tattoo · Sep 28, 2011

Here is mine. Added alot more to it since these pics were taken.

I.M.O.G. · Sep 28, 2011

I don't have a table to work on yet, but I did recently put together a rack to organize my stuff. I need to build a table to accompany it yet:

Archer0915 · Sep 28, 2011

What is the deal with geeks and stacks of motherboards? I have no idea why I just box them up and put them in a corner.

Seebs · Sep 28, 2011

I.M.O.G. said:
I don't have a table to work on yet, but I did recently put together a rack to organize my stuff. I need to build a table to accompany it yet:

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Either that picture is a bit old, or someone forgot to send that Z68X-UD3H-B3... :chair:

I.M.O.G. · Sep 28, 2011

I'm a notoriously slow shipper, I don't trade much in the classifieds, because the mods would likely ban me... Checking on board now.

Seebs · Sep 28, 2011

I.M.O.G. said:
I'm a notoriously slow shipper, I don't trade much in the classifieds, because the mods would likely ban me... Checking on board now.

LOL... No way "Glorious Leader" gets banned... They may turn your handle into pink letters, but a ban would never happen.

MattNo5ss · Sep 28, 2011

I just use my room for everything...and it shows...lol.

onefstsnake · Sep 30, 2011

We live in a 2 story townhouse and I normally take over the kitchen table area. My wife usually gets it clean enough just in time for me to clutter it full of random hardware and tools.

Ill post pics in the morning.

wagex · Sep 30, 2011

its not much but im still renting just waiting till we buy our house soon then il post moar pix

bennoculus · Oct 2, 2011

Wow only 16 posts in this thread and it's been out for a week? Damn... I keep checking back on this thread because this thread has epic potential.

Let me get my camera charged and I'll post up my workshop. :thup:

hokiealumnus · Oct 2, 2011

bennoculus said:
Wow only 16 posts in this thread and it's been out for a week? Damn... I keep checking back on this thread because this thread has epic potential.

Let me get my camera charged and I'll post up my workshop.

I thought so too! GoD_Tattoo wins so far for cleanest workspace, with Archer a close second. IMOG wins for most things he can't do anything with because he doesn't have a bench yet.

Oh, and MattNo5ss wins the ~~FAIL-so-far award for not including photos of his SS & cascade~~ Mattno5ss-is-EPIC award for his collection of water, SS & cascade. :thup:

mokrunka · Oct 2, 2011

I wish I had a setup like you guys. I tend to build all out, and then slowly get rid of the spare parts to friends, etc. Then the next time comes around and it's chaos again for a few weeks.

bennoculus · Oct 2, 2011

hokiealumnus said:
Oh, and MattNo5ss wins the FAIL-so-far award for not including photos of his SS & cascade.

LOL!

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