Messiest Bench Contest continued...

[Zee1usa]

My area is a little messy, but as I remember there were a few that looked like you were stationed at the LANDFILL. :grin:

Yes, that is one of my G1176 almost finished! :thumb:

My kitchen is my DIY haven. We are the only types of poeple that
have drill presses on the counter in our kitchens! :wink:

I felt this was the more appropriate place to post this rather than
the Brewery. :?:

If you need picture storage www.photobucket.com is perfect :!:

 

[mcs]

Where's the mess?

Here's my mess:

http://stiftsbogtrykkeriet.dk/~mcs/Workbench.jpg

And my chaotic parts storage facility:

http://stiftsbogtrykkeriet.dk/~mcs/Parts.jpg

Best regards,

Mikkel C. Simonsen

 

[chrissugar]

Hey ZEE1

From the second picture I understand that you are a big fan of macramme :grin: so I googled for you some. :green: :green: :green:
http://www.bacov.ro/html/body_mr2.html
http://www.bacov.ro/html/body_mr3.html
and this small one would look great under a multimeter or something :green:
http://www.bacov.ro/html/body_mr8.html
some aditional art here:
http://gretashop.port5.com/macrameuri.html
look at that fish, butterfly or those Xmas candle imitations :shock:

chrissugar

 

[gyraf]

Nest of the Gyraffes:

Jakob E.

 

[Jonathan Hayward]

pah, amateurs.

 

[Freddy G]

There is only one DIY audio project in the works on that bench....can you spot it?
Freddy G

http://home.cogeco.ca/~chuckie1/mess.htm

 

[Tim Campbell]

Fred,
Everyone knows sawdust improves the sound of any microphone.

 

[NewYorkDave]

Here's the bench I use at my job:
300kB JPG

Not much to see there. Here's my personal bench from when I had my own shop:
39kB JPG

This bench still exists, pretty much as seen in the photo, but it sits idle most of the time since it's half an hour away from my house and I rarely have time to visit.

 

[SSLtech]

Two timeless truths:

Test gear is cool.

Lampshades are for girlies.

Keef

 

[tubejay]

[quote author="SSLtech"]Two timeless truths:

Test gear is cool.

Lampshades are for girlies.

Keef[/quote]

Or "girlie-men". :green:

 

[crazydoc]

"...but as I remember there were a few that looked like you were stationed at the LANDFILL..."
http://home.att.net/~pwilcox/workbench.jpg
You shamed me into cleaning it up:
http://home.att.net/~pwilcox/workbench1a.jpg

Here's a couple of other views:
http://home.att.net/~pwilcox/workbench2a.jpg
http://home.att.net/~pwilcox/workbench3.jpg

 

[Jonathan Hayward]

excellent. A good stock of bananas is essential any good spares section.
I take it the telescope is for those difficult-to-see-into crevices.

 

[MikoKensington]

I bet it's an Ultra Curve and its Test Mic. :wink:

 

[crazydoc]

[quote author="kubi"][quote author="crazydoc"]http://home.att.net/~pwilcox/workbench3.jpg[/quote]

Gotcha!!! I see some Behringer stuff around :green: :green: :green:

kubi[/quote]
No, no Behringer - I should be so lucky! :green: There's a Sansewer amp and some misc home audio stuff.

 

[crazydoc]

[quote author="Jonathan Hayward"]excellent. A good stock of bananas is essential any good spares section.
I take it the telescope is for those difficult-to-see-into crevices.[/quote]
Ahh, telescopes. Don't get me started. There's actually four in the pictures. There's the obvious one, a 60mm refractor I found dumpster diving - a piece of ****.

There's this one, a 6 inch folded f/15 achromat. That's a slide projector mechanism used as a focuser.
http://home.att.net/~pwilcox/tele_foldedsix.jpg

This one's a seven inch f/7 Newtonian I ground into the bottom of a Pyrex pie plate. The housing over the mirror was the cover on a bank of 12 inch hard drives, and the diagonal holder is made from an aluminum spacer from that same drive.
http://home.att.net/~pwilcox/tele_pieplate.jpg

This one's a 4.5 inch richest field scope, made from a surplus f/8 Tessar aerial camera lens and an Erfle eyepiece. The mount is from bowling balls, one that sits on a rubber cup on a post, and the other as a counterweight.
http://home.att.net/~pwilcox/tele_bowlingball.jpg

And yes, we have no bananas. :grin:

 

[CJ]

Crazydoc, I need a few used bowling balls. Or do you know how to DIY them?
Cool on the telescopes!
I took astronomy at UC Davis durring the seventies.
They had a 16 inch reflector with a decent lens.
We used to use it to peak into the women's dorms!
Five story buildings full of lusty .... nevermind!
Man, you can see the dirt under their fingernails from that close!
Heck, we had to do something while we were waiting for the tennis court halogens to go off the timer!

 

[crazydoc]

[quote author="cjenrick"]Crazydoc, I need a few used bowling balls. Or do you know how to DIY them?
Cool on the telescopes!
[/quote]

I got them at the Salvation Army for a buck apiece.

I took astronomy at UC Davis durring the seventies.

No ****! UCD '74, BS Anthropology. When were you there?

I didn't really know anyone there. I never saw the telescope because I was never there at night. I lived in North Highlands where I worked at the library, played in bars in Rocklin, Marysville and Grass Valley, and commuted to Davis in my little 2 cylinder air cooled Honda car. 6 gallons at $0.25/gal = 250 miles. Don't know how I ever got my bass, amp, PA, wife, son and brother in law into that little car. But I digress.

 

[kdawg]

here's my new lab... kind of working on a secret new project :wink:

 

[Mark Burnley]

Hmm,

I'm not sure you've got the best acoustic space for audio work there- looks like it could be a little "live".

Nice stereo buss out VU's. Could we have a close up of your outboard rack? The ceiling-mounted mic stand is a little over the top, but the G7 housing looks like it's out of some freaky movie!

You could have a few health and safety issues with some of that stuff- I see quite a few live terminals unshrouded?

:shock:

Jaakko, I thought the bouncing-gherkin was only for the weekend?

Mark

 

[kdawg]

Oh alright, I'll let you see it...

muuuhahahhahaa!

-kdawg