Messy Work Bench

Mine was looking pretty bad a up until a couple weeks ago. Couldn't stand it any more. Got a complete clean up, everything off, and start over. I can actually see all of the bench now.

 

There's no "before" picture for a reason .... but after:

Spence,

Mine is the same, but I bet you know where everything is, unless someone touches something?

 

Laidoffsick,

Beautiful and you know where everything is.

 

Ralph

I'll have to take a pic of mine and post.   Your looks downright organized compared to mine.   Mine is a pool table.   Yes, it's covered to be protected, but on top of that is a 4x6 piece of plywood which is covered with stuff....lol

 

--Greg

You guys are luck you have a work bench. I'm in a condo so the dinner table is my bench when I have things to do. 

Spence,

 

 To clean your workbench, I would begin by throwing out the Patriots sign on the right side. 

 

Erol

I was there with the dining room table until the missus said the basement or the trash...lol   Hence, the reason we have a pool table but don't have a pool table.

 

--Greg

 

P.S. If anyone wants an extremely good deal on an Olhausen pool table let me know. 

Locolawyer; lol

If its clean you aren't working hard enough!

A wise man taught me this many years ago, "neatness is the key to success".

 

But, it is OK to keep the Patriot's sign. 

HA!

 

Yew call dat a messy work bench?

 

Amateur....

 

Rusty

I can barely get to mine right now, my bench work came last week and all of my train stuff was stacked in piles right where the layout was supposed to go. How's that for advanced planning? Now the bench is piled high and there are all kinds of packaged train items stacked in front of it and I can't find anything. More careful and well thought out planning.

 

I recall hearing that old adage:  "A messy desk is a sign of a messy mind."  To which I have always replied:  "If that's true, then what is an empty desk a sign of?"  Same thing about workbenches.  Mine is a true, piled up mess, but I can usually find the tool I need and have just enough room to work on my current project.  Unfortunately, I usually have about ten project that I'm working on at any one time.

 

Paul Fischer

Messy? You say messy? I find that I can do work on an area the size of a file card. It's the challenge that counts!

I need to get some pics of my Uncle's workbench. There is not a clear space the size of a quarter on it. he has junk piled two feet high pf such critical items as broken bolts,smashed oil can. It's gotten so bad he has a 12" square piece of plywood on his vise so he has someplace to work.

My work bench is a folding craft table and it gets folded up every night otherwise I couldn't get to my bed or my trains. This forces me to complete projects and put my tools away. It's a PITA but efficient. Works in progress each get their own box and that makes it easier to keep track of parts.

I know I need to clean things up a little bit but hear is my work bench in my garage.

It was clean in the spring. When all the outside cleaning , grass cutting  came around. I know now its time to start with the rakeing of the yard.   Oh then comes the shoveling of the snow. Then its time to for grass cutting again.  Well I'll get around to cleaning it up sometime

A place for everything and everything in it's place.   

Spence, yours is clean compared to mine

Yes it does look messy most of the time. But when done with one project I put everything back before starting another. Usually end of taking out many of the same tools for the next project though. Kind of makes you wonder why I keep putting them back.

Yes.  It get cluttered quite frequently.  Not quite as bad as some of the pictures shown in this thread though.  Wow!

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Dennis

Well my bench gets hard to find at times. I have to clean it at least once or twice a month.

it is getting time to find it soon.

Whatta ya mean, clean it up? I know where everything is. That is the scary part. 

Forgot the pictures. It's late. 

THIS IS A GREAT POST! I WILL DEFINATELY SHOW THIS TO MY WIFE.

Years ago one of the long-time Lionel repair guys here in Tidewater VA was Mr. Clyde Nordan, a.k.a. "Nordan the Train Doctor", in Portsmouth. Clyde's workbench had maybe a 9" x 9" open work surface in the middle, with various parts from Lionel cars, locos and accessories piled up on three sides. And I do mean PILED up.  If you needed a part, chances were good that Clyde would come up with it after a couple minutes rummaging around. If you needed a repair, he was "the man".  

"A place for everything, and everything all over the place!"

 

I don't have space for a train only workbench so I have to keep stuff picked up. I use a folding TV table for most train related work.

I have a nice little workbench out in our little utility barn, but SOMEBODY got it in her head that the barn was for storage and now I can barely get to the bench for all the storage totes!  LOL

I'd post a picture of my workbench but for some reason I cant find it.

Well I see by all of these posts that I'm not alone when it comes to messy workbench.

You are trying to trick us with this old image. Saw one of those CRT devices at the museum last century!

I'll post a photo of my workbench after I find it.

This is the first photo I could find of the non-model side of my workshop area.  It's worse than it looks in this picture.

 

 

Until you get so much stuff that you run out of places.

Wow • A lot of space & it looks very organized.

Art; your kidding, right!!! That looks awfully organized to me.