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1. Get your head round the old saying "A place for everything and everything in its place".
2. When you've finished with something, put it back where it lives.
3. Spend your time productively rather than wasting endless amounts of it wading through s***e looking for tools
Alternatively, don't bother with the above and have a workshop that resembles a midden. I've never understood people whose workshop is inefficient and quite probably dangerous but wear it as a "badge of honour..."
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Live and let live, some people thrive in chaos. My garage is an absolute tip, but there you go.
I used to be more tidier,then suffered a burglary and thought I’d made it easier for them to be quick as all the power tools were lined up and visible.
Latterly I find if I put certain fixtures and steel away,I need it again in a few days,so will often leave it out until it becomes a nuisance/ obstruction.
Latterly I find if I put certain fixtures and steel away,I need it again in a few days,so will often leave it out until it becomes a nuisance/ obstruction.
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Innefficient is incorrect, because it works well for some. It's only inefficient if your mind's wired for tidiness. Not everyone is the same. You stick with your method, others will stick with theirs.
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That's in reference to?
this just means nothing ever gets put away! then it gets forgot about, then you can't find it when you need it
....3weeks later...'I'm sure I had it over here' etcactually - putting things away in random places just so it's tidy is even worse, even less chance of finding things then!
"inefficient
/ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃnt/
adjective
not achieving maximum productivity; wasting or failing to make the best use of time or resources"
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Exactly, my time is more productive when I am doing work that I get paid for. I also have a good memory and it is very rare that I can't find things.
A good memory? I have forgotten what one of those is!
Wooden toolholders?
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no badge of honour , just cant get time at the moment , but do know where everything is , every time I make a major tidy up cant find anything afterwards..
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Please don't get me wrong. My workshop isn't as bad as I may make out. The swarf is in buckets put aside, all metal scrap (stainless, ally or steel) is in it's correct place, benches have stuff on them waiting for parts to be completed. It just isn't as tidy as I would like, there is always something coming in to be looked at, repaired or built and as such 'got **** every where'. Could it be better, absolutely YES, but it is the nature of the beast. The more stuff you have the more attention it takes to be looked after, because there is more of it. Would we be better with less, absolutely NO as it has taken this long to get to where we are. I actually clean up after jobs are completed, put tools / equipment away, sharpen drills, sweep the floor, rubbish in the bin, clean up swarf otherwise I couldn't move. Saturdays are the major clean up days. The kids, if they want some pocket money (and sometimes get told) then they have to come to the workshop to help. When they are here, they have to sweep the entire floor and vacuum, clean the toilet, toilet floor and hand basin, sweep out and vacuum the kitchen so the floor can get steam mopped. The plasma table periodically need a clean (anyone who has one will understand), the swarf around the drills and mill needs to be cleaned up (mills make a frightfull mess). If I didn't have anything to do it would still take time to get the workshop to an orderly state as there is so much stuff and finally there is always something that's needing attention even for home. So there, my two cents worth.
Forgot to add some stuff that has been completed yesterday.
The water tank for the 100 year old steam engine, construction completed
That pipe with the flat plates welded is the balance pipe for the water tank. This engine has two water injector (one per side), when the water is low it has to be balanced out to keep feeding water injectors.
Oh and old smokey is back. This generator has a Deutz air cooled engine and is too big for the application and the engine glazed up. Every year I get it back to do a load test, which results in all the internal **** being blown out and the oil which has logged in the muffler wadding to be burnt out. It was particularly good this year, not as much smoke as previous, however it is just starting.
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Wooden tool holder holders.Wooden toolholders?
