Hi all @members
Yesterday I start a deep organizing of the clear area, mainly the electronic bench and the black shelving.
I tried to follow by best logic from when I set up my own electronic bench at home and now is all handy and in order… If someone think that something is not in the right place feel free to move it
Problem
A lot of stuff for the electronic workshop was basically still packed and almost anyone knew about that
All the boxes were full of mixed stuff, even those with label on it
All the mixed stuff inside the boxes was actually in an enormous knot that took hours to untie
Same situation on the electronic bench where ALL the power cord where tied together
Proposal
We Clearly need more storage space in there, so
I propose that we buy more boxes and build a proper shelving set to replace the black one (which is 3 inches too wide and annoyingly the big boxes don’t fit for few millimiters) I think that this should be floor to ceiling.
I propose that we build/buy/get hold of some drawer units to put underneath the benches so most of the small easily lost tools can have a home.
I think that some small bins under the benches would be great as well, I don’t need to say how dangerous are all the bits of bare copper when you are working on a pcb
All the above can be achieved with a small effort, and will go in advantage of all the activities in the clear area… basically we need just to agree on the design of the shelves and buy some good looking wood to build it…
I propose that we buy more boxes and build a proper shelving set to replace the black one (which is 3 inches too wide and annoyingly the big boxes don’t fit for few millimiters)
I think that this should be floor to ceiling.
I propose that we build/buy/get hold of some drawer units to put underneath the benches so most of the small easily lost tools can have a home.
I think that some small bins under the benches would be great as well, I don’t need to say how dangerous are all the bits of bare copper when you are working on a pcb
P. S. I left out on propose the redesign of the actual benches because I don’t know the plan of the @electrotechs
From other threads I understand that in those 2 weeks we could have a good number of members willing to help… let’s put it in good use
Although electronics is one of the few activities you can actually do in the space. It’s important to do this stuff but does it push other activities back? I guess I’m asking if we should concentrate on getting other areas at least up and running before fine tuning things like this?
Or is it just going to tumble back into chaos if we don’t at least sort out electronics storage right now?
There’s been some excellent research done into boxes, which seemed to land on Really Useful boxes as the brand to go for.
No no… the shelving will serve all the activities… I’m not talking about only electronic at all…
I focused on those benches yesterday just because is the only one in which I have experience and therefore a logic to follow
Having a efficient way to store things will help everyone in there… And yes for now electronic stuff are overwhelming other areas
Can we buy the boxes then?
Can I try to design something for the shelf?
the only problem with the really useful boxes are they are really un-usefully expensive. They will however survive the apocalypse, so maybe this is a good investment.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I have just spent the last several hours reorganising the clean room as an experiment towards the layout of the electronics area me and @courty discussed before he went away.
This shelving needs to go to make space for the electronics bench that has always been intended to go along that wall.
To avoid the huge backlog the @electrotechs have approval from the directors to buy some benches that we can just knock together, we are time poor and relatively cash rich.
When @Courty is back I plan to meet with him to look at agreeing what the plan is, we’ll take on board your feedback and get something sorted.
The layout is an experiment, we tried a few different ideas, the plan is to try to eliminate the dead space along the wall, and create more space either side for Electronics and Textiles.
As this is an experiment and there is no where to store spare furniture, I’ve stacked the spare tables on top of the others, but the idea would be to dispose of all 4 desks and replace them with better suited electronics benches.
This is a not even close to a scale drawing, I could use some help @tomnewsom
The plan would be a smaller soldering/rework station which doubles as a general computer station and storage like @stefanoromano has described.
A larger main station 90º rotated from the photo above, as per the drawing below, 1800mm wide 900mm deep, with loads of parts bins mounted on the wall with the network cabinet.
