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Let's see yours.
I'll start,
I put a light over the workstand to see what I was doing, used magnets to hang most used tools as close as possible.
works well, I always put my tools away instead of putting them down and having to put them away later.easy to reach, easy to see what's missing.
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Posted : 14/06/2015 6:34 am
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Slam!


 
Posted : 14/06/2015 6:57 am
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When I built my workbench, I put a skirt around the lowest shelf. I now no longer have to fight the spiders under the workbench to retrieve impossibly small items after every pingfukkit.


 
Posted : 14/06/2015 7:07 am
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Sometimes, if it'll fit, I use a flat head screwdriver to alter a cross head screw. It saves finding a cross head screw driver.

Much as I like your magnetic lampshade, it wouldn't work for me. I'd bump into it and send the tools flying at least twice a half hour.


 
Posted : 14/06/2015 8:31 am
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just need to put it high enough so you don't hit your head.it's over the bike stand in any case, so I can't walk under it in any case.
FOr now it's working, I like trying things out.
some screws have both cross and flat, they're handy. but I just tend to buy cross screws.


 
Posted : 14/06/2015 10:25 am
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scapegoat, must do that as well, or even better, make a drawer with wheels on it to store stuff underneath.


 
Posted : 14/06/2015 10:36 am
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I was fed up with flimsy benches so made a 10mm plate one using old vibrocore barrels as legs weighs a ton but doesn't move a mm lol[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 14/06/2015 2:57 pm
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"pingfukkit" LOL, strikes a chord and should be in the dictionary


 
Posted : 15/06/2015 5:06 am
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cannondaleking, that looks proper, last place I worked at had metal bench tops, I went for wood in my shop.
Those barrels look ace, be great as a grinder stand, or a vise stand.
where do I get one?
did you paint the shoreline?


 
Posted : 15/06/2015 8:35 pm

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