What does your work bench look like?

[macboffin]

Too much going on I guess, cluttered!

[willhaney]

My bench is in the back of the van.

Going to a heli event tomorrow. ;)

Will

[dalbert02]

Hey Mac,
What magazine is that on your bench? I get the AUVSI one, but I don't recognize the one you have. Thanks,
-dave

[macboffin]

Hey Mac,
What magazine is that on your bench? I get the AUVSI one, but I don't recognize the one you have. Thanks,
-dave "Unmanned Vehicles" from Shephard Press in UK. They do a variety of Defence orientated publications, but specialise in UAVs, run UAV symposiums etc.

[Unterhausen]

I haven't seen my workbench for a few years, it's under the mess somewhere.

[_helitron_]

Hi guys,

my workbench consists of two parts, one for building the airframes and one for hard-/firmware development :) .

Cheers + a nice sunday for all,

//Erwin

[Hovertime]

How do you like that Cularis as a glider and as a project test airframe?

[Capt. Crunch]

Guess Where?

That's my second Heli. I now have two HB Kings and a TRex, guess how much messier it is now!

[_helitron_]

How do you like that Cularis as a glider and as a project test airframe?

Hi,

I'm very satisfied with so far. If you don't know the whole thread "Show us your plane" check for _helitron_ there, you'll find some posts regarding my FPV-Cularis (not only from me).

Cheers,

//Erwin

[_helitron_]

Nice workbench Capt. Crunch :D and good luck further for heli flying, I do it since 22 years and still love it :) !

Attached a pic of "father + son" T-REX :D .

Cheers,

//Erwin

[Mark Harris]

"What does your work bench look like?"
An atomic weapons testing facility after rigorous use? :eek:

[xatled99]

Recently cleaned, which means it's time for a new kit.

[macboffin]

"What does your work bench look like?"
An atomic weapons testing facility after rigorous use? :eek:
Over here, we'd call that a "boarding house"!

[Mark Harris]

Recently cleaned, which means it's time for a new kit.

Recently cleaned??!?! Blasphemer!

[workshop]

Mark is the clear winner so far... :D

[clolson]

We've been attempting to sell our house since april and have had to keep every thing neet and clean and all put away ... any project that is started get's cleaned up by the evening. That severely (!!!) limits what can be done. Fortunately we just signed a purchase agreement so I can start to spread a few things out again. <whew!>

I'd post a picture of my floor (a work bench would be luxury), but the camera is now buried under airplane parts and tools and electronic gizmos someplace .... :-)

Curt.

[Capt. Crunch]

I'll say Mark is the winner, btw what's he got in production?

If I had a very large format wide-angle camera I'd take a picture of steve Neu's "Work Shop, Garage MaJal" it wins the Biggest shop award by amile. (We've has up to 6 people working on project s at once there.)

BTW, the size difference between the 450 & 600 Trex's is much morre than I'd have thought, thanks for the Father-Son pics.

[zik]

Capt. Crunch: looks like Mark's making a bundle of his OSD units.

http://www.intelligentflight.com.au/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=33&zenid=98322578629a5171b9c76c08900463be

They look pretty neat!

[_helitron_]

BTW, the size difference between the 450 & 600 Trex's is much morre than I'd have thought, thanks for the Father-Son pics.
Was my pleasure Capt. :D !

Cheers,

//Erwin

[Mark Harris]

Zik, that is indeed what i'm working on, there are around 50 of them + sensors and gps units there.. still need to make more :(

[Dora Nine]

Hey guys, just passing through...saw this topic and throught I'd share my "bench" with you:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=729259

[_helitron_]

Wow, very nice Dora !

//Erwin

[Capt. Crunch]

Don't let him fool ya, there's a hidden door behind the book/display case that goes to the Bat Cave where the "Real" work gets done.

Dora, you're sick, sick, sick, and I'm turing green with envy!

check your six!

[KeithLuneau]

Why not, lets see if I can give a good run for the most crap in one workspace? :D

Picture #1, we have my desk, where I'm sitting now. Both monitors are on my main PC, dual booting XP and PCLinuxOS 2007. It does all the normal work, and the occasional flight with FS2004. The desktop is a general work area that stays cluttered as you can see. :)

Picture #2, is the "workbench" of sorts. It's where most of the tools stay, and where I do most of the work and soldering. The laptop isn't usually there, It was just getting PCLinuxOS installed on it as well.

Picture #3, lets back out a little for perspective, to the left you can see PC#3, a Dell running my media center apps and DVB-s card for FTA satellite. It's monitor us usually off.

Picture#4, pan a little more to the left and we have the TV which is also running off the Dell, with the media center and satellite. The video is usually fullscreen, but I took it down to a window for demonstration purposes... lol There's also more R/C gear everywhere you look there, and plenty more all over the rest of the room.

[camship]

Man, you guys are neat freaks I'm here to tell ya'.

I use the "FOFO" storage system on the work-tables. First on the front is first to get pushed off the back!

Does taking over the entire first floor of my home as a shop qualify for anything?:eek: I didn't have enough room in BOTH garages.

Camship

[Mark Harris]

Depends on the size of your house i guess. I have I have a double garage as well for building models and working with messy/noisy stuff. Only electronics happen inside. I've also devoted the dining room table to an order shipment zone :)

Camship - you must post pictures!

[_helitron_]

Yeah camship, come on :D !

//Erwin

[Rockeyes]

Nothing exciting here I’m afraid but thought I would chip in. Now I just got to see that mad mans lab, so come on Camship :)

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i264/gransden/wshop1.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i264/gransden/WS1.jpg

[Dora Nine]

Don't let him fool ya, there's a hidden door behind the book/display case that goes to the Bat Cave where the "Real" work gets done.

Dora, you're sick, sick, sick, and I'm turing green with envy!

check your six!

I keep telling people, I take this hobby stuff seriously...no messing around here. :D

Hey just stay safe over there man...and watch **your** six...

[camship]

:eek: Viewers are strongly cautioned to cover their eyes if they are in any way upset by absolute chaos!:eek:

Do please come in and have a little sit-down and chat a while. Don't mind the dinosaurs, they've been recently fed.

GOSSAMER YOU TARDY TART, WE HAVE GUESTS! Where are that monsters manners. Now where were we?

Ah, the front room....:D

[Rockeyes]

Camship that makes it official, you are not from this planet, you are raving bonkers a complete nut case and unfortunately gifted with wit and intelligence. :) :)

[_helitron_]

Holy cow :eek: ...

//Erwin

[camship]

Camship that makes it official, you are not from this planet, you are raving bonkers a complete nut case and unfortunately gifted with wit and intelligence. :) :)

Why thank you:cool:

Camship

[workshop]

Camship... your avatar seems almost "normal" now that I've seen your bench... :D

[camship]

Camship... your avatar seems almost "normal" now that I've seen your bench... :D

My wife picked the pic for the Avatar:eek:

Hmm, that sounds a bit Lovecraftian. Calls for Cthulu. Man, I knew I left someone off the Masquerade Guest list! Madness...AHHHHH!

(where is the pretty little thing in the white get-up with the squeeky cart and cups full of colorful pills when I need her?.......;) HEY, could I get someone to loosen these straps a bit? They're chafing around the neck some....hello?)


Camship

[Mark Harris]

Oh come now camship, thats not so bad. I can see bits of bench there, you can't say that about my garage!

Your setup looks a little bit... "broken" in the sense that you have bits and pieces of stuff all scattered in different rooms hehe.

[lvspark]

This is like therapy.. I almost feel normal now :D

[docphi]

Yikes! Camship, is there anything that actually flies in that chaos? ;)

[KeithLuneau]

This is like therapy.. I almost feel normal now :D

Haha, this is the first step, admitting we have a problem... :p

[MX]

Panoramic shots of my "laboratory".

MX

[workshop]

American small business at its best!!!! Wow... I'm going to have to in join too! I feel like a clean freak next to you guys...

[MX]

American small business at its best!!!! Wow... I'm going to have to in join too! I feel like a clean freak next to you guys...

I think I would be a bit neater if I had more space. In my 11x12' space, I have a shipping department, electronics development/assembly/rework, parts department, software development, system administration (for the office and home networks), 4 computers & 3 printers, R/C aircraft hobby (over 30 aircraft in there), 4 guitars (2 bass, 1 electric, 1 acoustic) 2 amps, bookkeeping/filing, product inventory, ... :rolleyes:

By the way, I cleaned this up last weekend. :o

MX

[JMSTECH]

OK CAMSHIP ... now I'm most impressed with your work space!!!! Still laughing..... sorry pal! :D ..... still laughing again.... again.. sorry pal!!! :D :D
Sorry Mark, you got DE-THRONED!

Well now that I feel better now because I realize my RC bench is really not that bad now so here it is. Oh, now my PC work bench, now that's pretty messy but still not as ..... "clean" as some here on this thread. Hey I should post my FPV MOBILE! Very economical and 4 wheel drive! Chicks love this thing, they think it's sooo cute here in Canada! :D

[_helitron_]

MX, that's the workbenchs of really great gurus :D !

Neat workplace JMS and a pretty FPV MOBILE, love it :) ! Lot of place for chicks :D !

//Erwin

[camship]

Yikes! Camship, is there anything that actually flies in that chaos? ;)

Heh, 2-3 of them are flyable but have "donated" portions of themselves for other projects. I hate waiting for the big brown truck!

Speaking of which, I need a servo for the F-22. Now where did that 109 get off to? Come to Papa! It won't hurt...MUCH!:eek:

Camship

JMS, The vehicle is just over the top! I love it!

[_helitron_]

Hey camship,

is something wrong with my eyes or have I really recognized artefacts of "THE MOTHERSHIP" in the center of your 1st pic :eek: ?

Cheers,

//Erwin

[Mark Harris]

Dethroned thou says? *gets pictures of garage*

[camship]

Hey camship,

is something wrong with my eyes or have I really recognized artefacts of "THE MOTHERSHIP" in the center of your 1st pic :eek: ?

Cheers,

//Erwin

Oh, the Mothership is alive and doing fine, sort-of;) . I am using it for what it was intended for, slope gliding. As per my tendency to "procure" parts from other AC last week I stripped the rudders for the servos to put in the FPV F-22.

I am also using the VeeTail mixer formerly used for the drag rudders on the thrust nozzles of the F-22. This allows use of a gyro on the thrust vectoring channel independant of the FS-8 on the elevators.:D

There is a Madness to my Method.

Keep 'em ASL

Camship

[camship]

Mark, looks very cozy. Where are the beasties kept?;)

Camship

[Mark Harris]

Some are hanging off the roof, you can see the three F-27's under the bench in those photos, the planes i use a lot (like my gliders) tend to just sit on the garage floor. You can see a pile of spectra and spirit wings next to the Seawind box. One helicopter is in my office somewhere (i think in the cupboard under OSD packaging material) and the other is on the bench in there.

[JMSTECH]

Ok Mark... stop showing off :D MY GOD! Now here is a scene in my head right now... Mark & Camship as room mates! :eek:

As for my FPV mobile, yeah I can squeeze a few chicks in there :p And Camship, I knew you would love it! Maybe chicks love my 4X4 because the truck box walls fold down into a flat "bed"! :D

[camship]

Maybe chicks love my 4X4 because the truck box walls fold down into a flat "bed"! :D

If only I could get a permit to drive it on the beach, ah, the life.:D

Don't come knockin' if the the trucks a rockin'. ( can I say that?);) And you said you were out making "deliveries", wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Camship

[Mark Harris]

Now here is a scene in my head right now... Mark & Camship as room mates! :eek:

OMG That would be *awesome*! Camship has way cooler stuff that i do.

[JMSTECH]

Yeah Camship, why do you think I drive a cute 4X4? Better suspension :D

[JMSTECH]

OMG That would be *awesome*! Camship has way cooler stuff that i do.
HA HA HA!!!! :D :D :D I'm choking and coughing from laughing too hard Mark!!!! :D :D :D

[Mark Harris]

also as a note JMS - my friends know where everything is in my garage too :P There is a method to the mess haha.

If i cant find something just ask a friend (assuming we are working on stuff in the garage together...) and he'll tell me where its ended up like "under that glove near the cd spindle top" likewise me to him ;) I miss working in the garage on crazy projects.. darn having to build OSD's :P

[JMSTECH]

Hey Mark, there is a saying.... two great minds think alike. Seems like you and your buddy! :D Well those darn OSD boards are a smoking product, perhaps that is why you are so busy. :D

[jab]

Sigh.. You all make me look like a neat freak..

[Capt. Crunch]

Sigh.. Jab, You make me Envious......

[lvspark]

Here is mine..
Have a parts storage cabinet, workbench, vise,drill press,bandsaw, misc junk, storage, and the white bench is usually for charging and electronics assy.

[JMSTECH]

So JAB, do you also have a bar in that loft-shop? Or perhaps a shower room and a pool table? Looks to clean and organize! Love it a lot!!!

[jab]

So JAB, do you also have a bar in that loft-shop? Or perhaps a shower room and a pool table? Looks to clean and organize! Love it a lot!!!

Thanx! Nhaa.. No bar, but when I'm tired of doing rc projects, I like to relax here with a good movie or flying a sim. :cool:

I try not to have to many hobbies. They tend to get a bit out of hand.. :rolleyes:

[Mark Harris]

Oh now thats just too fancy! When can we drop by? :D

[JMSTECH]

Ok understand about relax time. Something I need more myself, but maybe if I redid my rather large basement to a pro home theater then I too can relax like you! Hmmm not a bad idea, since relocating my ceiling mount projector, the Paradigms and JR Labs speakers ,my 7ch Denon OR my 7ch Yamaha to a more comfy environment with a pop corn machine and a soda fountain.... Naa maybe not, then I won't get any fly time! :D

[Mark Harris]

Looks like a good place to fly an x-twin or little coaxial heli JMS!

[JMSTECH]

Looks like a good place to fly an x-twin or little coaxial heli JMS!
Actually I've tried the micro heli already in my basement (similar size to the theater - height/length/almost width.) but haven't tried the plane yet! :D :D Perhaps looking at purchasing one from Kilrah! :D :D