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Posted by chochowillie on Saturday, January 5, 2013 7:14 PM

I would but my camera is under there somewhereIndifferent

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Posted by hon30critter on Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:43 PM

 I have a generous sized work bench but it is so full of things I am working on there is not a lot of open work space:

Yes its a bit of a mess but I have run out of storage space to put things aside.

Dave

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, January 6, 2013 1:45 AM

Mines not usually this neat, hence the need for photos to show that it's possible. Smile, Wink & Grin





...and in a small adjoining room:



This spray booth has since been moved to the garage, in its own very small room.  Because it's 3:00AM, and there's about a 100' trek through the snow and cold to get to it, no picture of that area.  This spot  has, of course, been filled with other stuff:


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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, January 6, 2013 1:54 AM

yankee flyer

Holy Cow Batman,  That work  area is amazing.

Not only is my layout low tech but even my humble my work bench is,   well humble.  Sigh
Now, If I were to get ambitious, the basement walls are about 40' X 40' for an around the wall layout.

Truly.  Amazing.  Batman

Have a good one.

Lee

Thanks Lee.

I consider myself really lucky with the space I have for the hobby. I would trade it for a good basement though. I think an around the walls situation is the best choice, if given one. No basement in my house though.

I'll have to suffer with the Bar, Lazyboy and fireplace and separate room for the workbench.Laugh

JeremyB. You're hired!Thumbs Up

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Posted by NP2626 on Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:48 AM

Sorry, I lack the ambition to put my chip in the camera go down take a photo of something that looks pretty much like everyone else's, upload the photo to photo-bucket, post here and then put the wife's chip back in the camera!

I can say that last Thursday I completely cleaned off my work bench and ordered my paint shelf.  The bench looked good until I started another project and now, again looks like most everyone else's! 

NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"

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Posted by fkrall on Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:51 AM

doctorwayne

This spray booth has since been moved to the garage, in its own very small room.  Because it's 3:00AM, and there's about a 100' trek through the snow and cold to get to it, no picture of that area.  This spot  has, of course, been filled with other stuff:

doctorwayne:

3:00 AM?  No wonder you're such a great modeler.  You do it 24/7!

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Posted by OKrlroads on Sunday, January 6, 2013 8:25 AM

What it looked like about a year ago, before it was put into use

Best leave it at that for now!

 

 

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Posted by JeremyB on Sunday, January 6, 2013 9:53 AM

Great Setups Guys

Dave - What is that you use to keep screwdrivers and pliers in? looks handy

Wayne -  Great way of keeping your magazine and reference materials, mine are all stored in plastic drawers so when I need to find a article Its a pain to go back and look through them all. I might have to get a small shelf to do what you have done. My train books are all in another cabinet and it would be nice to keep them with the magazines.

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Sunday, January 6, 2013 11:30 AM

Here's mine

It's in the office so there's some other junk in there with it, some of which is visible in the picture.

Enjoy

Paul

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Posted by chatanuga on Sunday, January 6, 2013 11:53 AM

Here's an outdated pic (over a year ago) of my workbench before it was reorganized last winter

Since April 2011, it's also doubled as a spot to set my paintings to dry so I can use my main easel.

Kevin

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, January 6, 2013 12:12 PM

Easely nice pictures~

OK, LION BENCH part II

It is cleaned up a little bit. I added a test track in the back. The idea is to time new equipment so that it runs at the proper speed at the specified voltage.

The pink trays on the table hold the train when I am working on it. Since I tied all of my trains together with draw bars and cables, you have to lift all six cars as a unit. Thus the foam trays. I also have the advantage of sliding the train east and west in front of me while I work on it, as well as lifting it as a unit to carry it to and from the layout. There are now six such trains running loose on my railroad, with two more in boxes waiting to be altered for service on the Route of the Broadway LION.

Do not tell the cats about altered... They think they are normal.

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, January 6, 2013 12:14 PM

Kevin.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful artwork with us. I'll bet you've got one heck of a backdrop on your layout.

BrentCowboy

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Posted by Burlington Northern #24 on Sunday, January 6, 2013 1:02 PM

can you use your layout as a work bench or storage space? Embarrassed

my loco/ car storage the bottom part is full, the one above is all of my BN stuff(even my exec hockey stick train) 

my workbench next to my bed but atop a box... my GP15 getting superdetailed and the vomit bonnet awaiting it's handrail painting...

and my layout.... speaks for itself 

SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.

 http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide 

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Posted by dti406 on Sunday, January 6, 2013 4:06 PM

Here is mine from a while ago, it is a little cleaner in spots but worse in others.

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Posted by hon30critter on Sunday, January 6, 2013 4:20 PM

JeremyB

The screwdriver/pliers holder is just a cheap molded plastic shelf with various sized holes in it that I picked up who knows where many years ago. It is mounted on a plywood stand so it can be moved if necessary. Never have had the need to move it though. I drilled some smaller holes along the back of the shelf to accomodate paint brushes.

Dave 

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Posted by tatans on Sunday, January 6, 2013 4:52 PM

dstarr

Stupid Beast is planning to leap down and dash away somewhere.  She was hand placed on the bench to jazz up this photo.   This is my bench right after a shop cleanup.  Model railroading tools are in the red wood toolbox to the right side of the bench.  Besides model railroading, I do wood working, auto repair, electronics tinkering, and other stuff in this shop.  Not in this picture are some very useful full sized power tools, drill press, band saw, and radial arm saw. 

O M G !  Every model railroaders worst nightmare !  A CAT within 500 feet of a model railroad, and to scale it's the same size as GODZILLA  and probably more destructive. I hope no structures were destroyed in the making of this photo.

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Posted by PARTSGUY on Sunday, January 6, 2013 5:22 PM

The cat not withstanding...........where do you live that still has what appear's to be leafy trees in what's the dead of winter here in Indiana??? Bill

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Posted by Medina1128 on Sunday, January 6, 2013 5:56 PM

Not in its present shape I won't. Let's just suffice it to say that it resembles Lion's, only worst. Although, in my own defense, I AM in the midst of a rather extensive (and ambitious) project.

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Posted by yankee flyer on Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:12 PM

[quote user="tatans"]

[quote user="dstarr"

I think I see a Yankee screw driver. I didn't think anyone else had them these days. Before battery powered drills that was all I had to drive screws with on some job sites. Mine was the biggest I could buy and now it is a keep sake, to remind me of the good old days.   When the variable speed drills  came out I shoved my Yankee adapter for commercial tips in the chuck of a Vspeed drill and life was good.   Whistling
Funny what catches the eye of an old carpenter.

Have a good day.

Lee

[/quote]

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, January 6, 2013 6:24 PM

A lot of you folks should be ashamed at yourselves showing what you consider to be a workbench in such states of existences!   How can you possibly get any w*rk done in a place like that?

Now this is the way to have your workbench all set to tackle that new and great project you have been putting off.  Here I am examining the fine points of a Tortious Machine and trying to find a misplaced tool....

Lion I think with practice you could become a reasonably adept modeler.  You're off to a good start...Whistling

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by hon30critter on Sunday, January 6, 2013 7:42 PM

Lee

I think I see two yankee screwdrivers. There appears to be a smaller newer model towards the right side of the rack.

Dave

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, January 6, 2013 7:55 PM

HEY! you do not store drill bits on you work bench with the points up!

Speaking of workbenches and cats...

GRRRrrrrrrrrr

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by dstarr on Monday, January 7, 2013 9:49 AM

Ayup, that's a Yankee screwdriver model 130A.  It came to me from a yard sale some years ago.  You can still get bits for them,  that's a new set of bits on the far left of the bench.  Those battery drill/drivers are nice.  I've had two of them.  They were so nice that I gave both of them away as Christmas gifts to my children,  leaving me with the trusty old Yankee screwdriver.   The Yankee had enough omph to screw the bench together,  it sank a lot of 3 inch #10 flathead woodscrews into the 2*6's that form the bench top. 

   I didn't use it to screw the layout wall brackets to the studs.  I used my variable speed electric drill for that, probably because I didn't have the Phillips bit for the Yankee at the time.  Only later did I buy the full set of Yankee bits. 

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Posted by dstarr on Monday, January 7, 2013 9:57 AM

hon30critter

Lee

I think I see two yankee screwdrivers. There appears to be a smaller newer model towards the right side of the rack.

Dave

Ayup.  The small one is a Stanley, mostly plastic model, that I have possessed since the 1970's,  a much longer time than I've had the Yankee.  It came with both drill bits and screwdriver bits, so with one tool you can drill a screwhole and then sink the screw.  I don't really need two such tools, but you know how it is, sentimental value and all.

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Posted by dstarr on Monday, January 7, 2013 10:02 AM

PARTSGUY

The cat not withstanding...........where do you live that still has what appear's to be leafy trees in what's the dead of winter here in Indiana??? Bill

I took that picture back in July of 2011.  That time of year, we have plenty of green trees up here in New Hampshire. 

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Posted by yankee flyer on Monday, January 7, 2013 2:44 PM

dstarr
  I didn't use it to screw the layout wall brackets to the studs.  I used my variable speed electric drill for that, probably because I didn't have the Phillips bit for the Yankee at the time.  Only later did I buy the full set of Yankee bits. 

In the early 60s when I was using mine I bought an adapter that let me use the small tips that guys in the factory's were using in their electric and air screw guns. I bought the tips in packs of 20 or so. Drill bits an all kinds of screw driver tips would fit in the adapter. I don't know if a person could even find this adapter now.
The only draw back is that the  (spline?)  had to be cleaned and lubricated quite often.

Hang on to your tools in fifty years they will be worth a fortune.  Smile, Wink & Grin

Good day.

Lee

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Posted by dstarr on Monday, January 7, 2013 3:03 PM

yankee flyer

dstarr
  I didn't use it to screw the layout wall brackets to the studs.  I used my variable speed electric drill for that, probably because I didn't have the Phillips bit for the Yankee at the time.  Only later did I buy the full set of Yankee bits. 

In the early 60s when I was using mine I bought an adapter that let me use the small tips that guys in the factory's were using in their electric and air screw guns. I bought the tips in packs of 20 or so. Drill bits an all kinds of screw driver tips would fit in the adapter. I don't know if a person could even find this adapter now.
The only draw back is that the  (spline?)  had to be cleaned and lubricated quite often.

Hang on to your tools in fifty years they will be worth a fortune.  Smile, Wink & Grin

Good day.

Lee

I think this might be the adapter you are thinking off.  Came up in a straightforward Google for "Yankee screwdriver bits"

http://toolmonger.com/2008/01/29/hex-adapter-for-yankee-screwdrivers-newdraft/

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Posted by yankee flyer on Monday, January 7, 2013 5:15 PM

The locking collar is an improvement, but yes that's it.

Uhh,    Off Topic   my bad ,  Whistling 

Anyone else have a work bench?

Lee

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Posted by chatanuga on Monday, January 7, 2013 8:06 PM

BATMAN

Kevin.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful artwork with us. I'll bet you've got one heck of a backdrop on your layout.

BrentCowboy

Actually, I don't have backdrops on my current layout.  I rent my townhouse, and since I have a sectional layout, I didn't want to have seams in my sky.  I'll definitely have some happy clouds on a nice backdrop when I'm able to build my permanent layout.  :)

Kevin

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Posted by nssd70m on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 8:42 AM

Here is my workbench, a Athearn Chessie System SD50 getting detail work, Roundhouse Southern boxcar with a new road number,  Wright Trak radio car getting some grab irons, and a Wright Trak Southern caboose still in the box. Earl...

Modeling the Southern, Norfolk & Western and Norfolk Southern in HO scale.

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