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  • Member since
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  • From: Neenah, WI
Hot & Sticky
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Sunday, August 9, 2009 5:56 PM

Its a hot and humid day here, our second day with temps at or above 90 this year. Otherwise we've had below normal temperatures...so much for global warming.

Anyway I decided a good indoor project to keep me out of the heat would be to reorganize the workshop. It never fails that a simple project turns into a major undertaking. Oh well its all for the better. Sigh [sigh]

Though I did have a thought that I probably should take a hiatas from building so I can concentrate on finally sorting all of the spare parts I've accumulated over the years. It should take me somewhere between six months to a year to get all of the totes sorted and the parts into the appropriate drawers and bins. 

These totes are full!

I hung the bins on the wall next to my bench, otherwise they were on a shelf with the drawers on the opposite side of the workshop.

 

The drawers have come full circle, back on the top of the bench along the wall.

 

Why did I start this reorganization project...needed more shelf space for kits. Make a Toast [#toast]

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

  • Member since
    April 2008
  • From: Philadelphia PA
Posted by smeagol the vile on Monday, August 10, 2009 3:12 AM
while messy and alot of work, that looks like alot of fun, sorting out those spare part tubs

 

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  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Monday, August 10, 2009 8:19 AM
Just found a few surprises sorting through what I did to consolidate the totes. I found some props I forgot I had!

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: clinton twp, michigan
Posted by camo junkie on Monday, August 10, 2009 8:49 AM
you must be having the same weather we are as this too is only our second day out of the year at or above 90. after that loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong winter, the least we could do is have a 3 month summer Sigh [sigh]
"An idea is only as good as the person who thought of it...and only as brilliant as the person who makes it!!"
  • Member since
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  • From: Philadelphia PA
Posted by smeagol the vile on Monday, August 10, 2009 11:55 AM

 HawkeyeHobbies wrote:
Just found a few surprises sorting through what I did to consolidate the totes. I found some props I forgot I had!

 

Didnt I say it was going to be fun?

 

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  • From: The flat lands of the Southeast
Posted by styrene on Monday, August 10, 2009 1:28 PM

 agentg wrote:
What's "winter"?

If you're from "up north", it's the 3rd month of a 3 month year:  June, July, and Winter.

Gip

1882: "God is dead"--F. Nietzsche

1900: "Nietzsche is dead"--God

  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: clinton twp, michigan
Posted by camo junkie on Monday, August 10, 2009 9:23 PM
 styrene wrote:

 agentg wrote:
What's "winter"?

If you're from "up north", it's the 3rd month of a 3 month year:  June, July, and Winter.

Gip

just about sums it up! Laugh [(-D]

"An idea is only as good as the person who thought of it...and only as brilliant as the person who makes it!!"
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  • From: Las Vegas, Nevada
Posted by model maniac 96 on Monday, August 10, 2009 10:46 PM

 agentg wrote:
What's "winter"?

 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.........

 

   Thanks, Jim

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  • Member since
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  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:07 AM

We have two seasons here in the north...winter and road construction. Winter has one advantage over summer, you can dress for it. When its hot and sticky removing more clothes doesn't necessarily improve things. Wink [;)]

Seriously the diversity of our seasons is the nice part of living here. Change is good. 

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

  • Member since
    February 2003
Posted by Jim Barton on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:06 PM

I'll take the 110 degrees+ here in Phoenix over snow and cold any day! As I like to put it, "Short pants, shirt off weather is always good weather!" If Hawaii wasn't so far away from my friends and all, and wasn't so tiny, I could live there again.

I did the same thing with my spares boxes earlier this year. I had four of them of various sizes, mostly fishing tackle boxes, with some very large parts in a "Z-Cardz" game box a friend once gave me. So one morning, I sat down and consolidated the parts into just two tackle boxes; the smaller box being the main one I dip into the most. The deep part of the small box holds two checkbook boxes, one with miscellaneous spare parts, the other with large flat parts. The trays are full of specialized items, such as clear parts, round parts, scrap styrene pieces and so forth.

Unfortunately, my last trip to California, I found out I couldn't get both the spares box and the model to fit in the ice chest, which meant that I had to keep track of three things (ice chest, road toolbox and spares box), so now I'm on the prowl for a tackle box large enough to hold all the spare parts goodies I want to carry on trips, yet small enough to fit inside the ice chest. I'm considering a couple of "double sided" tackle boxes I've seen that would probably do the trick. One of those boxes would probably even hold my "road tools" as well, but there'll be an issue with jars of certain things like putty being upside down.

"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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