How untidy/disorganized is your workshop?

Well Guys, I would like to believe we all get too busy to tidy up,pick up the tools, sweep the floor because at the end of the day, we are having too much fun building our latest rod and there is always the next project waiting in the corner. I have a friend who,will remain nameless for obvious reasons, must have the most clutted workshop in the whole universe, but in his defence, the workshop is full of NOS, (neat old shit) yeps, stock. In the only photo I will post, you may identify one or two classics under construction. The most obvious is the steel 32 5 window coupe,directly behind that is a 39 Mercury 4 door, next is an early 50's Plymouth 4 door tudorised,chopped channelled and customized and in the corner is a early Corvette. Above on the shelving is a front engine rail, 28 Model A steel Roadster and other bits and pieces wait to be built. The next time I visit I will try and sneek some more photos. Have a laugh any way.:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:

Got to many cars and to many tools and want more more more! My three/four car is getting real crowded. Time to add on.

Keith

I used to be really bad about keeping my workshop neat - then I've had to move. Several times, with another coming. I've sold many "treasures", I've given others away, and even worse, taken some to either a land fill or scrap dealer. Occasionally I visit the local town park which was created by fill dirt on top of the trash and garbage where all my flathead and 'Y' block engines and parts are interred:CRY:. I do have to say though, my collection never arrived at the state shown in the picture though my last house had a large basement shop, a 30x40 pole barn shop as well as a separate garage that were filling as rapidly as the attached 2 car garage. :LOL::LOL:. Never again - I have been 'cured'(to a point:whacked::D)

Mines cramed full, this is only half the otherside has my 30sedan In my make shift paint booth doing body work and there is some outside :D

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Originally Posted by IC2

I've sold many "treasures", I've given others away, and even worse, taken some to either a land fill or scrap dealer.

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I can identify with everything you say, Dave.

How is my shop? TERRIBLE!

It was bad enough before we moved into a nicer but smaller place. Now the situation may be hopeless.

I own one of just about everything ever made, but now I can't find a blasted thing until I no longer need it. I even lost my drill press for a while (the moving guys had laid it on its side and stacked a bunch of boxes in front of it).

This is a sad situation for an admitted pack rat to be in.

Do I have any recourse? I'd go re-enlist in the Navy but I'm told they're not taking guys in their late seventies theses days.



Jim

every time i get my area of the garage organized and clean either my hubby or my sons trash it. i have started throwing their things out into the back yard. it is starting to look like a scene from sandford and son back there. i just give up. lol

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How untidy/disorganized is your workshop?

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In a word: Very.

And that's about all I'm gonna say on that. :whacked:**):LOL:

Hey Pro53 you got a clean workshop man,One could eat their lunch off the floor, it is that clean and I like the fact that you can still walk around your parts with ease and I will compliment you on the use of dust covers over things. Very tidy;););)

Abit of and update on the messy workshop. The '33 pickup has become driveable but by no mean finished. The seats that are on top of the 5 window coupe are out of a theatre that was demolished in LA and Steve scored for his truck. It is running a Corvette 283 ,4 speed and '39 ford diff. Steve dislikes the ratrod terminology and the pickup will have a bright shiny paint etc. when completed. I also only discovered yesterday that hidden in front of the plymouth is a steel '29 A Cabriolet, and I forgot to take my camera, not that I would of been able to get to it. :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: Must remember camera for next visit...

No matter how we try to keep ours organized it keeps getting trashed.:( Dan and I spent two weeks reorganizing it......moved all the dirt-making equipment to one area (drill presses, grinders, bandsaws, etc) and all the clean stuff to another area (sheet metal brake, vice, tool boxes, etc) We even turned all the cars lengthwise and scrubbed the floor with dish detergent. It lasted about a week or two and now it needs a good cleaning again.

For a while we were pretty good about cleaning up our messes before we quit for the night, but lately we have been slipping again. I feel sorry for Don, his part of the shop is very organized and Dan and my stuff bleeds over into his section. Before he comes over every Monday night we have to scramble to clean his section so we don't get our butts chewed out. :o:D

I've really got to try harder to keep it better.

Don

Hey Don, I think you three are so lucky to have such a excellent working relationship to be able to share the workshop space. I know how hard it is to keep your space clean and I was taught too many years ago as an apprentice panelbeater that at the end of the working day ALL tools etc had to be picked up and placed in it's correct place and the floor swept to enable a clean prompt start the next day. I haven't mentioned yet and was going to wait until I could get some photos, is that my friend also has a roadster pickup parked in front of the 5 window that your son would be keen to see. It is so low, has nailhead motor with 6 x97's auto and quick change. Plus approximately 8 vehicles outside awaiting his attention. :HMMM:

Do I know this GREEDY person Whiplash???:D:D

Well Robin here is some clues, his first name I have already mentioned, secondly, a very early member of NZ's first hotrod club,(Auckland) but now a member of Manukau R & C C. but also been a member of Oceanside pre 49 club, Thirdly,his brother is a member of the Scroungers and also your old club, Forthly, has owned some early historic NZ rods,( Furnies T, Stormbringer, (which was then butched by the next owner, his nephew) to name two, about your age and like you, just a very quiet allround good guy. I should list some of his outside undercover waiting patiently for his attention, but I leave just encase he reads this site. His main problem is that he buys stuff for no other reason than " I didn't have one of those but now I do!!":HMMM::rolleyes::cool::whacked:

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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Well Robin here is some clues, his first name I have already mentioned, secondly, a very early member of NZ's first hotrod club,(Auckland) but now a member of Manukau R & C C. but also been a member of Oceanside pre 49 club, Thirdly,his brother is a member of the Scroungers and also your old club, Forthly, has owned some early historic NZ rods,( Furnies T, Stormbringer, (which was then butched by the next owner, his nephew) to name two, about your age and like you, just a very quiet allround good guy. I should list some of his outside undercover waiting patiently for his attention, but I leave just encase he reads this site. His main problem is that he buys stuff for no other reason than " I didn't have one of those but now I do!!":HMMM::rolleyes::cool::whacked:

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Sounds like little Timmys uncle....:D,but I wont mention his name....
In regards to the workshop cleanliness,hmmm..Workshops tidy,not a lot happening in there the last week or so,,been out doing a bit elsewhere,the top shed is clean on one side,reorganised on the other,to work on the Cusso,and a Kenworth front coming in a day or so for a repair,so,will take some pix of the new mess about ot happen...

You can go straight to the top of the class Robin. Yes you have probably spent time discussing the joys of building hot rods with Steve at your old club.:)

I forgot to say, come on guys and gals, don't be shy, letz see some photos of those workshops where all that serious rod building happens and if one has a stash of NOS bitz n pieces hanging around the walls, letz us all drool over our key boards...

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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

You can go straight to the top of the class Robin. Yes you have probably spent time discussing the joys of building hot rods with Steve at your old club.:)

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Dont think i had much to do with the guy,but there were enough clues to give it away,,,actually just one,,Stormbringer....:cool:
Someone needs to build it like it was when Bryce built it originally...:cool::cool:
Chocolate fish to me please Whiplash..:D

no matter how much space i add there seems to be plenty to fill it.

I'm in the proces of cleaning/orginizing right now. I have been working on it for 3 days and no end in sight. Seems like I'm just moving piles of stuff from here to there! Actually our car club is having it's annual swap meet in a couple weeks so I do have a sell/freebie pile started.

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I had a friend with a shop that stayed spotless..Thieves broke in and wiped him out..Had the place been a pigsty like mine they would have never found enough stuff in a short time to make it worth their while.

That's the story Shine. A very nice workshop and love those Corvettes, what s the 50's sports coupe around the corner?? :cool: Dmw56, yes it is an ongoing problem trying to keep things tidy and I believe that no sooner does one swap or sell something, that very part is required in the next few weeks. :( Daffy427, sorry to here about your friends workshop , we suffer from lowlifes like that down here too sadly. When I was manager of a bodyshop in Auckland, We were broken into and all our tools were stolen so I know that horrible gut feeling of been cleaned out. :mad: Lamin8r, your chocy fish is in the mail. Steve basically could only use the body and the tube chassis of the Stormbringer T when he rebuild it. I believe Bryce had a jag bum in it but when Steve got it ,it had no rearend .:(:(

I hate to admit it but my shops a mess right now.
Got some water that came in under my door and got my steel sticks wet.
Had a buddy come over and move the steel for me since I was sick.
But now I have rust accrossed my whole shop floor.
I may have to repaint it if it won't come up.
Kurt

Mine is a pig sty!!!!!

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Ya Ken; I am supprized the dirt police have not come for you yet!!!
HE! HE! HE! We should all have a shop that nice.
I used to work out of my living room too, so don't feel bad.
Kurt

Heck Ken, is that carpet on the floor????:HMMM: I believe everybody on this site should/would be envious of your (A) workshop, (b) project, (C) those tool chests. And I will be cheeky and ask, Is the BIG screen TV and bar on the opposite wall ????;);):)
Pro70z28 I am also envious of your workshop space and now that I have activated this thread, I will have to front up with some photos of my single garage that is not only the working space for my T Bucket but also storage space for the remainder of my house funiture as I sold my home to move in with my elderly mother to care for her in her later years.
Vara4 I had a mate (kiwi terminlogy for friend) that used to build almost all his cars indoors to mockup stage then dismantle, paint etc and final assembly in his driveway because he didn't have power on in his garage.. Funnily enough,that ground to an abrupt end when he met his wife, no sense of humor some woman eh!!:(

Ken,with all due respect,we will have to serve you with the Kiwi ''Tui Ad ''....
Mine is a pigsty.....YEAH,RIGHT....:LOL::LOL:
Its a advertisement idea that a brewery down here uses.....Something like
'' I did not have sex with that woman.''....Yeah,right....:LOL:

Just hope you never get to see my fibreglass workshop...ON A NICE CLEAN DAY..

Something you newer guys may be unaware of is Ken's wife generously vacuums his "shop" for him..................apparently he thinks she's been slacking!;)

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Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Something you newer guys may be unaware of is Ken's wife generously vacuums his "shop" for him..................apparently he thinks she's been slacking!;)

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She missed a spot in front of the hoist......:)

I try to keep my shop neat and clean but it can be a chore while working on a project at the same time. My shop is divided into two rooms by a wall. One side is for fabbing and installing (dirty stuff). The other side is for parking my daily driver and the 40 Chevy.
I was taught as an apprentice to put away all my tools at the end of the day. That lesson was well learned. Still parts that I plan to use are piled around the shop.
To each his own..

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Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Something you newer guys may be unaware of is Ken's wife generously vacuums his "shop" for him..................apparently he thinks she's been slacking!;)

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I'm tellin' ya, It's hard to get good help !! :LOL::LOL:

I just showed my mum the photo of your workshop Ken and she even can't believe it is not your main living area!! LOL LOL LOL...

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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

I just showed my mum the photo of your workshop Ken and she even can't believe it is not your main living area!! LOL LOL LOL...

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Thanks, tell her it is my living room most of the time :LOL::LOL:

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Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Thanks, tell her it is my living room most of the time :LOL::LOL:

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Ken,if mine looked like that,I would spend more time in there too...:D

I made an addition to the shop this weekend.I have a company I do aluminum signs for that recently decided they want all future signs to have rounded corners.
I have been rounding them with an electric shear to get by and it's getting a little old doing it that way.
I bought the base of a 1 1/2" corner rounder. I didn't get
the hand lever deal because I wanted to make it foot operated. So,
I bought a porta power to operate it. Eventually I want to get an air over
hydraulic pump but this will do for now.

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Got it all built & did a test fit on the table. (Put a new PVC top on the table too so it doesn't scratch the aluminum like the other tables do.

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Tore it all apart & sent it off to the paint shop for a deluxe black rattle can paint job.

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All back together.

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Gave it a try.......works....... This will be much faster.

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Made a catch can so I wouldn't have little corners layin' all over the shop floor. (and gettin' them stuck in my shoe.....and taking them in the house........and....... :eek: )

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Sorry........the rest of the shop is still a mess. :HMMM:

My wife is at work so I couldn't get her to clean for me so this is as is today. Shop is heated and A/C 70'x26' and no where near big enough

Mine is so clean that I can't find the dang thang, been lookin fer duh last 2 daze fur it too!

Hey pro70z28, you guys never cease to amaze me with your manufacturing skills !!! And then to have to send it out to the paintshop, yeah right, cleaning up the lawn could be tricky...:cool:
Hi cffisher, envious of your space too, and hasn't long roof cars become so popular of late, love the chevy.. have you got one of those old style long surf boards for the roof??? Station wagons have really become the new '32 roadsters down here and if it is a woody, wow,that is the ultimate.
I find it very interesting to see the old posters etc and books,hotrod magz that we keep for later referance in our shops, there is quiet a market now for that stuff.