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Tips and suggestions for keeping stuff from falling off your bench

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Lew_Merrick_PE:
Richard -- I use a "tray" with CRS Bars glued to it.  I then "attach" a bunch of magnetic cups to the "bars" into which I place my "small parts."  Unless I knock over the entire "tray," they stay where I put them.

PekkaNF:
If that is wood table a shallow half round groove if you have a routter is a good solution. Anyt other "stoppers" are nasty to arms. Some old writing desks had some interestin features on the front.

Another thing is to keep floor clean, contrastic color helps.

I usually clean when I first have dropped something on floor and frustrate with swarf and it takses ages to find the part I dropped.

Pekka

Joules:
I built a jewellers bench top I can mount in the bench vice on my steel bench.  The jewellers bench can have a tea towel pinned underneath to catch fasteners etc.   Very handy for working on small and intricate parts.   Something like below.

mklotz:
Self-adhesive foam weather-stripping applied at the front edge of the bench can provide a forearm-friendly barrier for both ferrous and non-ferrous parts.

If you don't want it on the bench all the time, apply it to a thin plastic strip that can be laid down when needed and removed when not.

Do your work on a soft, tight-weave, light-colored fabric so that small parts won't bounce if dropped.  An old baby blanket works well as do the newer micro-fiber cloths.

For jobs where springs or clips are likely to "jump out", do the work with the work and your hands inside a transparent plastic bag.  Clothing bags from dry cleaners work well.

Mike E.:
If you have a wooden bench top, consider using a router with a ball shaped cutter to cut a shallow groove about an inch in from the edge, along the length of the bench; similar to the pencil groove on old time school desks.

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