Can't take it anymore...

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awemawson:
Oh you'll certainly need it .... just after you've thrown it away :lol:

I remember the sheer frustration, having had a good sort out before I moved here, of NOT having those odd bits of scrap to use. Silly things like needing a drift to knock something out and having to use good stock.

And even worse when everything was in storage for a time while I was building the workshop of not even having a bench with a vice on it. Not going back there !!!

Brass_Machine:

--- Quote from: DavidA on September 21, 2013, 07:00:20 AM ---...
My workshops seem to be in a constant state of flux. I'm also trying to rationalise my (still) growing stock of off cuts etc. The problem is, I find, that you think of thowing something out, then get paralised by a fear that you may just need that particular item. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next week. So you keep it 'just in case'.
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That is me all the way. The pile of scrap, junk and old stuff because I "might" need it. My wife keeps trying to get me to follow the "if you haven't used it in two years get rid of it" process.

Pete W.:
Hi there, all,

When you're retired, there's a particular incentive to hoard 'stuff'. When I was still in regular gainful employment (and before the bean-counters out-sourced the machine shop), I lived fairly well off the factory skip. Nowadays I don't have that facility. :bang: :bang: :bang:

Also, back in the 70s and 80s, I did a series of 'Model Engineering' evening courses in the local tech. A side benefit of those courses was the ability to 'mine' the swarf trays of the workshop machines - if the day course vocational students made a machining error, they just threw the billet into the swarf tray and drew another from the stores! A very useful source of free turning MS. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

It isn't just material (aka 'stuff'). I had a job that required three cuts across a piece of 18 SWG mild steel sheet. In my pre-retirement days, I would have strolled into the machine shop where the bloke in charge knew that I had done workshop time during my sandwich course. After a bit of chaffing, and a caution just for the record, I'd have been allowed to guillotine my job myself. Not having that facility these days, I took my sheet of steel to the local black-smith - he quoted me the cost of half our weekly grocery shopping! So I did that job another way.

PekkaNF:
I'm in your club too. Have been moving all machinery around last two months, recycling stuff and organizing rest of the stuff. Biggest moves are behind. Now I only have all storage selves and small machines (150 kg and less) left to move on their proper places.

Pekka

Alan Haisley:
Just remember when labeling new drawers and bins: Don't use the label "Miscellaneous!

Alan

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