ryanbp01 wrote:My work bench is a...
Mess. It always seems to be the place where everything lands. My bride always seems to place everything on it. Magazines, borrowed tools, especially those which were hung up, plus various other hardware has turned my bench into a catchall. And, to be fair, I'm guilty of the same thing. I am always spending time to pick up and put away before anything else can be worked on. Try as I might, I feel it is a losing battle.
BPR
Discipline is the answer. I don't know how you get it unless you are taught to put things back where they came from. My parents were pretty disciplined but my real Discipline came from the Air Force. I was an aircraft munitions technician. I loaded bombs on aircraft including nuclear munitions on B-52 aircraft on hard alert back when we had that.
When you worked on the flight line, regardless of your maintenance specialty, everything was inventoried before it was taken out to the flight line and it was inventoried when it was brought back in. You didn't want to loose something out there and cause an aircraft malfunction or worse a crash. That included things like wiping rags. They put 6 rags in a zip lock bag and you had to bring back 6 rags in the bag. You also had to inventory your tools and equipment if you left working on an aircraft and moved to another aircraft.
If something was not there a formal "Lost Tool" report was generated and a search on the flight line was conducted until the item was found.
After 24 years of that you kind of learn to put things away.
