Time to organize the shop!

[ERLover]

Now this one is a real trip IMHO
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/dod_dictionary/

And if that was not enough for you, take a peek at this one
http://www.militaryacronyms.net/

AND if you want to communicate with your Dr. here is some great reading
http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view ... reviations

[jsburger]

Now this one is a real trip IMHO
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/dod_dictionary/

And if that was not enough for you, take a peek at this one
http://www.militaryacronyms.net/

AND if you want to communicate with your Dr. here is some great reading
http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view ... reviations

Yup, the military has always been the king of acronyms and abbreviations. The rule in military writing was to spell it out the first time used in a document followed by the acronym/abbreviation in parenthesis. After that the acronym/abbreviation only was used in the document.

[ERLover]

Now back to the task at hand, on my DC system I have a floor cleaning port, just sweep to it, open it up and turn on the DC system, for the acronym challenged, DC is dust collector, not District of Columbia.
I have a screen on the opening with a number of REMs (rare earth magnets) on it. I do not do much hand planing so no big curls to plug the screen. Works great and no dust pan an bending over, then spill the dust pan full of stuff trying to get it in the container

[ERLover]

John I read that in there protocol. Would not want a misplaced/missing letter and a nuke goes off.

[jsburger]

John I read that in there protocol. Would not want a misplaced/missing letter and a nuke goes off.

That would never happen. If you get the code wrong nothing happens.

You mentioned in an earlier post that my shop discipline probably came from designing my shop. Yes, I spent a lot of time thinking about the layout before the building was built.

However, that is not where my discipline came from. It came first from my father. More importantly it came from being an Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist for 24 years in the Air Force. When you load bombs on airplanes you learn discipline. There is no room for improvisation or error.

[ERLover]

No, I knew it came from at least the military and carried over to the shop, did not know or have an idea about home life. But me too, started at home, B26 Marauder squadron leader with 32 missions flying the Path Finder lead plane, for a father. I think most of us baby boomers came from a pro discipline parents.

[tomsalwasser]

I wish I was neater and more organized, maybe I'd get more done. Or maybe not. Some of the most talented, smart and productive people I know thrive in what might seem to be chaos to some. Watch this video from Skip Campbell, who like Bill Mayo and Jacob Anderson have taken their skill and energy world wide from a small garage based shop. Look around Skip's shop as he uses his head mounted camera. Cool stuff is piled everywhere! The man is an absolute Shopsmith legend and wizard. I'm more like masonsailor. My shop gets trashed while on a project, then I clean it up. I think if I could be more like John with a place for everything and put it back when I'm done, I'd be happier. I'm working towards that goal.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MbGbefGFDQ[/youtube]

[charlese]

In my shop every tool has it's place. Every once and a while (not very often) when I go to that special place to get a tool, I find it's not there.

O.K., now it's time to search. In order to cut down on those times, I follow a rule I read here on the forum. Since all the tools I'm using at the time are out on the bench, I Start to pick them up and put them where they are supposed to live. This works, EVERY time! The missing tool is found.

Another system I tried was to come into the shop in the morning and put away at least ten things. This doesn't work every time because I figure - why put away tools that I'm going to use in today's session?

All in all - the special place for each tool works most of the time.

[BuckeyeDennis]

My problem is that, due to the economic alchemy of Craigslist and such, I've been acquiring tools faster than I can create "special places" for them. I'd love to spend more time organizing and creating those places, but for some reason SWMBO expects me to make actual progress on her honey-do projects!

I did get fantastic deals on a couple of nice roll-around tool chests recently, so there is near-term hope for the machine tooling and the hand tools. But no more machines, at least until the ones I've already bought are assembled and/or restored. Oh yea, and the shop still has to be wired for 3-phase power from the rotary phase converter. And then the new dust collector needs to be plumbed up ...

[rjent]

I was raised in chaos. My father kept a very messy shop, but always knew where everything was. He was a Rocket Scientist (literally), licensed journeyman electrician, a rancher, farmer, metal worker, Christian preacher, hard ass (I had to add that LOL), teacher, and husband for 58 years. I learned most of the important things of life from him, but I never learned organization from him and my shop(s) shows it.

My problem now is taking apart 30 years of business operations in my building so I can get back to my roots of having a full shop. I plan on doing what John has done, design the space to accommodate the tools I plan to have. I am pretty much where I want to be tool wise, but I will add at least another Mark V before I am done.

I will/need to, work on shop organizational skills .... but I will do that later....