Brutkey

Jenny :TransButterfly:​ :3hearts:
@SymTrkl@anarres.family

What if
"I should get another one of these cheap bit drivers for all these torx bits"
but then
"I could also get one to keep the metric and imperial hex bits separate"
and then
"you know, I have a couple pozidrive bits in here too..."
and that's why I have to drill three new holes in the tool holder on my workbench when we eventually move out of this basement.

Six cheap aluminum bit holders ("screwdrivers") and six rows of small screwdriver bits; phillips, pozidrive, flat-head, torx, and two groups of hex bits. If you look closely enough, you'll see that they're ordered by the size stamped onto them, are clearly from multiple sources.
Jenny :TransButterfly:​ :3hearts:
@SymTrkl@anarres.family

If you've never had the joy of me infodumping about my workbench, this is the tool holder I'm talking about. It holds my most commonly used tools, and had been altered several times since I built it. For example, that little cat's name is not "hot snot," I used to have a pair of cheap hot glue guns there, before I replaced them with my good high temp one.

(I mean, now the cat's name is "Hot Snot." I hope I didn't get rid of him when I packed it all up. T_T)

But anyway, this was a small work bench I built out of scrap while I was working at the lumber yard. It's sized explicitly for my height and reach, and to perfectly fit that tiny bit of free space in the corner of out bedroom, and has been in storage since we moved out to Wyoming. neobot_cry_loud

A piece of wood mounted to another piece of wood at a slight angle, with several holes cut or drilled into it and an array of pens, pencils, screwdrivers, scissors, and pliers resting in it. A roll of masking tap hangs from the front and a small white toy cat sleeps peacefully over the handwritten words "hot snot" on the end. The full uncropped photo of the workbench. It sits in the corner of a bedroom, leaving just enough space for a closet door to open in front of it. The closet door has a paper towel holder and humorous workplace safety sign hanging from it. The sign shows a man with his safety glasses on his forehead, looking off to the side as he uses a band saw. The caption reads "think! safety first!" The workbench is fairly shallow, and divided into two halves by a small DC power supply in the middle. On the left is a green cutting mat with the tool holder from the other picture mounted above it, as well as various other tools and a surge protector with a red switch over each outlet. Various decorative bits are also resting on the wooden beams. The right side has a gray ESD mat, with a Panavise, fume extractor, and soldering iron pencil on it, with a cord leading up to the iron's base on the shelf above, next to a spool of solder. The rest of the overhead shelves are packed end to end with various tools, boxes of screws, hot glue, heat-shrink tube, and other similar items. The entire bench is lit by LED lights set in the underside of the shelf, activated by a switch on the front edge of the benchtop. More shelves are barely visible under the bench, which hold even more tools, supplies, and various maker ephemera.
Jenny :TransButterfly:​ :3hearts:
@SymTrkl@anarres.family

Just as an example of why I miss this bench so bad, look at the right side in the picture. See that soldering station?

Before I built it, soldering meant grabbing my soldering iron, solder, and brass mesh tip cleaner (because sponges are lame), taking them out to my desk, which almost certainly needed a bunch of junk moved off it. Then putting all that away when I was done. Every time.

Meanwhile, with the setup in the picture I literally just had to reach up and flip the switch on the soldering iron base, and everything was already right there.

Persephone
@mindpersephone@spookygirl.boo

@SymTrkl@anarres.family dear goddess that looks amazing. I've love to have a space like that. I can absolutely see why you'd miss it.

swoons over workbench

Persephone
@mindpersephone@spookygirl.boo

@SymTrkl@anarres.family also are those tiny mole grips in the tool holder?

I've only ever seen the massive ones, now I've a new tool to add to the shopping list too.

Jenny :TransButterfly:​ :3hearts:
@SymTrkl@anarres.family

@mindpersephone@spookygirl.boo Yeah, my dad gave them to me ages ago, I actually don't have any larger vice grips but those are so nice to have. I think the needle nose ones (not pictured, the empty slot) ended up in the drawer of misfit tools that lived under the bench, and my ceramic-tipped tweezers took their place.