Cleaning up the lathe area

[Gerald]

In spite of having the Coffee Bar to finish I got distracted. OOOH i have been a baaad boy. Last week some of us woodturners went up into the Delta to visit a member and I got inspired by his cabinet arrangement. Was going to build more cabinets until I looked in my drawers and found some options to move around and get rid of others. 

    One drawer was full of wood scrapes which came out. One had patterns from past projects which got moved away from turning area, another drawer empty. Sandpaper moved closer to lathe, two more empty.

    So here it gets interesting . remove Jacobs chucks,  spur and steb drives and calipers from front of lathe to two empty drawers.

    Now have some empty drawers and will have to look at what goes in. 4 drawers will get Kazien Foam and cutouts for gouges , spurs, live centers.

 

Now the question is what do you have lurking in the back of those drawers you have not used in 20 years?

[Gunny]

4 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Now the question is what do you have lurking in the back of those drawers you have not used in 20 years?

 

Always interesting what turns up.  

[HandyDan]

...then six months to get used to the new site map.  Was making some pens and couldn't find the bushings and made new ones.  Finished the pens today and guess what showed up while I was cleaning up?

Edited February 11, 2021 by HandyDan

[Cal]

Those aren't drawers, they are smallish time capsules!  I started cleaning out a couple file cabinets yesterday... owners manuals for tools & appliances that have been long gone.

[Steve Krumanaker]

Every now and then the cleaning/reorganizing bug hits me. Afterwords, it's usually a few weeks before I can really find anything!

 

[Gerald]

7 hours ago, Cal said:

Those aren't drawers, they are smallish time capsules!  I started cleaning out a couple file cabinets yesterday... owners manuals for tools & appliances that have been long gone.

Now you go online snd sell them as vintage tool manuals .

[Ron Altier]

On 2/11/2021 at 1:51 PM, Gerald said:

Those aren't drawers, they are smallish time capsules!  

I have "small time capsules' too. They are drawers and boxes that I have, I know where and I know what is in them. They have seldom been touched. However when I need that one tool or item, I know exactly where it is. Then the great reorganization with new drawers and cabinets, etc. It is so much better than it was.....................if you can find that one tool or item. Eventually I find it and think to myself "I'll remember where it is from now on" ............but I don't

 

Isn't that a big part of Murphy's law?

Edited February 16, 2021 by Ron Altier
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[PostalTom]

1 hour ago, Ron Altier said:

Isn't that a big part of Murphy's law?

It's also a big part of being lucky enough to live long enough to forget where things are.  But, by that standard, I should be 200 years old.

[Ron Altier]

8 hours ago, PostalTom said:

It's also a big part of being lucky enough to live long enough to forget where things are.  But, by that standard, I should be 200 years old.

I had something important to add to that..................but I forgot

[JimM]

18 hours ago, PostalTom said:

But, by that standard, I should be 200 years old.

And if I really learned from all my mistakes, I should be a genius by now.