Don't let this happen to you. I went to find a simple part, a gas pedal for my 65. It took me so long to find under all the debris, thanks to my piggish ways. Whatever you do, stay clean or it will cost you dearly !!

 

Organized chaos.

 

How the hell did you get past my alarm and my dog to take that picture??

 

Really Dave mine looks about the same

 

Mine never looks like that my wife and brother in law call me an **** ****.

 

Say it isn't so !!
Love that 54.

 

What makes me mad is I spend all day straightening my stuff out when it starts looking like this. I only need to return and work for an hour and it looks like this all over again.

 

It's not supposed to look like that?

 

Exactly !! No matter how well I clean, it reverts back to it's default state....filth and mayhem. I've pretty well given up. The sad thing was, I didn't even find the part in that mess. After about twenty minutes I gave up and then found it in a bucket in the lean-to.

 

Don't worry about it. Mine's similar also. The good news is that we're in good company. See the photos.

 

wow - I feel better about my own bench now. It looks very similar...
I think that is just a normal condition............

 

Great photos.
There were some men in desperate need of an Oldsmobile . I see I have much to learn about disorder !

 

I can't find anything if I do clean it up. Leave it like it is and I know where every thing is. If I clean up and throw something away I can be sure I will need it within 7 days after the garbage pickup.

 

Uhhh, maybe I missed something. Where's the workbench???

At the risk of offending, that bench really needs a good organizing. It makes working on projects much easier when you know exactly where things are and have a large enough work area to use.

Ok, that being said - it's your workbench so do with it what you think is right.

 

Ha! Same here. It takes longer to clean up than it does to repair the car so I just throw them in a heap on my bench.

 

That's how you can tell a workbench is getting lots of use.

 

You should see my workshop. Ten times the size, 20 times the mess.

 

Looks like my bench when I've let friends use my garage. They get pissed when I tell them they can't use it again....

Roger.

 

Do you lose the parts you're looking for, or do you have another workshop for them?

 

I lose parts all the time. "It's here SOMEWHERE" is my most common thought as I wrestle my way through the heaps of crap me and my father store in there.

 

Good thread. I was bored early
this morning and took a few shots
of mine.

It doubles as a bar when things are
slow in the project dept.

It's the attic area that is a freaking mess!

 

This is my theory also.
Plus the wife says it is so messy she doesn't like to go in there.

 

Looks like mine after about a hour of work. I clean it just to destroy it again. Drives me nuts looking for the socket I just put down two seconds ago only to find out it's in my back pocket after tearing through everything again.

 

Looks like a nice comfortable work area. My whole shop is only 12 x 8 feet, and I have to share one end of the bench with my wife for her gardening things. End up with garlic bulbs and dirt all over my greasy car parts.
I was allowed to build right on the property line if the shop was under 100 square feet, so it came in at 96. Pretty cramped, though.

 

i got the same workbench dave, almost 1500 square feet of car parts, boat stuff and the wifes garden crap.1 square foot of space right beside the vice. currently have the 25 foot fifth wheel in there to recaulk the thing, big job. by the way, hows your gas pedal stay on? mine falls off all the time, those ***** are too loose in the holes? any tricks to hold it?

 

Hi Stan,
My pedal fits quite snuggly on those pivot posts. Either your rubber is worn down or the ***** rusted smaller. I suspect the former. Actually, I've had ones where the rubber hardened and ripped. You may need a replacement pedal.
I've got a second set of posts in decent shape if you need them. Think I left them on the bench somewhere, though...

 

Mine looks good right now. I just spent last weekend cleaning it, so I would have room to start messing it up this weekend.

Larry

 

Yep me too! Sometimes I end up,going to buy a new part because it is easier to than finding the one lost under all that crap

 

That's exactly right ! It gets even better. I started putting screws in the wall to hang packages so I can find them easier. Now I find packages of marrettas over packs of vacuum line plugs, etc. Easier, I've found, to just hang stuff on existing nails and screws, but now I'm losing the things underneath.
I think I need to go on a special program or something.

Here's a pic of the clean end of the bench. Look familiar?

 

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Actually no. I fixed that problem a couple years ago with some transmission fluid that accidentally spilled all over that kind of stuff

 

Sampson, I like the way you think. My garage is...well...my garage. She's lucky her car gets to park in there.

 

I couldn't overcome my messy tendencies so my resolution was to build a narrow bench that wasn't big enough to pile stuff on.

Now everything is piled up next to the 442 where my wife used to park her truck...

 

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This is a 65 cutlass in boxes !! And to think that it was parked in here in July I need to organize
With in the next two weeks so it can come home for the winter

 

Justin !! I don't know what to say.......

I bow down, you ARE the man !!

 

Just wait when I am putting it together and I need those three little parts to finish up lol
It's really not that bad just boxes labeled and stacked all over .

 

Cars in boxes can really create maham.

 

My bench is even worst, I have on small place to work.. Like someone stated earlier, it's a working bench.. I don't feel so bad now.

 

X2

 

I have at least 60' of bench space in my garage and I have to shove things aside to do anything.

 

But makes for a good theft deterrent when they are in a thousand pieces...