Descent into madness...

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:43 pm

For some reason, I imagine a lot of you guys have nice, tidy work areas where you do your business.

Me? It's a nasty little hole in my basement that I haven't cleaned up since I started. This is where I do my thang, on top of an old Mac G4 box. I do my airbrush painting just around the corner, closer to the open back door. I have my nice soldering iron over at hue35's house (we have matching Hakko soldering stations, stacked on top of eachother) for mosfetting, but I do simple soldering like antennas on top of the washing machine. My Dremel tool is hanging from the ceiling over the sink next to the washing machine. Why I never bother to clean that sh*t up, I don't know. You ought to hear me cuss when I drop a spring or a gear. Though I have developed a surprizing knack for finding small, delicate things like that on floors covered with little bits of tape, plastic shavings and other nasty stuff.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:01 pm

I'm hearing ya, but I wish I had all that room to mess up.

I'm working at a desk from a school, remember those ones you sat at in 8th grade? It's crammed in the narrow walkway on my side of the bed.

I clean it sometimes, but not often. Here's how it sits right now.

Similar to your mess, but not quite as organized, maybe if I had more space, I could keep my mess organized.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:04 pm

im moving saturday!! i cant wait. im more worried about setting up the music studio but the bit domain will follow soon after.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 6:07 pm

mines never really been tidy.
here's a shot from about a year ago

it's grown to about 4-5 times that size and mess level by now lol

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:38 pm

i tidied up for these shots. you can see my special "suspension hammer" ready for use!

pics live here http://www.geocities.com/bettyk3332003/thelab.html

filelicker · Post by **filelicker** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:01 pm

My work space is pretty sad
I mask on the couch
and paint on the washing machine { in winter ,
outside in the summer}
I mod on my computer desk
and I store everthing in a very large tackle type box under our bed.
I can't leave anything out due to space and kid constrictions
{ 2 adults , 4 kids 5-11 , 2 dogs and 4 cats and a turtle in a house the size of a 2 car garage}.

I can't wait to move this summer and have my own area once more.{ and room for track!}

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:09 pm

Interesting. There is a shocking similarity to all our work areas.

Hehe, y'all haven't seen hue35 around here last couple days because he's been on photo shoots during the day, and frantically cleaning his house for company this weekend. His worktable in his basement looks like the rest of us, but he had it going in his kitchen and dining room also, not to mention the living room where we race (I'm partially to blame, as we do our racing and mosfetting at his pad). He told me today the entire built-in in his dining room is full of little car parts.

It's funny when I think back, about a year ago I bought a Plano tackle box (just the single layer, 8"x10" or so) and thought, "This ought to do." Now I have one of those just for tires.

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:46 pm

Don't really have a work area. I usually just set up shop on the kitchen table at my place or Bird's cage. I can't leave stuff sitting around because I have 2 roommates and I can't keep the table to myself. However I will be moving the 1st of April, no more roommates (crazy story), and hope to have an area that I can devote to Bits and stuff.

I'm also going to have to find a computer (cheap and quick), the one I always use is the roommates and its going with him. I can't live without Pimpin' here!

Heres the problem, I don't have a place to live yet. I need to get a loan to buy a trailer, in Bird's neck of the woods, but I screwed up my credit when I first moved out 10 years ago and it hasn't got any better.

I'm going to be living in a van down by the river!!!

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Bird · Post by **Bird** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:44 am

sg219 wrote:Heres the problem, I don't have a place to live yet. I need to get a loan to buy a trailer, in Bird's neck of the woods

Yeah, I live in the trailer park. My computer is probably worth more than my crib. That's aaaight, though. My kids can wreck this place all they want, and I'm not fazed. When I sell this box and buy a house, they'll be old enough to control their destructive urges... at least I hope(my girls are straight up nuts!).
With that info on the table, my bit working conditions are a big ol' tackle box with like 10 assorted bits and clones, their controllers, a small fraction of my body collection, a few tools, and all of my superslick paraphernalia handily stored in the lid. I have to keep this up high in a closet(one time I forgot and my four year old took all of the tires off of every car, and that took a while to sort out.) Then I have a shopping bag full of unopened bodies stashed in my bedroom closet, along with two 1/10 scale rides and all of their paraphernalia. On top of one cabinet in my kitchen are 2 canned heat cars that pretty much collect dust and some baggies of gutted up die casts, and on top of the china cabinet are my four year olds 2 bits and my newly acquired X-mod and all the stuff that goes with it. I still gotta figure out how I'm going to store the X-mod.
One benefit of living in a 14' x 70' box is the roomy kitchen. Move the table and stuff to the side, and it's bit/superslick heaven. We occasionally get buck-wild and throw down a rope-light racetrack. I'm planning on grabbing like 2 boxes of superslick track soon to make that easier, though.
Obviously, all of this drives my lady nuts.
(except when 219 bribes her with beers)

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:18 pm

Aint nothing wrong with a trailer. Hell, I have a house and there's nowhere in it to drive.

I can testify to the destructive capabilities of children. I made the mistake of leaving a bit I was working on on the dining room table one night and went to bed. 2 days later I found it in a dollhouse garage with unicorn stickers on it.

filelicker · Post by **filelicker** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:08 pm

SuperFly wrote:Aint nothing wrong with a trailer. Hell, I have a house and there's nowhere in it to drive.

I can testify to the destructive capabilities of children. I made the mistake of leaving a bit I was working on on the dining room table one night and went to bed. 2 days later I found it in a dollhouse garage with unicorn stickers on it.

A place to live is just that-a place to live --nothing wrong with a trailer!
and superfly you had me crying !I could just imagaine the look on your face when you found that bit all girlied up ! too damn funny !

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:25 pm

haha i feel ya brother

Bird · Post by **Bird** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:58 pm

SuperFly wrote:It's funny when I think back, about a year ago I bought a Plano tackle box (just the single layer, 8"x10" or so) and thought, "This ought to do." Now I have one of those just for tires.

The name of this thread is fitting, for sure. In the last 72 hours alone, I've bought an X-mod and most of the upgrades, IC3's and the charger, a SuperSlick body/tire/motor set, and a MuscleMachine r/c Supra. I argued with some guy at a lhs about the size of some alloy locknuts, which I ended up buying for 75 cents and they ended up being too big... I came really really close to buying a Charge n' Go bit clone but was'nt sure if it was any good(I'll probably end up going back and buying it anyway). But I'm surely descending into madness.....
As for my trailer issues... Living in a trailer isn't really my problem... It's the trailer park that goes along with it that I don't dig. I grew up in a straight up ghetto, and moved here to get away from the violence and crackheads. Now the crackheads up here are starting to get out of hand. I don't know, maybe it'll improve... the crackwhores next door are supposedly getting evicted and it's the crowd that they attract(more crackheads and rich, youngbuck wannabe gangsters) that's getting to me. Most of the other neighbors are decent people.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:10 pm

charge n go bits are kinda cheezy but not the worst. worth maybe 5 bucks.

where are there trailor parks around pittsburgh?