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1:39 am
March 22, 2010
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About a year ago I decided to get organized in table/ work area and try to cut down on the time spent fetching stuff I use all the time... I cant believe how much time it saves me over the course of a day.. I bet I save a half hour every day just in the time it took to get and put away grinders..
Anyway this is a shot of the single rack behind my main work table, one side has my clamps, the other my grinders... It has a air reel and a electrical reel mounted overhead...
Then there is a stand alone deal that my main air finishing tools hang on and my welder.. The welder has center punches, scribes, vise grips, squares hammers, adjustable wrenches and other often needed bits..
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
2:02 am
May 14, 2010
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I like it. How are those air grinders hanging...?
2:07 am
March 22, 2010
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Just a 1/2" round bar that goes across that the wheel hooks over...
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
2:23 am
March 22, 2010
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I just saw grinder... sorry the air tools are hanging from the fittings in a rack I bought from summit racing...
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
2:32 am
March 18, 2010
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I read once about plant in Japan that wanted to reduce their change-out time on tooling for their presses. They were averaging like 4 -5 hours to do a changeover. Now they had a well organized operation and hoped that the guy they brought in could help them shave "a little" of the time off. So, this guy studied and watched as they went through changovers, learned how their time was spent and where it was wasted, etc. He made his recommendations, and management could see that it could save some time so they implemented it to the letter. The result was their changeovers now were averaging 45 minutes! Greatly freed up the die changing crew and allowed for a big increase in productive hours on their machines.
OK, so what did he do? Well, the die crew had all of the tools they could want or need....... all in their own little area where no one else was allowed and all precision tools in a tool crib so they never got lost. Perfect right? Wrong! The only change the consultant made was to require absolutely EVERY tool they needed and only the tools they needed be IN THE TOTE WITH THE DIE SETUP. If they needed a height guage, or an impact wrench or anything, no matter how expensive or how many they had to buy, it was in there! NO ADJUSTABLE WRENCHES allowed! No walking back to the tool area or the tool crib. No screwing up bolts and nuts with adjustable wrenches and spending an hour fixing that. Oh yeah, EVERY LAST bolt and stud was replaced with new ones BEFORE THE TOTE WAS PUT AWAY. Over-used fasteners were costing a lot of time. You break one stud or bolt and the setup might have to go to the machine shop to fix! Torque-wrenches or torque-limiting wrenches were required on everything now.
The consultant was paid handsomely!
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
3:08 am
March 18, 2010
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Always reminds me of when I say to myself "I swear I spend more time looking for my tools than using them"! How many times have you been working on something and you make trip after trip to the tool box? Or worse, trying to think of where you used that 1-3/16 box end last?
I remember at my last shop watching a guy cutting and straightening out a sheet metal shim for a setup in an upsetting machine. Getting upsetters adjusted correctly requires multiple shims. He had dies and then he had shims that he kept at the machine. Well they got kinda chewed up, but they still worked. So, I used the above idea and ordered up a pile of different shims, cut to size. Everything from 1/2" down to 24ga and everything in between. All nice and flat and perfect. Now every time he took out a setup, all the proper shims went with the dies. That saved a lot of time.
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
4:37 am
March 22, 2010
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Yep... every little thing helps... I have a good set of end wrenches hanging on the wall right by the welder, and a another set in the machine shop... and a set in my tool box, and a set in the shop box... all either hanging on pegs or in organizers so I know if one is not put back...
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
6:28 am
September 7, 2010
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Nice set-up you've got there Larry!
Thanks for posting the pics.
Ian
3:14 pm
May 13, 2010
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Nice set up. My biggest problem is not putting things back when I am done with them. But having away as convenient as you have there makes it much easier to put things away.
6:31 pm
March 18, 2010
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Larry ends up doing a lot of things some of us just talk about. He's my hero! Very nice Larry!
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
8:01 pm
March 18, 2010
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Remembering when I worked at the Brekke Company, every Monday morning Darold Brekke would go around the whole shop "salting" it with soapstone. Seems every night and weekend the "Soapstone Eaters" would ply their trade and clean the place out.
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
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