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CheffoJeffo:
From an older thread of mine on the subject ...


--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on August 06, 2009, 02:22:54 pm ---We've all ogled other people's beautiful game rooms.

If you hang around in this hobby long enough, you will eventually ogle other people's amazing workshops, replete with multiple oscilloscopes, EPROM burners, totally pristine test fixtures, Fluke meters, Metcal soldering stations and every cap, resistor, diode, transistor, socket and IC known to man all organized neatly enough to rival the cleanest hospital OR.

Well, my workroom is definitely not beautiful and I would love to have more gadgets and tools, but don't yet have the expertise nor, in some cases, the $$$ to justify them.

So, I ask, what is in your workshop that you can't do without for this hobby ?



My ghetto test rig -- PS with fused QDs, speaker, ISO and monitor. You can also see my logic probe, which I am trying to learn how to use.



Cheapish soldering station, RadioShack DMM, cheapo magnifier/extra hands and mugs to hold bits and bobs as they are removed/installed.



Pliers, cutters, drivers and a truckload of security bits.



Moderately organized bins of caps, connectors, ICs, sockets, diodes, resistors and assorted bits.





Space to store the tons of junk (most of the tons are not shown, but reside in boxes scattered around the shop)





Important reference material -- Atari's The Book, Randy Fromm's Big Blue Book and, of course, stacks of GameRoom Magazine!

Not pictured, but definitely heavily used: Dremel, heat gun, GoofOff, GooBGone, Soldapult, crimping/stripping tool, pink erasers, flux remover, Novus, spare wiring harnesses, not enough patch cords and a bunch of things that I have forgotten about and will probably buy again before I remember.

What do you have in your shop that you can't do without ?

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Only difference now is a little more clutter and some new gear and reference material (include the Randy Fromm videos) on an iPad:







Woodshop Flunky:

--- Quote from: mcseforsale on May 25, 2012, 07:27:07 pm ---
How much bigger did you make the 2 pieces?


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There are 3 pieces on mine (middle one is removable).  I made it just a little larger than stock, but I can't say by how much.  The rough dimensions are on the following picture.  I didn't draw any hole patterns... besides, they likely are different between years or models.

kahlid74:

--- Quote from: Unstupid on May 15, 2012, 11:50:41 am ---
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 14, 2012, 10:28:01 am ---And the obligatory server rack and networking equipment shot:


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I see a lot of networking equipment but not a lot of networking cables... What's that about?

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The stuff in the white rack runs the house and all cords are neatly orchestrated in the back.  The two 6509 chassis's and rack of equip to the right are for test labs only.  They are for either practicing my certs or hammering out something that doesn't make sense in the real world, usually design conundrums.

mcseforsale:
Nice kit.  CCIE?

AJ


--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 29, 2012, 02:47:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Unstupid on May 15, 2012, 11:50:41 am ---
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 14, 2012, 10:28:01 am ---And the obligatory server rack and networking equipment shot:


--- End quote ---

I see a lot of networking equipment but not a lot of networking cables... What's that about?

--- End quote ---

The stuff in the white rack runs the house and all cords are neatly orchestrated in the back.  The two 6509 chassis's and rack of equip to the right are for test labs only.  They are for either practicing my certs or hammering out something that doesn't make sense in the real world, usually design conundrums.

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Paul Olson:

--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 29, 2012, 02:47:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Unstupid on May 15, 2012, 11:50:41 am ---
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 14, 2012, 10:28:01 am ---And the obligatory server rack and networking equipment shot:


--- End quote ---

I see a lot of networking equipment but not a lot of networking cables... What's that about?

--- End quote ---

The stuff in the white rack runs the house and all cords are neatly orchestrated in the back.  The two 6509 chassis's and rack of equip to the right are for test labs only.  They are for either practicing my certs or hammering out something that doesn't make sense in the real world, usually design conundrums.

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Just curious:
I understand having the racks to test stuff with, but what do you actually use all of that for in the house? I have one little linksys router, and it does pretty good at keeping up with 6 computers, 2 360s, and 2 phones. What am I missing. I wondered this when I was taking my networking classes too, but since we were mostly learning software, I haven't even used all of that rack equipment.

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