OK, I'll bite. Here are a couple of shots of my space. We lately moved into this house and I was able to negotiate this room as my "workroom" as we call it. A couple of owners ago it used to be an attached garage then was renovated to convert it into a living room. It never had very good insulation so can get quite cold in the winter. The next owner converted it into piano studio and added a gas fireplace (!) I wonder how many guys like us can say they have a fireplace beside their bench but it can warm the place very well on a very cold day in Canada after about an hour.
The first shot is taken standing on the steps up to the kitchen and main house. I am still trying to sell the drafting board as I don't use it for much anymore except to put it as level as it can go and spread parts/drawings out on it. The lovely old Nestler drafting machine is gone as I sold to someone in Tucson last year. Under it are a Tek 535 scope which doesn't work (but probably could be fixed), a HP single-pen chart recorder that I still (after 34 years) have supplies for, and a small B&W NTSC picture monitor. On the mantel is a W German tube radio, a Loewe Opta which doesn't work and beside it an Eddystone 750 which does very well. To the right of the FP are several cabinets of drawers with almost every 1/4W 5% value in the E24 set from 1R0 to 10M, many 2W 5% and some higher power resistors. Also about 30 drawers of trimmer pots and almost as many values of panel-mounted pots. Unseen on the floor beside the FP is a HP 141T spectrum an for up to 1.3 GHz.
In the next shot is my electronic bench showing my working Tek 547 on its dolly, the lab PC (now replaced with a laptop). I designed and built the bench a few years ago so that the "bridge" shelf could hold a significant load. The best thing I ever did was make sure there were plenty (20 total) of outlets on it. Going from L-R on the bench are a HP 1741 analog storage scope (REAL HP!), an HP bench supply with what was a Heathkit function generator on top. The innards of the Heathkit have been completely replaced with a home brew circuit for sine/sq/triangle and noise generation. Next is a Sony speaker for audio testing, a Tek 465 then Weller soldering station. The bench is covered with a grounded static mat. I have two of these as I used to have two identical benches but had to leave one behind in the old house. I couldn't figger out how to fit both of them into this space so left one behind in the old house at the behest of the shyster who bought it (thats another story). I like the stool very much since it has a long vertical travel so I can adjust it for taller or shorter benches. Hanging from the front edge of the bench is a great hot air gun with nozzle attachments I got at Princess Auto for CAD$15. On top of the bridge are a Tek 5103N analog scope with plugins that allow vertical sensitivity from 20 V/cm right down to 10 uV/cm and ability to apply DC offset and various HF and LF filters. Also great for analog debug/characterization. Next is a Grundig comm receiver Satelite 800 that I use to listen to good ole boys on 80m. It has a cheap Fluke 1910 counter with terrible calibration however I lately built a WWV receiver with built-in ovenized 10 MHz oscillator that I use as reference for the counter. As display the box has a single LED which displays the difference frequency between the two and will settle down to within 1 Hz in about an hour so I can trust the counter now. A lot of my projects are made for $0 from stuff on hand so that's why I didn't go the GPS-disciplined route.
Beside that are stacked an HP 3580A spectrum an. fpr 0Hz - 50 Khz, an HP 8112 50 MHz pulse generator. To the right of the bench is a Tek 7904 that I have with 6 plug-ins (gotta love cranking the sweep right out to 0.5 nSec/cm just cause I can). The two drawer units seen in this shot are standard kitchen drawers with a peice of MDF screwed on top and painted. A home-built tube-based bench power supply, a Tek logic analyzer, some vintage scopes, a ginormous isolation transformer, etc sit underneath. Right at the bottom of the shot you just might be able to make out the cover of Jim Williams book The Art And Science of Analog Circuit Design.
The third shot shows the other (mechanical) bench I built about 26 years ago, as seen from the first bench. We have various woodworking tools here including the small drill press, a swivelable (no matter how I spell that the red underline won't go away) bench vise small tools on the peg board and lots of screw drivers. This bench used to be 8 feet long and no matter how I arranged the room it didn't fit so well. So I put hinges on the right two feet and folded it up. When its up the screwdrivers are a hazard to traffic near the outside door and when its down no traffic is possible but it accomplishes what I wanted which was access to the door and wall near it where fasteners are and as well eight feet of bench when I needed it. Under the bench on a wheeled platform are a chop saw, scroll saw, bench grinder, palm sander, jig saw, tile cutter, Dremel, etc. In the two small drawers are drill bits, files, etc. The carpenters vise on the front is practically useless but maybe if I make wooden jaws flush with the top for it it may be useful. To the side is a small table saw the makes a bloody racket when used and really makes the air cleaner earn its keep.
Standing at the mech bench and facing left show us the fourth shot. We see my drum kit (doesn't everybody have a drum kit?) the stereo system my chalkboard for To-Do lists and sometimes for quick idea illustrations. To its left is the old dentists cabinet filled with parts (ICs, switches, heat sinks, connectors, small proj boxes, wire, relays, glory box, etc). Above in drawers are caps, HV caps, inductors, crystals and oscillators, LEDs heat shrink and mist small mech bits. The door leads to a small room that uses up the rest of the old garage floor space where other misc storage is for bigger glory boxes, wood pieces, some more test gear (home-built tube curve tracer, etc)
This doesn't include my office space where my library and PC which I used to write this is.
I always have about 6 projects going on at any time from custom guitar-related builds to antique radio restoration or some gizmo for myself. If there seems to be a lot of HP stuff here, take my word for it that I didn't plan it that way, its just the way the smokin' deals came through. Anyway I like older technology and everything here still works (except for the Loewe Opta).
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