Today bought another one of the chinese-slave wooden drawer blocks. At 12 Euros a pop I just can't resist.
I used it to tidy the "soldering corner" of the bench... all the small related tools and supplies were stuffed into a deep plastic box where getting to anything was a chore, had to dig, or empty the box on the bench and fill it back up... and I just could not even see everything I had in there...
Now it's all thrown into the bottom drawer. Still a bit of a mess but will do for now. At least it's a shallow mess now, so I can see what I have and can just pick it up easily, and a place to store everything to keep the bench tidy.
Drawer block fits perfectly height and width wise into the corner of the bench where the plastic box used to reside, under the soldering iron and hot air station.
Middle drawer I used to store the two bins for good/bad batteries, because you always need handy don't you. Then third / top drawer is a bit random stuff garnered from crap lying around the bench... bound to be redefined later but for now it lets me tidy the bench, so good enough.
- roll of Kapton tape still unopened.
- roll of mod / 30AWG wire wrap wire.
- a syringe of "Electrolube" white plastic grease.. bought last year when I was working on my a pile of old CD players.
- bin full heat shrink piping.
- spare Weller soldering iron, spare heating element for it, and spare sponge. Daddy sent me that the other day.
- An ESD wrist strap, still in its original package, that I discovered.... sometimes I discover stuff I didn't know I had !
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It's not all perfect though : the cable of the soldering iron and the hot air station, are in the way when I want to open a drawer, you can't have it all I guess.
Weller cord is not a problem, it's long and very flexible / silicon. I can just stick it on the side of the drawer block when I need to.
However the cable for the hot air station is painful. It's very short and very crap, super stiff. If you try to move it around even gently, the hand piece ends up popping out of its holder !
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I guess I have first world problems eh !
But still a vast improvement, am very happy with it. Looks nice and tidy, stuff is not gathering dust in a plastic box, everything is accessible...
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