What angers/upsets you in the Workshop?

My biggest cause of angst:

Drill chucks that mangle the bit when it jams in the work and spins in the chuck jaws.

This necessitates the use of a file or grinder to clean up the mess and get the bit to fit into its holder again.

My Makita mains drilling machine just leaves a polished surface after a drill spins.

Don't remember Albrecht chucks giving a problem, only key operated ones.

Biggest culprit is, surprisingly, my B@sch battery drill.

Geoff - This really REALLY gets on my Bristols!

I hate my workshop to be untidy, also how come when I go in there time speeds up?

The Burmuda Triangle that is the garage floor. Anything dropped instantly travels to another dimension and is never seen again. . . . unless I've just bought or made a replacement.

Sorry capstan but I laughed when I saw that. This is my biggest hassel as well not just with dropped gear but I only have to put something, anything down and it goes behind a cloak of invisibility.

Normally it's right where I left it or under my nose.

Must learn to drill holes in my head and see what's going on in there or not as the case may be.

Jim that's why they call it a pass time isn't it?

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 15/04/2015 15:19:08

My biggest gripe is that my workshop is not like the Tardis. Ie bigger on the inside!!!!!!!!!

Regards

Keith

Leeds uk

Grind 3 little flats on the drill shank to stop spinning, drill in 3 jaw and a little grinder in tool-post, does not even need to be very accurate if using a hand drill. Especially good for " blacksmith bits". I heard a bit on the radio the other day about how the brain works . I always lose stuff and I have a lot of room for stuff to be in so I tried one of the ideas- I put down my battery drill and of course 2 hours later couldn't find it. Walked about saying "battery drill, Makita where are you ?", and there it was, I'd walked past it once. Seems the talking opens another path in the brain, or I might of heard wrong. Anyway it works .Of course it would be best not to do this in public.

Most of a 1m x 2m sheet of 1mm mild steel folded in half and taking up too much room.

I know that if I chop it into smaller bits with my nibbler, I will need a metre square bit :-/

Neil

For a minute there I thought you were going to say you put it down and couldn't find it again

spending 2hrs working out how a box of bits goes together and getting nowhere.

then your 7yr old boy comes in and does it in 10mins

Jesse and Capstan, I would have to agree. My workshop floor is like a "black hole", anything dropped just vanishes, and I guess my BP rises.

Thor

No, Bandersnatch;

That's what happens ALL the time in my shop.

The 6" rule is particularly good at moving away from where I last remember putting it!

Have you not got a small screwdriver that goes into hiding at regular intervals? I have!

Also, when there is a job to do, the size of material to hand is always just too small or so much too large as to be wasteful?

Howard

Spent half an hour this morning searching for a special spanner I'd used earlier and had now completely vanished.

Got fed up looking so went to the kitchen to make a coffee ... and there it was sitting by the kettle!

Roger

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 15/04/2015 17:45:04

When I drop a simple small part and it disappears I make another and the lost part often reappears immediately.

As a callow youth, I once dropped a very small nut onto the garage floor. Having excellent eyesight, then, I saw precisely where it landed. Unfortunately I didn't see where it went after that, but I heard it bounce only once - so it couldn't be far away! A quarter of an hour later, still no sign of said nut, so I had a lightbulb moment and decided to purposely drop a similar nut (the only one I had left, of course) in exactly the same spot and watch where it went. Result: two lost nuts. Never did find them. I learnt a lesson that day - keep a good hold of your nuts!

John

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Nothing does (as yet . )

I go in there for pleasure, relaxation and enjoyment. The last thing I want to do is get annoyed or stressed. If it was my living things of course may be different. - I am doing this for pleasure and nothing else.

If I get irked about anything in there at all it will be related to ME doing something stupid.! I then come out and have a cup of tea, vino or a nights sleep which seems to work wonders. I then 'try' to look at MY mistake as a positive so long as I have learned from it.

If I have developed a pet hate at all it cheap tools. (not to be confused with economically priced tools) But that can also be traced back to my fault for me being daft enough to buy them in the first place.

Nick

Small parts dropped on the floor! Reduce the lighting to a low level, then get a torch, turn it on, then lay it on the floor and scan around. Even the smallest part will cast a long shadow. Doesn't always work, but always worth a try. It relies on the floor being fairly clean at the time of course!

Maurice

What angers/ upsets me in the workshop is having to leave it!

Making the same mistake more than once!

One of the irrations I have is that when do try to tidy up and organise tooling and the like - I can never find it afterwards!

But I have found one answer to things falling on the floor and bouncing into a place where it'll never be found, I bought a rubber mat that has circular holes in it. (An eBay purchase) First of all it helps to keep your feet warm in the winter and that if you drop even the smallest screw it helps retains it and stops it bouncing away. It's so successful I got another one for Christmas to put in front of the mill!

John

Edited By Johnboy25 on 15/04/2015 20:27:33

Relieved to know that I'm not the only one that can't find things under your nose it's a pain in the backside when things disappear as soon as you put them down.

Paul

Edited By Windy on 15/04/2015 20:56:01