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Cool Tools Bench Awards 2018

Hello Community Members and happy June.

 

It is officially summertime here at the element14 offices, which is enough of a reason to celebrate but as we batted around some ideas we thought - why don't we involve the Community in some fun?  We have already been asking you about your favorite tools for our RoadTest reviews and now we'd like to present to you the Cool Tools Bench Awards!

 

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Starting today and going through the entire month of June, we want you to submit photos and/or videos of your own bench or workspace for other Community members to see.  Then in the month of July we'll pick out some winners every week and send them some of our favorite Cool Tools chosen by us and other Community members like the ones below:

 

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Duratool PL 501 Cutter

Klein Tools 4-1 Screwdriver

Duratool PC Maintenance Tool KitDuratool Soldering Station
Milwaukee Bit SetDuratool Wire Stripper

 

We will have ten (10)  winners total for the following categories:

 

•      Where’s my Cat? (messiest bench)

•       Tony Stark’s Dream Bench (state of the art bench)

•      Fire Hazard Award (Worst cable management)

•       Pepped to the Post Award (Best coffee mug)

•      Totally Screwed Award (Worst organisation of screws, nuts and bolts)

•      Bat Cave Award (Award for wide range of tools)

•       Mom Would Be Proud (Neatest bench)

•       Man Cave Bench (Best use of personal space for a bench)

•      Jury Rigged Award (Most improvised or makeshift repair or bench)

•       Time Machine Award (Best piece of Retro Tech on display)

 

Along with the above, we'll also have a special “In Their Element" award (best representation and love of element14)

 

Let's have some fun with this and show us the benches and workspaces where all of your amazing projects come to life!

 

Comment with your photo/videos on this post through June 30th.

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    Panoramic view of the full "work area" (old bedroom/current guest room)

     

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    Closer view of work area with drawers with all the bits and pieces close by and all my cables on the wall.

     

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    Work bench made from construction site "scraps". Play would mounted over an old much smaller desk. Sorry about lighting, but the daylight keeps a smile on my face when projects get frustrating.

     

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    Lego corner, great for mechanical prototyping. Every different piece in its own drawer for quick finding. Also old printouts are saved and put in binders for later referencing.

     

    Not visible in front of the bike are the three toolboxes and varios tol cases that allow me to do other odd jobs and prototyping.

     

    Kas

  • in reply to kas.lewis

    Hi Kas,

    You are another lucky person with a nice view and well lit shop area. Thanks for sharing.

    John

  • in reply to jw0752

    Thanks John,

     

    I need it, I spent 2 months working in someone's basement for a startup and another month facing a white wall, in both cases I don't think I could have been less productive or happy. I found it affected every part of me, really depressing. This view, even on a rainy day is great. Only hard part is taking pictures of stuff on the desk with so much back lighting, but I often just close the curtains for that, it's worth it for the view image

     

    Kas

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  • in reply to jw0752

    Thanks John,

     

    I need it, I spent 2 months working in someone's basement for a startup and another month facing a white wall, in both cases I don't think I could have been less productive or happy. I found it affected every part of me, really depressing. This view, even on a rainy day is great. Only hard part is taking pictures of stuff on the desk with so much back lighting, but I often just close the curtains for that, it's worth it for the view image

     

    Kas

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