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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!

 

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:

 


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.

Attachments:
Cool_Tools_Bench_Awards_2018_Contest.pdf
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  • Currently I don't have an extensive setup to get hobby stuff done. Student hostels are not so accommodating when it comes to space.

     

    But one of the first drill machines I owned is here. Simple, hand-driver, works easily when you want to drill into PCB FR4 type for some quick mounting holes.

     

    Best part that it costs less than 5 euros.

     

    Behold

     

  • in reply to anuag_ashim

    Nice tool.  This thread prompted my curiosity, so I did a quick peek through my Grandfather's tool collection and found this lovely little trio:

    My Grandfather had a serious tool addiction (and I am guessing it might be hereditary).  He had over 100 screwdrivers in his collection and several still in packaging.  I guess he (like me) would good into a hardware store and buy things 'just in case' and add them to the collection.

     

    Gene

  • in reply to genebren

    Who would think that a collection of cool 'old' tools could get you a cool collection of 'new' tools (and some other really cool stuff), but that is what happen.  As a result of posting this picture:

    I won these neat tools:

    My grandchildren love the 'element14' windup man (as do I).  Thank you element14 for the super cool prize!

     

    Gene

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  • in reply to genebren

    Who would think that a collection of cool 'old' tools could get you a cool collection of 'new' tools (and some other really cool stuff), but that is what happen.  As a result of posting this picture:

    I won these neat tools:

    My grandchildren love the 'element14' windup man (as do I).  Thank you element14 for the super cool prize!

     

    Gene

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