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The pleasures of organization (rambles)

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The pleasures of organization (rambles)

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The pleasures of organization (rambles)

Bill Houghton, avoiding work in Sebastopol, CA


>One of my first post-retirement projects has been cleaning up and organizing my shop. While it's still a work in progress, I have hung clamps up in one of the stud bays - previously, C-clamps, spring clamps, etc., were in a large plastic box, which always meant a good deal of digging through when I needed something. The handscrews will go in the next stud bay over. Then I start on braces and eggbeater drills, I think.

Today, as part of the window installation in the bathroom, I needed lots of 3" C-clamps (tedious explanation below). It was just great - walk into shop, look at hook with 3-4" C-clamps on it, grab some (five - all but one of the six I turn out to own), go to work.

So why five C-clamps? Because the bathroom construction is rather funky, I decided to leave the interior trim in place when removing the old window and set the new window frame (into which the vinyl window will actually go) against the trim, a labor saving step that will probably only add about 25% to the job time over removing it. And in splitting out the sill, I forgot that there were nails from the stool down into the sill - so I split a long chunk off the stool, when then needed to be glued back together.

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away


>Hey Bill, sounds like you're putting your retirement to good use already. Yessireee Bob, there is nothing like having so much free time! I concluded several years ago that I'll never be a wealthy man dollar ways, so my "wealth" is my free time that being retired from the Navy offers me. Man, do I love it! and I too am trying to maximize it by getting my shop straight, which is progressing quite nicely. I feel that I am merely getting back some of the time that I lost while in the Navy. I hope to get back all those hours I spent on Watch if nothing else.

Even being semi-retired I keeping myself plenty busy, so I can only imagine what full time retirement must be like. so many folks retire, sit in a chair and die in a year or so, but I see you're not going to do that!

Post pics of the organization progress, perhaps even some Before and After shots.

Todd O.

....And in splitting out the sill, I forgot that there were nails from the stool down into the sill

DOH! Hate it when that happens, the good thing is now you have plenty of time to repair goofs eh? :~)

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Ahhh an organized shop!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA


>Is a wonderfull thing isin't it Bill. Glad to see you have your priorties in order now that you've retired!

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Kevin French


>I learned a while ago "If you got it and can't find it, you ain't got it." Kevin French's 1st maxim.

With all the tools and especially the hardware I was collecting I HAD to find a way to store all this stuff and find it when I, or more often my neighbor, needed it. I think I'm just about there, as long as I don't collect too much more.

I'd kill to have a week at home to work. I don't see it in the near future.

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