Our shop spaces. - Page 2

Here's a few pictures of my basement, that is currently in the midst of a complete remodel. I still need to skim coat the floor as you can see its pretty pitted, spray for the mold, and paint the walls, and lastly put up some drywall. You can get an idea, or vision, of where I'm going, with my work area. Or, at least I can see the vision . I really didn't want to post any pictures until it was complete, but since this thread is here now, I figured what the heck. Any thoughts, or ideas are always welcome. Thanks to Army for creating this thread, I'm pretty sure that someone can apply something to their own operation to make it more profitable and time efficient

1- Boxes and boxes of all sizes, a workout mat, bins and packaging material. Which I will be going all biodegradable with my next order of packaging supplies
2-Test Bench, tools, radio, printer, bins of screws, caps, resistors, etc (can see it but I have a neodymium magnet screwed to the left leg of this bench for my hammer. Great tip I got from someone else's picture
3- LCD Monitors waiting to be repaired (Notice the pitting floor). This house and foundation are 110 years plus old so its been a long time coming.
4- A wider view of the first picture - Printers that need cleaned/painted/refurbished.
5- My bread and butter. My Ebay picture area. This has made me a lot of money and cost me $8?, maybe for the white poster board I attached to the old cheap computer desk. I am going to be making a much larger one, since I have many larger items I am planning on selling. My Ebay store should grow hopefully 10 fold in the coming months , so I need to streamline and make things as efficient and time saving as possible.

Hey Mikeinreco that "leaning tower of Pisa " in the back there is a work of art. I know how hard is is to stack stuff that high and I tend to have avalanches all the time
so I do appreciate a good tower. Just don't try and play Jenga with it- been there done that- the results are not pretty.

Originally Posted by Kalvlin

Hey Mikeinreco that "leaning tower of Pisa " in the back there is a work of art. I know how hard is is to stack stuff that high and I tend to have avalanches all the time
so I do appreciate a good tower. Just don't try and play Jenga with it- been there done that- the results are not pretty.

funny that has been stacked up like that for at least a year

interesting setup.......I assume those boards are for testing.......I'm sure your way is faster and more efficient but I just leave the boards in there cases to try to cut down on damage they may receive plus makes for easier stacking when they are not in use

Nice setup Mulder! (That was my favorite show as a kid)

Our setup is not just ram, I want to clarify that a bit. Those stations are primarily ram but each install represents a socket and/or chipset. What that means is ram, cpus and different generations of graphics cards can all be tested, and burned in, it also means I can set up a configuration I plan to sell right there on the bench that I plan to sell, do some benchmarking and things like that, think of it as a multistation test bench. I can't show the completed picture, as it's proprietary, essentially we are set up to test all incoming batches off of this single table with the exception of motherboards and power supplies. (at least for desktop and server PC parts). Under the bench we placed a APC 2500 watt power conditioner that only needed a new fuse and 4 standard size ups batteries which I had already. I will show you guys our power conditioning setup later on.

The riser board is set up with atx-e on the left and two hp setups on the right, there will be a 1150 haswell setup and the 2011 config is actually a hp server that accepts R, E and U ram...it came to me by a forum member, so thanks for that!

I agree its amazing how many diff types of equipment you have to have to test all the parts that come in........I give up every so often and get rid of everything then start over again accumulating stuff I may need in the future.........Either way nice job and glad to see yet another forum member still hard at work......There is a core group of guys here who just "get it" and I think we have prospered

I like the clock but I have to say I've never seen one like it and that's with a little over 20 years in the Marine Corps. Of course after Maine Corps boot camp I never did think in civilian time again.

I like your shop. Mike

can't see pics

So happy to see you guys motivated! Keep it up!

Something that has worked for me when it comes to ebay pictures. When I first started doing computer parts and stuff I was using the same white plaster background I had been using when I was doing horror movie stuff. By shear coincidence when I moved the shop the first time the picture table was left home and I was taking pictures against particle board and my desk, for whatever reason people seemed to prefer the contrast of that and Ive used it since heh.

My shelving is multiplying. Also the number of listings we are doing per day has doubled! Cleaning continues, the interior has been shopvac'd in corners and dust has been picked up where we can. We have added a certified tenth pound scale for our scrap handling. The better news is that we found vendors for shipping supplies that are selling the same brands we use for half the price or less, this will be a boon...I spend easily 800 in supplies a month, the idea I can halve that has me smiling!

I need a shop sink SOOOOOOOOO bad. We have rags from cleaning (I am stopping the use of paper towels soon). That is an awesome setup, make sure you put a strainer in there just in case.

I hate using paper towels good cleaning rags are a must when refurbishing computer equipment its always a bit dusty