Mike, one of the tenants of business I have learned in the scrap world, particularly ewaste is you have to increase your labor capacity, once you fall through on clutter and inefficiency it will never recover on it's own. It will be a never ending rearranging of material just to create work flow. I have been battling this on two fronts for more than a year. Finally decided enough was enough and hired more people, increased the space we use, and every single day we spend at the shop is at least 3 hours of cleaning right now. You guys are seeing what my standards are, clean floors and organization...anything else is killing profits and I don't say that lightly. Even on a very small scale just stop and think about the process, how much time do you spend grabbing tools, switching bits, looking for boxes, crates, buckets etc. Not to mention pulling material to process. I find that even when well meaning, 50% of your time is spent not actually doing the process your trying to do. I know much of the forum members are hobbyists at this stuff but take it with a grain of salt. Improving how you do things, your organization and workflow...you will find yourself having more time in the day.
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