[AT] Cleaning the shop (or not)

[Carl Gogol]

Funny how that tossing stuff works -- At work they told us to clean up 
everything that we haven't used in 6 months.  Specialty instruments, home 
made irreplaceable fixtures were tossed like garbage by the "want to look 
good to their boss" management types.  What goes around comes around - an 
old product that was discontinued was resurrected abut 3 months later (by 
the same bright people) - you know what was missing - all the spare parts, 
fixtures and specialty instruments for developing and testing.
I am a saver, maybe a borderline hoarder, but I often have something to make 
it work and share with friends and neighbors.  It would be nice if we could 
have a shop that was just a shop for working on things, but we all have so 
many projects and so little time that the space we have gets cluttered or 
filled with new projects and toys.  Fortunately, I do not think it is fatal.
Carl

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gunnells, Bradley R
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:41 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Cleaning the shop (or not)

That is exactly my problem. My family tells me to toss things. But they 
never seem to complain when I have "just the ticket" for fixing something 
for them.  :-)

If I just had more buildings and more time to work in them I'd be set.

Brad

On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:

> On 3/11/2014 5:20 AM, Don Bowen wrote:
>> On 3/10/2014 8:20 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
>>>   It is such a mess I don't know where to start (a lot of people say
>>> start at the beginning) but I'm not sure where that is.
>> I start at any door.  If something in front of me does not belong there
>> it gets moved.  If junk it goes out the door, otherwise it gets put
>> where it belongs.  I then just work down the line.  When done everything
>> is (mostly) where it belongs and the pile out front is gotten rid of.
>>
> My problem is that I don't know what is really worthless junk to throw
> away and what it a possible valuable item I might need to use in another
> patch up job. In 40+ years of patching up old machinery with pieces of
> junk that i have saved, I now am afraid to throw anything away for fear
> that I will need it next week/year , etc.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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