How much do you hate disorder?

This is my bike lift tonight during a repair job involving refitting the inner primary case and installing a new stator, rotor and RR:


It was so difficult not putting tools away as I went along, and by the end the mess just drove me nuts. I’m thinking this need for order is pretty common among vintage bike owners, but maybe it’s just my Swiss ancestry.

Yep after a while, and before they reach the stage of your pic, I just have to put at least some tools away even if they have to come out again.

From disorder come order. Don’t hate it, embrace what it brings.

Who needs a tool box or tool board when you have a lift table, tools at the ready for the next job.

Am I the only one who's tools grow legs and wander off as soon as you put them down? At least on the bike lift they'll be too afraid to jump!

If you have a baby grand-daughter helping you fix your bike, EVERYTHING wanders off. Have you ever noticed that if you have a pack of playing cards when kids are around, they will take one because you have plenty, and kids like to share.

I have a tidy fetish and that ramp would drive me wild. If I’ve used a tool and it won’t be needed again almost immediately back it goes, everything has a place and that‘s where I want it to be.

I wish I had a tidy fetish. When I work, I know where my hand has to go to pick up the tools I am using. Order in chaos ? I have a very strange memory. If I stay out of my shed for a week, I am buggered.

Disorder is the ultimate fate of the universe ..... unless you come from Oz where they do everything backwards ...... drive on the wrong side of the road, the bathtub vortex goes the wrong way, Santa Claus comes in the summertime, and the ultimate fate of the universe is perfect order. Acotrel will agree, right Al?

Slick

Ha Ha

Yep and the stars are upside down also .

i put my tools back where i found them otherwise i'l never see them again.

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Rgds

Edburt said:

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Yep and the stars are upside down also .

i put my tools back where i found them otherwise i'l never see them again.

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Rgds

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I think you have to down there or they would just fall into space.

I would bet everyone hits the tool "wall" shown in your photo.
I usually reorganize either at the beginning or end of the day so I can find the various tools I left "over there" or "on the other side" or "underneath".
Long ago I began to use a tool cart loaded with magnetic dishes and strips. I go nuts walking around in circles looking for one damn wrench or the right size screw driver so I try to make sure I at least set it on the cart.
Helps me but your photo looks way too familiar.

An old lady told me a story about her husband, who was a frequent racer at the TT. He had hired some space in a taxi garage in Douglas for servicing his Norton.
On evenings a policeman came in, looked at him working. Then picked up a part, looked at it and put it down somewhere else. After some days, Sven tricked the cop, borrowed the handcuffs and locked him to a taxicab. Then finished the job and went away. When he came back early next morning, the policeman had fallen asleep. So he unlocked him and then rode the bike up to the course. After morning practice the policeman had disappeared. Next evening the police came back looking as he worked on the bike. Nothing mentioned about yesterday evening. But he did not pick up anything.

A familiar looking bike lift. I usually leave the bike parts. If I put them somewhere else, they disappear. After just two months found a Multimeter which needed a new fuse. A week after I bought another one. I usually return all tools to their proper places, before leaving the workshop. To often something else have to be fixed, so leaving tools where I last used them is a bad idea.

I love to be organized. I simply hate the time it takes to do it.

Slick

swooshdave said:

I think you have to down there or they would just fall into space.

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Thanks Swooshdave.

It feels like that as I have noticed that only tools i use are the ones that disappear.

You gave a good thing going here. Is it customary to introduce myself (out of respect) or just steady as she goes and see how I shape up.

Good thread Ben - My sessions usually wind up looking like that until I have done what I set out to do or can’t stand the mess any more - whichever comes first .

texasSlick said:

Disorder is the ultimate fate of the universe ..... unless you come from Oz where they do everything backwards ...... drive on the wrong side of the road, the bathtub vortex goes the wrong way, Santa Claus comes in the summertime, and the ultimate fate of the universe is perfect order. Acotrel will agree, right Al?

Slick

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Hard to get away from Entropy.
Jaydee

Rather than Hate it. Embrace what it brings....

I like it.

In the shed the mess or minor disorganisation is just a necessity. It doesn't matter unles you loose track of where every thing might be. Jobs have a timesheet and putting stuff back all the time just interferes with the purpose. The shed is the toolbox.

Every spanner set I have has mismatched brands of the most often used spanners and its no fun loosing a couple hundred on this and that through being slack.
In the field I have often left an od spanner or other tooi in the engine bay during the test run or similar. My mind runs along with what i'm doing. Its critical to replace wheel nuts properly for example, than concern myself where I might have left stuff.

But i learnt from my mistakes.The jobs not done till after the cleanup and taking stock.Tools and money and besides,I am quite fond of what i have.There is no room for sockets that might open up like a blossoming rose or skinned knuckles.

Personally, whats important is the start of a job must has every tool and machine accounted for, clean and ordered and set to go. That,i believe would be a Professional approach and in my case I need every advantage I can get as its hard enough as it is.

Scout63 said:

This is my bike lift tonight during a repair job involving refitting the inner primary case and installing a new stator, rotor and RR:

It was so difficult not putting tools away as I went along, and by the end the mess just drove me nuts. I’m thinking this need for order is pretty common among vintage bike owners, but maybe it’s just my Swiss ancestry.

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for me. perfect. wouldn't even have to move for the tool i needed. just reach out.