3 Favourite Things In Your Mancave?

[Yorick]

I've got a fully fitted Mancave and love it.
But these are the 3 things I use the most.

My Makita 18v tools. Fantastic quality and so easy to work with. No bloody cables. Got 6 or 7 of them

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My bench grinder and spinny wire brush thingy. Brought it from UK and use both attachments all the time.

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And my DeWalt knee pads. Use them all the time coz the skin on my knees is so painful from all the track crashes.

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[mangocrazy]

1. Abba Skylift - been a revelation in terms of ease of use, access and ability to move a bike effortlessly around a small and crowded shed/mancave

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2. Femi 782XL horizontal bandsaw - make fast accurate cuts at any angle in steel or aluminium, portable and (so far) maintenance-free

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3. Startrite Mercury pillar drill - a fine piece of classical British engineering. No more dicking about wondering if I'm drilling at 90 degrees or not, ploughs through any material without bothering.

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[MrLongbeard]

My bike, my beer fridge and my pellet smoker, ok so the smoker doesn't live in there, but was present at one time.

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[Skub]

Here's two of them. This weather I'm also strongly attracted to the radiator.

[KungFooBob]

Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings.

[Skub]

Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings.

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[Count Steer]

3. Startrite Mercury pillar drill - a fine piece of classical British engineering. No more dicking about wondering if I'm drilling at 90 degrees or not, ploughs through any material without bothering.


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Dang! I now have pillar drill envy.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

My CB1000R, my Z1170 and my 350 YPVS

[Skub]

3. Startrite Mercury pillar drill - a fine piece of classical British engineering. No more dicking about wondering if I'm drilling at 90 degrees or not, ploughs through any material without bothering.
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That chuck key's gonna drill a funny shaped hole.

[mangocrazy]

3. Startrite Mercury pillar drill - a fine piece of classical British engineering. No more dicking about wondering if I'm drilling at 90 degrees or not, ploughs through any material without bothering.
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That chuck key's gonna drill a funny shaped hole.

On the other hand, I'm not gonna lose it...

[Skub]

On the other hand, I'm not gonna lose it...

We used to lose a few after tightening the chuck on a drill,then starting the motor with the key still in.

[mangocrazy]

On the other hand, I'm not gonna lose it...

We used to lose a few eyes and teeth after tightening the chuck on a drill,then starting the motor with the key still in.

FTFY...

[Skub]

On the other hand, I'm not gonna lose it...

We used to lose a few eyes and teeth after tightening the chuck on a drill,then starting the motor with the key still in.

FTFY...

I dunno how we got away with half the sloppy practice. Folk forgetting to switch on the magnet to hold a job in place on a surface grinder,loose vices on mills all ended up with missiles down the shop to resulting cheers.

[mangocrazy]

We used to lose a few eyes and teeth after tightening the chuck on a drill,then starting the motor with the key still in.

FTFY...

I dunno how we got away with half the sloppy practice. Folk forgetting to switch on the magnet to hold a job in place on a surface grinder,loose vices on mills all ended up with missiles down the shop to resulting cheers.

It's an unforgiving environment when you're working with powerful engineering machines. Luck of the Irish?

I don't have an engineering background, so am naturally very cautious around my (comparatively low-powered) machines but have done the "chuck key left in the chuck and start the drill motor" sketch and escaped without injury. But only once...

[Count Steer]

On the other hand, I'm not gonna lose it...

We used to lose a few after tightening the chuck on a drill,then starting the motor with the key still in.

Done that with a lathe and the key's a bit heavier. Fortunately you had to lean left to hit the start switch so it whistled past my ear and remodelled the metal cabinet behind me.

Mind you this was in a bit of the Atomic Energy Authority where the safety officer on his rounds was noting that a gas cylinder wasn't properly secured and, in demonstrating the fact it fell on, and broke, his foot.

Gawd bless you Ted Skillen or Skippen (can't remember but he wasn't skippen for a bit with his foot in plaster. ).

[Rockburner]

3. Startrite Mercury pillar drill - a fine piece of classical British engineering. No more dicking about wondering if I'm drilling at 90 degrees or not, ploughs through any material without bothering.


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Dang! I now have pillar drill envy.

Me too. I need a pillar drill.

Favourite things are probably :
My collection of Ryobi battery tools,
My collection of Elora spanners*
My workbench. I may need to break this down this year and rebuild it a bit smaller... it's 1mx2.2m and simply put.. it's too big.


* When I was living in Guildford, a neighbour retired and moved to France: he didn't want to take his tools with him so sold them to me: 3 large red tool chests (Clarke IIRC), full of stuff from a lifetime working in a mechanical engineering workshop, including a large number of Elora metric ring spanners. I've since added quite a few Imperial (and UNF) sizes to the collection and they're just so nice to use.

[weeksy]

carpet tiles

Park Tools

Multiple bicycles

[Ditchfinder]

I could give you a list of the things that I wish weren't in there:

The chest freezer - it's in a bloody stupid place for me but has to be there so people don't move, break, scratch other things to get at it
The garden furniture cushions - again same reasons as above
The old fireplace - this is getting moved in summer when there isn't anyone there to witness it's demise
The ancient waterskis hung across the window - no-on in our house has waterskied in more than 10 years- can I throw them away then? Of course not ! ( There's a chance they might join the fireplace in the summer and hang the consequences - or me )
2 rusty old barbeques - we never ever use them as whenever it's BBQ whether we tend to be in France or invited to someone elses place as our outdoor space is totally impracticle for outdoor eating. Also BBQ briquettes for above - they ouldn't burn anyway because they've gone mouldy
The plastics i've stripped off the Triumph and the extra set I bought for a pittance which I proabably won't bother fitting
Multiple cans of paint kept for touching up - it's so old I doubt any of it's usable, pointless keeping it because 'we' always end up buying new tins.

This could be the summer of great shed re-organization but I'll need to do it on the QT otherwise people will become aware of more space and will try and dump olther crap out of the house in any newly created space.

[Skub]

I could give you a list of the things that I wish weren't in there:

The chest freezer - it's in a bloody stupid place for me but has to be there so people don't move, break, scratch other things to get at it
The garden furniture cushions - again same reasons as above
The old fireplace - this is getting moved in summer when there isn't anyone there to witness it's demise
The ancient waterskis hung across the window - no-on in our house has waterskied in more than 10 years- can I throw them away then? Of course not ! ( There's a chance they might join the fireplace in the summer and hang the consequences - or me )
2 rusty old barbeques - we never ever use them as whenever it's BBQ whether we tend to be in France or invited to someone elses place as our outdoor space is totally impracticle for outdoor eating. Also BBQ briquettes for above - they ouldn't burn anyway because they've gone mouldy
The plastics i've stripped off the Triumph and the extra set I bought for a pittance which I proabably won't bother fitting
Multiple cans of paint kept for touching up - it's so old I doubt any of it's usable, pointless keeping it because 'we' always end up buying new tins.

This could be the summer of great shed re-organization but I'll need to do it on the QT otherwise people will become aware of more space and will try and dump olther crap out of the house in any newly created space.

I've been going through the same process and while the progress is glacial,it has at least got to the stage now where the garage is a pleasant place to be. Further improvement expected this Spring/Summer.

[cheb]

Warmth and dryth.
Lathe
Swindens vice.

The first because I like to be comfortable, the second because there's sometimes only a lathe will do, and the third because of it's ability to grip most things I work with at appropriate angles.