it is time to redo the electronics cart what you should know is that i've been avoiding this build
for a while yeah that happens this is my electronics cart let me just
pull it out there it is there's my electronics cart and while it is useful to me
to have my electronics you know switches and soldering gear and all that stuff in one location
this location is what the australians would call a dog's breakfast also known as a ship fight
this this this is a dog's breakfast mate uh and i'm gonna rebuild it from scratch to a certain
extent the drawers are gonna remain roughly how they're laid out i may alter a couple of
small things in there but the whole top here that's completely gonna shift because i've had
a lot of experience with what it can do for me in a location that it's in and it's not
serving me properly electronics cart rebuild let's get started so the main reason the
electronics card and the glue cart the paint card exists is because i watched my process
and i realized that i utilized these categories of things enough that i need a central location where
when stuff in that category comes in it can always go there and the difficulty with the shop is that
you kind of end up needing one of everything so how do you store one of everything and
you gotta categorize the problem is there's too many things up here that i don't need
on a regular basis and so it's all clogged up with stuff and the stuff that i do
need is hard to get to actually let me the first question is
wow nope
that's good enough uh the first question is what is it that i need out of this cart
yes that is the most important question what is it in fact that i need out of this part
wire strippers i need to be able to grab a pair of wire strippers without breathing
heavy i need to not have to go around something i need to be able to reach over and grab them
electrical tape that's another multimeter i don't need several i just need one i just need
one that's out these these could go on a shelf these could go these could go over here torch
torch yes a surface to solder and use torture i don't need this secondary torch this could live
with the other torches yeah see i'm already making progress gas for filling the torch i put these
screwdrivers over here i'm not really using them they'll unclip here oh look at this uh good ir
thermometer that's actually a good thing to have on there so many little doohickeys and things
the main things i reach for while it's parked there are the multimeter the wire strippers
and some electrical tape secondarily i pull out the soldering kit is there anything else
no see almost everything else here could go away and not be in my eyesight so maybe
that's the first thing to do is to actually pull everything out of here and see if i
can't fit what i need in the space that is actually allotted i'm gonna run a time lapse
okay i try to make these videos and so that when i'm doing busy work uh that's what i can shoot
with time lapse so you kind of can see what's going on but then when i come to a point of
view i'm going to talk about it so this is going to be a multi-step point of view process i've
taken apart the whole top of the electronics card i've got some of the pieces here and as i've been
playing around with stuff i have a point of view about one thing so that's the next step
i'm gonna get rid of these this guy my soldering station it sat back should i start this again
first up is this my soldering station uh built during a one-day build it still is quite useful
to me and i love it the only issue i have with it is the place i parked it on the electronics cart
made it hard to get too hard to balance and it was an imperfect solution i was like writing basically
i was like this every single time i was like oh let me get this back there so that it's kind of uh
maybe it's okay and it's top heavy and i've just never been super happy so i changed that slot
to the front now you can see that's the front of the electronics cart and what i'm gonna do
with my soldering station i'm gonna hang it right there so i'm gonna make a hook on the side of it
that's meeting this cart and i'll put that in and that's when i'll figure out what the next step is
hey okay so this is going to be the fork that sits against the
thing right okay so i don't need much do i yeah i need just a little bit of a okay uh time lapse
here's where we're at the soldering station is easily removable and it's a traveler now that's
freaking fantastic that means i don't have to be careful about placing it i just bring it up and it
all literally falls into place the uh multimeters are exactly where
i had them before but instead of just three or four of them i'm just using two
wire strippers all the wire strippers right here some extra torches uh plus this i use all the time
and i didn't make it easy to get to now it's easy to get to yeah uh i think the next thing for me to
do is figure out how to store this torch which i use more than almost anything else i kind of
i just that's it that's what i want to do i just want to do that right like but it's better to no
i don't want to reach over there and get that i really just want to pull this from like right here
and it's better here
maybe that makes sense just like that
is this magnetic that's fine i wonder maybe i can just like cut up cut that shape out of a
piece of wood put it on another piece of wood and it just lives right there
that's probably just fine i think that's what i'm gonna do
oh there we go thumbs up i guess it could fall out but i'm not worried about it falling out
this cart rarely gets moved around and when it does it's not
it's not like i move it fast so i think this is a fine solution plus it's a solution that
telegraphs what you're doing with it and i like that kind of solution
okay
one is in
i cannot believe how well these things could wander
yeah great
now that i've glued it together i'm going to shape it a little bit
so
all right that's what i mean by shaping just a little bit of gentling all the curves
and then today shall gentle his condition oh no it doesn't go there yeah yeah right there
look at that see that's got a home i live in that home that's my home that lip that lip bothers me
didn't even have to turn my disc sander on just the amount of momentum
took care of that okay so let's put that up under here and
nice and solid so when i put this back
yeah now i mean i've made it brand specific so i you know
i have to change that i guess i will so what do i do with all of this real estate
i think one thing is
didn't make it i think my ir thermometer sense to have over there i don't think
there's so many things i don't need anymore
i'm gonna put these back here i just they i think they're useful i have used them a couple of times
here's me doing mission creep again
but i'm not gonna let it get as crowded as it was before
great
oh right okay so uh
yeah there we go
my solder drawer
ready to
there go go and oh this business this crazy business i don't know what to do
with all of these okay so test leads and thermometer is great um these yeah so
one of the things i go to all the time in here are these guys these little power transformers
you buy these on amazon and they transfer they basically will take you can take any
voltage you want 5 9 12 24 and step it to any other voltage you want not with each unit you
buy a unit and this like this this one does 12 volts to 3 volts and this one does 12 volts to
3 volts same thing um i have many that do many different things ah and they're all
in the same drawer right now with this dumb idea oh okay so these are little circuits
for power switching which is great that goes there this also goes there this is there great
now these are where the leads go and the leads are different these allows me to connect the furthest
up to other pieces of electronics and that's useful so it's all these barrel ends yeah great
skinny charger
another motor controller this will go up here
this will go see these are all kits it's great i can go
there bus bars can go in the kids
lighting
kits this is the bottom of those that was there i use lighting constantly so that goes there
cool all right
everybody
okay i i feel like i've achieved today's goal reorganize and rejigger my
electronics cart to house electronics in ways that are useful to me instead of annoying yeah
so this is like i've been watching my patterns with this and i've been slowly getting annoyed
i've been paying attention to what annoys me and i removed it all here now i do have
a bunch of real estate back here i'm leaving it i may end up with a drawer full of electronics
detritus but i'm not worried about that right now like let's let it expand without me having to
impose upon it my ideas of what it should be like any dad i just need to let it find its own way
be here and see it for what it actually is instead of what i want it to be all right uh
yeah stuff i don't need there we go the drawers have been cleaned up
solder drawer delivers solder and silver solder galore the soldering station actually removes from
this quite nicely yeah that's great i'm so psyched about that the torch has a home right there
ah there we go now it carries my torch thank you guys for joining me for this one day build
i for one welcome our new electronic cart overlords i will see you guys next time
oh yeah um just for a point the glue card also needs some help and so does a painting cart
that's enough for today thanks guys see you later now you get to go home oh yeah
let me clean out your home
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