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2nd bench facing the main same size 10’ x 2’ it’s higher used for layout and assembly without bending over. Light duty only fixed vise is small. Portable Panavise on a heavy base used for assembly small parts or holding micrometer etc.

Run tool boxes on it. Grey wood lathe bottom drawers measuring and Layout tools top.  Center box drills punches and reamers large taps too  right small mill fixtures, end mills etc. also small size taps. Odd lumber stored underneath. Bench top small tin breads pans, parts when dissembling, cartridge cases bullets loading etc. Dollar each at Dollar Tree 

Notice the ex school locker left side ? Found a guy that bought 100 or so sold cheap, this one holds abrasives top nuts bolts & screws bottom , middle row shop supplies 

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A little bit of progress today; took a lot of the glues and miscellaneous off one pegboard and put them in their proper places to clear the board to hold tooling.  Sorted the cleaning rods; think I kept 5.  Need to figure out how to hang them.  One possibility is horizontal near the ceiling, would be a bit clumsy to get the ones near the back, but take minimal space.  Or, hang them vertically.  I really need to devote a couple of feet of wall space to the right of the rough bench, kind of behind the big vise, to a rack for barreled actions in progress.  I could rack the cleaning rods there also.

Sorted the needle files and the punches.  Both of those have been a real irritation in use.  Having to dig through all of them to find what I need; and knocking them over all the time reaching for something else.  Racked them on the wall central to the bench.  Along with a tray to hold oil bottles I'm also constantly using and knocking over.

I still need to do something about the riffler files; they don't rack easily.  Again, need a wide drafting table type flat file drawer just under the bench.  Might just make one.

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Last from me today I promise ! I use the ceilings nearly 100 % its free space & easy to set up hangers . Made from whatever is at hand 

Shelf with the pot warp (crab pot) hangers are Jack Leg. Heavy items, loading tools, spare vises etc all used clamped in the main benches vises. Had plans to fabricate rod hangers screwed into the rafters above with turnbuckles to take up the slack it needs substantial.  Narrow shelf with cleaning rods under and the one with wood screw clamps hung that way, they were short drops though  ones wood other hung with short pieces of chain. May still do it 

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Great way to hang fishing poles! My youngest son did exactly the same thing  in his shop a few years ago. Keeps them out of the way and from being tangled up. Don’t know where he got the idea from. I don’t fish so that’s the one problem I don’t have!

Magnetic strip for the needle files.

My condolenses on your Dad's passing

I wrap my files and rasps before putting them in the drawer.  Many years ago I started making sleeves for them.  It’s just cardboard and tape, but works very well.  When I get a new file, I make a new wrap for it.

Just padding the bottom of the drawer with closed cell foam so they don't move around has always seemed pretty adequate to me, and you can see the files and access them quickly.

I just had an idea; rack them on wrench racks.  Tried it, works perfectly.  That reduces the space they take to about 1/2 of what it was, and keeps them in order.  I used this on my wrench drawers a while back, and it really has worked well.  I'll pick up a couple more sets next time I'm on the truck.   

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I ordered drawer slides to make undercounter drawers, will be a few days before they come and I can do the drawers.  Meanwhile, I gave some thought and effort to the files and rasps.   

I went out and sorted the ones in my Kennedy drawers; picked out 15 or so that are rusty or dulled.  All of them quality files, Simmonds or Nicholson or Heller; will send them to Boggs to be resharpened.  A luxury I've been putting off but meaning to get to.

Most of these files and rasps came to me at estate sales, in toolbox lots, etc.  I get hundreds of them; cheap or damaged or rusty or worn ones go in the scrap iron or I set them aside to sell to a local knife maker, who pays me $1 apiece.  I keep the quality ones in good shape, and have been putting off cleaning them up and having them sharpened.

I put a couple into electrolysis just now to remove the rust and paint and crud, will take them out and take "after" pictures to show the difference.  Will send to Boggs as soon as I have the rust removed from all of them.  Will report back on how they come back, I expect them to be amazingly excellent.

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I'm pretty unsophisticated in my use of files and rasps, I just use what seems to work; I picked out an assortment of styles to have sharpened, will try them and keep the ones that seem to work for what I'm doing in the new racks and drawers.  By attrition, I'll get to what is useful at the workbench.