Hi everyone,
I was wondering if shops could share their bench designs and/or shop
layouts - we're moving in January and trying to set ourselves up as
best as possible. Specifically, it'd be great if anyone has a copy
of your bench design & material list, and in terms of layout we're
most interested in bench spacing - see below for an example. What
works about your current layout and what doesn't?
Our current layout uses a bench that is ~18" deep (from the wall),
~50" from edge of the bench to bike-stand pole, and the length of the
clamp (from pole to clamp-edge) is ~18." Our spacing between benches
is erratic given our current shop space, but our new space is nice
and square-ish.
Thanks! -Lee Reis
Volunteer Coordinator, Ohio City Bike Co-op 1823 Columbus Road Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 830-2667 www.ohiocitycycles.org
I was wondering if shops could share their bench designs and/or shop layouts
I visited the Salt Lake City collective last year and took a bunch of photos of their benches (color coded and all). Check them out here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walloftvs/sets/72157623890782044/
Photos showing the history of the various locations we've been in here in Bozeman, MT can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walloftvs/sets/72157607111832372/
- Sam
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Shop_organizati...
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Lee Reis lee.a.reis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if shops could share their bench designs and/or shop layouts - we're moving in January and trying to set ourselves up as best as possible. Specifically, it'd be great if anyone has a copy of your bench design & material list, and in terms of layout we're most interested in bench spacing - see below for an example. What works about your current layout and what doesn't?
Our current layout uses a bench that is ~18" deep (from the wall), ~50" from edge of the bench to bike-stand pole, and the length of the clamp (from pole to clamp-edge) is ~18." Our spacing between benches is erratic given our current shop space, but our new space is nice and square-ish.
Thanks! -Lee Reis
Volunteer Coordinator, Ohio City Bike Co-op 1823 Columbus Road Cleveland, Ohio 44113(216) 830-2667 www.ohiocitycycles.org
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Bike Pirates was lucky to have gotten full-sized metal work tables and large, solid tool boards from a shop that closed. The tables are awesome and can take a beating, and have a shelf for storing cables and stuff underneath, but the tool boards are all different, and have 'shadows' of a lot of tools we don't have :S which leads to confusion. The tables are big enough for two people to use them, so we have 9 repair stands sharing 4 toolbenches all along one wall of the shop, plus a wheel station (using one of the same metal tables).
We are planning to overhaul all of this in january and spend a bit of money on making all of the tool boards uniform (hooray!). I'll take some pictures when its done.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Jonathan Morrison < jonathan@slcbikecollective.org> wrote:
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Shop_organizati...
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Lee Reis lee.a.reis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if shops could share their bench designs and/or shop layouts - we're moving in January and trying to set ourselves up as best as possible. Specifically, it'd be great if anyone has a copy of your bench design & material list, and in terms of layout we're most interested in bench spacing - see below for an example. What works about your current layout and what doesn't?
Our current layout uses a bench that is ~18" deep (from the wall), ~50" from edge of the bench to bike-stand pole, and the length of the clamp (from pole to clamp-edge) is ~18." Our spacing between benches is erratic given our current shop space, but our new space is nice and square-ish.
Thanks! -Lee Reis
Volunteer Coordinator, Ohio City Bike Co-op 1823 Columbus Road Cleveland, Ohio 44113(216) 830-2667 www.ohiocitycycles.org
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Hello!
Last Holiday Break over Xmas 2009, the Smooth Shifting Gruppo
organized and implemented a re-org of our space. We'd been having a
lot of tools go missing. We also needed to re-paint the walls. What
we did was we made a toolboard for each stand with a shared middle
board of tools that don't always get used. We gave each board and
tools a color with the middle board sort of the same neutral blue we
painted along the bottom of the wall. For the tools on that board
they're painted a combination of the adjacent colors. It's almost
been a year and it really worked! Tool walking has subsided and the
space looks great.
Here's a link to some photos.
Cheers.
Kelly
On Nov 18, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Lee Reis wrote:
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if shops could share their bench designs and/or shop
layouts - we're moving in January and trying to set ourselves up as
best as possible. Specifically, it'd be great if anyone has a copy
of your bench design & material list, and in terms of layout we're
most interested in bench spacing - see below for an example. What
works about your current layout and what doesn't?Our current layout uses a bench that is ~18" deep (from the wall),
~50" from edge of the bench to bike-stand pole, and the length of
the clamp (from pole to clamp-edge) is ~18." Our spacing between
benches is erratic given our current shop space, but our new space
is nice and square-ish.Thanks! -Lee Reis
Volunteer Coordinator, Ohio City Bike Co-op 1823 Columbus Road Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 830-2667 www.ohiocitycycles.org
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One thing we have done is cut holes into our benches to place 7.5" diameter stainless metal kitchen bowls. They allow wheels to rest flat on our benches as hub assembles are taken apart and the bearing fall into the bowls and not the floor.
Andy Greif, Executive Director
Community Bicycle Center
Shop: 284 Hill Street, Biddeford
Mail: P.O. Box 783, Biddeford, ME 04005
207-282-9700 (shop) 207-229-8199 (cell)
www.communitybike.net
"Providing Opportunities for Youth to Grow"
From: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Lee Reis Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:25 PM To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Benches and Shop Layouts
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if shops could share their bench designs and/or shop layouts
- we're moving in January and trying to set ourselves up as best as
possible. Specifically, it'd be great if anyone has a copy of your bench design & material list, and in terms of layout we're most interested in bench spacing - see below for an example. What works about your current layout and what doesn't?
Our current layout uses a bench that is ~18" deep (from the wall), ~50" from edge of the bench to bike-stand pole, and the length of the clamp (from pole to clamp-edge) is ~18." Our spacing between benches is erratic given our current shop space, but our new space is nice and square-ish.
Thanks!
-Lee Reis
Volunteer Coordinator, Ohio City Bike Co-op
1823 Columbus Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 830-2667
www.ohiocitycycles.org
tool and room organization intrigues me greatly.
do any of you have any kind of system or check in/out for making sure that tools don't walk away?
Troy Bike Rescue is in a much smaller space than most, and our workstations are based around the format of 1 bike stand, and 1 small handmade toolbox. Toolboxes are numbered and color coded. we usually end up with about 5 separate workstations going at once, with 2 or 3 people per stand.
our entire setup is based on being mobile because we exist in a shared space (fingers crossed might be getting our own building soon), as well as do mobile clinics.
ryan
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Andy Greif cbcofme@gwi.net wrote:
One thing we have done is cut holes into our benches to place 7.5” diameter stainless metal kitchen bowls. They allow wheels to rest flat on our benches as hub assembles are taken apart and the bearing fall into the bowls and not the floor.
*Andy Greif, Executive Director*
*Community** Bicycle Center*
*Shop: 284 Hill Street, Biddeford*
*Mail: P.O. Box 783, Biddeford, ME 04005 *
*207-282-9700 (shop) 207-229-8199 (cell)*
*www.communitybike.net*
*"Providing Opportunities for Youth to Grow"*
*From:* thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org [mailto: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] *On Behalf Of *Lee Reis *Sent:* Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:25 PM *To:* thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org *Subject:* [TheThinkTank] Benches and Shop Layouts
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if shops could share their bench designs and/or shop layouts - we're moving in January and trying to set ourselves up as best as possible. Specifically, it'd be great if anyone has a copy of your bench design & material list, and in terms of layout we're most interested in bench spacing - see below for an example. What works about your current layout and what doesn't?
Our current layout uses a bench that is ~18" deep (from the wall), ~50" from edge of the bench to bike-stand pole, and the length of the clamp (from pole to clamp-edge) is ~18." Our spacing between benches is erratic given our current shop space, but our new space is nice and square-ish.
Thanks!
-Lee Reis
Volunteer Coordinator, Ohio City Bike Co-op
1823 Columbus Road *Cleveland*, Ohio 44113 *(216) 830-2667*
www.ohiocitycycles.org
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Although this doesn't really apply to your current setup at Troy, one thing we have found to be useful is for each station to have its own set of tools. We had them hanging on the wall and each tool outlined so that is was easy to see if anything was missing, as well as easy to find tools when needed.
.godwin
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:43:00 -0500 From: ryan.t.jenkins@gmail.com To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Benches and Shop Layouts
tool and room organization intrigues me greatly.
do any of you have any kind of system or check in/out for making sure that tools don't walk away?
Troy Bike Rescue is in a much smaller space than most, and our workstations are based around the format of 1 bike stand, and 1 small handmade toolbox. Toolboxes are numbered and color coded. we usually end up with about 5 separate workstations going at once, with 2 or 3 people per stand.
our entire setup is based on being mobile because we exist in a shared space (fingers crossed might be getting our own building soon), as well as do mobile clinics.
ryan
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Andy Greif cbcofme@gwi.net wrote:
One thing we have done is cut holes into our benches to place 7.5” diameter stainless metal kitchen bowls. They allow wheels to rest flat on our benches as hub assembles are taken apart and the bearing fall into the bowls and not the floor.
Andy Greif, Executive Director Community Bicycle Center Shop: 284 Hill Street, Biddeford Mail: P.O. Box 783, Biddeford, ME 04005 207-282-9700 (shop) 207-229-8199 (cell) www.communitybike.net
"Providing Opportunities for Youth to Grow"
From: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Lee Reis Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:25 PM To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Benches and Shop Layouts
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if shops could share their bench designs and/or shop layouts - we're moving in January and trying to set ourselves up as best as possible. Specifically, it'd be great if anyone has a copy of your bench design & material list, and in terms of layout we're most interested in bench spacing - see below for an example. What works about your current layout and what doesn't?
Our current layout uses a bench that is ~18" deep (from the wall), ~50" from edge of the bench to bike-stand pole, and the length of the clamp (from pole to clamp-edge) is ~18." Our spacing between benches is erratic given our current shop space, but our new space is nice and square-ish.
Thanks!
-Lee Reis
Volunteer Coordinator, Ohio City Bike Co-op
1823 Columbus Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 830-2667
www.ohiocitycycles.org
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