TLDR:
Big clean up of VHS April 16th. Label or remove your materials before that please.
Part 1) MATERIAL BONANZA!
The space is getting full of extra project material that has been left behind at VHS.
We will be going through all materials in the space, looking for old and forgotten materials. The back area will be cleared out completely, nothing is supposed to be stored there. We’ll be focusing on laser cutting wood and acrylic, lexan, and sheet metal. We don’t want to toss anyone’s material,and we’ll be careful to check everything for a date and a name. We’ll keep the best of the stuff and keep it in the “free” section of the laser materials.
All other materials that are unlabeled or out of date are going to be piled into the loading bay for the weekend. You are free to take as much as you want, provided you TAKE IT HOME. Anything left will be thrown out. Nothing you take can end up back in the laser materials storage for at least 2 weeks.
Part 2) Clean and Organize VHS
VHS has a lot of broken windows (Broken window theory), and the pile up of junk is getting bad. The space doesn’t look “nice” to newcommers, and it is a pain to work on something when the stations are so full of tools and components that I can’t lay own project down flat.
We’ll be doing a general tidy up of the space. We’ll be doing a rather ruthless tidy up of everything, putting things (wires, tools, materials) in their places. If you have projects laying around the space, you’ll need to make sure it’s NOT in the general space area before the clean up night. The workshop will be cleared of ALL material, leaving only the tools. The soldering stations will be returned to having just their power supplies and soldering irons.
There are a lot of half-completed projects laying around the soldering areas, as well as the tables. Please collect everything from these areas, as we’ll be creating a bin of “items left on tables”, which will eventually be thrown out.
The proposed date is April 16th, 2016.
There will be signs up in the space for the weeks preceding the spring cleaning warning all members of the event, so they can both label/remove their materials and to be there to get the removed extras.
Please discuss here, nothing is set in stone. I don’t want to get rid of anyone’s bought material, we’ll be trying our very best to prevent this. I just want to clear up some space at VHS to make it more hospitable for everyone.