I’ll start the list with a few items that come to mind in no particular order. Please add to this list by replying with a description and/or photos of the item.
Cheap crappy multimeters
Proposal: freecycle them
Justification: VHS now has several higher-quality (e.g Fluke and Greenlee) multimeters serving the electronics area. There is no reason to have more than a couple cheap-o multimeters kicking around.
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Sewing machine table project
Proposal: ask owner to remove it
Justification: This appears to be a member project that is stored improperly.
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Silkscreening Equipment:
Proposal: Sell it
Justification: It takes up a ton of space and hasn’t been used in years.
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Cricut machine
Proposal Sell one of the Cricut machines
Justification: We have two. Do we need more than one?
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Large Vinyl Cutter
Proposal: Sell it
Justification: Last I heard the large vinyl cutter doesn’t work properly. Also, we have a cricut machine.
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Arcade Machine
Proposal: Sell, give away, or put a deadline on it
Justification: It takes up a ton of space and having a big non-functioning piece of equipment as the first thing that people see when they come down the stairs kind of sucks.
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Hydraulic Press:
Proposal: Sell it or downsize to a smaller one:
Justification: Not sure this one actually gets used
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
BBQ
Proposal: Sell it and buy a portable one with a folding stand
Justification: Takes up less space.
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Sawhorses:
Proposal: Give away and replace with folding ones
Justification: takes up less space
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Box of IP phones
Proposal: Put in they alley with a free sign, and create a facebook marketplace listing
Justification: These still work, but we don’t have a use for them. They’re from Amazon so we can’t sell them.
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Filing cabinet in electronics area:
Proposal: Put into the alley with a free sign.
Justification. Two of the drawers are empty, the other two contain SMD resistors/capacitors that can be purged eventually. In the meantime we can move them into a box.
strongly agree
mildly agree
don’t care
mildly disagree
strongly disagree
more discussion needed
0voters
Idea: Require all large space projects to be linked to a talk post.
Proposal: Large space projects must be clearly tagged/labelled with a link or QR code to a project post on Talk
Justification: Avoids the awkward situation where you don’t know who owns a project, also it’s cool to see status updates when a project gets worked on.
I voted more discussion on the extra cricut and the silkscreen stuff just because I thought they belonged to @yeungx. If so, would suggest we ask them to be taken home.
I’d like to take a look at getting the arcade machine going again (with a given time limit). Kevin and I got it working when we were at Cook Street.
Also I will take a look at the IP phones as I may be able to use one of them.
@lukecyca you’re the only one so far disagreeing with disposing of the filing cabinet. Do you have a perspective on it that perhaps the rest of us are missing? I’m singling it out specifically since it seems like low-hanging fruit.
I have been culling the SMD parts and can fit what is remaining in the large filing cabinet into the existing SMD totes (allowing removal of the large filing cabinet)…
Or we can keep the large filing cabinet and I can fit the SMD totes contents into the filing cabinet (allowing removal of the SMD totes around the electronics bench…
Perhaps the latter is better as then we will have a single SMD cabinet (well actually there is another smaller one with SMD LEDs) with finite storage for SMD…
Re: Hydraulic press.
It it gets used fairly regularly based on how often Janet comes in and has an airline hooked up to it. For the kind of of things it’s used for (pressing out bearings, bending steel bars) there really isn’t a replacement. Janet has aspirations to use some of that big ass plate steel to make bending dies.
If we expand our blacksmithing options it can also be used for quiet metal forming.
And like @Janet , I thought the silkscreening equipment (and one of the Cricuts) belonged to @yeungx.
And I think it would be cool if we started making t-shirts again, but of course that requires that somebody who knows how to silkscreen has time to run a workshop.
My only hesitation is that I occasionally get SMD resistors out of those drawers, and like how they’re all organized. But I don’t particularly disagree with removing the filing cabinet, if there’s better ways to use that space, please go ahead! I do like having a selection of SMD components around, but I’d like to see it thinned out. I don’t care much what stays and what goes, and would trust anyone who’s somewhat knowledgeable to use their best judgement. Like maybe keep interesting and expensive MEMS sensors, mosfets and voltage regulators, ditch all the caps and resistors smaller than 0402, organize resistors by decade only, etc.
The plan I have been working on is to do the following with the SMD parts:
• Get rid of all the small 0402 parts
• Cull the resistors and ceramic capacitors down to some standard values
• Keep most of the electrolytic capacitors
• Keep 90% of the misc parts (sensors, uCs, regulators ,etc)
I’ll look at how much space may be left in the 2 drawer filing cabinet presently filled with SMD leds and either fit all SMD in the 2 drawer cabinet (allowing us to get rid of the 4 drawer cabinet) or visa versa…
Ok, so far it looks like we have consensus on the following:
Cheap crappy multimeters:
Next step: create a talk post with a picture and a poll for each meter to decide which ones to freecycle
Task Owner: none yet
Sewing machine table project:
The owner has been made aware and will be removing it later this week.
BBQ:
Next steps: sell it or give it away, do a talk post for crowdfunding the portable bbq
Task Owner: none yet
Sawhorses:
Next steps: John will raffle them on Thursday. More discussion needed about whether we actually need to replace these with folding ones (or if we can just eliminate the sawhorses), or what kind of folding version we can use instead.
Box of IP phones:
Next Steps: Give these away asap!
Owner: Any volunteers?
Filing Cabinet in Electronics area:
Next Steps: Packetbob has agreed to move the contents of the filing cabinet into a tote. Then we can give this filing cabinet away asap
Owner: Any volunteers?
Idea: Require all large space projects to be linked to a talk post.
Next Steps: Talk post to discuss how to implent this.
