Cleaning the area after you complete an operation.

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Do you find yourself cleaning your area after you complete a process, not the job just the piece of the job. I find myself always doing this when I am working on a part on the Bridgeport or lathe. As soon as I complete an operation I am picking up the vacuum and cleaning the table and sweeping the floor.The vacuum hose is very efficient and hangs right next to the machines. I know it slows the job down but makes setting up for the next operation a little easier. I do this on my welding bench as well. I have to have it as clean as possible and ready for the next task. Am I nuts.www.tjsperformance.comDynasty 300 DXHTP 240HTP Microcut 380Hyperthem 85JD2 Hyd Bender and HF Hyd Ring Roller all in one =(Frankenbender)Bpt. Mill/DRO4' x 8' CNC Plasma TableInstagram: tjsperformanceYT: TJS Welding and Fabrication
Reply:I feel like I'm the only one who does this, at work.At the home shop, I never pick up when I'm done, I clean up before I do a project (weeks later)But, at work, I clean up when the project is done, then turn in my timeThe rest of the guys wait till its quitting time, ready to leave and the boss says "as soon as the shop is clean we can leave"I say "my area is clean can I go?".  "yes"
Reply:depends on the project. some times it's at the end of the day. some times it's weeks later when I've got time to clean. Some times its between each step. Just depends on where I'm working, and what I'm doing. This is all at home, by the way.There are no problems. There are only solutions. It's your duty to determine the right one.Hobart Handler 210Airco 225 Amp MSM Stinger
Reply:At work we have a few community benches all steel top. We do auto motive repair. 3 years ago I put myself through tig school for personal needs and knowing it would benefit the shop. Long story short when I have a tig job its about an hour ordeal getting everything cleaned of oil dirt and scum (I like a sanitary work area when tig welding). There are only 4 of us at the shop and THEY know what I need since I am the only welder BUT its always my job to clean up. Gotta love being family employed.
Reply:Always. It's a habit from the military and being in aviation I guess. I usually clean as I work. I dislike a filthy and cluttered area..I mean this only applies to being in the shop. In the elements, clean up is usually last on my mind unless it impedes safety.
Reply:"Your MOTHER Does Not Work Here!  You Have To Clean Up Your Own Mess."RogerOld, Tired, and GRUMPYSalesman will call, Batteries not included, Assembly is required, and FREE ADVICE IS WORTH EXACTLY WHAT YOU PAY FOR IT!Dial Arc 250HFThunderbolt 225 AC/DCAssorted A/O torches
Reply:Cleanliness is next to Godly nessI'm happier with less mess but tripping over stuf or. Stepping on a nail is not good
Reply:Compared to the rest of the shop where I am all day is the cleanest area here..I wipe down my lathe all the time and sweep my own area..Other than that...We still have 55 year old trash all over this place.No kidding!...zap!Last edited by zapster; 06-28-2013 at 05:03 AM.I am not completely insane..Some parts are missing Professional Driver on a closed course....Do not attempt.Just because I'm a  dumbass don't mean that you can be too.So DON'T try any of this **** l do at home.
Reply:This is in my home shop by the way. So I guess it is closer to me than someone else's mess.www.tjsperformance.comDynasty 300 DXHTP 240HTP Microcut 380Hyperthem 85JD2 Hyd Bender and HF Hyd Ring Roller all in one =(Frankenbender)Bpt. Mill/DRO4' x 8' CNC Plasma TableInstagram: tjsperformanceYT: TJS Welding and Fabrication
Reply:This is my work area.My table is out side (they use the front half of my bay to work on trucks, my table has to go outside when they move a truck in or out)Since I'm helping with inventory, it hasn't been brought back in.
Reply:At home or at work,when I'm done,it's clean,tools wiped off,floor clutter put back to where it goes.I get pissed here at home when someone drops by wanting to borrow a tool or something and brings it back all greasy or doesn't bring it back at all then I go to their house to get it back and there it is just laying out in the driveway or yard.Some say I'm to particular when it comes to clean tools and work area.Maxus Pro-125 MigChicago Electric 90 amp DC flux-coreLincoln Electric AC 225 tombstoneO/A torchM/O mini-torch10 acres of flatland15 acres of holler
Reply:I always clean after a tool use, it extends tool life and makes it safe for me to move around with piece of mind. I no longer lend any tools, no one can ever return them in the condition l had them when they borrowed them.The safetest thing you can have is a safe environment.
Reply:I can't concentrate with clutter and/or mess around me. I clean as I go.
Reply:I clean up after every weld I make I personally hate laying in slag :\
Reply:Bring it back as good as you got it or never bother asking me for anything else.  No exceptions, No buts = thats just how it is.In my new job I am constantly sending my assistants out to my truck to get this or that - They always seem amazed that I can tell them exactly where something is.Clean + Organized = EfficientWhen any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.
Reply:My neighbors laugh at me when I vacuum the floor in my garage/shop.  I do this because the wife gets mad when she walks out to her car barefoot or in socks.  She says that I'm always bringing in chips of metal into the house.  I just tell her that's how I get my iron for the day instead of taking a pill.---No good deed goes unpunished---
Reply:At my job, we have 1 welding table and it pizzes me off that other workers NEVER clean off their "residuals" when they finish something.Some of them don't even bother to coil up cables and I have even found the welder to still be running..............with the stinger just pitched on top of the steel table top (how stupid can you get?).I clean up after myself and you would not know I had even been there when I am finished.I consider myself lucky if I arrive to weld and find that I was the last person that used the table.I especially hate it when someone before me has used the welding table for tearing down components for "non-welding" purposes and they leave an oily, greasy mess with old parts just lying there discarded, but never intending to come back and clean up.
Reply:I can't stand when I am still working and someone "cleans up". I will hit you with what I am working on, mind your business.....Disclaimer; "I am just an a$$hole welder, don't take it personally ."
Reply:Originally Posted by walkerweldAt my job, we have 1 welding table and it pizzes me off that other workers NEVER clean off their "residuals" when they finish something.Some of them don't even bother to coil up cables and I have even found the welder to still be running..............with the stinger just pitched on top of the steel table top (how stupid can you get?).I clean up after myself and you would not know I had even been there when I am finished.I consider myself lucky if I arrive to weld and find that I was the last person that used the table.I especially hate it when someone before me has used the welding table for tearing down components for "non-welding" purposes and they leave an oily, greasy mess with old parts just lying there discarded, but never intending to come back and clean up.
Reply:Ever see member Jack Olsen's shop?  You could eat off the floor, the benches, walls, ceiling, you name it.  I'd have to wear a pair of those shoe booties if I ever stepped foot in there. MM200 w/Spoolmatic 1Syncrowave 180SDBobcat 225G Plus - LP/NGMUTT Suitcase WirefeederWC-1S/Spoolmatic 1HF-251D-1PakMaster 100XL '68 Red Face Code #6633 projectStar Jet 21-110Save Second Base!
Reply:Originally Posted by AMC724I built another table and brought it into the shop just so the mechanics would keeps their oily sh!t off my table. (I will take a pic of it Monday)Tozzi, your just an a$$hole welder.   (did you ever get the spoolgun running?)
Reply:TJSMy first welding job was with a heavy industrial support manufacturer for rail, mining, marine, dam & bridge . . . .The shop employed 320 men, with three in the tool/supply room.The TSR was equipped with large multiplies of every tool needed. SOP - if you get a tool, don't take it back until the end of the shift.  The rational was, if you needed the tool once, chances are good you'll need it again; and, "we don't want to make a career of going back and forth". To this day, my tool management system is a one-way street, by the end of a project my tool boxes are pretty empty.The way I manage the mismanagement is with a dedicated tooltable, 4 x 8.  I build on one table, and whatever tools I have usedare piled deep on another.I only clean up once  -  when the project is done.Opus
Reply:I'm for sure not bragging,but I work on many jobs at the same time, in a small shop with gobs of tools. today I got back on putting brakes on a small tractor that I use. I had a matched pair of disk brakes with calipers, but can only find one set. Now I will have to start cleaning on one end of the shop and look in every container till I find the dang parts. I'm glad I don't pay myself very much or I'd go broke.  Mac
Reply:Here's the "mechanics" table
Reply:Well, I have had to quit 3 out of the last 4 employers here in Sacramento, Calif. They didn't like to 'pay' for the welder/machinist/electrician/plant-maintenance guy (me) to waste 'their' money cleaning anything up.My last employer went out of business after about 65 of the 100 or so employees were arrested by I.C.E. I was there 4 years, no one ever cleaned anything, not even a sweeping once every couple months. Mens 'restroom' was usually 2 feet deep in used TP and trash. So now at 65, I just fool around at home, shop clothes and boots never come in the house.DougspairSadly I have to share my shop with another 20 guys. Not all work on metal proyects, none of them do indeed. But they work on cars. And believe me, I built three welding tables (thick metal tops) and anytime I want to work on my stuff, I need to clean them up and put away all the tools, leftovers, grease, etc.I keep all my tools and spares in a metal cabinet, so anytime I want to work on something I spend 30 minutes getting setup and another 30 putting my stuff away. I fear that if I leave it outside, anyone could grab it and use it in the wrong way.Takes some time but saves on headaches.Mikel