Hats of to Arwyn for his way of doing things, you have been well trained.. (-: I wish I could work like that but was ever on to the next job and the next and the next, worked into the night and through the night if and when required....not the best way to work for sure.
WORKBENCH is No 1 for me, a proper engineers bench mine is made out of circa 70x35mm steel box section 5mm wall thickness a circa 15mm thick plate welded in on one corner to take the vice, circa 100mm x 100mm plate welded on to the feet in order that it does not cut into the concrete floor when pounding down on something, like folding metal in the vice. a thick wooden top on mine, which has worked better for some tasks then others where steel might be considered more suitable and bars welded in between the legs to add even more strength... That`s what I call a bench...Though I have seen better, by way of cast iron Victorian ones..(-:
When I bought my first car a real rot box of an Austin Healy Sprite, my dad bought me the AA book of the car... Yeah some of you will have seen the book not even a dirty fingernail in sight, a fantasy world where everything came apart with the greatest of ease and nothing was ever seized or rusted and the correct tool for the job was ever to hand .... NOTHING like my real world experience ... As I typed, my first car was a rot box nailed back together in a lock up a couple of miles from home with no power.... not that I owned any power tools at the time but a bit of light would have been handy...pop rivets nuts bolts and fibreglass sills, MOT was not as strict back then.... (-:
For some real world spanner wielding on an old car then this guys presentation is quite the best I have stumbled upon, even if his workshop is not festooned with wonderful kitchen style wall and floor units.... For me old tools hanging on the walls of a workshop where generations may have worked before with the occasional spiders web thrown in just captures my imagination.... I demolished the workshop I spent so many years in to build a new home extension and also built a new and far larger soulless place to replace it... Hmm..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU77OVfWuys&t=166s
