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These photos show how the shelves and workbench drawers are arranged. Machining requires many tools and accessories, and it's necessary to keep everything well-organized.
I built two drawers inside the workbench, behind the cabinet doors. The upper drawer holds accessories such as drill chucks for the lathe and milling machine, live and dead centers for the lathe, alternate jaws for the lathe chuck, a lathe faceplate, a lathe steady rest, a dead-blow hammer, and some inside measuring instruments.
This drawer holds mainly items for the milling machine, including a set of 1-2-3 blocks, a de-burring tool, a knurling tool for the lathe, a slitting saw with several blades, end-mill holders in their plastic cases, two dial indicators, and a test indicator.
On the wall behind the workbench are two shelves and a cabinet. The cabinet contains items used in the woodworking shop, and not associated with the metalworking equipment. The shelves hold large items that don't fit in the workbench drawers. These include blue marking dye, several measuring instruments, a set of parallels in a case, lathe cutting tools and holders, a transfer punch set, end mills in a case, a dial caliper, a machinist's square and steel rule, and a Kennedy toolbox to store small tools and accessories.
Screwed to the workbench backsplash are two sets of T-handle hex wrenches, one in SAE sizes and the other in metric sizes.
