A customer in Denver told me my repair bench looked like a crime scene, and I finally reorganized it
I was fixing a laptop for a guy in Denver last week when he looked at my bench and said it looked like a crime scene. I had 14 screws scattered around, three thermal paste tubes, and a pile of anti static bags all over the place. At first I laughed it off, but then I lost a tiny screw for his motherboard and spent 25 minutes on my hands and knees looking for it. That was the moment I decided to fix my setup. I got a magnetic parts tray for $12 and a cheap rolling cart from a hardware store, and now everything has a spot. My repair time for a standard teardown went from about an hour to 40 minutes just because I am not digging around for tools. If you have a messy bench like I did, what is the one thing that finally got you to clean it up?