If you had/have a Lab in your home, what would/does it contain?

[AJKing]

The title really says it all.

 

[cmb]

You have things that help you investigate what you are interested in!

The main 'feature' of mine is a hand-made vacuum chamber connected by a zillion plumbing parts to pumps, gauges, gas feeds and wotnot, and then 4 racks of parts; pipework, engineering materials for construction, basic hand tools, electronics, power supplies and miscellaneous electrical measurement and test gear.

It'd be different for someone else interested is something else! I'm sure a bench and a few bottles and chemicals would light someone else's interest.

 

[wukunlin]

too many things to list

but i'll start off with an oscilloscope

 

[cmb]

If you are going to do any more electronics than wire a plug, I agree. I bought one of those cheap £200 digital 'scopes recently. It has 25MHz sampling with FFT function and peak hold... superb for the money. Recommend to anyone, either beginners in electronics, or old-timers looking for a back-up 'scope.

 

[DoggerDan]

My old lab contained a sink, a counter top jammed with some flat, rectangular pans, a taught wire strung across the room, and this vertical sort of project-like thing with a lens and bellows.

My new lab is just some software on my computer.

I'm talking about a photo lab, of course. :)

I love digital for its results, but I miss tinkering around in a humid darkroom.

 

[turbo]

Think of all the gear that you would need to test, repair, and restore 50's and 60's era tube-driven guitar amps. That's what I've got, plus all kinds of parts - tubes, caps, resistors, diodes, etc. The O-scope isn't getting used any more, so I probably should consider selling it, along with most of the parts.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Beer.

 

[Astronuc]

The title really says it all.

Compact fast reactor, compact thermal reactor, high temperature furnaces (vacuum and gas-filled) of various sizes, an experimental fusion device, mechanical testing machines (including tensile and creep), impact test machines, electron microscopes, atom microprobe, X-ray diffraction device, vacuum chambers of various sizes, plasma thrusters, workstations, multi-kilo core or mega core computational system, synchrotron, . . . .

And that doesn't include the biology/agriculture lab.

 

[lisab]

Dog chow. A *lot* of dog chow.