New Shop Journey

[glenn bradley]

I'm continuing to move items out to the shop as their spots become ready.

It's getting to feel a lot more familiar.
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Here's the access way for the ducting courtesy of the outfeed table butting up against the fence rail.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

It must feel great seeing all your planning coming to fruition.

 

[David Johnson]

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Looking good.
David

 

[glenn bradley]

Thanks guys. I actually ran the dust collector a few times yesterday while doing small tasks in the shop. I'm hoping to move the last of the larger machines in next week.

 

[Toni Ciuraneta]

Looking forward to see it finished, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it a thousand times more and it will show on your projects.

 

[glenn bradley]

I forgot to post this and it may help someone. I found that I can set the guides at a height that lets the bandsaw blade just cut through the pipe wall. The pipe rides against the bolt heads on this particular saw but you get the idea. I then just rotate the pipe. The pipe shown is schd-40 that I use for connectors. All my duct pipe is astm-2729 and has thinner walls. Just FYI.

I draw a line around the pipe and put a mark on the blade guard to use as a site-line.

And this is what happens . . .

. . . when you do everything right EXCEPT turn the vac on before cutting

 

[glenn bradley]

The second vertical member is in. This was delayed while I experimented with 2-1/2" overarm / router table fence collection versus 4". There's a ton of math you can throw at dust collection but I just went for plain old empirical data. That is; a real world test. The 2-1/2" proved best for me in this installation.

That picture makes it look like the overhead is "T" connected. It is like so . . .

You can just ignore the temporary tape and what-not; this is a mid-fabrication shot .

I used commercial plastic blast gates in these positions. I had them on hand and things got a little crowded and clumsy when I tried to fit the self-cleaning style that I make myself.

We'll see how this goes. A shop is always evolving so if an alteration is required later on it won't be the first or the last. The 2-1/2" hose will also serve the tablesaw overarm in some fashion as yet to be determined. It won't be green painter's tape . Velcro straps are likely the solution here. The aperture into the guard is quite small so I may have to field modify the hose attachment location as well. I don't use the overarm a lot but time will tell.

I am now ready to build out the electrical wire ways that will serve the two groups of machines. First I want to play with the 8" adjustable elbow at the DC exhaust to see if I can make the noise more acceptable.

 

[glenn bradley]

My compadre and I took the fence carriage off the jointer and then took the jointer off the base. This allowed us to muscle it onto a dolly and get it into the shop where we reassembled it.

Flush with our success we refer-dollied the bandsaw out to the shop.

We then surveyed the 600 lb planer . . . hmmm . . . I called my son in law. He muscled it onto a dolly he had brought along and wheeled it out to the shop in nothing flat.

We got a little work done on the power as well and hope to have both power risers live by EOD tomorrow.

 

[Brent Dowell]

That's literally a dream shop.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

That's literally a dream shop.

Yeah, I was liking all the photos of the building being made, but now that I'm seeing the tools in there I'm starting to be more and more envious, lol.

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Yeah, I was liking all the photos of the building being made, but now that I'm seeing the tools in there I'm starting to be more and more envious, lol.

Amen.

 

[Bill Satko]

I am now finding it hard to believe you ever had all those tools in a double car garage!

 

[glenn bradley]

I remember posting a shop-tour-2018 and a few folks commented that it looked a bit claustrophobic . . . understatement. I wish I had video of me building a project in that shop. At high speed it would look like I was doing some techo-dance moves the way I had to Outside Turn, Pirouette, Inside Turn my way through the shop. The biggest gift to myself in building this shop is space-to-work. Still in motion but, here's some more progress pics.

The Dual Reverse Giggle Bearing Influx De-modulator . . .

I mean the ceiling plate to flex to EMT section.
Inside the wire ways.

It's starting to feel like home.

Milling area looking toward the jointer.

Milling area looking toward the planer.

90 more degrees clockwise.

The tablesaw area looks the same but has new power cords run.

Most importantly I jointed a board, planed it, re-sawed a plank off and sanded it testing all the blast gates and dust collection. Although a few machine are still using 4" hose I will call the DC a success so far. Shop made 6" hoods will bring the jointer and planer to 6" direct connections.

 

[Tom Niemi]

Looking FANTASTIC

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Looks awesome!

 

[glenn bradley]

Thanks guys. As the tenant it is hard to not get excited when all the small stuff gets off the top of the bench and on to the end were it belongs .

I'll try not to ping you to death with minor accomplishments but I must worn you that I may become tiresome over the next few posts.

 

[Darren Wright]

Thanks guys. As the tenant it is hard to not get excited when all the small stuff gets off the top of the bench and on to the end were it belongs .
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I'll try not to ping you to death with minor accomplishments but I must worn you that I may become tiresome over the next few posts.

Ping away!

 

[David Johnson]

Color me green. That is an awesome shop. You deserve it.
David

 

[glenn bradley]

Son in law and his brother came by and moved a couple of large metal cabinets for me. This one is an IBM mainframe tape reel storage cabinet.

Notice the family resemblance?

It now serves a higher purpose.

On to cabinet number two . . .

 

[Don Baer]

you are wayyyyyyyyy to organized........a neat shop is the sign of a sick mind....lol