Steve's Shop Photo

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Re: Steve's Shop Photo

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To neat, to organized, to clean, to well tooled [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/tongue.gif"%20alt="[/img] . Yes, i'm jealous [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif"%20alt="[/img] .

Enjoyed the tour very much.
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Re: Steve's Shop Photo

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LMAO,,,, I could show you the definition of messy... Problem is we really do work at keeping things cleaned up & organized. Our work load recently has left little time for digging out the corners..... I must have at least 10 ton of chips piled up outside waiting for my new dump hoist to be installed. so they can be hauled off without the Scrap yard destroying my truck bed........ Have fun & let the blue chips fly!!!
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If it was easy it would be done - well that is not entirely true either. I'm just SLOW and it is more fun to tinker/fix/make/design things than to clean up. I have eliminated one excuse though, got a better digital camera at Thanksgiving and pressed it into service for the first shots (Storm Vulcan boring bar tooling kit) 2 weeks ago. Example attached.

I'll work at getting some shop photos. BTW, I've seen enough of others shops to know that I'm definitely a "messy" shop owner.
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Re: Steve's Shop Photo - electric room

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For those that thought things are too neat in my shop I'm providing "the rest of the story" although believe it or not some straightening was done before photographing the mess. It is hard to believe that I actually do get anything done for all the clutter but I do. Let me offer that much of the clutter is still ruminants of moving in and unpacking boxes of electrical hardware that were previously in storage for lack of space. I've been in this "moving in" process for more than 4 years now and the only thing I know for sure is that I need more space or less stuff.

To start,

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I placed this 12' section of bench over an extended run of the heat duct to force heat to the far end of the room. Originally I had installed a floor heat register just inside and on the right side of the door. The cold air return for the entire shop is not far from this point and short circuiting (not an electrical term as used here) was evident. It worked out quite well to raise the cabinets thus providing a toe kick and at the same time housing the 7" oval heat piping (flatened some) that routes the heat to the far end of the room exiting from under the last cabinet. This room like the bath, tractor room and mill room is insulated in the interior walls also. The ceiling of bath, tractor, and mill rooms is also insulated with 6" of fiberglass making it cozy and quiet. The electric room is directly over the tractor room sharing that 6" of glass insulation in the floor/ceiling which translates to bearly cracking the damper on this heat run.

After adding the lab cabinets I built in an oak framed shelf unit across the end of the room, hung some metal overhead cabinets above the benches and put my desk and small drafting table on the left.

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I still have Flor. lights to hang in the room as evidenced by the poly vapor barrier over the switched ceiling outlet boxes (one on each side). Room lighting for now is a switched single bulb above the door.

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From the tiny window I get light, fresh air for when a test turns to smoke and a view of the deer in the woods behind.

This room filled up rather quickly and I added another 8' cabinet section outside it to take care of the overflow - DC, servo and VF AC motor drives.

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/ ... _Bench.jpg


Presently I have more drives than machines to put them on. Some might say I need more machines. If you have a machine you would like to see go to a good drive, no no I didn't say that. One thing I'm sure of is that the drives take up much less space than machines. Hopefully one day I will be able to reclaim this cabinet space for the wood shop.

Thanks for looking and the kind comments.
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Re: Steve's Shop Photo

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I'd like to try out posting this reduced size shop photo.
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I'm adding to this previous post to mark the event of passing ten thousand views of my shop today, July 8, 2006. Here is another photo of my shop without the skin. This is an AutoCad rendering made by the very skilled Bill Bowser (also a poster on this forum), thank you Bill.

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Re: Steve's Shop Photo

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That is ver nice Steve. Here is a pic of my little shop used to store my locomotive.

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Re: Steve's Shop Photo

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Steve, way cool, nicely tooled, nice clean machines. Thanks for the "tour"!
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Re: Steve's Shop Photo

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Hey Steve, Big or Small (photo) THAT shop looks WAY COOL!!!
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Re: Steve's Shop Photo

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Thanks guys for the kind words. I was trying to size some photos to add and the software said it was 5" wide but it displayed here at 13" wide. I was hoping to load from my computer and not have to count on a photo host. Better than the original attachment at the beginning of this thread (I don't like having to scroll to see the whole picture) but still too big so I deleted it and put this thumbnail in its place. At that point I had to leave to plow snow etc.. I will try again when I can sort this out.
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Steve's Shop - Air Lines

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Shop Air Lines is frequently discussed so I decided to show a bit of my air line installation. I’m not saying this is the only way, nor am I saying it’s the best way to do it, I’m only offering this info as the way I did it. I have run all air lines in the walls with one exception which I will show. I used ¾” copper for the main line running 48' down the middle tucked up tight next to the wood plate between the 8" WF I-Beam and the second level 2 X 12 floor joists. There are three ¾” drops from this main line. One under the stairs to tie into the compressor and one at each end of the shop for exterior use, presumably for sand blasting at these locations outside. Off of the main line I "T"ed and reduced to ½” copper lines aimed up ~6 inches and then "T"ed again to make runs in both directions in the floor joist space to the outside wall spaces between the 2 X 6's at right angles to the main line. Once in an outside wall I "T"ed again feeding both the upper level and lower level at that point. (Sorry that this "T" is hardly visible, in the photo but it is just above the wall double plate). The drops from this point in the outside walls (there were some exceptions to this on interior walls) were rigid copper but because my upstairs sidewalls are angled (knee walls) I used soft copper for the risers to the second level wood shop and electric rooms. There were a couple of places where feeding soft copper lines worked best (Read, no room for making solder joints and it snakes thru places that were already enclosed, i.e. a blind 90. Remember that freshly annealed it feeds like electrical runs.) in the interior walls and at the East end wall so that is what I used. The branch lines were terminated with sweat 3/8" male fittings screwed into SS Eel's or Tee's. The “T” bracket was used were both sides of an interior wall fed from the same drop. The SS fittings were welded to 1/8" x 1" x 5" straps with mounting holes to secure them to 2 X 4's spanning between studs at the appropriate height. The SS fittings were bushed down to ¼” SS pipe that feeds thru the wall into the room. I have already shown the typical air outlet in an attachment in this thread where a ½” SS washer was added as a final to the opening. Okay, I thought it looked kind of nice too. I have 18 openings in all making air very accessible throughout the shop. I tested the system under pressure for a few days before enclosing any part of it. Guess what – not a single leak.

Photos; The main ¾” line above the beam, a riser and the slip joint for the final main line fit up.

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Two more risers, soft copper coming toward you (beginning of the bend is visible) where it makes a loop to feed down the wall on the right in the picture. A “T” is used on this drop to feed two rooms. The “T” riser on the right is ¾”, ¾”, ½” because it goes away form us, thru the 2 X 12 header at the top of the stairs and then drops into the space under the stairs where the compressor is located (later).

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Next is an outside wall where the “T” is only slightly visible above the wall top plate. Soft copper goes up from the “T” and rigid down to the bracketed outlet.

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A shot from the bathroom shows another drop from the backside of the bracketed mount. This is over a bench area on the other side of the wall.

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Here is one of those EXCEPTIONS I mentioned where air is fed down a post without first going thru a riser. The outlet on this post will probably be used more than any other with the possible exception of the outside ¾” line drops. A collection point that is trapped and filtered when necessary.

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I would talk to the painter about sloppy work but I know he has some nice crown molding to hid the bo bo. I see I could have wiped the solder joints a little better too.

I'm adding a couple more items to round out the shop air installation (I hope). I have set up to use disconnects at each outlet and have several regulator/filter units (floaters) I can plug in where needed.

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3 Floaters shown. I have provided permenant mount regulators for items like the mister for milling machine etc.

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Re: Steve's Shop - second level lift

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This is one way I get items to the second floor. Maybe someday I will have an electric winch but for now it is hand cranked. The item can't be wider than 36.6" in the minimum dimension to fit.

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It is the typical unit for pickup truck bed mounting. I welded the base to a larger steel plate and lag screwed it into 4 of the 2" X 12" floor joist. I also added a large bearing at the bottom of the pipe upright which allows me to swing the load easily at the top.

BTW, a railing is planned for the DROP-OFF edge. A portion of the railing will be removable so the lift/hoist is still functional.
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Second Floor Wood Shop

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I will add a few photos from my second floor wood shop. This first one is taken from near the top of the stairway (photo in previous post) looking East toward the front of the shop.

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Turning around 180 to look back. Electrical repair room is in the far right corner.

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Looking to the other side at the front is where the sink will be installed in the metal base cabinet below the mirrored first aid cupboard. This Delta lathe has a 1 HP VFD (not yet mounted but functional). About mid point in the photo is a air outlet (one of the 19 inside the shop). The dark recepticles are 220V, ivory 120V. The wire loop in line with the top of the window on the right is one of the many speaker drops.

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From the sink cabinet looking toward the back (electrical room) again.

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Damn Dude! You got more stuff than Home Depot!!!!
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