DOWN SIZING - What to do with my treasure?

[masonsailor2]

I have been there and it is tough. My wife and I decided to move onto our sail boat and take off and we went through some pretty emotional times getting rid of stuff. We finally got it pared down to a small storage space but it was tough. My original SS 500 and heavy woodworking machinery were victims. Giving up my machinery was the worst but since I doubt I will ever have a large shop again it was a good thing in the end. We made a lot of trips to Goodwill and gave a lot away.
Paul

[dusty]

This relocation is not going to be near as bad as I had thought. It turns out that the space I have been allocated is adequate. It has forced me to clean out all of the nooks and crannies and to disose of many items that I might need some day but that is not all bad. My new space will be approximately 208 sq ft with a small portion of that occupied by an electric furnace and hot water heater. Every piece of Shopsmith equipment I own will fit in the area even if I retain the work bench I was expecting to discard. I am almost looking forward to moving day - weeks away.

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The light gray area in the middle would be space needed if I was to bring the car in.

[robinson46176]

OK, about 18' x 20'... Nothing wrong with that as a shop.
If I removed all of the irrelevant stuff I could function fine in that. When I had my woodshop in the farm shop I had almost everything on a wood floor section that was 30' x 12'. I'm sure you well know that a shop can expand to fill a huge building if allowed to and the space is available. With me being a shop nut I love the big space I have but it certainly isn't required. I enjoy having all of those "extra" Shopsmiths but they are not "needs"...
I also suffer from horrible work habits (and will likely never be cured ) but a small work area really will encourage organization. You work much more tidy than I do anyway so it will be a natural for you.
You've got this...

[dusty]

Aside from the fact that I am not losing all that much floor space, I will be gaining some wall space. Items that hung on the sides of my work benches will now have a home on the walls. I'm thinking about putting up two french cleats to basically cover the two side walls. I have to give some serious thought to that however because this little short fat guy might not be able to reach across the Shopsmith stuff.

[jsburger]

Aside from the fact that I am not losing all that much floor space, I will be gaining some wall space. Items that hung on the sides of my work benches will now have a home on the walls. I'm thinking about putting up two french cleats to basically cover the two side walls. I have to give some serious thought to that however because this little short fat guy might not be able to reach across the Shopsmith stuff.

I think I can identify with that. You are a gem and will be with us for a long time giving us good advice. I am glad you have found that your new shop will give you what you want.

[dusty]

Yup. This will do the trick. One of my alternatives was to move to a small gated community of modular homes. No shop and noise control - major negatives. However, this place offered a huge community wok shop well equipment with Powermaticequipment that included a huge surface sander and two large table saws. Would have been fun until time to quit. The rules stated that "if you are not in the shop - neither will be your project".

One bad! The driveway begins a slop toward street level almost at the doorway. Don't think rollout onto the driveway will be practical.

[dusty]

Good News Confirmed

The car fits in the available space after allocation space to all the major Shopsmith items.

In fact, scale drawings give me confidence that I can not only make this work but that it will be comfortable.

The car will probably be garaged every night but the truck will remain out in the driveway.

[dynabase]

If you are still downsizing I am looking for some legs. I just watched the "Turning Precise Cylinders" video and he mentioned a jig. I have a lathe duplicator but I would prefer not to take the table apart every time I want to turn a cylinder. If you have an extra set of legs that you want to get rid of I would be happy to pay what you ask.

[stephen_a._draper]

The thing that most people forget is room to open the car doors.

[dusty]

The thing that most people forget is room to open the car doors.

Hopefully we have that covered: