Progress in my woodshop... (edited title)

[rpd]

Another pesky thing is how you can lay something down and in 5 minutes it's gone.


.

How do you get them to stick around for 5 minutes, My stuff often disappears instantly.

[robinson46176]

I need to design a storage rack to hang 30 bit braces on my cleat-wall system. Then I need to spend a day cleaning all of them up. I kind of have a thing for bit braces...
There are only 27 in this stack. One of the other 3 is hanging on the wall by the bench, one is in a tool box and one is in the farm shop.
Some of them are very short throw for tight spots and some are extra long throw for when you need more torque.
The one off to the right is special for drilling up tight to a wall etc.
I also have an antique beam drill as used in timber framing. It's kind of cool but I've never used it.

Woodshop - My bit braces.jpg (67.38 KiB) Viewed 9996 times

.

[robinson46176]

Yet another plan change... I do a lot of that.
After I decided that I want to take in all of the east wing basement (36' x 40') as shop I got to trying to look at it from a fresh perspective. I have always tried to do that with anything I have done whether it was farming, or any of the other businesses we operated over the years. Stand back and look at it, sleep on it, look at it again, sleep on it again... What can I say, I enjoy it.
If you look at the sketch on message #1 One of the first things I did when I started moving the shop in was to build a 4' high wall from the corner of the strong room / storm shelter down to the bottom of the sketch.I bought clear vinyl to go from 4' on up to the ceiling, all to keep sawdust out of the house. I was going to just put part of the woodshop that didn't generate dust over in that area to the right of that wall. The more I tried to plan that area the less I liked the concept.
The new plan...
The wall goes away... I'm glad I built it all with screws instead of nails.
Instead I am going to seal and enclose just the stairway and the corner area at the bottom of it. Once at the bottom of the stairs there will be a door with a window to the right to enter the woodshop. The rest of that corner will be a good sized supply storage closet. The two posts where the wall is now will be wrapped with my cleat wall system. The rest of the block walls in that area will also get the cleats. I figure the more I can hang up is just that much more that won't be using up all of the available flat spots including the floor. These changes will really make it a LOT easier to roll stuff around and open up working spaces.
Now for the bad news... I have been stacking odd crap in that area to get it temporarily out of my way for months. Oh well.


.

[robinson46176]

The wall in the last message is now gone... That was the easy part. For several days now I have been cleaning, sorting and trying to find proper homes for all of the "stuff" that had migrated up against both sides of that wall.
I wouldn't be as far along as I am if it were not for the wood furnace. Lots of flammable crap there, mostly paper and cardboard products along with one well mummified mouse. Picking stuff up is easy, the hard part is putting it down in the right spot. I'm mostly trying to group stuff. One corner has a couple of dozen fishing poles and several big tackle boxes, some bows, a clay pigeon thrower and stuff like that. Another corner has a collection of cast iron cookware and a lot of camping equipment. Guess what another corner has... Yep, "miscellaneous".
It's going to be about 60 for a while now so I need to spend some time in the attic now building some wide shelves so we can clean and organize the attic and also have proper places for much of this stuff.
We will get there, I just need to live another 50 years...
Right now the actual woodshop is almost unusable with stuff all pushed together but thanks to a lot of wheels and casters it will go back together quickly.


.

[nuhobby]

Keepin' busy!
By the way, that 6"-throw bit-brace would draw a decent price from many a collector. There's not so many of those around.

[robinson46176]

One half of the double drill-press seems to have broken out in a bad case of "Skittles Pox".
Actually those are magnets. I bought a batch of magnets and magnetic clips for the notes I like to stick around for stuff I want to remember. I use a lot of index cards and also usually sticky notes but sticky notes are not fond of sticking to surfaces coated with fine dust. In a wood shop they could call them "floor notes". I opened the packages and didn't know where to put them so I stuck them on the closest steel surface.

We are about to the point of duct taping inner tubes to the horses to keep them afloat, water everywhere. I picked up a small batch of 8' x 2" x 4"s Monday when we went for Enzo's Pizza in the next town west of us (about 12 to 14 miles) which also has a Lowes. We have been hauling them around in the van since then waiting for it to stop raining. It finally quit yesterday and some of the puddles went away. I put them on the hand pulled nursery wagon and pulled them around to the shop door and unloaded them. The drive on that side still needs stone to make it passable in weather this wet.
These shelves I'm adding to the attic will be one shelf down each side of the attic above the east wing, about 66' in total length and all 4' wide. Kind of hard to describe but I'll get a picture when I get a section put in. In this case a picture really is worth a thousand words. They will really help relieve a lot of storage pressure and greatly improve organization. It's easy to put stuff where it belongs "IF" you have a place where it belongs.

Woodshop - drill press with Skittles pox.jpg (64.25 KiB) Viewed 9764 times

[robinson46176]

Funny how things work out sometimes. I was all ready to remove that one post to give the table saw more working room, even had the screw jack posts sitting there ready. Then I decided to remove the wall I had built before I moved the shop into the basement and just let the post wait. It turns out that removing that wall improved the general layout so much that for now I'm just going to leave the post. Having that wall gone made just the right amount of extra space to move around the saw that it solved several floor plan problems. If you look at the sketch in the first message the saw is now moved about 3' up (south) and 2' to the right (west).

I don't recall if I ever posted a picture of one of these here before. This is a cobbler's lazy Susan tack tray. I have 5 of these. This one has a cast iron base and a plastic pocket tray. The other 4 are all cast iron. These came out of my shoe shop but now are at home in the woodshop.
Yes, they really are tack trays, not corn bread cookers.
I worked out of most of them for over 20 years. They are quite handy. Two of the all cast ones had belonged to my father. Back during the depression he had borrowed one from a friend and had 2 cast from it by a small foundry. The other 2 all cast ones are also reproductions I bought new in the late 1970's. The one in the picture I got "someplace", I don't recall right now.
The 2 I bought new from a trade vendor I bought for about $12 each. Today I think they are around $100 each.

Woodshop - Tack tray.jpg (36.11 KiB) Viewed 9722 times

.

[robinson46176]

Had a good shop day today, actually cleared out over 100 square feet and that area should stay "cleared". It is the area next to the stairs and I do have a stack of OSB leaning against the stairway. While I don't intend to store any "boards" there I do think that I might use that spot for some sheet goods storage since it only uses a few inches of actual floor space out from the wall and the spot is easy access to roll sheets over to it. I did roll my 510 over in front of the OSB tonight but that was OK because that spot is to be its regular home. Of course the sheet goods are 8' and the run of the stairs is just over that. The 6' long 510 leaves a couple of feet at one end and I want to make one of my mobile storage towers to sit there to store all of the stuff that is 510 specific.
I'm working on several other towers. The one that got me looking at towers originally is for my routers and all related jigs, cutters and accessories.
The second is to follow the double drill press around the shop and of course be home to all of the bits and other drill related stuff.
Another will be for clamps and will migrate between the work bench and a 3' x 6' assembly table that folds up and parks against a wall. It was supposed to store up against the ceiling on some supports but by the time I got it built it was too heavy to do that very easy.



.

[robinson46176]

Here is a shot of my SS 510 in its new working location... It doesn't look like a big deal but considering how much crap had accumulated there over the last dozen years and having an open area it is kind of a big deal to me.
Getting it moved over there freed up a big hole over by the bench / table saw area so I can "shuffle" stuff better there. I need to make a new lathe chisel rack, that one is kind of full.
I told a grown grandson this morning that I'll have it whipped into shape in another 60 or 70 years.

WS My SS 510 in its new working location Mar 2018.jpg (79.16 KiB) Viewed 9517 times

.

[JPG]

WHAzzAT???

temp.jpg (15.9 KiB) Viewed 9495 times