Daily Shop Improvement

[ShawnR]

Been thinking about doing this for a while. When I built the shop 15ish years ago, I had access, at a very good price, to large windows (82 x 36") so put three in the shop. Thought it would be great! As much as it is nice, it robs a lot of of wall space. And I am starting to have concerns about the shop contents being too visible, especially when working at night. We are semi rural. One window got fully covered a couple of years ago with a sheet of plywood (don't miss the window at all) and this weekend, I got this done. I still have the options of opening it, but can close it up when I want. I also got rid of some of my materials pile. The cherry plywood was left over from a kitchen job I did a few years ago. That leaves one large window over the lathe to decide whether to do the same or not. That one will be missed more as it looks over the yard. The other ones just backed onto the treed property line.

And that project lead to cleaning and reorganizing a bit too. The oil stains on the wall are from the old lathe that I had at one time. All in all, a good change so far.

 

[YotaBota]

Ya gotta have a place close for tools. The other lathe is on a 9 drawer tool bench that has peg board added on the backside of the bench.
The new lathe is on a flat top angle iron stand with just a shelf underneath, no place handy and dry for wrenches and stuff. So I made a frame for a 3'x4' piece of peg board, screwed it to the wall and made a shelf for the toolpost holders. Now most of the tools I use are right close, clean, dry and there's a bit of room to grow.

 

[YYCHM]

How many QCTP tool holders do you have? I count 7 there.

 

[YotaBota]

That's all of them, for now. I have the knurler as well but it's,,,,,,,,,,,, around here somewhere. lol

 

[Janger]

I bought some accusize holders recently - they’re surprisingly nice.

 

[DavidR8]

@YotaBota let me try one of his Accusize holders on my Bostar toolpost and they fit well.

 

[Dusty]

@YotaBota let me try one of his Accusize holders on my Bostar toolpost and they fit well.

Atta boy David, I just knew you would like them.

 

[Dusty]

I bought some accusize holders recently - they’re surprisingly nice.

For me they're a good bang for the buck.

 

[kevin.decelles]

Modified a welding tank-cart to handle propane bottle for my oxy propane rig


added some supports for the torch and cables, and a quick coat of primer

Ready to roll.

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[DPittman]

Looks like one I remember somewhere along the way that was built out of old chromed frame kitchen chairs. Looks good!

 

[Bofobo]

Got myself a 2x72 belt grinder built finally, couple finishing touches and I’ll have an update w/photos, but it would be rude not to tease a photo I guess.

 

[Dusty]

Got myself a 2x72 belt grinder built finally, couple finishing touches and I’ll have an update w/photos, but it would be rude not to tease a photo I guess. View attachment 14182

Had a wench tease me before but never a wrench.

 

[Bofobo]

Had a wench tease me before but never a wrench.

That was totally Unrealized at the time, that’d be meme-able material lol

 

[Chicken lights]

Don’t zoom in on the welds

Made that yesterday to hang an oversized load banner, at the back of a trailer. It’s just an idea I’m trying, it may work great it may not

 

[kevin.decelles]

Don’t zoom in on the welds

Made that yesterday to hang an oversized load banner, at the back of a trailer. It’s just an idea I’m trying, it may work great it may not

That looks aquarium support ready.

 

[Chicken lights]

Got my chain trays (centre) clearanced and test fit, and catwalk bolted in. Then spent a couple hours mounting the second toolbox. Made sure it was nice and square to the frame, measured 16 times drilled once. All bolted up try to open the door and CLUNK it hits the headache rack by 1/8”

GD it

Also I probably should buy an annular cutter but drilling frames suck without a mag drill. However a reamer with lots of oil seems to work decent

 

[YYCHM]

Made sure it was nice and square to the frame, measured 16 times drilled once. All bolted up try to open the door and CLUNK it hits the headache rack by 1/8”

That sounds like the story of my life LOL...…...

 

[Janger]

You didn't measure 32 times. tsk tsk.
sorry couldn't help it. ! ha

 

[PeterT]

I've been wanting to replace my drawer/cabinet units for over a year now. They are probably 25 years old, so don't owe me anything. They have been through a few moves and probably endured thousands of drawer cycles. But they are falling apart despite several hack job fix-its, maybe helped along by overloading a few drawers due to limited space. I wanted to keep my table top but I no longer sit at this table so I didn't need the center opening. figured I'd fill the volume with drawers & shelves for maximum SCF (Stuff Concentration Factor). The originals were Ikea but not great quality. Kind of mickey mouse slides, hardware & not much depth. I searched high & low for 'cheap' kitchen cabinets but they are slim pickins. I wasn't too keen on making my own because I'm not really set up for that.

 

[PeterT]

I found some units at... guess where... Ikea again. But they have improved over my vintage. Legitimate steel bearing slides with stops, beefier box & retention hardware. They had a system with identical box dimensions but one had a filing cabinet bottom drawer which I actually preferred over a bank of drawers only because I could put tall stuff in there. But with all the pandemic rigmarole they were perpetually out of stock. This went on for better part of a year & I just gave up. Then about a month ago I checked again. Lots of drawer units but discontinued or redesign of the deep drawer unit. I figured I wanted this over & with so just bit the bullet. To make me feel a bit better I couldn't even buy the materials at Home Depot never mind the work.