With the kids gone, and my wife leading a very active social life now, I have alot of alone time. Its nice, IM not complaining, but I can always put on a coat and sit in my garage and play with a machine or two or cut some wood.
Alan:while I havent drawn out the exact measurements down to the 1/4 or 1/8 th of an inch, I have the rough dimensions all drawn out and have to leave some of it as I go along. I have liberated 2 file cabinets, the kind with all those 2x6 inch drawers, great parts and hardware cabinets. I have to see if with the new castors I can incorporate one of them at least into one of the mobile work tables.
I dont move my tablesaw more than 2 feet, and my jointer is only pulled out a foot away from the wood pile. I also roll my bandsaw to the dust line I use for the jointer/planer.
My mitre saw is bolted to permanent table.
If I didnt need to cut one table down and move the mitre saw over to the left, I would have left the wall as is, but I wanted one rolling table devoted to assembly, one I can work on all 4 sides now.
My garage is 16x20.
The right wall has wood storage, coming out about 24 inches onto the floor, the back wall has nothing, the left wall will have all my work benches and mitre saw, drill press, mortiser,etc, and nothing will come out further than 35 inches off the wall.
The TS sits in front of the left work tables, and I move it facing out the garage opening when in use, unless its cold, I just back it up so I have enough outfeed space.(I use rollers on stands)
Im 99.5% sure I can fit everything I want, but then again, I have been wrong in the past, so Ill just do what I have to do when I get to it. 2x4s are cheap, and plywood can be reused.
I have a portable vise that clips on and has worked out fine for me, but I want to feel like a woodworker, so I want a wood vise attached to a work bench. Besides, it will help me cut dovetails eventually.
I had no clue how heavy that sucker was until I tried to lift it tonight.