Bill Satko
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If you don't know, the pacific northwest is really seeing some heat over and above what we are use to. Portland is going to be seeing the brunt of the high temps. I know a lot of you around the country are not surprised at temperatures above 100 degrees where you live, but what you have to understand is that very few homes have air conditioning here in western Washington and Oregon.
Up here in Bellingham the temps are only going to get up to around 87, but Portland is going to see 103. I just spent the weekend down in Portland (a great city, by the way) taking a one day dovetail class with Gary Rogowski (Northwest Woodworking Studio). A few of the people taking the class were going to take the week long Dovetail Hope Chest class. So a lot of discussion yesterday was how they were going to handle the heat in the workshop in the coming week. During our class the temps started out around 65, but worked their way up to 93 before we left. That was the outside temp, not sure what it was inside, but I was sweating and I was parked next to one of the make-sift squirrel cage blowers Gary has around the shop. Must have been all that sawing that made me sweat.
I know Don Baer talks about working in his shop when it is in the 90's before he turns on the A/C, but I have been down in Arizona and I can handle that dry heat (to a point). I have also worked in the Southeast, and I don't know how you guys work in your shops without A/C there.
What is the worst condition you have ever worked in your shop? And then I have to ask why????
Up here in Bellingham the temps are only going to get up to around 87, but Portland is going to see 103. I just spent the weekend down in Portland (a great city, by the way) taking a one day dovetail class with Gary Rogowski (Northwest Woodworking Studio). A few of the people taking the class were going to take the week long Dovetail Hope Chest class. So a lot of discussion yesterday was how they were going to handle the heat in the workshop in the coming week. During our class the temps started out around 65, but worked their way up to 93 before we left. That was the outside temp, not sure what it was inside, but I was sweating and I was parked next to one of the make-sift squirrel cage blowers Gary has around the shop. Must have been all that sawing that made me sweat.
I know Don Baer talks about working in his shop when it is in the 90's before he turns on the A/C, but I have been down in Arizona and I can handle that dry heat (to a point). I have also worked in the Southeast, and I don't know how you guys work in your shops without A/C there.
What is the worst condition you have ever worked in your shop? And then I have to ask why????