New Nevada shop

[Vaughn McMillan]

You're making nice progress, Carol. I would have spent a week just figuring out where to put the lights. Looks like it'll be a nice playroom when you get it all set up.

[larry merlau]

reminds me of a cluttered shop i was in at strawberry AZ, the curtain type entrance and all well lit just like this one

[Rennie Heuer]

That is a nice space! (BTW, lights are like clamps. Can you ever have too many?)

[Carol Reed]

Productive day. Decided to install another 2x4 power pole and group tools around it. First, had to move a few things. Shop crane is indispensible.



Then a 2x4 up the back spine of the band saw.



Then I moved in the drill press and its tool box.



Here is the walk around.





And on the 'back' side of the power pole is the jointer.



This group is at the head of a line which will include a bench and the spindle sander. More later. Time to go to work as the preacher lady.

[Karl Laustrup]

Looking good Carol.

The way you're grouping your power tools around a "power pole" seems to be a great idea. You can't use two at the same time so no worries about blowing a circuit breaker. Looks like you'll have plenty of lighting. I don't think I could ever have too much lighting.

[Bill Arnold]

You're moving right along, Carol. Good Work!

[Rob Keeble]

Real good to see how you do it Carol. The mobile aspect is taking on more meaning to me every day.
Power pole is a really good idea.
Btw you seem to have an affinity for yella.

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[Carol Reed]

As you might suspect, it is hard for me to find time to get out to the shop this time of the year, but today I snuck in a few hours. Here is what happened. Enjoy the yucks. Bet it has happened to you, too.

One of the frustrations of putting a shop back together is finding hardware. You know, screws, bolts, nuts, washers, and 'stuff.' When I moved from California, I gave that stuff away. It was a very expensive decision. This time I loaded it up to take with me. Here is one trunk full, half unloaded and laying around everywhere:



A while back, Harbor Freight had these nifty bins on sale for $10 for 20 bins. I bought 6 cases - 120 bins. I'm set. Cool.



Now the wall I want to mount these on have a couple of stacks of moving blankets cuttering things up.



I'll have to make a shelf. I need to rip some material. Guess I'll need to get the saw operational. I got power to it a couple of weeks ago. I'll just have to add the outfeed table. Oops. Have to find the angle iron for the back of the saw. Well, that only took about a half hour. Did find whole bunch of other stuff that I've been wondering where it was hiding. I did have to install the right extension first, though.





And then the outfeed. Here I got so buzy, I failed to take pictures. I was bogged down in finding hardware to attach things. Isn't this where I entered this scenario? But to preservere. Finally.



Now, where is the fence? And the splitter, and the wrenches? Maybe a blade would be good, too.

Ahh, shoot. My feet are freezing and my fingers are numb. I thnk I earned a couple of fingers of Woodford Reserve tonight.

[Karl Laustrup]

LOL. Don't I know about starting one thing and ending up doing sixteen others in the process. I look at my shop right now and think it'll take me a day just to straighten up. Of course thats if I can stay concentrated on cleaning and straightening.

You're making good progress though.

[Bob Gibson]

Fantastic progress Carol. Are you doing this all by yourself
You sure have some fantastic equipment. I'm so jealous

How about the RAS. Weren't you setting one up for dados?