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Shop Remodel 2007 - Update: We Have Power!

Did you get everything back inside, Vaughn? I guess you must have been working hard at it since I haven't seen you post anything tonight.:D

Hope you beat the weather.
 
Everything is Back Inside (Almost)

Tonight after work the primary task was to get everything back inside. There is a big rain storm predicted for later this week (Thursday or Friday, depending on which forecaster you ask). I figure I won't really set everything back up until I get the electrical work done. I also have a clamp rack and lumber rack on order, plus I'm planning to completely re-think the machine layout now that I can actually roll my mobile bases easily. As a result, nothing was put into its final place. The focus tonight was just to get anything that can't stand a bit of moisture back under the roof. There's still a few odds and ends in the driveway, but I'll handle them in the morning.

Here's what I started with:

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And here's how it looks now. Definitely not usable, but dry:

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In case you hadn't noticed, I also had a few hours of distraction assembling something Santa left sitting in a big box in the driveway:

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Looks like Christmas came early here. :D I still don't have power to run the dang thing, and no prediction from the electrician when it'll happen, but I found what I considered to be a good deal at Osolnik Machinery and pulled the trigger last week.

I took a lot of photos of the assembly process, but it's way late and I need to hit the showers. I'll organize the pics and post something in Lathe Land after I get some sleep.

And now you know...the REST of the story! ;)
 
rock on vaughn! nice score:D.......you`d better be nice to mama for the rest of the year for that little gift:rolleyes:
 
Hey Vaughn, much like your HOOVER DC......................

.........YOU SUCK............

in the nicest possible way! :D :thumb: :wave:

Great score, but I have to say, the tools all setting outside there, the floor looks good enough there, why did you not just build a roof, and expand the workshop :D :rofl:

Boy it must hurt to sit there and stare at the Mustard Monster and have no electrons to run it :doh:

Oh well, in good time I guess.

Cheers! -- the "YOU SUCK" kind :wave:
 
Floor looks great. I am envious.

Your arrangement and mine look a lot a like right now. ;)

And I was looking at the photos and thinking, "I thought he had a Sears lathe??".
 
WOW! Nice lathe Vaughn and good looking floor! :thumb:
You are going to love being able to scoot the tools around.

(Now where did I put my truck? :huh:
It was here when I started moving stuff in. :dunno:)

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

DT
 
Quick Update

Things have been slow but steady on the remodel this week. The electrician got the main panel on the house upgraded Monday, but now we're waiting for the city inspector to sign off on that part before they can install the shop subpanel. Hopefully they'll get that done this coming week.

In the meantime, I've been doing a bit of organizing and such. I got a rolling clamp rack assembled and filled (emptying a drawer in the process), installed a wall mounted clamp rack for the Besseys and Gros Stabils, and got a Triton lumber rack installed.

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BTW, the clamp rack is indeed real close to the lumber rack. This rack will be for shorter pieces of lumber. The few pieces of longer stuff I usually have will go on other hooks above the racks that have yet to be mounted.

The past two nights have been spend wire-brushing, priming, and painting an old steel drawer cabinet that was my granddad's. It's WWII-era government surplus, and has held up remarkably well. It had some rusty spots from sitting outside for 6 or 7 years in the early 90s, but are few coats of primer and Rustoleum later, it's ready for another 60 years of service. I put wheels on it last week, and it's going to become my rolling lathe accessory cart. (I still need to rebuild the wooden top, but that's a lower-priority project.)

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The major power tools are still bunched together in the middle of the shop to allow the electricians access to the wall where the panel is going. Once they are done hooking me up, I can set everything up in its new location and get back into business. Still need to figure out the final layout and how I want to run the DC hoses. I've got about a dozen variations saved in SketchUp. I'll wait until I'm actually moving things around before I make a final decision on the floor plan.

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I'm also planning to shuffle a lot of things from one drawer to another in the various cabinets I have around the shop. Now that I have a better idea of the tools I use the most, I want to re-arrange things so they are easiest to get to. For example, the turning tools will all be in drawers right behind me when I'm turning.

So...not a lot to show to the crowd right now, but things are indeed moving in the right direction.
 
Bruce Page said:
...I love the drawer runners in your granddad's cart. It was built back in the KISS era. :thumb:
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Yeah, it's all heavy gauge steel, welded like a battleship. I saved (and masked off) the Zia Company inventory tag. This was from the early days of Los Alamos. I have a wooden drawer cabinet from the same era that needs some TLC, too, but it's still holding up.
 
Vaughn McMillan said:
Yeah, it's all heavy gauge steel, welded like a battleship. I saved (and masked off) the Zia Company inventory tag. This was from the early days of Los Alamos. I have a wooden drawer cabinet from the same era that needs some TLC, too, but it's still holding up.
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Does that mean the cabinet glows in the dark :eek:

Waiting on city inspectors, well I hope they have all not taken the rest of the year off already, that would suck :D

You MUST be getting anxious to get the Mustard up and running..... :dunno:

Well, progress is a good thing, and having the chance to reorganize is really nice, time consuming but nice :thumb:
 
Vaughn McMillan said:
Yeah, it's all heavy gauge steel, welded like a battleship. I saved (and masked off) the Zia Company inventory tag. This was from the early days of Los Alamos. I have a wooden drawer cabinet from the same era that needs some TLC, too, but it's still holding up.
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I'm dating myself but Zia was the facilities support company when I worked up there (76-83).
 
Bruce Page said:
I'm dating myself but Zia was the facilities support company when I worked up there (76-83).
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I used to date myself...







but then I got a girlfriend. Ba da bump.


I'll be here all week. Try the veal, and don't forget to tip the waitresses. :rofl:


Granddad was a refrigeration mechanic for Zia from the late 40s till the early 60s, when he retired. I suspect he bought the cabinet from the surplus yard. ;)
 
Vaughn McMillan said:
......... Still need to figure out the final layout and how I want to run the DC hoses. I've got about a dozen variations saved in SketchUp. I'll wait until I'm actually moving things around before I make a final decision on the floor plan...........
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Smart idea! I don't care how much you..... well at least for me, I planned and sketched. When I started moving things it just wasn't as neat as it was on paper. Main thing I ran into was all the small stuff that wasn't in my Sketch. Like the airless sprayer. The spare toolbox. The treasures in the box that I MIGHT need someday and didn't want to toss. Every time I would see something that I wanted to change in the layout. Usually minor but none the less it needed to be different that what I had laid out.
 
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