The making of three different shops

Landslide

Landslide

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So, I made an executive decision to do some serious rearranging and make three separate shops. My fab shop, machine shop and wood shop.

Currently, my machinist tooling and machines are in my out building fab shop. I need more room in there so that’s what sorta started this. My wood shop is in half of my basement and some machines like table saw are in my oversized 2 car attached garage.

I’m moving my wood tools and machines into my attached garage converting it into a nice full on wood shop. Then, I’m moving all my Machinest tooling and machines into my basement. I’ll have a fab shop, machine shop and wood shop then.

I’m happy about moving my wood shop into my garage due to dust control and the fact that I never parked in there for over ten years anyway. I think my basement will be a better environment for my Machinest tooling also.

So, it begins. I had to build another rotary phase converter as I have 3 phase machines for my fab shop, drill press, belt grinder and two bandsaws.

I moved several wood machines from my basement into my garage shop.

More to come as this goes.

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Keep fire extinguishers in garage/basement.

I would look into what insurance has to say, in the case SHTF you are not holding the bag.

Good dust collection system for garage should be your big project prior to everything migrating in there. Do it while you have room, do not want that to be getting into the house.
 
Gtrplyr78 said:
Keep fire extinguishers in garage/basement.

I would look into what insurance has to say, in the case SHTF you are not holding the bag.

Good dust collection system for garage should be your big project prior to everything migrating in there. Do it while you have room, do not want that to be getting into the house.
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I keep fire extinguishers on hand already. I don’t see anymore fire hazards then what I’ve been doing here for the last 24 years.

Dust collector is one thing that is already taken care of for my wood shop. I bought this thing used earlier this year.

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Having the "disciplines" separated makes a lot of sense.

When I built my original shop I put the metalworking and automotive stuff downstairs and the woodworking upstairs. Then I built an addition (the part to the left coming out to the front) to further separate the downstairs stuff. The plasma table and welding is over there while the main downstairs is automotive and "cleaner" metal work.

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Moved my wood working tool box from my basement to my garage tonight. Piece by piece

I’m jack wagoning myself into a tight corner moving stuff up into my garage when my garage isn’t ready for it all. But I have to make room in my basement for my Machinest tooling stuff. I’m very close to being ready to moving my mill and lathe next but still need a bit more room in my basement yet.

Not looking forward to moving those two machines as they’re heavy as fawk and I’ll most likely be doing it alone. At least I’m going to try that first. Only real problem area it getting them past my basement double wide walk out doorway… I think

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Landslide said:
I’m jack wagoning myself into a tight corner moving stuff up into my garage when my garage isn’t ready for it all.
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Moving things in the shop is always a combination of Tetris and one of those sliding square puzzles. You've got to figure out where things fit and move this to move that to move the other thing to get the first thing into place.

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PAToyota said:
Moving things in the shop is always a combination of Tetris and one of those sliding square puzzles. You've got to figure out where things fit and move this to move that to move the other thing to get the first thing into place.

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Yeah, I compare it to that as well.
 
I fully get the "get the wood out of the house". Had a woodshop in the basement in this house since the beginning and no matter how much I try, the dust still gets around. Moving soon and the next house, at least for a while, the tools are just going to live in the garage and go into the driveway when I have to do wood stuff. Long term I think the shed will house the woodworking tools along with yard crap, depending on how big a shed I'm allowed to put in
 
Ooooooouch, bought wiring supplies for the new wood shop. Gotta run three new 220v circuits and one or so 110v circuit for multiple outlets on the walls. I’m going to just face mount boxes on the walls instead of cutting the drywall out and drilling holes through the wall studs. Steel boxes and pvc conduit with stranded wires.

I saw a video on YouTube where a fella covered his wood shop walls with exterior plywood then ran French cleats all the way down it top to bottom. He just hangs all his stuff on the walls and can move things around easily. I’m considering going this route but would only go work bench top height and higher with the cleats I think.

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Moved my mill into my basement today. Got it setting in its new location but not done yet. I’m going to fab up some cross tubing with HD rubber leveling feet under it yet. Then wire it up and yada yada yada.

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Next up is moving my Sebastian lathe from my fab shop to my basement.

I’m fabbing up a custom fillet setup for it to aid in moving it. I’ll only need it to move in my basement.

Idea is to fab up to non steer caster wheels under the motor / gear box end and a steering skate under the tail end of the lathe.

I gathered up all the parts needed for the heavy end I’ll have to fab up but still need to scrounge up parts to build the steering skate end yet.

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Started on the steering skate end after cutting steel for the dolly wheel end

Skate consist of 8 roller bearings (I’ve had in stock since I was in my 20’s :laughing: ) 4 bolts and nuts for the bearings, square tubing that I glued two cutoff ends together instead of cutting off of good stock, a cut down bushing and tabs I had in stock for handle pivot, a big bearing race I had in my hydraulic press stuff and a rusty never been used front wheel drive unit bearing hub.

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Got the handle for the skate built and the two cross shafts from the rear dolly wheels

Just gotta weld up the rear dolly angle plates and cross shafts tubing and it should be ready to use.

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Got everything fabbed up for the move. Gotta do some work in my basement to get the area ready for my lathe yet.

Dolly and steering skate are finished.

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Currently working on making my Bridgeport mill leveling feet cross braces. I’m making them out of 3” square tubing 1/4” wall thickness.

Got some beefy HD rubber adjustable feet for it. Buddy has some 5/8” thread all I’ll use to secure these to the mill base.

Kicking around whether or not I wanna weld end caps on the square tubing. Just a finishing touch I think but not really that important as it’s not something I’m selling and or critical.

This will raise my mill 5” plus when done.

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Got the cross braces done, it’ll be a while before I can install these tho.

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Bought a freaking huge Lista (like a vidmar) cabinet off of FB MP cheap for my machine shop. I could use it in my wood shop too but for now the machine shop won out.

It needs a little TLC as one side was pulled out a little. Used a board and a sledge hammer then a dead blow hammer and it’s within a 1/8th inch now, was over a 1/2”. The drawers have a safety latch on one side. You have to use one hand to rotate the little lock lever then open the drawer with your other hand. This is something I’m not dealing with and will remove this off all the drawers. There is a pivot bar on the other side that allows you to rotate in front of the drawers and put a lock on it. I’ll use this if I need to move the cabinet to prevent the drawers from coming open.

I built a mobile base for it yesterday and plan on putting this on it today in my basement shop.
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Missed this thread earlier, but cool to be able to separate each type of work into different areas. Also enjoy having to machine things so you can move your machine tools around :lmao:
 
ridered3 said:
Missed this thread earlier, but cool to be able to separate each type of work into different areas. Also enjoy having to machine things so you can move your machine tools around :lmao:
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Yep, specially out of stuff I have in storage too 🤓
 
Whew, moved my new Lista cabinet and set it on its new base. Got one drawer left to work on the bent back side of. Got most of the bent out of it but gotta tweet it more and stopped on it to move things around when a friend came over to help.

That think is huge, you can tell by it next to my Lyon cabinet to the left which is a big cabinet.

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Moved my Sebastian lathe today too. The dolly setup I built to move it in my basement worked out excellent :smokin:

Now I need to get some leveling feet for it and level it out. If never was while it was in my fab shop.

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Landslide said:
Whew, moved my new Lista cabinet and set it on its new base. Got one drawer left to work on the bent back side of. Got most of the bent out of it but gotta tweet it more and stopped on it to move things around when a friend came over to help.

That think is huge, you can tell by it next to my Lyon cabinet to the left which is a big cabinet.

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I really hate to be negative but, that cabinet can hold way more weight than those casters can safely handle. Be careful
 
Firstram said:
I really hate to be negative but, that cabinet can hold way more weight than those casters can safely handle. Be careful
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They’re 3” steel casters and I think they’ll be ok.

I know the cabinet can hold more weight than it should so gotta be careful not to overload it for sure.
 
Landslide said:
They’re 3” steel casters and I think they’ll be ok.

I know the cabinet can hold more weight than it should so gotta be careful not to overload it for sure.
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Do the math before you move that cabinet after you fill it. Otherwise, I’m really jealous :smokin:
 
Firstram said:
Do the math before you move that cabinet after you fill it. Otherwise, I’m really jealous :smokin:
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I’m not sure why I said 3” but they are 4” steel caster wheels rated over 1,000lbs each. I’m not worried at all.
 
I hope I didn’t make this thing too tall :laughing: It’s going to be around 5.5 ~ 5.75” off the floor higher than on the base to floor.

The RxR jack works great doing this. The toe of it is a bit over an inch off the floor but nothing I couldn’t work around.

Next is installing the cross braces and leveling the mill.

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I got it leveled out and I think the height will be fine so far. While I was working on the leveling feet, my DRO readout mounting arm which was just laying on top of the mill base, fell off and onto the top of my skull. It hurt for couple minutes then the blood ran down my head. So, I had to deal with that. Now my stomach doesn’t feel good so not much progress today looks like. 🥹

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