New workshop time (nearly there...)

TTony

 I have that same racking - though in boring single colour blue.

I feel it is so much better now - my selection has been validated by the workshop expert.

Sporky

I don't believe I have in any way endorsed a single colour approach?

olafgarten

TTony said:

 I have that same racking - though in boring single colour blue.

I feel it is so much better now - my selection has been validated by the workshop expert.

Sporky said:

I don't believe I have in any way endorsed a single colour approach?

Yeah, it's useless in one colour.

TimmyO

Yes, to quote a visionary of our times "Red ones are better" 

Sporky

Multicoloured ones are best.

TimmyO

I am trying to work out how long I think it will be before this is being installed : 

Sporky

A laser cutter is on the shopping list - probably five years away though, and probably a Trotec.

TTony

Right.

I've trashed my old shelving.

Which was a shame, because everything that was on it, is now on the ground in a big broken heap.  But I can't be using stuff that's not been Sporked.

Sporky

That was silly. You only needed to buy another set in a different colour and swap bits over.

TimmyO

Sporky

Don't be silly. How would that possibly work?

capo4th

Where are the shelves from and how much per unit pls

TTony

capo4th said:

Where are the shelves from and how much per unit pls

Take your pick on eBay,  They're about £25 per set.

Sporky

Yup. Mine were these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191958740076?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&var=491174119552&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Sporky

The sheds have arrived; I am trying to decide if it's too dark to get started. Probably it isn't - I can at least measure up the floor against the bases and get them cut down to size.

Sporky

Top tip: When buying sheds, make sure you check whether they come with a floor.

I have ordered two sheets of hardboard-backed ply.

Sporky

And the ply has arrived, along with the remaining cramps. I've collected some scrap wood and an old door from the old workshop - the door makes a brilliant surface to cut big sheets on using the tracksaw. There may be photos about this shortly.

I'm also aware that I've been putting off building my bench and need to crack on with that if I'm going to actually use the workshop at all! Last night I did get the amp on some brackets to stick to the wall, need to do the same for the Gramofon (which works brilliantly for Spotify). Once the bench is done I can get the Beta cabinets under it out of the way and work out where the rest of the racking will fit around the machines.

BigMonka

What design have you got in mind for the new benches?

Sporky

I'll post a rendering - I test a lot of ideas in CAD first, but that's on the other PC(s).

Basically though it'll be a 40mm beech kitchen worktop on a supporting frame made from poplar planks (which I have left over from another project that disappeared), so I can make finger joints using multiple planks for each bit, while keeping the cutting list really straightforward. Probably going for a 4m worktop which'll be cut at 45 degrees from the 3m mark backwards, then the end bit gets flipped and I get an L-shaped desk that fits neatly at the end of the workshop.

Also just ordered a Centipede sawhorse as Amazon have £10 off a £50 order, and it looks like an even better solution than using an old door - this and the tracksaw means I can cut down full sheets of ply and similar without taking up a lot of space when not in use. Also turns out that there's a local timber merchant with free delivery and online sales at perfectly sensible prices.

http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2013/07/centipede-sawhorse-1.jpg

Sporky

Today I sorted out the shed bases. Cut the plastic bases down with a reciprosaw, and more importantly made up the ply floors.

So... this is the frame for the base - its meant to sit on a concrete slab, and thus needs a 71cm x 164cm bit of ply in the middle for the hollow bases I've used:

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/new_workshop/210117 sheds/baseframe.jpg

So... lovely new Centipede sawhorse arrived today. Lady BMcH helped get the ply onto it, and out came the railsaw.

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/new_workshop/210117 sheds/centipede.jpg

So this is the stuff - mask, goggles and ear defenders and the railsaw, with rails and clamps. If you've not seen one before, it's basically a circular saw that runs along a track giving very straight cuts.

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/new_workshop/210117 sheds/stuff.jpg

Lots of people say you don't need clamps, just gravity glue, but I like clamps. They slot into the, erm, slot in the bottom of the rail.

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/new_workshop/210117 sheds/clamp.jpg

The saw has a depth stop, and a scoring stop - so the first cut goes about 2-3mm deep so that the final cut doesn't splinter the outer panel:

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/new_workshop/210117 sheds/scorecut.jpg

A few cuts later and this fits nicely into the frame:

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/new_workshop/210117 sheds/rectply.jpg

Just needs some slots cut for the corner braces, so out come the lightweight aluminium straightedge (which will reappear with friends when it's time to make the router table), the new lightweight Bessey clamps and the Bosch laminate trimmer/palm router:

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/new_workshop/210117 sheds/corners.jpg

I can assure you that they fit very nicely. Tomorrow the shed building will continue.