New workshop time (nearly there...)

Sporky

Well, I suppose I could move the bench to where it's meant to be...

TTony

Not by yourself you couldn't 

Sporky

Fortunately I have a strong and determined wife.

TTony

That's enough of that sort of talk.

Sporky

She'd crush you like a dessicated husk.

TTony

I said that's enough of that sort of talk.


in other news, I've now got 1600mm x 1600mm of rock solid workbench built.  And I get to donate to the RSPCA too.  Win- win.

Sporky

You don't seem to have posted pictures.

Markeebee

Sorry sorry sorry.  Very late to this.

I hardly ever look at this site, although I plan to get a bit more stuck in from now onwards.

Anyways, my company http://www.humanworkspace.co.uk/ supplies workstations, materials handling, all sorts of goodies to manufacturing companies.  We often have stuff hanging around that's returned from customers, or we've ordered incorrectly or whatever.  If you, Sporky, or anyone else wants something please feel free to give me a tug and I might have something available for free, or at least stupid cheap.

I realise this all sounds a bit dodgy, but it's genuinely not an advert or anything, just an offer to help the community if I can.

TTony

On the upside, construction took c10 mins.

Still on the upside, these are absolutely rock solid.

On the other side, they're desk height (d'oh), rather than standing-up workbench height.

Maybe I'll just get a chair and use them for sitting-down tasks ...

TTony

Bit of progress



No electrics in there yet - that gets sorted the week after next.  This afternoon I spent moving everything around, then moving it again, and then moving it yet another time, until I was happy with the layout.

Yes, I could have done it all by moving lines around a PC screen, but my way used way more calories.

I've got another set of shelving to go at the back.  The blue pipe (back left) is a water supply.  Thought I might put a shower in there so I can clean off after a busy day workshopping ...





I'm thinking that the left side will be the main machinery.




Sit-down benches along the middle of the workshop, and standy-uppy benches on the right wall.  There's another workbench that'll fit at the back, past the red toolchest.


(I wasn't serious about the shower).

Sporky

Looks good.

Needs ducting. Lots of ducting.

TTony

They're on the ponds.

Sporky

No, really - are you not putting in dust extraction?

It's made a huge difference in mine.

TTony

I've got 5 x 4ft led tubes for lighting.

Going to put 2 down the centre, so they'll be above the desks, then 1 above each of the standy-uppy workbenches (I'm thinking that I'll put them on the wall where it meets the roof) and the final one on the opposite wall.  I've then got a couple of desk lights if needed.

TTony

I might put extraction down the left wall.  The bandsaw creates a lot of mess.  Plus I'll put the sander on that wall.

Dont really like having the handheld router connected to an extractor, just because the connector hose gets in the way.

If I use the thicknesser, that'll be outside, so mess don't matter.

Generally, I just get the maid to run the Dysan round the workshop when I've been doing messy stuff.

normula1

Assuming that you were being serious, won't the shower not introduce too much moisture?

TTony

normula1 said:

Assuming that you were being serious, won't the shower not introduce too much moisture?

TTony said:

(I wasn't serious about the shower).

I just wanted to have something in my workshop that Sporky doesn't have in his.

Sporky

I did more vice stuff today.

The end vice is mounted and working. Needs bench dog holes but otherwise there.

The front vice is a bit more work. It has collets that need a 58mm hole. I don't have a 58mm bit, so I traced the outline of the collet onto a bit of scrap ply (same bit I used for the leg pocket test). I cut that out with the scrollsaw and routed the pockets instead using the ply as a template. On the downside there's no adjustability on the vice rods, and I seem to have gotten the pockets about 0.5mm wrong, which is enough that the vice binds a bit.

Fixable but irritating.

Sporky

TTony said:

I just wanted to have something in my workshop that Sporky doesn't have in his.

Gah - sorry - forgot to post all the plumbing work I did. There's a whole wetroom!

Sesh

;TTony said:

 

I just wanted to have something in my workshop that Sporky doesn't have in his.

Guitars being built?