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Yes, its in the house, basement, attack, back room...
Yes, its out on the breezeway exposed to the elements
No, its located in the detached garage or shed
No, its located in a remote site
No, its at work in the company shop.
Oh, if I only had my own shop to tinker in!
I did have a garage shop, until the roof started leaking majorly, and i had to evacuate all my tools. Now i have half of the lounge in my flat used as a shop, its very pokey, and i can just use everything, but at least the lathe and mill arent rusting out in the garage.
RBIEZE,
I happen to see your head scratching on the 3000lb lathe.
I used a pair of 1/2 inch wall 4x4 angle iron "tracks" to slide my machines down the basement steps, nothing over a thousand pounds though.
I don't think this would be suitable for your situation but, I also considerd replacing the basement steps with a platform elevator run by cables and a winch.( wife said much on the subject... all of it bad)
I believe Harbor Frieght sells somthing like this.
merl
At the moment we're looking for a new house.
My only request was that it either have a garage/outhouse/big shed that I can convert into a workshop, or enough land that I can build a workshop. Im thinking 32'x32' or equivalent floor space in whatever measurements are cheapest, and Im seeing 220V and 110V mains supply, plus seperate 110V wall sockets run off my yet to be built wind turbine(s) to save some money on the electricity bills....:fingers crossed:
SWMBO's only request was that whether there is somewhere for a workshop already there, or it has to be built, that the house is completely finished first because she doesn't want to live in a building site while I make my workshop into luxury. I think thats a fair deal.
At the moment our terraced house just doesn't have anywhere to do 'stuff', so I invade my parents garage almost daily and drive my wonderful mother mad while I try to work around all the bags of vegetables, the boiler, the freezer, the dryer, and the random garden stuff she has in there. Shes in for a surprise when I finish my router and need somewhere to set it up!It'll probably end up running in the attic, and I'll have to carry wood up, and chips down, the attic ladder.
....I really need my own workshop!
Mines an 9' x 6' Shed. Contains a 5' 6" x 3' 3 axis CNC machine, PC, Tall Freezer, compressor, pillar dril, scroll saw, belt sander plus a libarary of books. Its starting to defy physics the amount of stuff crammed in their.
I haven't got a clue how am going to build the first 7' span RC plane that the router cuts.On the bonus side its fully insulated and I even put a carpet down and have a swivel chair.
Liam
I wish people would post some pics of their shops. I'd start the ball rolling but dont think the parents would appreciate me putting pics of their house on the internet! But when I have the workshop in a few months :touch wood: I'll post pics
bigz, I'd love to see that Harry Potter style magic shed!
For some reason I feel the same way about posting pics...mostly I'm just embarassed about the mess. Mines an attached garage. I get one of three spaces for machine shop, 1/2 for motorcycle work area and 1 1/2 for wife parking. I'm still trying to finish setting it up...just got my lights & electrical mostly finished.
Well myself and the missus still haven't bought a bigger house for my workshop, but I have managed to upgrade to a temporary shed for a while. So anyone else got pics?
Hi all, My very first 'shop' was a 6ft square wooden hut I built while serving my apprenticeship, from scavanged bits of timber in 1958.
Although the cat hit the walls when I swung it round, the bench and micro micro piddly little effort someone had the balls to call a lathe, added to my knowledge of engineering, and got most of the model engineering projects off the ground.
I now have a brick garage, 4 metres X 7 Metres, and regularly wade in and try to get rid of the accumulated bits of "treasure" that are going to be handy to build something one day.
The conclusion of it is that anyone who dabbles with tools, and has a yen to make things, needs somewhere to go so that you can sit in that dumpmaster reclaimed revolving office chair and stare at the walls while dreaming of the things you can make if you had the time.
Most of the time it serves as a service depot for the car,boat, garden machinery, decorating tools and a mass storage for all the worn out household junk that is too far gone to work but too good to throw away.
There are a lot of model workshops around, but they're not half as much fun to work in as one that is just for pottering in and odds and ends manufacturing.
It's a blokes world, where the male dominator can exercise total authority, entertain his mates and know that anything left lying around will be exactly where he left it, and not be put away never to be seen again.
Ian.
Hi all again, when I was in UK in the 70's I had a prefab concrete panel garage.
This was beut, but in the Spring and Autumn the cold nights and warm days caused the heavier bits of metal to sweat gallons of water, and so it was a battle to keep the rust at bay.
In spite of that, just to have somewhere to do things was freedom unparalleled by any posh shop.
Gotta go, I'm bidding on a tool and cutter grinder on the US Ebay site, and might just get lucky.
Ian.
My shop is in my attached garage with no room for a car of any size.
Vince
I had my wife take some pictures of my shop with her new digital camera so I could e-mail them to a friend of mine-- Good Lord! what a mess!! It's no wonder I get so much more ass time done down there than actual work.
I ended up not sending the pictures out of embarassment and took the pledge not to start any new progects untill it was cleaned up.
I decided as long as I'm cleaning I'll finely paint all the machines one color, of corse you can't do that without degreasing them and, if you're gonna' do that you might as well take them a little further apart to do a realy nice paint job and then, as long as yer' gonna' go that far I'll think real hard about scraping the ways on the shaper and....
Can't deside if I'm a perfectionist, just like to putter, or am obsesive compulsive?
Out of embarrasement, here is one picture of mi junk shop...
I took it 6 months ago. Now I have also a 10 Hp CNC lathe stuffed in here!
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