Re: Is your Hobby Shop located in your home?
Its my attached garage. Small and peaceful.
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Re: Is your Hobby Shop located in your home?
Hi, if you're having space problems, maybe you could think back to the war days in UK when some people dug air raid shelters and outfitted them for the duration.....underground..........our air raid shelter was big enough to sleep 2 adults and 2 children in bunk style beds.........after the war it got filled in and grassed over.
Ian.
Re: Is your Hobby Shop located in your home?
2 lots away. I built a new shop, 25x34x12, 6 skylights, 10x10 glass door, 7x7 bath/shower, 14x25 mezzanine and a pad out back,34x10.
O 200 amp service also.
Re: Is your Hobby Shop located in your home?
Woodworking n metal stuff in the basement, automotive stuff in the dedicated detached garage.
Always so much to do/play with but never enough time...
Re: Is your Hobby Shop located in your home?
My machining hobby was never planned to happen. I was a licensed contractor for over 20 years and I built a 3000 SqFt warehouse next to my house for my contracting busiess. Just a tiny little office with a file room, back office, communication closet and a bathroom that I never finished. Still have to go in the house. I only ran a 100 amp service to my warehouse. Figured I'd NEVER even need that since the AC for the office was the biggest load. Thought I might run a few hand tools or an air compressor at most in the warehouse. A few computers in the office. Now there are 3 lathes, 6 mills, a CNC router, 3 drill presses, 4 soon to be 5 welders, and a 5 grinders in the shop. Along with that is a hard plastic injection machine (benchtop), a couple microwaves for cooking some plastics, an oven for powder coating, and melting pots for pewter, lead, and tin. Its common for their to be 3 mills running simultaneously, and not un common for me to have 4 running. I often do work on one of the lathes while the mills are running, but all lathes are manual so only one at a time with them. When I get a few machines going at once I have to mentally tally my electrical budget and account for the possible peak load of the air compressor or air conditioning compressor kicking on. I "almost" never weld when anything else is running. Occasionally I'll do some light gage MIG, but I have to remind myself there is a reason 2 (soon to be 3) of my welders require a 50 amp circuit.
If there is anything I would take away from this is if you ever build a shop calculate your service sub panel for twice what you think you could ever need, and then double that.
Re: Is your Hobby Shop located in your home?
In my free time I like to read a book, solve sudoku and sometimes I can play in a casino.