Pretty much got the shop addition wrapped up aside from a few small details. Was tough to work on it with other commitments so nice to be at the near end. Nice to have plenty of power out there and no more lead cords
New (to me) lathe I found a lathe a couple hours away and trailered it home in a Jan snowstorm It's 10hp, 3 phase, about 4300 lbs, I discovered it was all there functionally but had not been maintained recently so I took it all apart and went thru it plus added a digital readout. I had to make a few parts to replace ones that were worn. Also purchased and wired in a 20hp rotary phase converter
As the late Steve Irwin would say... That is so commercial looking, I'm looking for employees in the pics. I have a nice "tinkerer/maintenance" shop, but nothing as serious as that. That said, I inherited my dad's "serious" shop (why I never needed on) up in North Carolina, but it's a mess. I may post some pics on here showing the upcoming clean up effort, which is the tail end of a long list of things I had to do up there over the last couple of years. Also, may post some "what is this?" questions as well. Great work though! What do you plan to do with it primarily?
Thanks, I have a machining side business that I hope to eventually do fulltime. I currently work nights and weekends at it. I have a CNC lathe also that I use mostly but it's nice to have the manual machine for one off stuff. Winter months are usually slow so the timing of this project was good as I need to stay busy, my OCD gets the best of me sometimes and I end up going deeper into these types of projects more than planned. I have been looking passively for a bigger lathe over the last couple years. This new one makes my current one look like a toy by comparison. I had to move some things around to fit it in so I re-positioned my Bridgeport to a better location while I was at it.
Few things bring out the green in me quite like a home machine shop ..... I barely can fit my bikes in my garage.
Not quite garage but something I've been meaning to do for a while especially after the drought we've had the last couple months 1000 gal water tower for my hobby orchard and the wife's garden
It's an indirect water heater set to 110*F https://www.supplyhouse.com/Bradfor...Stor-Series-Single-Wall-Indirect-Water-Heater The heat source is an outdoor wood boiler, the supply/return lines are the 1" orange pex
Ahh... Cool. I had built a house years ago with radiant floors using a BW combi-core, which is a dual circuit setup for both house water and heat circuit. Not a great thing when you're using a glycol mix on the heat side and the inner core fails.... Went to a separate system after that.
At least you used Propylene glycol so you can be here to tell the story I use a 40gal electric for domestic hot water
My mailbox has had years of snow plow abuse so I made a breakaway post to replace it. Used stainless thrust bearings for ease of movement. Frame is 2.5" 6061 Alum .25" wall.
Too much is just enough...lol. Silly question, which side of the drive is your box on? When I bought my house, the box was mounted on the left side of the drive (looking out from the house), and had the box knocked off the post at least 10 times. Moved it to the other side, and that allows the snow plow load to release into the driveway, so it doesn't blast the box. Haven't had a problem since.
Yeah, I told my wife that having machining equipment allows me to go overboard. Most of the time she just shakes her head and smiles. Box is on the right side of the driveway, seems like heavy slush getting thrown off the wing is what does the most damage. I think some kids have played mailbox baseball with it a few times over the years as it'll get tweaked in the summertime too.
Got the floors done in both the main 4 car and the separate building. Cabinets are all in, CNC mill is off the casters and living in its permanent position and new lights are up everywhere. Next project is getting the air system plumbed in permanently and the compressor moved out behind the building to where it will live long term.
While I'd love to have a setup that organized and clean, I have neither the discipline nor funds to make it that nice.
My only saving grace is not paying for much labor. I did pay for labor on the floors, but I would have spent as much renting the gear to do it. I would have bitched the whole time grinding that shit paint off the floors. I still had to pull all the base board off both garages so they could work up next to the drywall. Then the hassle of moving the CNC machine twice and moving everything between garages for a week. Hanging cabinets, running trim, hanging the lights and painting are all within my skill sets so just the supplies involved in those. Still not cheap but cheaper than it could have been.
