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krv3000:
HI OMG you can see your flor  :mmr:

AdeV:
How do you get/keep the swarf out of the carpet? I glued some carpet tiles down in front of the mill (to stop the steel floor from sucking too much heat out of my feet, brrr), but now of course they're jammed full of swarf... the hoover won't pick it up 'cos it's doing the whole velcro thing...

PS: It's not a dump, it's a very fine looking Man Cave. It just needs a bit more evidence of use...

latheman:
A few answering comments:

Obviously it was cleaned up and tidied up somewhat for the photos. but otherwise see my comments a few posts back. Note particularly the comment about having to tidy up or else I find myself with no bench space. Another point to consider is the actual space available. From a floor area of (from memory) 16' x 9', the free space in the middle is on average 4'6" x 9' which means I soon run out of floor space. Given that my eldest grandson, he of the gifted mental ability and uncanny practical ability comes over to use my stuff, two people in there end up doing the pasodoble. Which is another reason for keeping the place tidy.

Actually, there is now so little space available that I have to keep it tidy - there is little or no wasted wall space. I have even had to mount the miller on a movable trolley in order to get access into the white cupboard. Fortunately, I've no desire to obtain any more large equipment.

The floor is old carpet recovered from a bedroom after it was found to be well and truly damaged by the castors of the bed. Because it's old, and cut to fit around the legs of the benches etc it doesn't really matter what state it gets into. It's even been hit by the axe when chopping firewood! Actually, we have another carpet in the house just waiting to be downgraded....

Again, as stated somewhere above, cleaning after each session seems to keep it looking reasonable. I use a Vax Powa 4000 which at about 18 or more years old has been one of my better buys - it's just a pity that the replacement nozzle, a pattern part, does have internal ledges which makes it block up easily. The original was able to suck up absolutely anything big enough to go up the nozzle without blocking.

As far as evidence of use is concerned, this is a hobby, one of two actually. (The other is singing.) And as such it has to come after everything else, eg today I've assisted a friend with the purchase of a new printer, helped clean up after the tender ministrations of our 4 year old granddaughter (to be fair, SWMBO is suffering the after effects of one of these nasty bugs that are floating about), followed by getting the replacement chainsaw working and then cutting some wood up. By which time I've had enough for today - I am, afterall considerably nearer 70 than 60. But if you look carefully at the lathe photo, you will notice the missing paint off the back panel - caused by the chucks, chucking out all the cutting fluid etc, and although you can't see it, the marks go up the wall as well. Also, you can just about see marks on the tray caused by wear and tear. But yes, in general it doesn't look well used, but I assure you it is.

Why do I call it a dump? Well, how about I wanted to use a daft name which might create some feedback. But actually, it does seem to get used as a dump for all sorts of stuff - that is until I can get rid of it.

TTFN

Peter G. Shaw

jim:
excellent use of space!!

Davo J:
Hi Peter,
You have a nice shop their, don't worry about being clean as it's better to be clean and know where most things are than spend half the day trying to find something while tripping over stuff laying around. After looking at your photo's I noticed the back of the lathe and could tell it was well used.
I like your latest buys, they will come in handy, you guys are lucky over their with tooling you can get at the prices you do, because we have to buy from their and ship it over but it is still less expensive than buying from over here.
Keep up the good work, and I will look forward to seeing you projects.

Dave

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