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bogstandard:
Bernd,
You are a truly downright rotten person, showing off with all that space. :hammer: ::)
But I can see your problem straight away, and I think most people with small shops can as well.
You are only using surfaces that are parallel to the floor. You need to think right angles as well, the walls can be the most important areas for storage, if used in the correct way.
I did a bit about wall mounting on MEMS, and it is really the best way to go. Not all shelves, but racks as well.
Make it vertical and easily accessible.
I took these piccies only a short while ago, so you have to excuse the condition of the lathe, it is half way thru a production job. I have only just started to mount the tooling for the lathe, and as you can see, because they are in such easy accessible places, one bit off, put away, new bit on. You will also notice, bits for the headstock are stored at the headstock end, the same for the tailstock. You will notice the area between the collet racks and the wall, that will have the QCTP holders mounted there. There will also be another small shelf, the same size and located above the one at the tailstock end, for more tailstock related bits.
The mill area is nearly finished, when I finally get a set of metric and imp R8 collets, they too will be mounted in this area.
If you don't go to these extraordinary lengths, it is very easy to have bits and pieces everywhere. I will admit, that my hand tools end up everywhere, purely because they haven't found a real place to live yet, just a box under a bench, but when eventually they do, everything will be put away when it is finished with.
Bogs
Bernd:
--- Quote from: Darren on December 22, 2008, 01:48:32 PM ---I thought you said it was full Bernd?
That's positively empty by British standards, you can get loads more in there yet :lol:
I take it you get frequent power cuts round your way?
Darren
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It is full by my standards. You should have seen it when we painted the floor. It looked like a bowling alley. I figured I never would fill that all up.
I can understand your "empty by British standards" from the pic Bogs posted in one of the threads. You are packed in like sardines in a tin.
No, we rarley get power outages. The stove costs less to operate in dollars but not time. If I was to run the gas boiler to heat the house I'd probanly be paying around $350 to $400 a month.
Bernd
Darren:
Then why have you got so many Tilley lamps?
I mean, junk them out the door and you could get a whole new machine in there !! :lol:
Bernd:
--- Quote from: bogstandard on December 22, 2008, 01:51:29 PM ---Bernd,
You are a truly downright rotten person, showing off with all that space. :hammer: ::)
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Aw Bogs I'm truly hurt by that coment. :( ( :) )
--- Quote ---You are only using surfaces that are parallel to the floor. You need to think right angles as well, the walls can be the most important areas for storage, if used in the correct way.
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Yes, I know that. But let me explain why there have been no shelfs put up yet. On the one wall, where the model railroad is being built, you will notice that I have started to add insulation. Over here code dictates that the basement wall be insulated 3 feet below the frost line. So I need to do that all the way around the basement and add, what we call dry wall, to the walls before I can add any kind of shelfing. I'm in a catch 22 here. Plus I have all that free shelfing that needs to get used also. I picked that up this past spring.
--- Quote ---I took these piccies only a short while ago, so you have to excuse the condition of the lathe, it is half way thru a production job. I have only just started to mount the tooling for the lathe, and as you can see, because they are in such easy accessible places, one bit off, put away, new bit on. You will also notice, bits for the headstock are stored at the headstock end, the same for the tailstock. You will notice the area between the collet racks and the wall, that will have the QCTP holders mounted there. There will also be another small shelf, the same size and located above the one at the tailstock end, for more tailstock related bits.
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Believe me John I'd trade your shop for my space any time. Hopefully once i get a bit more of the walls done I can do what you have done in your shop.
That's what I envy about your shop is how well you orginized it. The pictures are proof of this.
--- Quote ---If you don't go to these extraordinary lengths, it is very easy to have bits and pieces everywhere.
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A very wise statement there John. My problem is going to those extraordinary lengths. Call it lazyness and a desire to see the finished product. Bad habit I need to break myself of. My model shop needs to get straightened out first with some more work benches and cabinets. I need to find that round-tuit that was sent to me. :)
Bernd
Bernd:
--- Quote from: Darren on December 22, 2008, 02:45:58 PM ---Then why have you got so many Tilley lamps?
I mean, junk them out the door and you could get a whole new machine in there !! :lol:
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I guess I don't understand the British term of Tilley lamps. We call them railroad lanterns. Collectors over here pay big bucks for these things. That collection would probably buy me another Bridgeport and a whole bit of tooling. They are more collectors items than lamps for power outages, but we have used them when the power has gone off. They give off quite a bit of heat to.
Bernd
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