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Catshooter:
Hello all.  Very nice forum you have here.  Thought I'd share my little slice of heaven.  It is about eight feet by nine feet, or, about three meters by two and a third meters.  The ceiling is about seven feet.  Worse than that though due to it's construction I can hang almost nothing from it.  Pity. 

Here's my lathe (Sherline):



I love the little bugger.  If I do my part it does his.  Bought this baby about ten years ago, it repaced their smaller lathe.  I have most of their attachments for it, some of which I have even used!

My mill (Sherline):



Some years back Sherline offered an 18 inch table and column.  I snapped them up.  Wonderful tools.

Another shop view:



The Kennedy tool box is a real problem.  It's running out of space and I'm not sure how that happens. :)  Up high on the right is my compressor.  It's output runs in a copper tube to the left where I made a very simple radiator just above my air conditioner.  Then back to the right (downhill all the way) where the controls/manifolding is.  The two eleven gallon receivers are on the floor beneath the compressor.  Don't show in the photo.

I went with this set up as I live in the USA in Florida.  Doesn't get all that humid here, I've seen it as low as 65%!   Usually it runs about 80% and up.  So I wanted to get as much water out of the air as I could.  Works well as I never get water out of the air hose.

Unlike many of you talented people I don't really make much in my shop.  Mostly I repair and modify stuff to suit.  I shoot and enjoy firearms, most of my 58 years.  I work on mine alot.  This is also where I cast my bullets and do my reloading.  I also fix whatever I need to to keep momma happy.  I retired from the industrial/commercial electrical field after 34 years almost four years ago and am greatly enjoying being retired.

I've really enjoyed looking threw this site.  I've learned some good stuff here and thanks be to you.


Cat

DaveH:
Cat,

Nice workshop  :thumbup: :clap:

I also luv my Sherlines.

 :beer:
DaveH

Brass_Machine:
Hiya Cat :wave:

Welcome to the collective :borg:

That is a nice clean shop you have there. What do you like to make/build in it?

Never owned a sherline, but I hear great things about them. Owners seem to be quite smitten with them.

Eric

Catshooter:
Thanks for the welcome Dave.

Eric,

It's really more a "modify this whatsit" to work better and/or "fix this dang thang that what broke" then build from scratch shop.  I've built things from scratch but not real projects like a steam engine or such.  I have had a hankering to build a scale model of a Ingersol Rand air compresser that I saw at one time.  Impressive machine.  It was a flat opposed twin, double acting with a 24 inch bore.  The kind where you start it, keep oil in it and then sometime in the future, like 30 years later you turn it off.  Very cool.

My shop is cluttered/dirty only durning a project.  I learned from my mother that if you leave everthing scattered from here to breakfast it takes forever to find stuff.  This is what she always did when cooking, stuff scattered all across the horizon, flour on the ceiling.  So I don't live that way.

The Sherline.  Well, there's several things I like about them.  For one, he only uses standard screws/fasteners that you can buy easily except where he can't.  Like a 20 tpi feedscrew.  Other than that they are off the shelf and he even tells you what size they are.  He'll sell them to you if you want.

They do everything in their plant except painting, all their own parts.  I appreciate that and it's getting more and more uncommon here in America.

He has a wide range of tooling to go with his machines and if the tool is appropriate for the lathe and the mill it'll fit both.  He feels (and has said so) that if he comes up with a new attachment and you have to modify your machine, no matter how old to make it work then he's failed as a designer.  I really like that.

The instructions that come with everything he makes are written like you'd see here: plain English.  I get so tired of instructions that were translated from French by a Chinese guy from Italy who was badly hung over that day.

So yes, I believe one could say I'm smitten.  :)  Of course I do wish the lathe was a six incher . . . or maybe an eight . . .

Thanks for the welcome gentlemen.


Cat

Brass_Machine:
I have read his (Joe Martin) book. Found it very interesting.

You can get a bunch of upgrades for your mill from A2Z

Engines are fun to build. It is a kick the first time seeing them run...

Eric

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