OK, Guys, post pictures and description of your shop!

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Hey Guys,

Right now I am in the throws of moving my shop from rented space to my garage. I will post pics when I have them. But, I will give you a description of what I have happening;

I have a total floor space of 11 by 17 feet. In that space I have the following;

13 bikes
3 unicycles
two bench top milling machines (one CNC)
CNC computer
bench top lathe
drill press
MIG welder
TIG welder
compressor with recoiling 50 foot hose
plasma cutter
band saw
table saw
various power saws
shop vac
bench top belt sander
3.5 by 6 foot assembly table
40 square feet of work bench
120 square feet of heavy buty storage shelving
air conditioner
heater
flat screen tv and suround sound (gotta have the creature comforts :wink: !)

Even with all this stuff in such a tiny space, I have 3 feet of space to walk all the way around my 3.5 foot by 6 foot assembly table!

Wait till you see the pictures of how I did this. Man, I have stuff mounted to the ceiling above my garage door, there is stuff haning from the walls, the bikes are hanging from a rack like shirts in a closet. It is truly an exercise in space conservation. My shop is not so much a tiny workshop as it is a very large work station. It is all setup very ergonomic. :)

So, post your shop pics and descriptions! :mrgreen:

Matt
 
Hillhater said:
recumpence said:
flat screen tv and suround sound (gotta have the creature comforts :wink: !)
Matt
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Hmmmm ? so where is the beer fridge or coffee maker ???
Priorities Matt, Priorities ! :wink:
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Hmm, well, I don't drink. But, I have considered a small fridge and microwave. I am trying to minimize equipment out there. Besides, my garage is attached to my house. In fact, it is directly attached to my storage room where I have an upright freezer and a refrigerator. So, I am only about 4 footsteps from food and beverages anyway.

I have a coupld cool neon lights I am hanging and I am sure some other cool stuff will dangle from the walls. This is being built as a 100% full function metal shop and a "Man Cave" all in one. My huge air cannon will be in a very prominent spot hanging from the edge of one of the shelving units on display and a hand build 1/8 scale RC monster truck will be on its own shelf on display too. It will look cool.

Matt
 
I have two shops. One in my garage, which I chronically have filled to the gills (despite being a two car garage). The other is a shop out in the country which is filled literally to the ceiling with all kinds of goodies.

However, these will both go away after I finish my current project. I am working on transforming 4 intermodal shipping containers into a portable shop. By portable, I mean, it will be set-up so the power can accept single or 3-phase, the slab floors will be modular and easily moved, and the whole outfit will be fitted with fork pockets so it can be placed with a Lull high loader instead of a crane.

It will be two stories high. The bottom level will have the corrugated metal removed on one side, and I have some very heavy duty steel shelves which will get welded in place, providing even greater strength than the corrugation, and allowing the bottom floor to have an open workshop feel to it. There will be space for a semi-trailer to back in, and an overhead crane to directly unload other intermodals.

I started researching this about 6 years ago, and have everything ready, except the I-beam was stolen. I have been preparing to start a thread on building with intermodal shipping containers, and will post it all there.

I love seeing peoples work spaces. What I have going on sounds great, but I am currently working out of a shoebox. Can't wait to see what other people have going on.
 
I don't have a "shop" per se. It's a crammed full toybox. Work space is created by parking a car outside the regular USA style garage attached to the house. In that garage, is a set of bins full of bike parts, controllers, wiring supplies etc. Behind me as I took this pic, is a largish pile of bikes, mostly stripped of usable parts like straight wheels, brake handles, shifters, etc. So it's really just a bike frame boneyard.

Here's the toybox, mostly crammed full of windsurfers and hot air balloons, with a narrow isle crammed with ebikes and larger bike parts I don't want rain to get on. Lotta motor boxes I need to get rid of.Toybox.jpg
 
related:
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25790
 
I'd post a picture of my workshop, but the wife says our livingroom is in no condition for guests :mrgreen:
 
Last week I built my retracting lights. Today I ran air in my shop and setup my plasma cutter [side bar] Plasma cutters are freaking AWESOME! Holy Crap, this thing ROCKS! It cuts through metal like butter! It makes a horrible mess, though.

But, my goodness, this makes metal working sooo much easier....... :D I plan on having my shop done and ready for production September 1st. I will post pictures when it looks somewhat finished.

Matt
 
Call me paranoid (even though I have in the past showed odds and ends in my shop) but I would be worried about the wrong type of person lurking in a post like this to do some further detective work to find out ones address for a robbery. Hate to think this way but think about it, If I was someone looking for a heist on some nice tools etc what a nice way to see where everything is ahead of time and then find out where you live etc. I am out in the country and kind of in the middle of no where so I am really not all that worried about this happening to me and also most of my tools etc are junk but If I was in the city with nice stuff I would think twice about posting a photo here of all my nice stuff.

Wayne
 
Hmm...shop...would be nice. My "shop" is whatever semi-flat space I have at the moment to spread out parts and tools for whatever project I must work on. :)

Sometimes there is no flat space in the house so it is wherever in the yard the dogs are not playing.

Pics...well, those are all thru my build threads, I guess. :)

I have big plans for turning the back room into a shop, but...time gets away from me and I never really get it started.


(skip the griping below if you prefer)


Problem is, last year the city decided I had too much visible stuff outside, right when I was in the middle of rearranging the house to get me that shop set up, so I couldn't finish doing it and had to just move it all inside (what I could keep of it), and so now there is virtually no open space in that room, and not a lot elsewhere, including either of the two sheds. I had planned to turn the new shed I was to put up into the outdoor part of the shop, for welding and other stuff that can't be done in the house, but it was the first thing to be filled up with stuff I needed to keep but can't keep visibly outside. I'd planned to turn the back room into the indoor part of teh shop, for doing all the stuff that can be done indoors and best done in a cooled space (in summer at least). But it was the second place I had to fill up with stuff....

So now the only way to fix the problem (besides getting rid of stuff, whcih I can't do because I need it for the projects the shop is *for*) is to shuffle things form one room to another until the shop sutff is in the shop and hte other stuff is not, so I have room to do things. It's a really slow process, as I can only spend a little time on it each week, between work and just being tired, and it being way too hot to do it most of the time in summer (even at night). Ideally I'd move it all out to the backyard and sort it there, then move it back to the appropriate rooms, but if I did the city would probably ticket me as it would take a couple of months or more to do all this, at the rate I can get physically-intensive things done.
 
Robbery, heh heh. Come and get it. My shop hasn't been locked in 30 years, nor my house. You barely have to duck to walk in the dog door. Lowlifes walk fast in front of my house, for fear the gate latch will break. :)

My dogs don't yap. They go WOOOOOF. The pack is small nowdays, ony 350 pounds of dogs at the moment. At times we've had as many as 7 dogs, all over 100 pounds each.
 
recumpence said:
Last week I built my retracting lights. Today I ran air in my shop and setup my plasma cutter [side bar] Plasma cutters are freaking AWESOME! Holy Crap, this thing ROCKS! It cuts through metal like butter! It makes a horrible mess, though.

But, my goodness, this makes metal working sooo much easier....... :D I plan on having my shop done and ready for production September 1st. I will post pictures when it looks somewhat finished.

Matt
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Hey Matt. If you need a CNC profile plasma cutter, we make these:

http://www.linatrol.com/

If you want weld prep, get the 3D bevel head:

http://www.linatrol.com/bevel.html

:)
 
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