Let's See Your Shop

[pineyfolks]

The rotex is a horizontal mill.The motor is 1/2 hp from the 50's, I guess that's why it's so big. The vert saw a grob 4v-18 and the horizontal is an old Carolina that I rebuilt and modified. This is my retirement shop. I'm glad I have it to keep me busy

[EdK]

Now that's a man cave. Nice shop pineyfolks!

Ed

[DaveH]

WOW, that is really nice

DaveH

[ETC57]

Nice place to escape the stresses of day to day stuff!!


Jerry

[pineyfolks]

I was doing fine then developed a problem with my foot (diabetic) and was in a wheelchair for 3yrs. The building had just been put up and all I could do was look out the window at it. A lot of help from friends & family it all came together. I've been enjoying it for over 8yrs now

[bollie7]

Kenne
Nice workshop, but I'd like to ask about the building itself rather than the contents.
It appears to have some sort of arched roof?
Can you tell me about that please and maybe post a pic or 2.
thanks
Bollie7

[wrustle]

Gentlemen,

Hope you all are doing well. Been a long time since I've had any time to post in here. Quite a bit has gone on in the last eight months or so. We moved our shop, got a couple of new machines, and now things are just chugging right along!

Now and then I get a chance to get out and take some pictures or video.

Here's the latest fresh from the cutting room floor this evening!! Hope you enjoy and thanks for watching!!

Best Regards,
Russ

[kenne]

(08-05-2014, 07:16 PM)bollie7 Wrote: Kenne
Nice workshop, but I'd like to ask about the building itself rather than the contents.
It appears to have some sort of arched roof?
Can you tell me about that please and maybe post a pic or 2.
thanks
Bollie7

Hi Bollie , Yes it is basically an arched roof , the reason is my location has extraordinary high winds and this building stands it much better than our old shop . Having said that if I had it to do over again I would do this instead : get several shipping containers 20'-40' , level a site and put them together with an arched roof, and a couple of roll up doors . I could have saved thousands and had more storage to boot .
this building does two things well , fights the wind and holds back the heat , which we need help with most of the year . It cost over 60k to construct and took about two weeks . The company went out of business before I could buy an extention though.

[bollie7]

(08-05-2014, 09:35 PM)kenne Wrote:

(08-05-2014, 07:16 PM)bollie7 Wrote: Kenne
Nice workshop, but I'd like to ask about the building itself rather than the contents.
It appears to have some sort of arched roof?
Can you tell me about that please and maybe post a pic or 2.
thanks
Bollie7

Hi Bollie , Yes it is basically an arched roof , the reason is my location has extraordinary high winds and this building stands it much better than our old shop . Having said that if I had it to do over again I would do this instead : get several shipping containers 20'-40' , level a site and put them together with an arched roof, and a couple of roll up doors . I could have saved thousands and had more storage to boot .
this building does two things well , fights the wind and holds back the heat , which we need help with most of the year . It cost over 60k to construct and took about two weeks . The company went out of business before I could buy an extention though.

Ok thanks.
bollie7

[Shawn]

Some photos of my shop in about as clean a state as it gets. The two wooden cabinets are old paper forms cabinets and are full of material and milling accessories.





I love the little Benchmaster horizontal but it really needs a VFD and power feed table.


It's been slow going on the Smart and Brown 1024VSL but this Fall work will commence full tilt again.






Cnc X2 mill to the left of the horizontal


SB7" shaper is at my left elbow in the picture. The back corner is where the power hacksaw, bench grinder, buffers are located, along with a bunch of other junk. The $40 delta drill press is my best deal yet aside from the shaper but that was more of a gift from a machinist giving me a hand getting tooled up.


Shawn