I revived a table top.
What did you do in your shop today?
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Oooh....shiny! Where's the legs? Are they claws for feet?
Looks like a flying saucer. Very reflective. With the stove going, I would end up getting ash in the finish.
I've been working on a number of things. A Mesquite drum shell that I am doing a couple experiments on. It had some worm and ant eaten areas in the sap wood as well as punky areas. So I hit it first with repeated soakings of Minwax wood hardener and then used Fiberglass resin cut with acetone. At first very cut and then backing off and filling. It is very hard now although after month of doing this I still have a little more to fill. This drum will be getting reinforcement rings as I have turned it down to about 3/16" thick.
A little She- oak shell.
I'm also working up to a coffee table, I have actually been drawing up plans and pulling measurements more than usual. I think I have a pretty cool idea and want it to come out nice. I need to order some epoxy and glow in the dark powder and then I can start.
I am hoping to get my metal lathe by the end of the year so I can start on hardware.
A little She- oak shell.
I'm also working up to a coffee table, I have actually been drawing up plans and pulling measurements more than usual. I think I have a pretty cool idea and want it to come out nice. I need to order some epoxy and glow in the dark powder and then I can start.
I am hoping to get my metal lathe by the end of the year so I can start on hardware.
Took well over a week before my shoulder was ready to use that chainsaw I cleaned up. Made it in the woods by 7am today, ran 1 tank of fuel through it. Still doesn't idle right. Figure maybe another tank or 2 of the ethanol free gas, and then adjust the carb if needed. Split and stacked a half cord in the pickup by 11am. Wife helped unload it at mom's. Old bird has to burn wood. I need to replace the fuel tank on my splitter next. By hand is fine for ma's cook stove but them 20-30" inch ones for us need the splitter. An old Wisconsin one lunger runs our 50 year old splitter. The points are in need of touch up every year. Wife wants a new modern one. I'm a bit torn and see both sides of the coin....
Last night I moved a few tools out of the way (they'll eventually be in new places anyways, so they needed to be moved.) Last night my parents also arrived - and my dad ready to run a gas line to the garage. Dad's working on the line right now - I've been poking my head in when I can, with other commitments keeping from helping him full time on the project. Tomorrow we'll likely have to run to the store to pick up a few more fittings and short sections of pipe. Which means that by tomorrow night I'll have heat in the shop! 
I've been looking forward to this since dad first realized that it would be easy enough for him to run a gas line out to the garage after he ran a second circuit out there for me!
I've been looking forward to this since dad first realized that it would be easy enough for him to run a gas line out to the garage after he ran a second circuit out there for me!
Last night I moved a few tools out of the way (they'll eventually be in new places anyways, so they needed to be moved.) Last night my parents also arrived - and my dad ready to run a gas line to the garage. Dad's working on the line right now - I've been poking my head in when I can, with other commitments keeping from helping him full time on the project. Tomorrow we'll likely have to run to the store to pick up a few more fittings and short sections of pipe. Which means that by tomorrow night I'll have heat in the shop!
I've been looking forward to this since dad first realized that it would be easy enough for him to run a gas line out to the garage after he ran a second circuit out there for me!
Too cool Matt!!!!! The high here was like 44 today, I could use that too! Tony
We might have broke 30 today. The days are coming where we'll be thankful to break 0!
The heat won't be run all the time - would cost a lot to do that in a garage with no insulation, plus the unit I had that we're putting in isn't designed for continue use. But, it'll be so nice to be able to go out in the shop, crank it up, and have it be warm enough to work out there in under an hour!
Customer-wise it was dead here in town today so I got a bunch of stuff drilled and tubed to turn this week and managed to complete and assemble 20 bottle stoppers for inventory since I was down to only 4 left on the shelf.
Way too cold to do much in the Shop, (plus my son is visiting now), but I finally got the plug wired on the new-to-me Grizzly 24" dual drum sander. Can't wait to run some wood through it!! Tony
Oh, yeah! Got this fired up last night! We had this in the basement in our previous house, but nowhere in our current house to hook it up.
Found a place for it!
Ran it for about 15 minutes lat night - took it from upper 30's to about 50 in that short amount of time. Hoping to have time tomorrow evening to get out in the shop and fully test how well it can warm it up out there!
Oh, and we did one other thing too. Took an air hose I had laying around and fished it down to the basement too. Right now I just have a mini air compressor, and it's a screamer, so I don't like running it in the basement because it's so loud. Eventually I'll get a larger compressor, but for now I'll be able to hook even the little one up to the line in the garage and have air in the basement without having that screaming loud little compressor down there. That'll be nice too - compressed air in both the garage and basement without having to move the compressor!
Now, when I'm in the shop next, I can get back to getting it rearranged, set back up, and fully organized!
Found a place for it!
Ran it for about 15 minutes lat night - took it from upper 30's to about 50 in that short amount of time. Hoping to have time tomorrow evening to get out in the shop and fully test how well it can warm it up out there!
Oh, and we did one other thing too. Took an air hose I had laying around and fished it down to the basement too. Right now I just have a mini air compressor, and it's a screamer, so I don't like running it in the basement because it's so loud. Eventually I'll get a larger compressor, but for now I'll be able to hook even the little one up to the line in the garage and have air in the basement without having that screaming loud little compressor down there. That'll be nice too - compressed air in both the garage and basement without having to move the compressor!
Now, when I'm in the shop next, I can get back to getting it rearranged, set back up, and fully organized!
Oh, yeah! Got this fired up last night! We had this in the basement in our previous house, but nowhere in our current house to hook it up.
Found a place for it!
Ran it for about 15 minutes lat night - took it from upper 30's to about 50 in that short amount of time. Hoping to have time tomorrow evening to get out in the shop and fully test how well it can warm it up out there!
Oh, and we did one other thing too. Took an air hose I had laying around and fished it down to the basement too. Right now I just have a mini air compressor, and it's a screamer, so I don't like running it in the basement because it's so loud. Eventually I'll get a larger compressor, but for now I'll be able to hook even the little one up to the line in the garage and have air in the basement without having that screaming loud little compressor down there. That'll be nice too - compressed air in both the garage and basement without having to move the compressor!
Now, when I'm in the shop next, I can get back to getting it rearranged, set back up, and fully organized!
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Glad you have heat! How does that thing vent it's exhaust?
It's ventless, natural gas (can also be used with propane - I briefly considered getting a 100lb propane tank set outside the garage when my dad found a way to easily rung a gas line from the basement to the garage). They're extremely efficient units. It does also have a built in O2 sensor that will kill the flame if the oxygen level drops below a certain point. We had this stove installed in our basement in North Dakota for a few years and ran it as supplemental heat whenever we were down there in the winters without any problems.
I would worry about all the dust blowing around in the air in a Shop. Is that not a concern? I honestly don't know. Tony
It never has been for my father in his shop. I'll not be letting it get dusty, won't have the flame or pilot light lit when doing sanding or creating a lot of sawdust, and part of the shop rearrange is so that all the power tools will be hooked up to dust collection and keep the air cleaner running too. With the way I'll be rearranging my shop, all tools that can and will make use of dust collection will be within 10 feet of the dust collector, making runs easy.
My question spurs off of an earlier one, if it is a ventless system, then it meets or exceeds all standards of occupancy (IBC standards). However, simple chemistry teaches us in complete combustion reactions of natural gas and propane, that water vapor is the main by-product. Are you going to install a dehumidifier to offset the new found source of moisture?
And as a precaution, a friend forgot to turn his propane unit off and was greeted with a mini-flashover while sanding that costs 2 windows, hearing damage and a wetspot of clothing. We found him on the floor shivering and confused. I'm sure he would have been fine, but we were all a bit shaken, literally and emotionally at the time.
And as a precaution, a friend forgot to turn his propane unit off and was greeted with a mini-flashover while sanding that costs 2 windows, hearing damage and a wetspot of clothing. We found him on the floor shivering and confused. I'm sure he would have been fine, but we were all a bit shaken, literally and emotionally at the time.
This unit won't be run full time - only on those days I will be in the shop, maybe 1 or 2 days a week for a handful of hours on those days. We had run it like such previously in our basement and never had moisture issues, and my father has never seen such issues with this type of unit being run under similar, intermittent circumstances as I'll be using it. If it was running every day, then the added moisture would be a concern.
Yes - that danger of dust and combustion is a concern of mine, which is why I'll certainly be killing even the pilot light when doing anything like sanding. Soon as I can find where my wife hid the label printer we've got (she hid it so well that she can't even remember where it is!), I've been planning to add reminder labels to my sanders and other key places about making sure the flame is killed on the stove when sanding.
I do appreciate the concerns and thank you for them, but these are items I had already thought of and discussed with my father prior to the final decision we made for him to run a gas line and hook up the gas stove for me - this is a field that he is well trained in, has worked in, and has vast real world experience in. I trust his knowledge and his judgment - and he certainly wouldn't willfully be involved in something that would potentially cause harm to his family or to any other person.
It certainly sounds like you've thought it through and your Dad knows what he is doing! My questions don't come out of scepticism, but from ignorance on my part and concern for your safety. I hope you didn't take any offense, none was meant. Tony
Nah, no offense taken! Figured it's easier to explain things than have everyone wondering how long before they see a post about me blowing up or burning down my shop! Especially in matters that involve potential safety concerns, I don't run into things half-assedly, and the last thing I want to ever do is put my growing family in jeopardy or danger - so I certainly spent some time conversing with dad about all aspects of this install before it was ever finalized to happen.
With all the health problems he's had and deals with on a daily basis, I'm very thankful to still have dad around, and not just to help with such things... When he was doing some of the install work, he made the comment to me, "I don't know what's worse - the arthritis or the Parkinson's." And that's only the tip of the iceberg for his health problems, so I gotta cherish the time I get with him while he's still around...