What did you do in your shop today?

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Hey it worked!! Got everything but the Maple, Walnut, and Spalted Oak in it! :good:

Oh yeah... And, a game box full of Laminated Bamboo, and another box full of Ipe. The Bamboo is too long and sticks out the front about 6 inches or it would fit. And, I could probably squeeze the Ipe in there on the bottom shelf.

And, that's with the top shelf full of assorted other goodies! If I lost the stuff on the right side, I could squeeze the Walnut in there.

Honestly I could bury the Walnut and Maple in the back, were I serious about putting it in there. Need to build drawers or find some Rubbermaid containers of some nature that are proper depth that I can slide in and out. Currently it is inhabited by an assortment of flat rate boxes, with a lot of wasted space behind them!


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This morning I overhauled my laptop! Fan has been making lots of noise of late, not cooling properly because it wasn't turning up speed and moving enough air, so I drug it out to the shop, removed assorted covers from the bottom side and blew all the dust out. Helped a little with speed, but got noisier yet without the dust around the fan blades to support it.

Last Lenova I had, I had some funky issue with the video card and attempted repair, that didn't work; wound up with a box of parts, one of which was a cooling fan. Stumbled upon that box the other day while cleaning shop. Checked it out and sure enough, same fan; identical part number. Pulled the fan and replaced it and it is now much quieter and running faster!! Yee Haa!
 
rocky1 said:
Hey it worked!! Got everything but the Maple, Walnut, and Spalted Oak in it! :good:

Oh yeah... And, a game box full of Laminated Bamboo, and another box full of Ipe. The Bamboo is too long and sticks out the front about 6 inches or it would fit. And, I could probably squeeze the Ipe in there on the bottom shelf.

And, that's with the top shelf full of assorted other goodies! If I lost the stuff on the right side, I could squeeze the Walnut in there.

Honestly I could bury the Walnut and Maple in the back, were I serious about putting it in there. Need to build drawers or find some Rubbermaid containers of some nature that are proper depth that I can slide in and out. Currently it is inhabited by an assortment of flat rate boxes, with a lot of wasted space behind them!


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I just got these for all my stuff....

parts boxes
 
I'm looking at these... Sterilite 18 Quart Latch Box

My shelf opening is 37" wide, 9 1/2" high, and the shelves are 21" deep. Only thing I haven't figured out is how to sort everything in the plastic tote. May have to just leave it in small flat rate box. Those should be durable enough to handle the goodies I'm putting in them, being drug out and put back constantly, I hope! Probably discard the lids so I can stand longer blanks on end and use less room. They do offer hope however, and I think they'll serve me better than other options.
 
Got the first load of steel home for the lathe weight box project. 6 bars for this grab, all scrap cut offs from steel plate. Approx 2" thick. 60+lbs each, so about 360 lbs so far. Not really sure how heavy I want to go?:ponder:

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Man every time I get near that walnut I just love the smell of it.
 
I ground some welds down on some tubing.

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These where formed in 3 parts, upper 180 and 2 lower 90's, and then sleeved and welded together. These are parts for a project I am making.
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These parts go with the parts above.

Elongated the holes because shite happens, will work just fine for what it is going to do.
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Nice thick 3/8" plate. Cut the center out with a plasma cutter, ground it smooth with a 4" angle grinder, finished with a file, drilled a couple of holes with the drill press. It's coming along.

Cool thing is I salvaged all the materials.
I scored a couple of 7 foot pieces of 1 1/4" hot rolled round bar today. I saw it sticking out of the scrap dumpster at work. So I snagged em.

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Nope, 7" hoops. Good guess. Kinda doing this Ala @Brink style. Ya know just post pics but no text because hairy fingers can't type, lol.
 
Last of the fab work I think.
I used a self feeding vertical bandsaw at work to cut this piece to size.
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I used a horizontal bandsaw to cut the hoops.
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I used a metal worker machine to clip the corners of this plate off.
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I drilled another hole.
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I chamfered all the edges.
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Maybe tomorrow I can get all of this welded up!
 
It's clean the shop day today... Started out pulling the filter on the dust collector. It's going to be a lot lighter once it's blown out. Time to look at improving the baffle system or adding a cyclone to the top of the barrel....

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Last of the fab work I think.
I used a self feeding vertical bandsaw at work to cut this piece to size.
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I used a horizontal bandsaw to cut the hoops.
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I used a metal worker machine to clip the corners of this plate off.
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I drilled another hole.
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I chamfered all the edges.
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Maybe tomorrow I can get all of this welded up!
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I know what this is, it's a bit overkill though. You are making a surfboard rack for your bicycle. Don't forget to put a swim noodle over it before mounting or it was rub the glass off your board before you hit da waves braddah.
 
Nope, never liked surfing,:nodice: body surfing ok..........but a good guess, lol.
 
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