I would like a new workshop

[devonwoody]

I had to move the bandsaw away from garage door so I could calculate the shelving space when door was opened.This also entailed removing all the stuff that has been stored up that end as well.

The odds and ends moved to my bench working area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So no tissue box making for a while. I have got a workman coming in to put in around eight thunder bolts to create shelving.

I intend to make my own shelf supports with some waste oak and iroko something like this.

The platforms for shelves I am cutting up some ply packing sheets.

 

[misterfish]

I have got a workman coming in to put in around eight thunder bolts to create shelving.

Never heard of thunder bolts - could you please enlighten my ignorance.

Misterfish

 

[devonwoody]

Made a start on the shelf supports, timbers being used are what I term as waste pieces, one was a windowcill of meranti and I have managed to get two upright boards by resawing on the bandsaw, and the other is some what I think is European oak (rejected flooring?)
The chisel being used to clean out mortises is 50 years old (given to me as part of a set, when leaving an employer in 1960 and the name Hale of Sheffield is marked)

Managed to get half the supports cut yesterday. (two uprights of four)

My hands ache this morning, so will start again this afternoon.

 

[devonwoody]

Thunderbolts are hardened bolts that will screw into concrete holes and not need any packing material to hold in place.? I am using 100mm x 8mm bolts, two to each upright support, might put in a third ordinary screw at centre point of upright.

 

[monkeybiter]

Thunderbolts are hardened bolts that will screw into concrete holes and not need any packing material to hold in place.? I am using 100mm x 8mm bolts, two to each upright support, might put in a third ordinary screw at centre point of upright.

Another advantage with thunderbolts or their equivalents is that they can be reused, even in the same hole if you align to the 'cut' thread in the concrete.

 

[devonwoody]

Thunderbolts are hardened bolts that will screw into concrete holes and not need any packing material to hold in place.? I am using 100mm x 8mm bolts, two to each upright support, might put in a third ordinary screw at centre point of upright.

Another advantage with thunderbolts or their equivalents is that they can be reused, even in the same hole if you align to the 'cut' thread in the concrete.

Will they go in with a rachet wrench the first time or do they have to be put in with an electric drill and driver attachment?

 

[monkeybiter]

Simply drill the right sized hole then drive in with your ratchet. Make sure the hole is 10-15mm deeper than the length of the bolt. Very easy and very effective.
Because they don't expand [like shield anchor etc.] they can also be used close to the edge of the piece of concrete, or close to the next hole, without splitting a lump out.
I wouldn't use anything else in concrete now.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Simply drill the right sized hole then drive in with your ratchet. Make sure the hole is 10-15mm deeper than the length of the bolt. Very easy and very effective.
Because they don't expand [like shield anchor etc.] they can also be used close to the edge of the piece of concrete, or close to the next hole, without splitting a lump out.
I wouldn't use anything else in concrete now.

+1 another advantage is that they can be loosened off and tightened again if you're trying to adjust a door lining or anything like that. A little plastic tube is useful to blow the hole clear of dust. Check your sizes first - iirc drilled hole for a 6mm bolt will be 6mm, and the clearance hole in what you are fixing will be 8mm. and so on.

 

[devonwoody]

The main portion of shelf supports now completed but took me 9 hours (14 pieces of timber, marking out, 24 mortise and tenons) length of arms to be sorted then angled pieces to be fitted. Will remolve that small hanging cupboard and slap a sheet of ply to the wall at door end to hang tools on.

That meranti window cill I used was 1984 and has be in my workshop the last 6 years waiting to be used.

Waiting on a builder to come in one evening and put the bolt holes in for me, so back to the TBs for a change.

 

[devonwoody]

More progress today, used one of these ply packing boards and screwed to the wall.

garage door end now reasonably tidy, any ripping these days is done on the Bandsaw, and can cope with a 12ft. length if I reverse end after first cut.

Awaiting the builder to put up shelf supports.

 

[Teckel]

Will you not stick up the supports yourself???

 

[devonwoody]

Will you not stick up the supports yourself???

I've got arthritis progressing in hands and it can only make it worse using a hammer drill etc.

 

[mac1012]

Hi ive been looking at this thread with some interest , i am just embarking on re- arranging my own workshop (shed)

I have been making and selling contempary crafts in my spare time for the past couple of years and have decided to have a major overhaul of my space my shed is 8 feet by 6 feet and i have a hegner scroll saw , axminster bandsaw , bench mounted drill press and a area for sanding with makita sander, i am purchasing axminster sanding machine today so as you can gather space is at a premium to fit everything in !

i will keep you updated with how i get on , hope your re arranging is going ok

 

[devonwoody]

Mac, you are a miracle man.

 

[Teckel]

Will you not stick up the supports yourself???

I've got arthritis progressing in hands and it can only make it worse using a hammer drill etc.

oh sorry DW best to get someone in so.

 

[monkeybiter]

If I lived near you I'd offer to pop round and put the brackets up for you.

Considering that condition it makes your excellent boxes even more of an achievement. Too many people seem to spend their lives looking for something to defeat them so they can park their backside and watch daytime telly.

 

[devonwoody]

If I lived near you I'd offer to pop round and put the brackets up for you.

Considering that condition it makes your excellent boxes even more of an achievement. Too many people seem to spend their lives looking for something to defeat them so they can park their backside and watch daytime telly.

I went to my PC Internet Woodwork videos at 9am this morning and started watching and got that sleepy feeling, so I switched off and went into the workshop, three of my boxes in odds and ends played up when I got to work on the sliders and now I have three boxes of the six to rebuild. ( the grain was wild where I needed to make a cut out and it became a disaster)

 

[Grahamshed]

Too many people seem to spend their lives looking for something to defeat them so they can park their backside and watch daytime telly.

A much underrated achievement in my opinion. It should be a duly recognised olympic event.

Now back to work

<edit> Oh look. I've settled in now

 

[Lons]

so they can park their backside and watch daytime telly.

EH :?:

Daytime telly is a myth surely!
Now I believe in Santa and the tooth fairy but that's stretching it a bit far :roll: I mean - who would watch telly during the day - it's bad enough in the evenings.

Bob

 

[devonwoody]

The first builder never arrived, a neighbour came in Tuesday evening and put up shelf supports but had to use screws the bolts I got from B & Q were not Thunder bolts but coach bolts.

So the uprights are now in place and I have put the tenoned horizontal supports in with glue and in the process of gluing pads under each end because I intend to put in angled spars and pads are to stop spars pushing out.

So got plenty of angled work on today.