cornucopia
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hello all heres some pics of my workshop. The interior of the workshop is 9'x8' square its about 6'6" high at the sides by about 8' at the highest point, works out at about 800 cubic foot of air space!! (i think)
before we bought this house i'd been using a corner of the workshop at work for my turning, but this house had a extra long garage which seemed ideal to put a partition wall in and have as my first home workshop.
the garage is one of those pre fabricated concrete wall jobbies with an asbestox lux corrugated type roof. when i started using it for turning i put 2x2 battens verticaly on the walls and then some normal roof insulation followed by some 1/2" insulation board, i did the same on the ceiling.
I clad the outside of the partion wall with 3/4" plywood to add strength and deter somone kicking there way in.
i never use the personal door but i still glued some insulation board over it!! i drilled through the frame of the door top and bottom so that i could padlock it shut from the inside.
going down the right hand side wall now i fitted an opening window, you can also see my microclean 1200 and my sanding disc store. the microclean was inherited from my last workshop and is far to big for this one so i use a gadget to reduce its capacity supplied by microclean.
you can see a 4" extractor fan here, its an ongoing problem with heat i have in the summer see other thread.
heres the first view of my big green turning machine!! its aVB36 bowl turning lathe, its a fantastic lathe.
heres my tormek and dry grinder, i mainly use the tormek for fingernail gouges.
A new thing for me, vacum chucking.
i've put the pump on the other side of the partition wall, i've done this to stop it getting coverd in dust and to keep teh noise and heat source out of my working space.
here you can see my dust extractor ducting, same reasons as the vacum pump i've put my two extractors outside of the workshop. you can also see here that i've earthed the pipework, i would strongly advise everyone to do this to help prevent static build up which can lead to fire and in extreme case's explosion.
this shows a home made exhaust baffle box (old kitchen cupboard) i made for my extractors, heat and noise go in one end and are forced up and down several pieces of angled boards until the air comes out allot quietier the other end.
heres my input fan see cooling thread
heres my compressor cupboard and tube heater
here is my tool chest which was made for me by a local welder out of 1/4 steel. its bolted down to the floor. on top is my chainsaw locked to the cabinet with a thatcham approved motorbike lock.
and thats it a basic guide of my workshop.
before we bought this house i'd been using a corner of the workshop at work for my turning, but this house had a extra long garage which seemed ideal to put a partition wall in and have as my first home workshop.
the garage is one of those pre fabricated concrete wall jobbies with an asbestox lux corrugated type roof. when i started using it for turning i put 2x2 battens verticaly on the walls and then some normal roof insulation followed by some 1/2" insulation board, i did the same on the ceiling.
I clad the outside of the partion wall with 3/4" plywood to add strength and deter somone kicking there way in.
i never use the personal door but i still glued some insulation board over it!! i drilled through the frame of the door top and bottom so that i could padlock it shut from the inside.
going down the right hand side wall now i fitted an opening window, you can also see my microclean 1200 and my sanding disc store. the microclean was inherited from my last workshop and is far to big for this one so i use a gadget to reduce its capacity supplied by microclean.
you can see a 4" extractor fan here, its an ongoing problem with heat i have in the summer see other thread.
heres the first view of my big green turning machine!! its aVB36 bowl turning lathe, its a fantastic lathe.
heres my tormek and dry grinder, i mainly use the tormek for fingernail gouges.
A new thing for me, vacum chucking.
i've put the pump on the other side of the partition wall, i've done this to stop it getting coverd in dust and to keep teh noise and heat source out of my working space.
here you can see my dust extractor ducting, same reasons as the vacum pump i've put my two extractors outside of the workshop. you can also see here that i've earthed the pipework, i would strongly advise everyone to do this to help prevent static build up which can lead to fire and in extreme case's explosion.
this shows a home made exhaust baffle box (old kitchen cupboard) i made for my extractors, heat and noise go in one end and are forced up and down several pieces of angled boards until the air comes out allot quietier the other end.
heres my input fan see cooling thread
heres my compressor cupboard and tube heater
here is my tool chest which was made for me by a local welder out of 1/4 steel. its bolted down to the floor. on top is my chainsaw locked to the cabinet with a thatcham approved motorbike lock.
and thats it a basic guide of my workshop.
