Steve's workshop - Painting the outside walls

[lurker]

No! Leave it as it is.

 

[Racers]

+1 leave it as a sticky, and carry on with your projects Steve.

Pete

 

[MattDenny]

I agree - let's keep the longest thread going....

 

[AES]

+ another 1 here (but an index would now be useful)!



AES

 

[kostello]

Perhaps you are right. This is about what I'm doing in the workshop rather than to the workshop. Maybe it's time to retire the thread. I'll ask the Mods to unstickificate it.
S

Not until you get the doors built......

 

[memzey]

And we've had a workshop opening bash!

 

[NickWelford]

Or not until the official opening ceremony where we all turn up with cake.

 

[NickWelford]

Ha! Beat me to it, Memzey

 

[Steve Maskery]

Or not until the official opening ceremony where we all turn up with cake.

But no dogs.
Cue the picture of a cute red setter...

 

[Steve Maskery]

I finished off the bottom tenons. The uprights are a bit long for cutting on the tablesaw, but my SCMS does have a depth stop. It's not as good as on a proper RAS, because I end up with a curved cut at the rear end. But that can be overcome by bringing the workpiece forward with a board behind it for support.

Then it is back to the bandsaw for some wedge slits and over to the bench to cut the short shoulders.

All the rails are to be notched for the rack and I decided to do this with my dado set. I don't use this very often, but these notches are a bit deep to do on the router table. So I set it up. it took AGES. I had to remove my blade and riving knife, then the arbor, install the long 5/8" one, then the stack. My stack has reducing rings from 30mm to 5/8" and I missed one which had interesting consequences for the first cut, but once I'd corrected that it was really rather smooth.

This is my setup:

Of course the stand-alone guard is positioned to cover the blade!I used the rip fence as a length stop (pulled right back, of course) and whichever mitre track gave me the best support.

After the cut, the saw needs to be restored to its former state. The dado set might be a pain but it does make very nice notches.

When gluing up, I was able to use my new winding sticks

As soon as it was glued up I glued in some wedges and trimmed them off.

 

[UrbanSpaceman]

Steve,

I thought that dado stacks were a big no-no, in this country at least?

 

[Brentingby]

Steve,

I thought that dado stacks were a big no-no, in this country at least?

Yes. I've heard they are instant death

 

[Eric The Viking]

Yes. I've heard they are instant death

Too right. In that close-up you can clearly see Steve's bionic right index finger, necessary after just looking too closely at a cardboard box containing a dado set in Harbour Freight earlier in the year.

It is impressive though - I certainly can't see the join, and as it's titanium, any run-in with another dado set certainly wouldn't end well (for the dado set), if the bottoms of Formula One cars are anything to go by.

I looked at their air tools in April, but I think I got away with it.

E.

 

[monkeybiter]

Steve,

I thought that dado stacks were a big no-no, in this country at least?

Here's one of the MANY threads on the subject;-

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/dado-cutters-t445.html?hilit=dado stack

 

[Steve Maskery]

I did wonder...

 

[Steve Maskery]

Just to reiterate what I have long propounded upon...

Using a dado stack is not illegal.

Using an unguarded blade in a commercial workshop is illegal.
Using a blade in a commercial workshop which doesn't stop within 10 seconds of switching off is illegal.
You can do anything you like in your private workshop, no matter how stupid it is.

My saw still stops in just over 6 seconds and it is guarded. And mine is not a commercial workshop. And whilst I may still be more stupid than I used to be, I'm not quite at my stupidest ever.

 

[Steve Maskery]

The "rafters" are to be let in as housing joints. The easiest way to do this is with a track saw. That way, the two cuts are exactly in line.

I then used the track saw to cut out for the halving joints

A chisel sees to the waste.

The corresponding halves are cut on the SCMS

Incidentally I originally set out that angle by eye. It turns out that it is 30.00000 degrees.

So two are glued up and I expect to do the other two tomorrow. Ray is coming on Friday.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Just as an aside, when I did my last DVD I went to the HSE with my idea and had a lot of help from a gentleman whose name, regrettably, I cannot recall. But he confirmed everything I proposed as compliant. In that way I am able to claim to have written the definitive treatise on dado use in the UK ever produced in the history of mankind.

Not that I like to make big deal of it or anything.

 

[lurker]

As Steve says he can do what he damn well likes in his own home.

I get sick of the carp that gets peddled in the name of health and safety mainly by folks who have half heard a cock and bull story from "some bloke"
Even in a commercial setting Steve would be fine.
Things change a tad if he had employees but even then so long as you put into place adequate safety controls nothing is illegal.
The important thing is to understand how harms might arise and suitably control them.
Looks like Steve has done just that

 

[Bm101]

Regarding H&S, it's a good thing generally. Who want's too go deaf or blind at work? Or die from falling off a ladder. And I've known a few. Workmates that aren't here any more. Or can't work. Or who are brain dead. I can list you the names. Really.
I'm no enemy of H&S. I am an enemy (in my workplace) of those who become so indoctrinated by it that reason fails. That you end up working less safely than you would if they weren't around. Thing is it breeds a type of middle (management) agent that ends up having to justify their job.

That leads to problems in itself. "You have to wear a hi vis vest / Why I'm 23 storeys up, hanging from a rope? It gets tangled in my gear and its dangerous. / You have to wear a hi vis. Site Regulations / Ahhhhhhhhhgggh. *RAGE /Oh and Gloves that mean you will drop your tools and while we're at it, safety googles. /But .... but I'm cleaning windows.... /H&S you can't argue SOMEONE has to listen to meeeeee! I need to justify my joooob!

Having said that, H&S is generally in place to protect the ignorant and the most vulnerable in the work place. Steve is clearly neither nor in the workplace.
While I'm at it please don't make another thread! It's one of the reasons I joined UKW!

Regards as always.
Chris