Lets See Your Shop!

[Michaeljp86]

Wow, all you guys with your fancy shops. Im about to clutter up this thread. :rofl:

My grandpa built this building in 1960. It was in bad shape. The posts were pilings pulled from the river where Sears was 100 years ago. My grandpa said everyone sold used lumber back then. They even sold used nails. This building was built with old barn timbers and used nails. The doors were only 7'3" high. Me and my dad have been working on it for a while. For over 10 years my dad was working on tearing it down and he was going to put up a new 40x60. Hes to cheap to buy a lawn mower so I knew this was never going to happen. Something needed to be done with this building before it caved in so I convinced him we could fix it. We jacked the building up another 3ft so we could actuality pull something inside. We also added on 10x36 along the back. This is where I used to tinker when I was a kid and still do. My 3 uncles and mom also grew up here. There is only 3 outlets in the whole building now. They were every 6ft but my electrician dad said hes going to put in a 100 amp panel and run conduit. Thats been 3 years now. :whistle:We cant put up any shelves because that will get in the way of the electrical. I did put up the 8ft florescent lights. I got tired of having one working light. My dads to cheap to buy any tools or welders so most of the stuff is mine.





Thes guys showed up 2 weeks ago looking for a place to stay.


My dads JD 5500N and my JD 2010 that Im working on



Millermatic 200, I bought it for $100, the inside caught on fire. It took about a month for get it working again


This is a Hobart Mig, tig and stick welder. I built the tig torch cooler. I scooped it up for $500. It was the only single phase one Ive ever seen



The Hendy


Bandsaw blade welder, I scooped it up for $35

Expensive piece of junk

 

[Abom79]

I havnt posted much in a while, but for the past 6-7 months Ive been slowly downsizing the family shop, and moving alot of it to my personal garage and shop at home. It looks as though my day job I took three years ago is going to keep me steady from here on out, so the plan was decided to scale down, move as much as I can to my shop, and my dad retired. He is wanting to sell the property and move since I took the job with another company, so the shop had to go. I have a 20x50 shop at home so I cleaned it out, and started building my own machine shop. The bigger machines I sold to my employer where I still use them daily, we sold a couple of the old horizontal mills, and also the Do-All bandsaw. Everything else I kept.
Its been quite a challenge cleaning out a 40 year old machine shop. We aquired soo many things over the years. Our shop was well tooled and I plan on keeping as much as I can. But I only have soo much room and Im already filled up to the doors. Ive been constantly organizing tghe best I can, and getting things ready to roll again.
Ive got 3-phase power to the shop, Im just waiting now to have the new panel installed and connected, as well as having the machines wired up.
Last summer I had another 12x50 slab pored next to the shop and Im getting ready to build a cover over it. That will give me more room for stuff, and a little more work area.
So the machines I kept are:
Victor 16x60
Monach 18"CY
Do-All vertical mill
Cinncinatti Bickford drill press
Sheldon 12" shaper
12" Queen City pedistal grinder
Trinco Blast Cabinet
Ingersall-rand T-60 air compressor
Dake 50 ton press
Miller Goldstar stick/tig welder
Millermatic 251 mig welder
oxy-fuel welding and cutting rig
And LOTS of tooling


So heres some pictures of the move and setting up the new home-shop.

This is after I got it cleaned out and ready to make into a machine shop. I had about 12 years worth of car parts collected in there. All gone now.



Getting the first two machines moved in.





Next was the Monarch







After the Monach I got the Victor, welding table, welding machines, air compressor, and blast cabinet allin one weekend. My buddy who owns a welding shop down the road brought his forklift to help me with those. My house and shop is only 3 doors down from where the current shop is.





In this pic I didnt have all the machines positioned yet, but just cramming everything in there.







I still dont quite have everything set-up, but this is the most current pics of the shop. Im going to have to remove a section of my wooden workbench to make room for my welder and rotory bin against the wall.





Some of my organization since moving things down.

 

[Trialnterror]

I always wanted one of these rotary bins since I used to see them in hardware stores when I was a kid! Haven't seen them since till you posted this pic!

 

[ddushane]

It's funny thinking about it, but I love my shop, I've got a long way to go but I do love it, I pretty much shut down on the knife making for the past 3-4 yrs trying to get my new shop in order. I was building knives in a 20'x20' shop, but then I started getting into engraving as well so all that equipment had to go in there, My wife was a little narrow minded about putting it in her house. Then I came across a deal I couldn't pass up and bought a guys shop out that he had been gearing up to build knives himself but health difficulties, & a fire in some of his buildings shut him down. His insurance paid off but they didn't mess with taking anything, some stuff was burned to the ground but there was a lot of stuff that was re-buildable, and then there were items that were not affected by the fire at all. The was a small smithy, 25# & 50# Little Giant trip hammers, 5 forges, 6"x18" Victor surfacing machine, treddle hammer, several Wilton vises, Dayton milling machine vises, variable speed motors, bunch of forging tongs. Stuff that was burned but re-buildable was a 7"x12" horizontal/vertical band saw, some Baldor belt grinders, 14" & 24" Paragon heat treating ovens, and tons of smaller stuff, hand tools, materials, a couple a hundred pounds of brass, nickle shim stock, german nickel, all kinds of stuff. Got a heck of deal so I couldn't pass it up but didn't have a place to put it. I've been storing it at my nephew's house, getting a piece here & there & rebuilding it. I've still got a long way to go. I've been wanting a building that shares a small block with my home, it's a 32'x90' building with an upstairs loft & upstairs apartment that needs to be restored as well. Like stated earlier, I love my shop but looking through all of yalls, I'm getting envious and seeing stuff I want to add, and storage & organizing ideas you guys have utilized are really cool. It's great to see everyone's shops & see all your doing. Great Stuff!!!!! Thanks for sharing! I'll try to post some pictures of mine when I can.

 

[ddushane]

Took some pictures of my shop today while taking pictures of my new toy, the Old Logan lathe, you guys help me in identifying it if you can, I have no idea at this point, The # on the bed is 79806, has a hand break on it if that helps, anyway here are some pictures of my knifemaking room, and my engraving room, I didn't take pictures of the rest of it, pretty messy, there's a couple of welders, a couple of chop saws, and a buffer that aren't shown and a lot of space with a bunch of junk that needs to be hauled off that aren't shown either, anyway here's the pictures, Oh, That's not me grinding, that's another knife making friend, Paul Lusk of Lubbock, TX.








































































I don't have any of my Little Giant trip hammers, forges, or any other forging equipment here at my shop yet, still haven't cleaned out a spot for that yet, so it's still in storage. Hope yall enjoyed the tour of my shop. If yall are ever in West Texas give me a holler & come visit.

 

[Michaeljp86]

ddushane, you have a expensive setup to make knives, do you do this for a living?

 

[stevecmo]

Dwayne,

Nice looking shop with lots of nice equipment.

That's an interesting looking Logan lathe. I'm going to guess it's a model 1940 - 11" swing x 24" between centers, v-belt drive. There is usually a model number stamped on the brass plate on the QC gear box. I can't tell from the pictures if the plate is there or not. It has a lever tail stock that apparently has been modified to use a handwheel as well. I don't believe that's original.

Something else that caught my eye is the gear train on the left end. In one picture it looks like there is a v-belt and pulleys?? Never seen that before. You might want to join the Logan yahoo list that is run by Scott Logan. If you post pictures there he can probably help ID your lathe.

Steve

 

[ddushane]

Michael, Thanks, No I don't do it for a living yet, I'm a 911 dispatcher working on retirement, I'm 48 and have 6 years before retirement from the Sheriff's office. Hoping to have my shop completely done by then but it's a slow, I've a lot to do to get ready for making my own Damascus, and I've got Lapidary equipment too that I haven't got set up for or a place cleaned out for it. But God is good, Lord willing it will happen. Hoping my grand children will be interested in doing some of it.

Steve, Thanks for advice I'll try to get onto the yahoo thing for Logan's, I blew it off with an air hose, the started cleaning it with kerosene, It's cleaning up pretty good, the ways are scuffed up a little but I think it's going to be ok. I was blessed with a big shop, my old one was 20'x20' and was getting really crowded. This new one built in 1959 is my back fence. The Plumber that built the shop in 59, built the house in 64, we bought the house 23 yrs ago and wanted the building but the owner wouldn't sell it, finally 3-4 yrs ago he let us buy it. It's 32'x90'. My knife room is 16'x35' & my engraving room is 15'x32' and I've got plenty of room elsewhere in the shop for the Damascus making & the Lapidary work. There's also an upstairs apartment that needs renovating and an upstairs loft that is above my engraving room that is the same size as the engraving room. My House and the Building are the only things on the block, it's a small block. The building has three ramps and drive through doors and I put a walk through door going into it from my back yard. It really is a sweet set up. God is Good. Anyway, I've yanked on your ear long enough, thanks for the kind comments and advice on finding out more details about the Logan.
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[Tamper84]

Nice shop Dwayne. How do you like the tin on the ceilings and walls?

thanks,
chris

 

[ddushane]

I really like it alot.