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.
