My Small Shop

Good lord, you could hold a square dance in there. Mine is a one man shop, with two people present each have to get out of the other's way.

Ha, thanks. I like well layed out little shops. The advantage of your shop is that there is no room for visitors (any pics?). I forgot to mention....One of the requirements of my Hitler (or some call them wives) is that the vehicles will still fit in the case of hail or foul weather. And fit they will after about 10 minutes of scooting things around.
 
I just measured, my shop is 14 feet deep and 16 feet wide. Plus there's a 3 foot by 3 foot furnace in the room. Below is an attempt at a poorly merged panorama. Three pictures not merged but fit together. notice the duplicated band saw on the left.
Machines. starting on the left. small band saw, MP25 mill, three 1 ton arbor presses, small band saw, Ames turret lathe (behind the two band saws), Belt sander, two bench grinders, two drill presses, joiner, larger drill press, Propeller machine,(behind the prop machine, another small drillpress, in front is the MK2 Clausing lathe and behind that the Sears 10" table saw
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Out of sight on the left (behind the furnace) are two upper and middle Kennedy boxes. There's another behind the central band saws. Wish the image was larger.

Here are the original images, This may help seeing through the clutter.
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Tom, I really dig on your shop! It is in the basement thusly heated and it looks cozy. You've got alot of nice toys in there. I have to keep the dead tree carcass to a minimum, being that it burns well.

These "show us your shop" threads are my favorite! I have "borrowed" many ideas from you guys.
 
No pictures of my shop, you can just use your imagination. It's 20x24, next imagine 10lbs of shoot in a five pound box!
 
I don't get it. Welding is basically the dirtiest job there is, and all these welders have the most immaculate shops.
It's like the cosmos has no justice.
I think it's because these welders always take a few extra minutes to make organizing things like racks and hangers and carts and such.
Or maybe it's because i'm kind of a slob.
Nah... can't be that. :)



Wrat
 
Tom, hope you don't take this the wrong way, but why do you need 3 band saws and 3 drill presses? ;)

I'd love to have enough room for all that... as it stands, I'm at the point where if I want a new tool (say, a drill-press, which I would like to get), I have to trade out something I already have, as there's no more room! :(

I'll try to get some pictures up tomorrow of my tiny shop.
 
Karim, one of the drill presses is dedicated to one purpose. always the same set up, with variable jigs.

The other two are for some parts I make drilled in a jig with two different sized holes. Its far easier to use two DPs for the two holes than to switch drill bits. This piece is .187 diameter, .610 long. There are other, similar jobs, needing two different sizes of drill. Actuallay, there is a fourth drill press used for drilling holes larger than 1/4 inch The others are sprung with rubber bands so you can feel the #63 (.036) drill bit in the work. I do use up to .104 in them, for 5-40 tapped holes.

Band saws. one, again, is dedicated to one job, has a built in hump at the blade for cutting three dimensional curved propeller blades. one other set up for cutting radius on propeller blades, pivoting on the center.
The third band saw was too cheap to pass up, I use it occasionally for cutting small aluminum pieces. There's a fourth band saw in the garage, for cutting balsa stock to length and ripping it to correct dimensions. It also cuts heavier aluminum stock for other projects.
 
I don't get it. Welding is basically the dirtiest job there is, and all these welders have the most immaculate shops.
It's like the cosmos has no justice.
I think it's because these welders always take a few extra minutes to make organizing things like racks and hangers and carts and such.
Or maybe it's because i'm kind of a slob.
Nah... can't be that. :)



Wrat

Wrat, my little shop turns into quite the s@#!storm. I just occasionally go out into my little slice of heaven, throw on some 80's metal and clean and p.m. my equipment. Oddly enough, this phenomenon usually occurs during the same week every month. It's like this force within the house drives me out into the shop.......strange......
 
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