My work-in-progress workshop.

[GreatOldOne]

Hi Tom,

My bandsaw is a fantastic bit of kit. It's one of these:

http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-model-engineer-series-ue-127dv1-bandsaw-505214

Axminster tend to import Chinese / Taiwanese stuff, but it's usually been either modified or designed specifically for them. For example, my Axminster lathe is actually a Sieg, and my Axminster mill is actually a Rong Fu.

The saw has an auto cutoff and a big e-stop switch, and has the ability to get switched into a hand feed mode where you activate the saw with a trigger in the handle.

As for wether you can get it over in the US, I bet you can. Just doing a quick search on the model number comes up with this, which appears to be the original manufacturers in Taiwan:

http://www.band-saw-waytrain.com/bandsaw.htm

And then looking for their distributors in North America gives these hits:

http://www.baileigh.com/portable-metal-cutting-band-saw-bs-127p

Which appears to be the same thing, but without the auto feed / auto stop.

Cheers,

Jason

 

[GreatOldOne]

It’s been a while, but here’s the current state of play in the shop (it seems to be the thing all the cool kids are doing - shop tours...)

The big news is the Wrong-fu is gone, replaced with a Warco WM18. It’s about the biggest mill I can shoehorn in.

 

[GreatOldOne]

I’ve been busy, adding more storage. I bought several metal tool cabinets to use as draw units under the benches and as a replacement lathe stand.




The lathe stand reuses the chip tray that came with the original stand, which is bolted a deck of mdf (2 x 18mm pieces glued and screwed together) which is in turn bolted to the top of the cabinet from underneath.



It’s much sturdier than the original stand, and I have loads more space to store stuff... and I can actually see what I have as each draw slides all the way out.

I’ve also added some chip mats to the milling machine to keep the t slots clear, and another to the back of the milling vice

Finally I took some inspiration from this video

To add a mill light around the quill. I found the same light used on eBay cheap. I found that you don’t need to use the camera mounted unit - the ring light wants exactly the same voltage as the mains dc adapter that comes with puts out, so I repackaged the psu into a project box with a an on / off switch and a directly connected the ring light through a circular two pole connector.


It stays in place via some magnets glued inside the box. The ring light fits around the quill, and stays put via some scavenged hard disk magnets.

Light off:


Light on.

 

[tweinke]

Looking good!

 

[DougD]

Although it has been before in this post; what and how you have utilized your space is very impressive.