Here’s another reader’s shop, this time from James. It’s a bit small, but you can see some of the items he lists as present. He writes:
“This is roughly a 250-degree view of my disaster of a shop. From left to right you’ll see things like:
- TIG welder (the grey box)
- DeWalt radial arm saw
- Electrolytic de-rusting tank (black), currently with a Kennedy fold-out toolbox in process
- Wilton 6″ machinist’s vise (blue)
- FreeBSD server (from Hotmail’s original datacenter)
- Millermatic 35 MIG welder with Aircomatic wire feeder on top
- 4×6 Chicago horizontal bandsaw (dirty gray)
- 10×12 Carolina horizontal bandsaw (green)
- 14″ Delta bandsaw (blue)
- Dust collector (visible as off-white deflated bags)
- 10″ Delta miter saw (light blue) mounted on a
- 6″ AMT jointer (gray)
- Craftsman oscillating spindle sander”
Neat stuff!
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Wow, I didn’t expect to see this on the front page.
Here’s are some bigger versions: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73245657@N00/420844919/
The original stitched image is almost 9301×2661; I’d upload it if I could.
My latest project is welding a motor mount adapter to use a 5hp compressor motor in an old Wilton/Boice-Crane Suprcap table saw that I got for $50 (with a burnt out Baldor 3 phase motor). The compressor motor turns backwards relative to the saw so I had to put it at 90 degrees from the original mount, with a 1/4 twist in the drive belt. This causes the mount adapter to be a real rube goldberg contraption, but it works. Here’s the result:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73245657@N00/420852319/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73245657@N00/420852229/
The clamps are temporary; there’s still more welding yet to be done, and some bracing triangles to be added when the motor position is finalized.
It’s a nice shop man. I’m envious. If you saw the tiny space I have carved out for myself in the basement, you’d pity me.