Lets See Your Shop!

[Starlight Tools]

Mike

Really nicely layed out shop.

What brand and model is that motorcycle lift table?

Walter

 

[zmotorsports]

That's a nice shop Mike. Is that a Dynasty 350 is see? We have one at my day job and it is one very nice machine.
When you get your new PM machines you may want consider moving the belt/disc grinder just a little farther away from your lathe and mill. Just food for thought.

It is a Dynasty 300. I love it.

Yes, I have been moving equipment over the weekend to get the lathe and mill at the front of the shop more. The lathe will be right next to solvent tank and the mill will be across from it where the gray Handy motorcycle lift is not. The two lifts have been moved over between the two-post lift and where the mill will be. I am out of room in the shop and had to get really creative with where I will be putting the new ones.

The small bench grinder/wire wheel will go next to the belt/disc sander and then the 20" drill press between the grinder/wire wheel and the lathe.

Mike.

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Mike

Really nicely layed out shop.

What brand and model is that motorcycle lift table?

Walter

I have two of them, the gray one is a Handy and the black one is a Cycle Pro. Personally, I like the little longer length of the Cycle Pro but the Handy is a much nicer lift table. I bought the Cycle Pro because it was about 40% less than a new Handy, but if I were to do it again, I would have gotten another Handy.

My son wants the Cycle Pro when he gets a place of his own so at that time I will more than likely get another Handy.

Mike.

 

[SteveM]

I recently signed a contract for a small acreage and as a bonus it also comes with a nice shop. The owners can't move till school is out so the only picture I have is of the outside. It's 30x60 and this will be my retirement shop. I'm excited!

 

[dan12]

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.

wow!

 

[ridgeway]

There are some mighty fine shops here!

Here is my tiny hole...

Got my lathe, mill, grinder, belt sander, tools and compressor in the garage. I have a Polish/Sand, reloading area and paint room(all water based paint) in the basement. Also, a small blasting cabinet filled with fine beads in the paint room. May get another and fill with aluminum oxide.

 

[RandyM]

There are some mighty fine shops here!

Here is my tiny hole...

Got my lathe, mill, grinder, belt sander, tools and compressor in the garage. I have a Polish/Sand, reloading area and paint room(all water based paint) in the basement. Also, a small blasting cabinet filled with fine beads in the paint room. May get another and fill with aluminum oxide.

Very nice. Looks like you can do just about anything you need to do. I can look at this stuff all day long.
Thanks for the post.

 

[Marco Bernardini]

I think someone will be curious to see my shop.
Before to be restored, the space in the basement was used by wifey's granny as "goat room".
Probably, being occupied by just a goat, it was far less messy than now.
The photo is quite large, but I keep it this way to show more details. I added some notes here and there, too.



I took the photo from the outside, using a 16 mm lens, because inside there wasn't space enough…
The working table is the longest Ikea kitchen countertop, and after 5 years of nasty usage it's still good. When I made it I had to restore some doors, so the length was essential.
The bench vise came from my dad-in-law garage (he was a mechanic of the Bigger Hammer™ school), and it is bolted to a wood board clamped to the table, so I can remove it if I need all the table surface.
I don't think in this shop there is place for powerful tools, even because every access is through doors narrower than a Bridgeport column or a Graziano lathe

 

[stevecmo]

the basement was used by wifey's granny as "goat room".
Probably, being occupied by just a goat

Naaaaaaaaa. Say it aint so Marco! :roflmao:

 

[Rapscallion]

Lol Marco, "goat room" :rofl:.

I have one of those mitre saws too (front right of your shop photo). I've never deemed any piece of equipment quite as useless in all my tooling experience. All that thing would ever cut for me was soft wood. And I ain't in the picture framing business.


Anyhoo, here is my fun spot.

Shop

Under the orange box at the front is a generator in case of power failures. I got so peed off with a power outage a couple of weeks ago when I had some work to do for good payment that I went out and bought a generator.
Power outages are becoming too frequent in this neck of the woods.

Pantograph.

Nothing like the feel of how the metal is actually cutting. I say that as a CNC programmer with over 20 years experience.

Mr Busy.

This lil codger is over 15 years old and is still a joy to work with.

Bench.

This scenario is subject to the only constant, change.

Hope you all have enjoyed the oogle. I certainly enjoy a peek in at what other fellow machinists have and what they are up to.

 

[Marco Bernardini]

Lol Marco, "goat room" :rofl:.
I have one of those mitre saws too (front right of your shop photo). I've never deemed any piece of equipment quite as useless in all my tooling experience. All that thing would ever cut for me was soft wood. And I ain't in the picture framing business.

That mitre saw is pretty good for high precision woodworking, for example to cut firewood… or small green branches for the goat! :lmao:
Also, it's a good stand for the cell phone, since it's close to the door.
I don't know how power companies work in .za, but couldn't be an idea to install some solar panels and use the main line just as "backup" when you need some more power?