Popular Post Smallpatch Posted March 2, 2019 Popular Post Report Posted March 2, 2019 Wood is my biggest problems...too much of it back when I use to make lots of auctions . I don't get the planer out and set it up very often but when I do I run lots of boards through then trying to get them stacked and stickered is a big mess... This is the first time in a few years my sink actually looks like a sink. It was the first area I started cleaning and the bathroom is full of wood I can just barley get in to but hey it don't need to look purty. All parts of my shop looked like this when I started And I did free up a few HF clamps I had on the resawed wood for a bunch of years... If you ever resawed any 3/4" hardwood and just laid it over somewhere and forgot about it for a year or so when you finally needed some of that wood and didn't have it clamped back together to keep it straight then you know why I clamp all my resawed wood I resaw myself. This is only about half of the clamps still in use but I hope to get them all free by tomorrow night... And this is the first time in three of four years I can see the outfeed table rollers I built about 18 years ago. I had brought a box of 500 gocart wheel bearings with me before I sold our business and this out feed table took 64 of those bearings. Its kinda hard knowing what I was going to do after I retired but I had way too much inventory to leave for someone else... I also brought a few old antique coin operated video games that was popular way back when pac man and galaga first hit the scene. Thinks to my son for he knew what everyone would play. We opened that part of our lives in 1984 and the video games were still a thing to do for no cell phones had come on the scene I don't think? I also have a sit down mrs pac man which we put in the house from time to time.... much better than messing with a phone which I don't touch at all. Wife bought me one and it has never been used in a few years now. She makes sure the batteries are charged but I don't know why.. The reason I started cleaning was I dropped a couple of small pieces of the pictures I am working on and couldn't find them so cleaning some of the area was needed. Sure glad I don't have my shop in a basement! p_toad, HARO50, Cal and 2 others 5 Quote
Popular Post Gerald Posted March 2, 2019 Popular Post Report Posted March 2, 2019 That is quite a shop there Jesse. I think I have found someone who collects dust the way I do. I actually reorganized two sections of my turning blanks this week and found stuff I did not know I had. Oh but the sweet surprise of discovery. Dadio, p_toad, Gunny and 3 others 1 5 Quote
John Morris Posted March 2, 2019 Report Posted March 2, 2019 Topic moved from General Woodworking to Show Us Your Woodworking Shops. Cal 1 Quote
Gunny Posted March 2, 2019 Report Posted March 2, 2019 (edited) Looks fine to me. A clean shop is a sure sign of a sick mind. Probably could use a few more clamps though...…. Edited March 2, 2019 by Woodbutcherbynight Cal, p_toad, Gene Howe and 1 other 4 Quote
Cal Posted March 2, 2019 Report Posted March 2, 2019 Thanks for the tour of a bit of your workspace Jess. Dadio 1 Quote
lew Posted March 2, 2019 Report Posted March 2, 2019 11 hours ago, Smallpatch said: Sure glad I don't have my shop in a basement! Why?? Mine looks surprisingly like yours! I better not post a picture of my sink- afraid the CDC might put a plastic tent over the whole house! Gunny, p_toad, Cal and 1 other 4 Quote
Smallpatch Posted March 2, 2019 Author Report Posted March 2, 2019 Don't know if anyone is interested but the regular white pvc is too big ID for theses bearings but the 1 1/2" grey electrical pvc is a good tight fit.. the bearings are the cheaper style for gocart wheels and they have a lip on them to keep them from going in the wheel too deep. I say cheap for I just looked the price up and things have gone through the roof price wise since we sold out. This set up makes a good infeed table for the table saw also. HARO50, p_toad, Dadio and 1 other 3 1 Quote
lew Posted March 2, 2019 Report Posted March 2, 2019 12 minutes ago, Smallpatch said: Lew, whats a CDC? Center for Disease Control Cal, HARO50, p_toad and 1 other 1 3 Quote
Smallpatch Posted March 2, 2019 Author Report Posted March 2, 2019 and where do you live? Cal 1 Quote
lew Posted March 2, 2019 Report Posted March 2, 2019 2 hours ago, Smallpatch said: and where do you live? South central PA Cal 1 Quote
Popular Post HandyDan Posted March 2, 2019 Popular Post Report Posted March 2, 2019 Stick486, HARO50, Gunny and 4 others 7 Quote
p_toad Posted March 3, 2019 Report Posted March 3, 2019 Meanwhile, back at the ranch....hope you found those lost parts. HARO50, Gunny, Dadio and 1 other 2 2 Quote
Popular Post Smallpatch Posted March 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Posted March 3, 2019 Thanks Peter for asking. I found one and had to make one. It was a fender for the model A . I might start building up a used auto salvage yard in the hobby end of the trade for wood models only.. This could be the very first of its kind...Probably have to have many sizes and would have to start a new sizing scale....I could call my version the one click two click scale. This one I made was about 13 degrees off center facing the right and down 3 degrees from straight on... I can already see some unhappy folks if they don't get the exact degrees figured in then have to worry about the size in clicks. But next time I loose a fender I think it would be better to leave it and the tire off the car and make a little jack stand to go under there. Might look better also... p_toad, Gunny, Cal and 3 others 1 5 Quote
Smallpatch Posted March 3, 2019 Author Report Posted March 3, 2019 (edited) Hey Lew,, the first time I was ever in PA it was on a train heading toward Germany for uncle...I remember commenting to the other guys looking out the windows, I told them a painter in this state saves lots of money on supplies for one color is all the guy would have to buy before he put all that beauty of the trees and the grass and all the houses on a large canvas...and being from Tex where everything is light tan as in sand storms sure is a different world out there. Someone else said I wonder what the people look like here? This was in 1958 Edited March 3, 2019 by Smallpatch Cal, p_toad, Gunny and 1 other 4 Quote
Popular Post Smallpatch Posted March 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Posted March 3, 2019 Some else said they read where this is the only place is the world where black olives will grow! Someone else said you can't grow things in a mine!. 1200 guys all drafted to go to Germany as a unit and not one person could verify anything we were talking about for not one guy was from PA. p_toad, Cal, Gene Howe and 2 others 5 Quote
Gunny Posted March 3, 2019 Report Posted March 3, 2019 22 hours ago, lew said: South central PA anywhere close to Souderton? Cal 1 Quote
lew Posted March 3, 2019 Report Posted March 3, 2019 23 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said: anywhere close to Souderton? Tha about 150 miles East of here. Closest "notable" place to us is Gettysburg. Gunny and Cal 2 Quote
Gunny Posted March 5, 2019 Report Posted March 5, 2019 I moved one tool, my OSS to a spot that had easy access to the DC. Just one tool. That started a cascade of moving stuff around. More things to build in the shop. Which is fine as the weather is nothing I want to get out in and do yardwork. Still, seemed so simple at the time..... HARO50, Cal, Gene Howe and 1 other 1 3 Quote
Gene Howe Posted March 5, 2019 Report Posted March 5, 2019 The only way to keep a shop clean and organized is to never use it. Dadio, p_toad, Gunny and 1 other 3 1 Quote
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