Forget where I read it, perhaps Fine Woodworking, but someone gave a tip that every time you enter your shop, put away 10 items. Takes only a minute, and your shop becomes less cluttered very quickly. In fact, sometimes it gets hard to find 10 items which are out of place.
I piped my compressor which is in the garage into the basement. ran it across one wall with quick disconnect fittings. Love it! Would like to run it across the adjecent wall.
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:29:23 GMT, Larry Jaques brought forth from the murky depths:
Whilst perusing the Accuride catalog today I came upon the 2002 slide which is used in pass-thru applications such as kitchen islands and medical carts where both sides need access. It has an internal detent in the center which should work well.
Would you still recommend wood in a commercial shop environment? What about one with radiant heating? Anyone here ever use removeable wood flooring "panels", a la the Boston Garden?
JP
Larry -
Thanks for the info, I had no idea they made 2 way slides. Unfortunately, I need something a lot stronger, suitable for very wide and long pull-through shelves. I tried searching the AccuRide site for "pass-through", "two way" and "double sided". I got a couple of hits showing the 2002, nothing else. But anyway, I really appreciate the reply.
(BTW - those guys obviously spent a lot on their site, great info there, but they really don't have it organized very hell. What's with making you choose an industry before you search? you just wind up doing the same search 3 times. Yuk!)
Tim Carver snipped-for-privacy@twocarvers.com
Harbor Freight has one that normally sells for $80 on sale for $40. Includes 25 feet of 3/8" hose. Seems like a pretty nice setup. Check back in a couple of months for my review.
Dave
Another aspect that I'm sure must affect others here... It helps if you go on a diet and exercise regimen so you can shrink your gut far enough to actually *see* your penis. Aim is a real problem otherwise. DAMHIKT. Maybe I need some of Luigi's penis enlargement pills.
What about lathe shavings? My ye olde pisse buckete is filled with green maple streamers and chippings. I'm short on sawdust these days, since I retired my boat anchor, and am waiting on my tax refund to replace it.
Will it ever fill up, or is it a bottomless pit? It seems like I must have discharged at least five gallone of ye olde pisse into ye olde pisse buckete by now.
Another bonus, I don't lose heat by opening the doors to my shop or to my house every time I need to free Willy.
Not long ago, I "discovered" rec.woodworking. I've been using it a ton as reference since then. I've seen several referals to pics being posted at "ABPW". Would someone please explain what this is and how I access it? Thanks.
alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking
It's another newsgroup. "alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking". Access is just like any other newsgroup. assuming your provider carries the group, that is.
"non-text" stuff is verboten in most "non-binaries" newsgroups, because the files are usually _big_. by convention, almost all the 'binaries allowed' groups are grouped under the 'alt.binaries' hierarchy.
there's also alt.binaries.pictures.furniture.
You can also access the photos posted to ABPW through a website:
I hope that helps some folks here.
Rob
I'm excluding tools because I'm just starting out...
My shop is a 30" wide strip on the back wall of the garage. I live in hail country (Dallas) with no usable backyard for a carport or shed, so the cars have to go indoors. So, this was my first project. I made them with BC plywood for the box, Lowes whitewood for the face frames and doors, a router, and a circular saw. Dadoes, finishing nails, and glue. Every other base unit wheels around (Router table, Dewalt Jobsite Table Saw) The cabinets look amazing and work great, but after reading the wreck I know the finish work is destined to fall apart, especially the doors. (They were mitred and glued with screen stapled into a rabet as the panel. No splines or bisquits. The face frames are butt joint and glue, no M&T, but they have enough finish nails into the box that they should be okay.) Oh well, my skills will be better when they do fall apart.
Top three I'd like to make?
Jay
P.S. Please don't tell me the DW744 was a mistake. It works great for now and when I get a bigger house and a cabinet saw, it will still be able to be thrown in the back of the truck when I go to the in-laws. Besides, I got it new for $400 at Lowes and it had a mail in for the
18 guage brad nailer.: What are your best three easy imrpovements?
Very few of my improvement shave been easy because of the nature of my "basement". It's not really a basement - the foundation was built on rock ledge. I've had to build a platform over the highly sloping rock ledge, and that platform is the floor of my shop.
So my best improvements are:
1) (an "easy") 1" x 12" x 30" pine tool holders held up with French Cleats.2) doubling then tripling the floor space by building more platform.
3) Adding high quality flourescent lights.--- Gregg
My woodworking projects:
Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments:
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nah.... you just need enough of those enlargement pills that you can hang the end of it over the rim of the bucket while you get back to work.
shavings are fine. probably better than saw dust, and better for sure than sander dust- that stuff just cakes up into a lump. getting oxygen to it is part of the chemistry....
That is a really good idea. Does it matter what type of pipe you use? Would having about 40 feet of pipe added between a pancake compressor and the nail gun affect the operation, that is, would there still be enough power to drive the nails?
So far my best improvements to my basement shop are:
Do a google search on what type of pipe to use for all the info (not PVC!). As to the effect on your compressor, it just acts like your compressor has a larger tank. Since it will probably be on the downstream side of your pressure regulator the total amount of available air will be slightly less that if it was on the upstream side. Because of this I like to run my piping at full compressor tank pressure and regulate it down at the end where I plug in the air tools.
-Bruce
Jeff wrote:
if the tank pressure is 125# and the regulator is set for 90#, the small volume of air in the lines is not going to matter one way or the other.
dave
BruceR wrote:
As long as the pipe is not really small, it would actually act as a extra resevoir and should NOT reduce the power nor the functionality
John
it doesn't matter where the regulator is as far as available air: there isn't enough volume of air in the lines to matter if it is at 90# of pressure or 130#.
dave
BruceR wrote:
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