| Blog series by PeterJ | updated 558 days ago | 4 parts | 1342 reads | 44 comments total |
Part 1: The Main Workshop Area
The main workshop area was the first part to be built about 40 years ago when I was still young and was mainly intended as a repair facility. At the time I thought that it would be adequate as power tools and stationary tools were not yet generally available or affordable as that was still the golden age of hand tools. The ceiling height of the main workshop is 1900mm but reduced down to 1760mm for the door opening and overhead beam and shelving. AS I said this is adequate for myself but not...
Part 2: The Machining Area.
The Machining area. The back part, being the later addition, is long and rectangular and has stumps in the middle which I had to retain and reinforce. Hence I built a small bench coming out from the back wall to incorporate the stumps as a wall divider which naturally separated the back part into two parts. The left side is mainly a machining area and the other side a sanding area. The machining area contains the jointer, scroll saw, band saw, SCMS, drill press and on the small dividin...
Part 3: The Sanding Area
The sanding area, being the other side of the back part, has a built in down draft bench for hand or power sanding together with storage area for sandpaper rolls and belts etc. It has a belt sander, a 12” disk sander, a 1” belt sander, a spindle sander and morticer all connected to the dust colleting system with individual blast gates. It has a through the wall connection to a mini cyclone and vacuum cleaner built in a soundproofed cupboard under the house for use with the power sanders an...
Part 4: The under stairs area.
This area, being long but narrow, was created under the stairs and verandah by installing a fiberglass roof underneath the joists and lining the inside of the walls. It is a small rectangular area adjacent to the main workshop and is the main metal working area. It houses the grinders and polishing wheels, welder, soldering kits, metal cut of saw (adapted from an old drop saw), metal working vice and my lathe, which is a very much under used tool. In the cupboard under the long bench...
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