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>>What!? You have your mill in the kitchen? That must be the kitchen -
>>no shop is ever that clean!
>Second that, the area is WAY to clean. if you don't send a pic with
>oily swarf on it, I won't believe the machine works.
>Nice job
>Karl
OK, the shop is new and not finished, and it's little. I have no commercial aspirations. I went out and snapped some pics of it so you can see some clutter. I'm sure there'll be more as I go. Wife already says "Why in hell did you paint the floor white?, Oh, well."
1) To piss off the little woman.
2) So you can find dropped things, like Jesus clips.
3) To add to the reflected light, reducing the need for extra lighting.
LJ--who also has a pure white shop, from floor, to ceiling, and all walls and doors.
-- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -- Anaïs Nin
That picture looks like the one in the local school. We went though for an inspection/preplan look a couple weeks ago. The "industrial arts" classroom had a total of 1 drill press, one table saw, a HUGE old bench grinder (looked like it would handle a 16" wheel but they had tiny 8" ones on it) and a small wood lathe, No welding gear, no metal working gear larger than a pair of tin snips and a couple files.
Then we went into the other half of the room. It had two rows of computers ONLY. Talked to the guide (who is one of our guys who works there) and he says they basically build pre made kits like tool boxes and birdhouses and are shown how to run the other tools but they generally don't use them. Instead they lead CAD drawing...
Then this same school wonders why things in the school are falling apart and "nobody makes the parts locally"
I remember having a gas forge, Bridgeport, nice Clausing lathe with plenty of tooling, horizontal band saw, shaper, stick, gas and MIG gear. Racks full of steel and wood. Tools to do leather work, sheet metal work, glass work (including blown glass) and more. Then there was the wood shop section with two table saws, band saw, jig saws belt/disc sanders and even a long belt table sander.
When they sold off the equipment they didn't announce it, they let a select few know. Those folks grabbed the stuff dirt cheap.
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I hear that. One of the major areas of change in schools is the emphasis on Science, Techology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and as a result the push is to teach theoretical design and manufacturing as opposed to applied methods. School districts love it because it is cheaper and plays well to the public (look at all the computers, it must be high tech!)
The problem, IMHO is that we are creating a great number of grads who think that they know how to do things with only the ability to tell someone what they think they know (and in many cases don't). It is one thing to create a part on a CADD system that looks great. It is quite another to physically create that part (in my opinion, the hardest part with all the associated problem solving necessary). I am reminded of the lamentations of a progressive die designer, with whom I worked several years ago, in having to deal with a design engineer who insisted on square corners on sheet metal parts. His complaint was that the parts were very well designed, just not manufacturable in the real world.
Good idea, thanks Gunner. I'll do something white, either painted sheet metal or formica.
By the way, metal stock, the gas forge, anvil, and usually the engine crane and cutting rig stay in the garage. The shop is too small to store a lot of stuff. I'm going to weld up a cart on casters to hold machine vises, indexers, etc. And a couple to hold small bits of stock (which is what I use a lot) attached to a couple of hardwood furniture dollies to roll under the bench.
All of the rolling stuff can leave if I decide to build a boat.
I don't need a shop, I need a warehouse. The mill, lathe, welder, bandsaw, ect only take up a little space. It is all the tooling, materials, and projects that make me a candidate for Hoarders.
I painted my floor white because it reflects more light, and I need all I can get. I don't expect it to remain pristine (it hasn't) but it's a much nicer place to work than most of the red/gray/bare concrete dusty-grey places I've worked in. And being fairly boring paint rather than some fancy epoxy crap, if it gets too dirty, scrub well and add another coat. Flat white because I don't like to fall on my keister and have had a few bad glossy floor paint experiences in the past. Flat white recoats better and sweeps better than gloss-with-sand.
Yeah, me too. I have 2 shops of 24' X 24' each. I couldn't move much stuff to get at the floors though, so I only needed a white magic marker to get it all done. But I'm jealous Pete!!! hahahaha
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That is a massive project. Better to get a same size (or larger) external drive, move as much as you can to it. then defrag the original disc. Then copy back from the external. I recommend Robocopy.exe - it is like xcopy only with some more (smarter) options.
Years ago I stoped at a radio station that owed me money. They said their computer was so slow that it took an hour to boot up and load thier bookkeeping software. They just shrugged when I asked when was the last time it was defragged so I asked if I could take a look at it and found the problem right away. There was only one unused sector left on the 40 MB drive. I looked at all their software and nothing required the Windows 3.0, so I deleted it and told them that if they had written that check, the system wouldn't have been able to boot. They ran that Compaq portable for three or four more years, before the drive started to fail, but never ran out of space again.
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