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XS650 Addict
SHOP DETAILS:
Getting the shop in better order. Before and after pics. I took the ~afters~ last night. Just about ready to move the lathe and mill into the cleaned up shop on to that table with the red legs. I felt compelled to take that picture, I don't think that room will EVER look like that again. We pulled up the 25+ year old "green stuff", it had at least enough sand in it to halfway fill a five gallon bucket when we pulled it up. Yuk.
So it's getting there. Hopefully we'll get the job done soon before it gets too hot. It's normal for the inside temps of that shop to hit 130f in the summer here. We usually work on bikes at night when it gets like that, but even so the shop is still pretty hot all night.
I have a bit of welding to get done on that table before we can bolt it down to the concrete floor and then bolt the lathe and mill down to it. I'm hoping to finish that up this week, I still need to wire in my MIG welder first to primary power (230vac), something I did for a living for nearly three decades. Then I can zap those little brackets to the table legs and bolt the table down.
Harbor Freight had a special on their 1000 pound capacity hydraulic tables again ($220). So we snagged one of those to move the two machines. We used those same tables for over fifteen years at our repair shop. We abused the HELL out of those things, went through about one per year out of a fleet of four of them. They make great adjustable height workbenches/engine benches. It always seems like an engine is too high or too low to work on. So these tables work great for those purposes. They also make decent bike stands, as long as it's ok if the bike rests on the lower frame rails. Obviously someone with good DIY skills can make up any type of holding fixture for the table to be able to use it any way you need. I figure this one will last at least as long as I will. The key is to buy a repair kit or two NOW and keep them in a ziplock bag in your file cabinet drawer that has all the rest of your shop equipment manuals and information. You DO have a drawer or file cab for your shop, right? Or is that just another odd thing about me again? No surprise there!
So we'll use the hydraulic table to move and set the two machines on the red legged table. I built that table in a haste about four years ago as an engine bench that has a fitted stainless steel top on it (on the floor and unseen in the "after" shot). We'll also move both drill presses in there and all of my other tools.
BEFORE: (AYE CHIMUNGA! Well, that's what was left after Hurricane Lastproject went through the shop! Haahaa!
(below) my "little" brother working at the welding bench amongst some project bike frames in our makeshift welding/grinding shop. We took a 10x8 metal shed and built it on a slab outside of our shop, placing it directly next to the backmost wall of that shop. After anchoring the shed down to the slab we literally cut a doorway between the shop and the metal shed creating an access path. That shed is where I do 99% of all of my welding. It's all metal and concrete, pretty much no chance of it catching fire. So I use it for all of the welding if I can get away with it, as well as any heavy grinding. Pretty much anything that slings a lot of sparks, spatter, dross, or slag is done in that shed. I open the actual shed doors that face outside to ventilate it. We also use it for the occasional paint booth duty sometimes.
AFTER: Getting there. A lot of parts have been sold which is what is financing this project bike of mine dubbed the YZ650. Those efforts have also helped to create some SPACE! Finally getting around to moving the lathe, mill, drill presses, arbor press, and main tool boxes into the larger of the three shops I have, and putting the motorcycle projects into the room where the machines previously were located. Been wanting to get this done for a 'coon's age.
Getting the shop in better order. Before and after pics. I took the ~afters~ last night. Just about ready to move the lathe and mill into the cleaned up shop on to that table with the red legs. I felt compelled to take that picture, I don't think that room will EVER look like that again. We pulled up the 25+ year old "green stuff", it had at least enough sand in it to halfway fill a five gallon bucket when we pulled it up. Yuk.
So it's getting there. Hopefully we'll get the job done soon before it gets too hot. It's normal for the inside temps of that shop to hit 130f in the summer here. We usually work on bikes at night when it gets like that, but even so the shop is still pretty hot all night.
I have a bit of welding to get done on that table before we can bolt it down to the concrete floor and then bolt the lathe and mill down to it. I'm hoping to finish that up this week, I still need to wire in my MIG welder first to primary power (230vac), something I did for a living for nearly three decades. Then I can zap those little brackets to the table legs and bolt the table down.
Harbor Freight had a special on their 1000 pound capacity hydraulic tables again ($220). So we snagged one of those to move the two machines. We used those same tables for over fifteen years at our repair shop. We abused the HELL out of those things, went through about one per year out of a fleet of four of them. They make great adjustable height workbenches/engine benches. It always seems like an engine is too high or too low to work on. So these tables work great for those purposes. They also make decent bike stands, as long as it's ok if the bike rests on the lower frame rails. Obviously someone with good DIY skills can make up any type of holding fixture for the table to be able to use it any way you need. I figure this one will last at least as long as I will. The key is to buy a repair kit or two NOW and keep them in a ziplock bag in your file cabinet drawer that has all the rest of your shop equipment manuals and information. You DO have a drawer or file cab for your shop, right? Or is that just another odd thing about me again? No surprise there!
So we'll use the hydraulic table to move and set the two machines on the red legged table. I built that table in a haste about four years ago as an engine bench that has a fitted stainless steel top on it (on the floor and unseen in the "after" shot). We'll also move both drill presses in there and all of my other tools.
BEFORE: (AYE CHIMUNGA! Well, that's what was left after Hurricane Lastproject went through the shop! Haahaa!
(below) my "little" brother working at the welding bench amongst some project bike frames in our makeshift welding/grinding shop. We took a 10x8 metal shed and built it on a slab outside of our shop, placing it directly next to the backmost wall of that shop. After anchoring the shed down to the slab we literally cut a doorway between the shop and the metal shed creating an access path. That shed is where I do 99% of all of my welding. It's all metal and concrete, pretty much no chance of it catching fire. So I use it for all of the welding if I can get away with it, as well as any heavy grinding. Pretty much anything that slings a lot of sparks, spatter, dross, or slag is done in that shed. I open the actual shed doors that face outside to ventilate it. We also use it for the occasional paint booth duty sometimes.
AFTER: Getting there. A lot of parts have been sold which is what is financing this project bike of mine dubbed the YZ650. Those efforts have also helped to create some SPACE! Finally getting around to moving the lathe, mill, drill presses, arbor press, and main tool boxes into the larger of the three shops I have, and putting the motorcycle projects into the room where the machines previously were located. Been wanting to get this done for a 'coon's age.
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