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Vince
02-18-2002 21:05:56
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Re: links for shop setup ideas in reply to rasputen, 02-17-2002 14:22:27
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I have thought about this and asked questions on other BBS. I beleive that you need to know the key components that you need. 3phs power, enough amps, Head room,Doors, entry, heat (cool), ventilation, sound (I hate the all steel noise boxes) Telephone,water, drains, rest room, computer room,storage, security, Fire provention-fighting, Compressed air, machine shop requirements, wood working, painting needs. The farm mags all award the aircraft hanger style, but you will run your self raged to get from one end to the other. Some of the best mechanics end up useing their field trucks since everything is nearby. I have a few places that I have driven buy and sooo wanted to stop and pick the owners brain since I see the work they turn out from a tiny space. Masters of orginization, lay out and production verses big space and prestige. I try to think of my shop as a kitchen. In a kitchen the stove-refrigirator-sink-workspace make the traffic patern. In my little shop toolbox-workbench-boltbin(other consumables as well)-welder are the key ingrediants. (I use another building for oil chainges and the things that uses oil-filters-parking spot-waste oil disposal.) So in my shop the workbench (on south wall) (3x8) has a vice and a small drill press on left end with a mig underneth and shelf infront with endwrenches hanging on with spring loaded doors I keep gasket stuff and drills in those shelves room for more but I just built it last year and like the nice new clean space right there, at chest level, the rollaround tool box is 3ft behind (so If I need anything I just pivit and turn around to face north, no steps) the bolt bin is to the left and set back of the tool box the sink is 6ft to the west of the end of the workbench on the west wall (actually east wall of the bathroom) Just to the west of the workbench on the south wall butting up to the wall with the sink is a rolling shelf with gear pullers, roller chain, those little drawers that hold all the good stuff. To the east of the work bench is the door (way too small) and enough space for a motorcycle or a garden tractor (12x12ft but if I get the front of a car in I can just turn the tool bos to face the car and work over the hood with the box right behind me.) which is crowded by my metal shaper on a palet to the extreem north (so I can move it if I realy needed to) to the east is an old egg cooler that now houses one of my lathes and the pesticides plus a few shelves that hold a lot of junk. I keep my big tig/stick welder another work bench and all sorts of other junk in the tiny space but due to trafic paterns they end up as catch-alls. I keep my sheat metal break and parts washer along with stuff that I dont want to get dusty in another room. I would like to move the aircompressor into that room to cut down on the noise. I have 2 phones one buy the door to the lathe room and another by the bathroom door. No 3ph power, no head room, no floor space, no quality ventlation but I get some work done with out running all over.
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