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Kev said:
Shed or Workshop varies a lot, a really interesting one e.g. ... you'ld definitely retire to a shed to escape the other half, and when asked what you are doing the correct term is of course 'jarvising'!!!
Now that doesn't really fit with a workshop, a place of industry and production whereas the whole point of jarvising is to produce nothing!
So shed: storage and faux work, workshop: REAL work
I just got onto this party. I have a couple of comments beyond what a great job you are doing.
I would think straw or hay wood be great insulation. I see plenty of houses with thatched roofs in Germany and Denmark. I am sure there ore plenty all over Europe. I have never seen any here in USofA, but that might be a matter of building and fire codes. I never looked into that part of building construction.
About what your building should be called: How about "abarntment"? :
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I would think straw or hay wood be great insulation. I see plenty of houses with thatched roofs in Germany and Denmark. I am sure there ore plenty all over Europe. I have never seen any here in USofA, but that might be a matter of building and fire codes. I never looked into that part of building construction.
About what your building should be called: How about "abarntment"? :
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I think i forgot to post some in between progress, but here is how it currently looks. I will compile videos of the different steps once it gets a little less hectic. i should have finished it by 1st of august and i only just started moving in the tools today... so work is starting to pile up so badly that i had to scrap an important commissioned job who's deadline i wouldn't have been able to meet anymore.
Assembly room, floor is French pine that i finished with 3 hardwax coats.
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Machine room, still some electrical work to do and figure out the DC system.
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Assembly room, floor is French pine that i finished with 3 hardwax coats.
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Machine room, still some electrical work to do and figure out the DC system.
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Tim. Looks great. All I can say.
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F...ing awesome shop
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Thank you Tim for sharing this documentation of your marvelous work!
Your shop looks like it would be fun to work within, the best photos i like is the nearly empty shop with your dog everywhere, sitting there, a little bored. He is sweet
I have a question regarding the outside walls, is it faster to assemble the whole walls with wood and beams and so on, rather than to use stones like ytong or so?
Your shop looks like it would be fun to work within, the best photos i like is the nearly empty shop with your dog everywhere, sitting there, a little bored. He is sweet
I have a question regarding the outside walls, is it faster to assemble the whole walls with wood and beams and so on, rather than to use stones like ytong or so?
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Coliban said:Your shop looks like it would be fun to work within, the best photos i like is the nearly empty shop with your dog everywhere, sitting there, a little bored. He is sweet
I have a question regarding the outside walls, is it faster to assemble the whole walls with wood and beams and so on, rather than to use stones like ytong or so?
It was late and time to go home, so my dog kept sitting in front of me to remind me she wanted to go home!
As for building the walls, it is definitely fast with wood. With the help of my girlfiend we did between 2-3 walls a day. This machine room took a little over 2 days. But what took alot of time was placing the roof beams, insulation, drywalling etc...
The outside concrete block wall 12m long took two men a week to build.
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Thanks all for the comments! Today i finished the dc system, well made it functional.
Lucky for me there is a company (Ducomat) 10 minutes from here that sells DC systems, i brought back what i had over and took what i was missing.
I planned the lay out, but then reality kicks in. I had to adapt it so it would fall under a row of ceiling beams so i could attach the ducts better. I also had change it so it wouldn't fall under the light armatures.
So far it appears to suck more than my previous homemade system, on their advice i kept the whole system in 160mm ducts and only reduced to 120mm right before the blast gates. The slightest gaps around all the closed gates now scream as air is being sucked through every crease even with one or two open gates.
My previous system was spiral ducts that started in 160mm but then went to 120mm at the first Y section.
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The dust collector starts automatically by detecting current on one of the 3 phases, i still need to figure out the right phase to use for each machine.
One of them serves as a brake, so if you use that one the DC stays on as long as the machine is breaking. Another phase also serves to raise the planer bed or spindle axis, if you press those buttons the dc starts lol.
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Lucky for me there is a company (Ducomat) 10 minutes from here that sells DC systems, i brought back what i had over and took what i was missing.
I planned the lay out, but then reality kicks in. I had to adapt it so it would fall under a row of ceiling beams so i could attach the ducts better. I also had change it so it wouldn't fall under the light armatures.
So far it appears to suck more than my previous homemade system, on their advice i kept the whole system in 160mm ducts and only reduced to 120mm right before the blast gates. The slightest gaps around all the closed gates now scream as air is being sucked through every crease even with one or two open gates.
My previous system was spiral ducts that started in 160mm but then went to 120mm at the first Y section.
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The dust collector starts automatically by detecting current on one of the 3 phases, i still need to figure out the right phase to use for each machine.
One of them serves as a brake, so if you use that one the DC stays on as long as the machine is breaking. Another phase also serves to raise the planer bed or spindle axis, if you press those buttons the dc starts lol.
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Man these photos have me chomping at the bit.
September the 11th i take delivery of a long awaited AD941 and a RL125.
My shop is nothing as nice as yours but these machines should help.
I plan to purchase a piece of land in the next ten years and put a metal building up on a slab. Something line 40x80 or so. One half will be living the other workshop and separate two car garage. Then maybe i will have a shop half as nice as what you have built?
Next year ill add the Felder oscillating sander and in a month or two the slot mortiser.
Photo of new toy to move my new bigger toys...
September the 11th i take delivery of a long awaited AD941 and a RL125.
My shop is nothing as nice as yours but these machines should help.
I plan to purchase a piece of land in the next ten years and put a metal building up on a slab. Something line 40x80 or so. One half will be living the other workshop and separate two car garage. Then maybe i will have a shop half as nice as what you have built?
Next year ill add the Felder oscillating sander and in a month or two the slot mortiser.
Photo of new toy to move my new bigger toys...
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@ Iceclimber, what decided you to go for the 900 model? Thats one serious piece of industrial machine. I admit that i partly chose for the 700 series because of the looks. That range also seems aimed at one man shops where the owners actually uses them.
Also what oscillating sander do you mean? They have wide belt sanders, i don't think they oscillate other than to keep the belt centered pneumatically?
@ Kev, when you start out it's easier to spend on small quality tools, once that is done you move onto upgrading the big ones. And when that is done you can start thinking of building an appartment and move out of mom and dad's house
Also what oscillating sander do you mean? They have wide belt sanders, i don't think they oscillate other than to keep the belt centered pneumatically?
@ Kev, when you start out it's easier to spend on small quality tools, once that is done you move onto upgrading the big ones. And when that is done you can start thinking of building an appartment and move out of mom and dad's house
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Mostly just that the rep sent me to look at a 700 series combo machine before i made the purchase. After seeing that machine in person the. Coming home and taking a closer look at what info and pics on the AD741 i could find i noticed slight "i mean slight" differences.
One being the tables are not prisimed. The other major thing being the bars that support the upper tables. On the 700 series combo machine i looked at the underside of the planer tables had two really beefy bars under the left and right side of the tables. The Ad741 has only one of those beefy much more like the Hammer line.
Other than that i liked the fence with that stupid upright bar a bit more. The real truth is after seeing that 700 series combo machine then chatting with my rep and pointing out the few minor differences above i just did not want to take the chance on a machine that cost 10k plus that because i was put off by another 2-3k i end up disappointed because the machine was not as i expected.
Im sure the 700 series would had been more than enough machine for me. I just figure this is the last jointer planer I'm buying so why not do it right and go all out. Well its not a Martin but thats just to bad isnt it.
Sander link...
http://www.felderusa.com/us-us/products/edge-sanders/edge-sander-with-veneersanding-device-fs-900-kf.html
One being the tables are not prisimed. The other major thing being the bars that support the upper tables. On the 700 series combo machine i looked at the underside of the planer tables had two really beefy bars under the left and right side of the tables. The Ad741 has only one of those beefy much more like the Hammer line.
Other than that i liked the fence with that stupid upright bar a bit more. The real truth is after seeing that 700 series combo machine then chatting with my rep and pointing out the few minor differences above i just did not want to take the chance on a machine that cost 10k plus that because i was put off by another 2-3k i end up disappointed because the machine was not as i expected.
Im sure the 700 series would had been more than enough machine for me. I just figure this is the last jointer planer I'm buying so why not do it right and go all out. Well its not a Martin but thats just to bad isnt it.
Sander link...
http://www.felderusa.com/us-us/products/edge-sanders/edge-sander-with-veneersanding-device-fs-900-kf.html
Timtool said:@ Iceclimber, what decided you to go for the 900 model? Thats one serious piece of industrial machine. I admit that i partly chose for the 700 series because of the looks. That range also seems aimed at one man shops where the owners actually uses them.
Also what oscillating sander do you mean? They have wide belt sanders, i don't think they oscillate other than to keep the belt centered pneumatically?
@ Kev, when you start out it's easier to spend on small quality tools, once that is done you move onto upgrading the big ones. And when that is done you can start thinking of building an appartment and move out of mom and dad's house
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