My Home Machine Shop

[gdavis2265]

Hey guys / gals:

First time poster, long time reader - enjoy your forum.

I have a small home shop, mainly geared toward metalwork / machining / welding and repair. I always joke and call it my 'boat'. Money needs to be sunk into something, might as well be in what I love.

Hope these pics don't turn out to big, posting them from another forum.

Anyway, thanks.

Glenn

Just installed this over the weekend. 1958 Grob NS-21" Bandsaw

1980's Daewoo 20" x 60" lathe

Homemade H-Press

Homemade 15HP rotary phase converter for 3 phase power

Early 70's J-Head Bridgeport with DRO

Saber Drilling Machine

Little Wilton wet saw

My favorite vice - 8" Heinrich drill press vise

Reloading area / jamming area

Welding area / tooling storage

Drops

Cheapy brake

torch

 

[930dreamer]

Welcome, the pics didn't show up.

 

[A_Pmech]

Hi Glenn,

Welcome to Garage Journal!

I checked out your photos on Practical Machinist and you have a nicely set up shop. I suspect PM doesn't allow linking from their photo album to other websites. If you upload your shop photos to Garage Journal they'll show up in your posts when you link to them here.

 

[gdavis2265]

Thanks guys, I'll do that in a bit, traveling right now.

 

[gdavis2265]

Oh, and A Pmech, you inspired me to get the very bandsaw.

 

[gdavis2265]

Ok, trying this again. Hope this is not too pic heavy.


My Bridgey

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its vice

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Saber drilling machine

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Daewoo 20 x 60 engine lathe and homemade crane

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Walker Turner wood / metal bandsaw with backgears

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Grob NS-24" bandsaw

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Homemade H-Press

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Pressbrake

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Cheapy 48" brake

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UCC-305 tig welder with homemade cooler

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Lincoln tig 185

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Plasma - hope to build CNC table for it soon

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15HP rotary phase converter

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[gdavis2265]

I need a decent wirefeed, this was bought to finish a project.

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Oxy/ Acc - I find these handy at certain times - These use to do gas welding with before I had a tig, used a small jewlers torch for sheetmetal

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reloading area - someone once told me how boring it would be, I told them I sort nuts and bolts, so it should actually be pretty exciting - It is.

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Cheapy Wilton wet saw, but has served me well for a few years now - can't live without it.

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My absolute favorite vice - Heinrich 8" and 6" (not shown, used on my tapping machine)

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1940's Abrasive 1-1/2 surface grinder and Homemade Tapping Machine with double reduction shaft / 3 phase plug reversing and relay controlled reversing pedal. 125 RPM with instant reversing. No clamping of the part needed, just hold the vise and hit the pedal.

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Homemade de-burring station with flip up table and vise for use with 4-1/2" cutoff wheel.

Probabaly the most used set-up in the shop.

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Homemade welding table with tool storage

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Thanks a bunch guys, love the site.

Glenn

 

[larry_g]

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/member-shop-photos/my-shop-aka-my-boat-238829/

I searched out the PM post. Looks to be a great shop to work in.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[fury9]

Link is showing up beta on my end? Read posts and everybody says it's a nice shop.

 

[cfaas416]

Thanks for building my dream shop... Can I have it now???

 

[gdavis2265]

Not sure what is going on,

I downloaded my photos to an album her at GJ, then posted them once again in this thread. It basically gave me the auto resopnse that the reply will not be posted until approved by the admin.

Anyway, sorry for all the confusion.

Glenn

 

[larry_g]

Not sure what is going on,

I downloaded my photos to an album her at GJ, then posted them once again in this thread. It basically gave me the auto resopnse that the reply will not be posted until approved by the admin.

Anyway, sorry for all the confusion.

Glenn

Most of the pictures are showing now. The RPC and wet saw are not.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[bullnerd]

Being a machinist myself,its killing me not being able to see the pics!

I love seeing home machine shops.

Love the "boat" reference.

 

[PAToyota]

Still not seeing any pictures, but found your album.

Let's see if this works:

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[gdavis2265]

Bullnerd,
hahaaha - thanks for getting the boat reference. I tell people this is my retirement fund. I have a machinist friend that has had a shop for forty years, I bought similar equipment to his and paid the same price on the machines as he did forty years ago. The way I look at it, old iron holds it's value, so in a way it's probably a better investment than the stock market. But, that's not the reason for the shop, I love metal work and always have. My dad bought me my first craftsman toolset at 6 years old, he got tired of me borrowing his tools I guess.

Pat, thanks for helping a computer illiterate guys out!

I travel the globe frequently, so my haven is working weekends in my shop building, welding, machining things, making a few extra bucks and always learning along the way.

Best regards,

Glenn

 

[gdavis2265]

Funny,

None of the pics are showing on my laptop, except the one posted by PaToyota.

 

[Noxx]

Your electrical situation is giving me fits, but I love the homemade / vintage feel. I've got the same drill press, they just don't make em like they used to.

 

[gdavis2265]

hahaha thanks, I really do need to clean up the third world electrical wiring in my shop. You start off small and just keep adding and adding, and soon you have wires, extension cords and wire strips all over the place.

 

[PAToyota]

Go to your album and right click on a photo and select "copy image address"

Then go to your message - you can open two tabs so you can go back and forth - and click the little yellow picture with the mountains and a box will come up for the image address. Paste the address from the clipboard into the line there (see below).

Do the same for the next photo and so forth. You can put your text between the images.

Not sure what you tried to do in the first post, but nothing shows up for me.

 

[NUTTSGT]

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/member-shop-photos/my-shop-aka-my-boat-238829/

I searched out the PM post. Looks to be a great shop to work in.

lg
no neat sig line

I don't even see pics in that link.

 

[gdavis2265]

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[gdavis2265]

I'm wondering if something is wrong here, I've done just this, but when posting a photo a dialog box pops up and mentions that it will not be posted until it is reviewed by the admin, or something to that effect. If no photo or address is attached, my reply is posted immediatly. These photo addresses are directly from my album loacted here at GJ.

Really sorry for all the confusion guys.

Glenn

Go to your album and right click on a photo and select "copy image address"

Then go to your message - you can open two tabs so you can go back and forth - and click the little yellow picture with the mountains and a box will come up for the image address. Paste the address from the clipboard into the line there (see below).

Do the same for the next photo and so forth. You can put your text between the images.

Not sure what you tried to do in the first post, but nothing shows up for me.

 

[bczygan]

I'm just drooling!

Worked for a year as a machinist and miss having the tools at my disposal.

 

[gdavis2265]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=2382&pictureid=24958

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test

 

[gdavis2265]

This is the notice I get:

"gdavis2265
Thank you for posting! Your post will not be visible until a moderator has approved it for posting."

 

[gdavis2265]

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[Modern Jess]

Really, really nice setup. Love the station with all the grinders and other small machines.

Am currently building out my own shop. I won't have nearly that much space, but I may have to steal the idea for that grinder station.

 

[gdavis2265]

Looks like the pics are working now?

Jess, definatly steal any ideas you want, I know I do

I got tired of chasing grinders around on those little three legged stands, so I came up with that idea, very handy.

 

[TireTracks]

How's the craftsman drill press set up as a tapper? I'd like to see some pic's, those are my Favorite drill presses.

 

[gdavis2265]

The tapping machine works awesome. I have all the taps and correct pilot drills set and ready to go next to the machine. I machined a plug and inserted it into the hollow spine of the drill press. I machined an eccentric hole in this plug and pressed twin spherical bearings that supports a vertical stub shaft to mount the pulley and sprocket needed for the extra reduction.

Also I machined a mating hub for the spindle to accept a large sprocket. A 1 hp three phase motor drives a v-belt to the stub shaft (this is tensioned by the motor bracket) and the stub shaft sprocket drives the large spindle sprocket, I tension this by rotating the eccentric plug in the hollow column of the spine.

The 1725 RPM reduces to around 125 RPM at the spindle, I use the foot pedal to instantly plug reverse the motor - I turned the body down of a 'General' brand hand tap holder to fit the drill chuck, this holds taps up to 1/2".

This set-up works amazingly. I could have used my Bridgeport for tapping, but it has a very sticky quill and I wanted a dedicated machine instead.

I'll post some build pics when I return home in a couple of weeks.

 

[gdavis2265]

Found pics over on my PM site.

Sorry if these are big (and crappy from my smartphone)

This probably should be posted in a new thread. Let me know if I need to start a new thread.


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This photo shows the small A pulley that ended up being replaced by #40 chain, the pulley was just too small and lacked enough friction to transmit all the torque.

So I went with a primary A belt drive to a secondary (final) chain drive)

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The pressed in spherical bearings I used were out of the cheap two bolt pillow block bearings you can buy at the farm store. $6 bucks each or so. They even come equipped with a set collar on one end. I use these type of bearings in all sorts of projects.


Best Regards,

Glenn

 

[gdavis2265]

Kind of goofy, but this is how I machined the eccentric hole.

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[PAToyota]

Looks like the pictures are all working now. I'm guessing that they put the admin approval requirement in so that spammers aren't posting **** all over the place.

 

[bullnerd]

Sweet shop !

Love the tapper.I worked at a shop that had one of those tap-arms....then I went somewhere without one....man did I miss that thing!

 

[NASTYZEN]

Kind of goofy, but this is how I machined the eccentric hole.

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I do the same thing all the time.

Nice shop! Is it always that clean?Wow.

 

[gdavis2265]

Everybody does give me hell for such a clean shop, but work gets done weekly in it and gets very messy, I guess I missed my calling sweeping floors professionally.

I have habbit of cleaning up dwarf and oiling ways frequently, I think I just need to let go a bit more often.

 

[luvit]

Here is the real problem.
unless you are logged into a practicalmachinist forum account, you will not see the OP pics..
Albums from forum member profiles cannot be viewed outside of the host forum (practicalmachinst.com).

no biggie... the other attempt, however.. wow! great shop!
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[scab]

Great looking shop!

One question though, why do you have a Gibson SG hanging in the garage?

 

[gdavis2265]

I'm a bit of a classic guitar hound as well, so I have an amp under the work bench and after I finish cleanup on the weekends, I have a few cold ones and let the neighborhood hear my latest rendition of purple haze.

THat SG is the designated shop guitar.

 

[Falcon67]

Very nice shop. No such thing as "pic heavy" when it comes to machine tools! How do you like that Glacern vice? I'm looking forward to owning one.