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Put the first upper shelf together. My strategy here is to make a close sliding fit and apply slick HDPE tape on the underside. Not going to be a ton of weight in here. Fits great into the first pocket. Suuuuuper long. Going to use these drawers for hand sanding pads, blocks and paper. Now...

Yeah, I decided to let it bend a bit in order to get a few more square feet of drawers. Also making those big drawers so wide not only makes it easier to store things into it, but also reduces by half the amount of drawer slides and I found that once you're up in the 40-48" extension range for...

Long day, but ultimately successful. New radiator went in without too much trouble, and got it buttoned up around mid-day. Used a vacuum filling tool to refill the coolant system without letting air in, and then here it is burping and running for awhile. Was used for a few errands around town...

Thanks Leonard! Shop is always a work in progress, it's always equipped to do projects in but I also like to make improvements to it as I go, as it's pretty much where I spend all my free time! Speaking of which - The family van sprung a coolant leak this past week. Shop quoted $1300. Nu-uh. I...

Got the rest of the big drawers done. SO much space. Going to start filling them up this weekend, and also got cut up and install the drawer fronts and handles. You can see that even with all of the supports I put and the steel bar, it has a bow in the center unsupported section, which I measure...

First drawer (the deepest one) is done. Glad I got the heavy-duty slides. This is gonna be tons of storage! Adam

At first I thought I'd need to pin the turntable into place, but with all the weight from the tools on it, I can move it to any position and even lean some weight into the sander and not have any movement. So, I've pretty much dropped any plans for having a locking pin system. If I need to add...

So I'm halfway functional now with the sanding station. Took a bit of time to position the machines all just right and make sure it rotated smoothly. Stacked 2x2 on the grinders, and then got the power strip mounted and all the cords organized and fixed in place. It's crowded but it does work...

A little bit more progress last night. Still fiddling with positioning. I swapped the sanding turntable with the standing drill press so that it wouldn't bump into the dust collection piping. Then I took some scraps and fashioned up a mount for going vertical with my extra bench grinders. A long...

Yeah, in the design phase I was playing around with a few different sizes. Originally thought I could get by with 3' but that Rigid horizontal belt/spindle is sorta large-ish. I laid them all out on the ground with a tape measure and played around enough to feel confident I could get the job...

Ah, next up is the roller bearings. Tedious work especially since I want them evenly spaced. Made a little marking template - think smarter not harder! Then install the turntable and it freakin' works! Sort of expected something to go wrong with it. I snaked a power strip down through the PVC...

More time in the shop tonight. First set up the center pipe, used a hole saw to put a cut into the side so that I can snake the power strip cord through the center. Top of the torsion box is installed, next up is the turntable. I used a universal router base/jig that I had in the cabinet that...

Continued progress over the weekend. Started adding some reinforcement to the top. Ran stretchers across the top to strengthen it from bending since there's no middle wall. Also installed a steel bar across the front to give more lateral stiffness. It helps a lot. I'll make some long sliding...

Started work on the V2 sanding station. Here's my old one: I built it to fit a space I had, and tried to make it two tiered so I could use both levels of machine but in the end it was quite difficult to access all the machines. The storage got filled up pretty quick, and I also did a poor job...

Switched to some outdoor L&G type work for a little while. Got in a mulching kit for my Scag Z, this makes parking it and getting into tight spaces a lot easier! Always had to use a bungee cord for the chute and was getting my hand too close to the deck when trying to flip it up and down. No...

Finished with this drawer for rulers and small T-squares. Scraps of wood, odds and ends and a bunch of 3D printed holders to hold everything juuust right. A lot of work with a caliper and Fusion360. My OCD approves! Probably going to take a bit of a break from the drawers and focus on knocking...

Designed a few 3D printed doodads and printed them off at work today. Hope to put these into the drawer tonight! Adam

Took a break from shop projects and made something off the Honey-Do list - a mountainscape. This is made up from different kinds of rocks / pieces we've collected at some of our recent trips to national parks (Rocky Mountain, Olympic, Big Sur). Grabbed a piece of scrap wood (love using scraps!)...

July 18, 2034 seems about right. 🤦‍♂️

That '74 looks great! Nice story, the 2100 one-dollar bills gave me a laugh. The bare metal + clear is interesting. I think it'll definitely be something like that or primer grey / primer black. The 'fix the metal" part is such a huge and daunting task, it's all bad. I've definitely used pretty...