BloomingtonMike's 40X64X16

[bloomingtonmike]

Cyclone Startup test video.

 

[JimNC]

Cyclone Startup test video.

I know that you said no walls, but I'd put that beast in a room just to reduce the noise.

Next time I'm in town I'll offer to buy you a beer in Merna.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

First off I got the noise under control. It helps when the impeller is spinning the correct direction.

I also wired in a 50' 6ga four conductor power wire. I think that cable is at least 50lbs by itself.

I also wanted to test it out. I closed off all but two 8" drops that I left fully open and dropped them down another 10' each. These go up to 16.5' to a 10" mainline.

I think it will work just fine . When I closed the lines to just one open 8" trunk, the suction force will pull your skin and eyebrows up with the hair lol.

I made short work of the chips I fed in from the other collector. I will still have another Wye and some splitting off to 4 tools from here but it wont be an issue!

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Decided to spray foam the ceiling and gable ends. They got 3/5 of the spray foam done today. Doing 3" of 2lb closed cell. Got at least that much.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

They finished last Tue at noon.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

A buddy called and offered up his scissor lift for me to use this winter. Very happy about that. I had just spent some time this weekend getting tools setup again to make wall panels. Perfect timing on the lift.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

I made a scissor lift support rolling table, with an additional X Y motion to attach my wall panels too. Allows me to span the area between the scissor lift and my wall, supporting the wall panels hands free, and allows me to attach my outlet boxes to the panels without having to man handle the panel at the same time. The sliding motion of the shop fox right angle jig and the use of the miter track allows me, once the table is close to the wall placement spot, to precisely position the wall. The holes in the jig allow me to just hold the wall in place with a screw.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

I love scissor lifts! First panels to 16' . My sliding panel jig works awesome.

 

[JimNC]

Good idea on the jig!

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Todays progress.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Wrapped the corner above 8'.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Lily helped out today after school. We got 6 more panels done today. We are all getting into the excitement of finally having walls.

Even Sassy tries to help out.

 

[bj383ss]

That is a Monster Cyclone! Like how your slate wall is coming out.

Bret

 

[AuroraSC]

Very inspiring Mike! I'm about to start my 40x60x14 in the coming days, and will certainly come back to this thread for guidance!

It also looks like we're going to be using the same colors. Charcoal Grey and Taupe, right?

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Charcoal and a lighter grey. We like that color on the outside for sure.

For the two to three sections below the lift i can reach them from the floor or standing on the bench I made a few months ago.

Angela and I did another section tonight. Thats nine down.

 

[Greener121]

Charcoal and a lighter grey. We like that color on the outside for sure.

For the two to three sections below the lift i can reach them from the floor or standing on the bench I made a few months ago.

Angela and I did another section tonight. Thats nine down.

Nice job, Mickey! But you really need to send that tractor to me down here in Texas.


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[curbshopper]

Just found you Mike, awesome build, now i know i am going to need to get over to see what you have going on in person !

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Hardest wall section in the shop done today. Light switches, 220 outlets , 110 outlets, gfci 110 outlets, theater low voltage wires, and network cables all in these sections. Really happy to have wall mounted light switches btw.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Liked the marking on this sheet of ply.

Over 25% walled in as of this weekend.

 

[m5hor]

looks great! lots of hard work!

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Thank you! Hardest part is to concentrate and make progress and not get lost in thought or planning.

Last night's 4 panels.

 

[matt_i]

I really like the modularity of the wall covering if you ever did need to make changes later...if I'm thinking about this right I think you could remove a few panels, cut in a new box, fish wires, etc, and then close it all back up (?)

Great shop and I can tell you have a lot of time into it! Looking good

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Yes you are right. Also my panels are mounted external too so I could still run conduit also. Plus every single lower 8' 4' has at least a 30amp 220v single phase that is on a different circuit from the next 4', some have two of them, and also at least two 120v on different circuit and some four of them. Also there are 220v and 120v in trusses. I also have 9 different 3 phase circuits from 30am through 80amp in key spots. I really have tried to future **** it for my needs.

Started assembly on 10 blank panels to start to be hung tomorrow.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Above door emergency lighting is in and working. Lights turn on if power is lost to that circuit. Also a few more panels are hung. Five more sections on that south wall to finish it. The south wall butts up to the west wall, so that first west section also has to be complete, and it has a set of two way light switches as well.

 

[On-Wheel]

Wow that's a big project!

And your still working on this?

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Day job, kids, another shop, and mostly just my two hands. Yep it takes awhile to build your dream. Ive never seen anything like it though lol.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Have 5 panels left on the south 64 wall, only one with an outlet, and I started the west wall as the south wall butts up to it. The work on the west wall took care of the second set of light switches too so that jumble is out of the way. Making progress.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

I rounded the south west corner last night so the first 64' wall is now walled! Need to get the air line ran on that wall soon.

Oh and btw, got my last two items hung up last night. Done with slat wall useage.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Hit 50% done last night. Video:

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Started some rapidair maxline air line install today. Look close at the top of the south wall's 2x12. I snapped a line from the west end to the east end so that there would be fall back to the compressor that will be on the east side. I still have to put in the fittings beside the garage doors but there will be the compressor connection line and five tool port drops on this south side.

The first picture is the maxline straightener. It works great.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

The line now falls back away from compressor. Doh. Fixt.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

This week was get south wall air lines in place so I could finish off south east corner and get the dust collector back in place, main nordfab line connected up, and get the cyclone's casters up on the legs and off the wheels. I also got the 6" drop for the chopsaw area in place, got the Steelcase credenza lateral file cabinets in place that is the start of a chopsaw station, got the electronics binder bin up, receiver and theater speaker wiring labeled and wired and connected, get the network in there and online, and got the tv mount and tv up i use as an av monitor. Those lateral file credenza cabinets came from my local habitat for humanity restore store.

Plan is to hang up some binder bins bought from work ( got a ton of them) this weekend and get those six pallets off the floor as well. Need to cut the cube wall brackets off the bins and screw on some slat wall cleats. May break out the plasma and try and zip off the just to try it.

Here pics of dc back in place and the start of the chopsaw area.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Hung a few 30" binder bins.

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Finished hanging my binder bins up today. Each binder bin got 17 additional screws to beef it up and a cleat. took awhile to get each one staged. Lily also got a desk with overhead lighting by her whiteboard courtesy of a pair of 48" binder bins. Finishing the bins cleaned up 7 pallets total in the shop. Glad to have those off the floor. Also have been piecing some Ergotron Computer monitor keyboard arms together for some CNC machine builds I am working on.

 

[Wilbur]

Dang awesome build! Really thoughtful and while it takes longer doing it yourself you know every piece of it. Thanks for the great documentation too, really great. I have nothing to add but have to try....not sure where this is located but you might want to put a double keyed deadbolt on the mandoor with the window. Hate like track to have some dirtbag be able to easily enter by breaking a window. Or maybe Sassy stays there to discourage that! Ha.

 

[Jim Bud]

I just read your whole post for inspiration with the building I am planning to build. You do great work and I love to see you training the kids at the same time.
My head is now full of some pretty neat ideas thanks to you, but I better not share them with my wife....I might scare her away!

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Thank you for the kind comments

 

[bloomingtonmike]

My birthday work today. Six panels installed on North wall. Made them while watching Bladerunner 2049. Awesome!

 

[bloomingtonmike]

Built 18 and installed 14 panels this past weekend

 

[m5hor]

killing it!