CBacres ex horse barn shop
- Thread starter cbacres
- Start date
drivesitfar
Well-known member
CB: thanks for the pictures of your huge grinder station/stand. in case you want a temporary paint booth I've seen several good options posted on GJ to keep paint off your STUFF. i'm going to use an old CRATE I found and have heard even a big old appliance cardboard box is a good option. something I might go to since I have some big stuff that won't fit in my 4 x 4 x 4 foot crate is to build a square sort of picture frame with 2x2's with plastic stretched across them to make temp walls or wind breaks in my case when I spray outside.
in any case YOUR TOOLS AND STUFF AND YOUR COLOR even if it's PINK it's ok if YOU LIKE IT.
cheers and you've been making great progress
in any case YOUR TOOLS AND STUFF AND YOUR COLOR even if it's PINK it's ok if YOU LIKE IT.
cheers and you've been making great progress
This^!In the words of Nines, We're just jelly.
And this^!
[emoji481]
Sent from my SM-T230NU using Tapatalk
shortykorte
Well-known member
On the hoist? It'll be outside hanging on the frame I built for the roof, it's brown.
No bright colors outside the shop
Not sure if it looks like a tootsie or are a huge……
shortykorte
Well-known member
I'm lazy and despise changing wheels, so I'm going to spread out wire wheels, maybe a couple flaps, a cut off, may set up a drill Chuck on one to use for whatever, aluminum wheel and only a couple actual grinding stones. Will likely have a green stone for tool sharpening.
I would like to set one up for the 3-M abrasive/buffing well on the tapered arbor.
At first I was wondering what you would put on four grinders besides, fine/course stones and wire wheels. Went back and read post completely. Now I'm going to have to keep the two cheap grinders that were replaced by the Baldors. I like the idea of the flapper, drill chuck and green sharping stone. Thanks!!!!
On the grinder table, I have two rotating grinders on a stand but didn't know what to do with the belt/disc sander. I really like your set up. I'll move the buffer to the existing grinder stand and find a table to set up like your prototype.
I would like to set one up for the 3-M abrasive/buffing well on the tapered arbor.
At first I was wondering what you would put on four grinders besides, fine/course stones and wire wheels. Went back and read post completely. Now I'm going to have to keep the two cheap grinders that were replaced by the Baldors. I like the idea of the flapper, drill chuck and green sharping stone. Thanks!!!!
On the grinder table, I have two rotating grinders on a stand but didn't know what to do with the belt/disc sander. I really like your set up. I'll move the buffer to the existing grinder stand and find a table to set up like your prototype.
shortykorte
Well-known member
The table has to be able to rotate, look at the grinder right next to the belt grinder.
Besides, I told ya I'm lazy, easier to spin he table to the workplace rather than turn the whole thing
My son will help with a couple things this weekend, but he stays pretty busy himself.
I'm going to get the Listas on the frame and castors and move inside as I work on them, be a while before I paint.
Hurry up on the frame and casters. My winch won't be fixed for a while so I will need to be able to roll things.
Also, when I am visiting, have a finished grinder table ready for me.
It's funny, I had been buying up bench grinders, mostley cm's, but not blocks. ( this was before I discovered the block thread). I was always going to have an assortment of wheels, just not like listed above because I didn't know they existed.
Read the block thread, first time I seen photos of the windings, all that copper, I was hooked. Here I am, 9 blocks later, and I sold one.
The drill Chuck, cut off wheel and some of the others are ideas I found here. The 3m stuff I seen at the jeweler that I had engrave a ring I made for my wife for our 25 th anniversary.
One section of my shop that's in full function! Baby backs for Mother's Day. Wife and daughter is going to see her mom tomorrow, so we're doing ours today.
Stainless work table with a large cutting board, aluminum truck tool box on wall for BBQ tools. Someday I'll have a small Lista/Vidmar out here.
Stainless work table with a large cutting board, aluminum truck tool box on wall for BBQ tools. Someday I'll have a small Lista/Vidmar out here.
Strouty
Well-known member
So the hoist can go UPS, but what happens when you want to go down?
Just kidding, looks good and matches the steel beam. I think blue would have looked off.
Just kidding, looks good and matches the steel beam. I think blue would have looked off.
dlcwent
Member Emeritus
Yep, now I agree with the color. It's right for where it's hanging.
Just to show you guys and girls what GJ has done to me over the years, but in a great way.
This vise was the only one that I had for many years, it's a China made one that I bought from Cummings tool sales back in the 90's, long before I knew any better.
Now I have mostly Columbian's.
I did pick up a couple of what I thought were better vises, a Wilton non USA ( didn't know that though) and a Westward, ( graingers, got to be great right?).
Then I found GJ and the journey for great vises ( and vices) was on.
Anyway, it just dawned on me when pulling this bench out as its leaving my shop. It's interesting thinking of how it evolved for me on all this great stuff.
This vise was the only one that I had for many years, it's a China made one that I bought from Cummings tool sales back in the 90's, long before I knew any better.
Now I have mostly Columbian's.
I did pick up a couple of what I thought were better vises, a Wilton non USA ( didn't know that though) and a Westward, ( graingers, got to be great right?).
Then I found GJ and the journey for great vises ( and vices) was on.
Anyway, it just dawned on me when pulling this bench out as its leaving my shop. It's interesting thinking of how it evolved for me on all this great stuff.
dlcwent
Member Emeritus
CB, funny you'd bring that up. But how true. Before the GJ, I didn't think anything about a vise. I mean a vise is a vise right? Ha ha ha now I find myself buying a wilton or reed just because it's a wilton or a reed. I have a small pile of vises that I don't even use. Hell I even have a pole vise that stands in the corner and takes up space. I never cared about license plates and now I'm starting to nail them to the walls of my shop. Yeah all I can say is THANKS GJ you've really helped me out (out of money that I wouldn't have spent otherwise.)
taumac
Well-known member
Yep, I couldn't agree more. No wall of craftsman or half the stuff done in my place if it was for the enablers of the GJ showing me it can always be bigger, better and more expensive. LOL
shortykorte
Well-known member
Though it's not a "good" vise, your vise looks like it has served you well. My story is similar. My import of 16 years has done the job and it has the pipe jaws on the bottom which my Wiltons don't.
Like Pines signature say, the most expensive free forum
:I hear you. I ended up here looking for socket organizers as we had bought one on the large CM sets for our son for his HS Grad. Man, it just snowballed from there. Then, after looking the classifieds, I dipped into taking a shot at selling some stuff I never used, a small set of SO wrenches, couldn't believe what they sold for and promptly spent the proceeds on stuff I didn't know I needed.that was also my first PayPal transaction outside EBay.
I've always bought c clamps, even on my own homing in on the USA ones, then I see the forged Williams and others and all of a sudden the ones I have arnt good enough, I've turned into a cclamps snob.
Had a bench full of newer CM bench grinders, then along comes the Block thread, by- by other cm grinders, think I have around nine now.
Then the new stuff, Wera, Knipex.
If I don't find decent stuff at sales and have nothing to post, I feel like a slacker sometimes
This place is right down my alley.
I don't have much understanding with local friends and coworkers of my passion for a decent shop and the enjoyment of the neat old tools and equipment. But here, I'm surrounded with like kind brothers, from just simple sharing of shop things, tools and sadistic humor from the likes of Tampa.
If I uttered some of what we laugh about here people would probably avoid me like I was a alien. Oh well, thier loss.
Craptain
Well-known member
You nailed a few truths there Craig. I too have more in common with friends here than locally. Though I have found "local" friends from here. Go figure.
BTW. I am looking at 1st weekend in June for a sale. Gives me time after I get back from next trip.
Sent from my LG-D801 using Tapatalk
BTW. I am looking at 1st weekend in June for a sale. Gives me time after I get back from next trip.
Sent from my LG-D801 using Tapatalk
Yes, it's great how we can get together, never having met before and talk shop like we've know each other for years
.Dang it, I'll be on my way back from Kentucky that week end, but I hope to have some great things to post. I'll be riding the U.S. 25 yard sale through southern KY and into TN to just about NW of Knoxville.just me and the wife meandering back on the back roads. While always hauling a$$ on I75 getting somewhere, I've always been eyeballing the signs for 25, the tunnels and so forth. So when I came across the sale, it was a done deal. Not getting any younger.
It's served me, just don't about the well part. It just never had great clamping for when really horsing something, but it got me through.
OK, I mentioned this to Taumac when he was there, this was pre GJ, so You all can't hold me responsible for what I'm about to confess.
Years ago when still on the east coast, I bought a CM vise, this was in the mid- late 80's, no idea of model, where made, etc, it was a vise.
Moved to west coast with this vise and came across the China vise above, nice, swivels all directions and so on. Well, yes, it replaced the CM one cause I thought it was better.
. This was about 20 years ago, so the statue of limitations had run out.Oh well, at least I've learned a lot since.
Yep, the Vidmars and Listas come to mind for me, I bought my first lista back in the 80s, not because it was lista, but be use I was late to a Air Force auction and bought sight unseen. I remember people snickering when I won ( $ 25)and thought I screwed up. When picking up, I walked past it three times cause I didn't think I bought one that heavy duty, it was rough paint wise and rusted on top pretty bad, but a coat of paint and good cleaning and I've been using since then.
Fast forward to about 2002, when I knew I'd be getting my current shop, I wanted to get more of these cabinets. So now it's through Govliquidation online, found three pallets of them in Jacksonville, put in my bid and was winning all the way through....hmmm, can't belive I'm that lucky. I go and scrape off the paint to see the brand on my Lista( I didn't know what it was, just you got them at military auction), the lot I was bidding on was Kennedy's, they look the same.
Well I ended up with 6 various size kens, and 3-4 off names boxes for $245.00 shipped.
Anyway, how I've evolved. And the $25 Lista days are long gone.
drivesitfar
Well-known member
CB: hopefully it was just a MADE IN JAPAN Craftsman because I think all their vises have been imported from Japan and now China since the mid 50's or early 60's. JUST AN FYI because I have YET TO MEET ANY GUY that doesn't love that CHINESE WONDER VISE. I've seen some with so much bondo, welds, screws and bolts holding them together and the owners still use them daily. I had one that was made in Taiwan for $80 about a year ago and I should have kept it because it weighed about 70 pounds and was a beast. it does fail to hold it's position and grip some so i'm hoping to find it's 80-100 year old US cousin that was built with a bit more quality and less bondo.
funny you guys are talking about GJ being the cause of your love for tools. I had a fair amount of tools before I joined and OMG I think I can fill up a 30 x 30 and maybe need more space now for all the COOL STUFF GJ has opened my eyes to.
I'm still looking for my first Lista, Vidmar cabinet, but here's some I do own along with some other cool ones you might like.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=305350
your lifts looks awesome and i'm sure it will come in handy for that next heavy purchase or maybe to lift something you have built.
funny you guys are talking about GJ being the cause of your love for tools. I had a fair amount of tools before I joined and OMG I think I can fill up a 30 x 30 and maybe need more space now for all the COOL STUFF GJ has opened my eyes to.
I'm still looking for my first Lista, Vidmar cabinet, but here's some I do own along with some other cool ones you might like.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=305350
your lifts looks awesome and i'm sure it will come in handy for that next heavy purchase or maybe to lift something you have built.
shortykorte
Well-known member
That's how and where I got by first Lista, winter 2014-15. You were probably driving the price up.
Strouty
Well-known member
My first cabinets were three of the old card file ones, I still have them and I like them a lot. Not that I don't like my Lista storage wall, but I still like those old ones. I have always been after the best tool for the job, quality made was always top priority and I was never afraid to get something new to try it out. The GJ has just sped up that process a lot.
Here's some things I been up to.
Bought some rubbers, Tampa size?
Its 1/16" neoprene rubber sheet that I'm going to use for drawer liners. A little pricey at $70 for 7 drawers 25" x 41", but it should hold up well and next to forever.
I just set it in the drawer and put a handful of misc tools on it and worked the drawer back and forth pretty good and no indication of moving around. Might change with mor weight, I'll just use A little glue to help.
Bought some rubbers, Tampa size?
Its 1/16" neoprene rubber sheet that I'm going to use for drawer liners. A little pricey at $70 for 7 drawers 25" x 41", but it should hold up well and next to forever.
I just set it in the drawer and put a handful of misc tools on it and worked the drawer back and forth pretty good and no indication of moving around. Might change with mor weight, I'll just use A little glue to help.
Strouty
Well-known member
That would sell in New York City for $15k or more.
taumac
Well-known member
That musta be a Tampa whole body rubber. LOL. Ok I see a chair, a tape, and art sculpture. Too many beers staring at walls?
Strouty
Well-known member
I guess it depends on the crowd.
drivesitfar
Well-known member
CB: I guess poor old Tampa gets mentioned anytime there is an erection even if it's a VISE ERECTION. WELL DONE and hope it doesn't fall or you get hurt taking it down.
i'm guessing you don't NEED another big vise, but if you see one I bet it might follow you home if it's priced right?
cheers
i'm guessing you don't NEED another big vise, but if you see one I bet it might follow you home if it's priced right?
cheers
Craptain
Well-known member
That's a great way to display the vices. I have about 23 or so in the shop right now so maybe......
Nah. Too much trouble unbolting the mounted ones. And with 2 over 70 pounds I am not sure about the safety.
But you never know.
Nah. Too much trouble unbolting the mounted ones. And with 2 over 70 pounds I am not sure about the safety.
But you never know.
That's a great way to display the vices. I have about 23 or so in the shop right now so maybe......
Nah. Too much trouble unbolting the mounted ones. And with 2 over 70 pounds I am not sure about the safety.
But you never know.
You can make multiple stacks off the mounted ones and just attach a overhead safety rope
Strouty
Well-known member
At one point I wanted to make the worlds tallest file cabinet, seems easy to beat the record.
dlcwent
Member Emeritus
Wow cb, you just gave me an idea of what to do with my pile of vises. And this time it isn't costing me anything.
Oh and we found the keys, you should have hid them better.
Oh and we found the keys, you should have hid them better.
taumac
Well-known member
taumac
Well-known member
That's a great way to display the vices. I have about 23 or so in the shop right now so maybe......
Nah. Too much trouble unbolting the mounted ones. And with 2 over 70 pounds I am not sure about the safety.
But you never know.
You got 23 in shop now? Where were all these hiding. I think you're holding out on me there Craptain. Good thing I'll be down there soon to check them all out.
taumac
Well-known member
Strouty
Well-known member
I think it is like 40 feet. I know I could make one better and taller.
drivesitfar
Well-known member
Strouty: I bet you can, but asking yourself WHY is the real question. Hell Taumac could make 40+ feet just in Craftsman tool boxes.
CB: helluva idea with the vise tree. I've seen a few 3 or 4 high but I hope you didn't hurt yourself or damage any of them. looks like you need a bit more VARIETY in your vise collection and I know just the member that can help. or take a look at DOC's new 1/3 HP block restoration thread and start spiffing up all those blocks and put that grinder table to work. I know you have a belt grinder and wish I did too, but it's not as COOL as 6 blocks with 12 different wheels set up to use at any moment.
cheers
CB: helluva idea with the vise tree. I've seen a few 3 or 4 high but I hope you didn't hurt yourself or damage any of them. looks like you need a bit more VARIETY in your vise collection and I know just the member that can help. or take a look at DOC's new 1/3 HP block restoration thread and start spiffing up all those blocks and put that grinder table to work. I know you have a belt grinder and wish I did too, but it's not as COOL as 6 blocks with 12 different wheels set up to use at any moment.
cheers