I posted the beginnings to this shop a long while back but cant find it and it only had a couple comments anyway so Im going to start a new posting on it now that things have progressed pretty good. This is my stick built 40' x 50' shop that is finally nearing completion. I had someone build it. Luckily I wasn't in a hurry because I am still in my other shop and this builder does work part time because he is also a teacher hence why it took so long. Plus he is just slow. But he is much cheaper so I lived with the slowness... So here we go... Ill spare you the bare ground pics but here is the building coming along fairly well.
My 40 x 50 with lean to
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Here are some pics of the plugins scattered around the shop. The ceiling has two plugins for 220 and (24) 120 plug ins but the lights have taken up 12 of the 120 plug receptacles on the ceiling. Ill use a few for drop cords for grinders and such. One of the 220 volt receptacles on the ceiling will be for the iron worker and the other 220 receptacle on the ceiling will be for the bandsaw so I don't have cords strung across the floor.
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This is in the front of the shop next to where the tubing rack will be so I can pull sticks out of the rack and slide them through this hole in the wall onto a chop saw bench. Ill make it so it will also closed when not in use and will strengthen it with some heavier sheet around the hole so the sticks of iron don't dent the heck out of the opening around the wall. It will have some rollers as well.
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Here is the leanto which sticks out 15' and is the 50' length of the shop and is 12' tall at the low end. I built the brackets for the posts and used 8x8 posts. Still am in the process of putting fastening the brackets. The bracket at the end opposite of the birds is a spider web with a dangling spider. My wife wasn't so sure about it but I kinda liked it. More pics to follow..
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Oregon rock crusher
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I do love those post brackets Bigcreek. Neat that they are all different from each other and unique to your shop. I also like the idea of incorporating a lean to right from the start. I use my "deck shop" for much of the nasty work like grinding which keeps the mess away from the main shop. Looks like it will be a great shop to work in. Ed.
MagKarl
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I'll second that, side sheds are great for covered dirty work. I do most of my cutting and grinding outside as well.
Hey Bugthug thanks it does have osb outside and inside. As for painting I was just talking to a guy last night about painting it so yes its something Id really like to do. Paint it white. I do have a cnc table and brakes for making the brackets. I have about 20 sheets of aluminum which have just been sitting for a couple years so Im thinking I will line the wall with the aluminum sheet either 6' or 8' high from the floor to keep sparks from hitting the osb. I don't know if its really necessary what do you guys think? Its not like it would get hammered with a constant stream of sparks in one spot and Ive worked around osb a lot with sparks and never ever caught any on fire but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen I suppose. Is that overkill putting aluminum sheet where the majority of sparks would hit? Have you ever heard of osb igniting from sparks? Because I do a lot of metal work. plasma cutting and welding and grinding. If I painted it I suppose that should make a pretty good barrier between the sparks and osb as well, thoughts?
The other thing about the aluminum is of course its shiny as heck and I don't know if Id like the light especially from the cnc table torch flashing back off the wall all the time. Maybe it wouldn't even be as big a deal as Im thinking though..
Well I have painted my chippy board. I'm using the oil base Kilz, then using the Home Depot, Behr, oil based paint. I also went as far as used a hand sander with 80# and give it a quick once over before using the top coat. I think my chippy board is the #2 grade, which gives it some imperfection's. I think with all the coatings of paint it would be hard to catch it on fire with just sparks.
We have a place called the Yard Store in Wichita that sells a lot of aircraft leftovers. Some stuff is new never used and some is used or defective. They had some aluminum sheets with the deck tread on it, some is like new and mirror shinny, and some is a little blemished but could be buffed out with doing the right procedures of polishes and towels. I have a section of 10' where most of the dirty work happens, welding, cutting, grinding etc. I like the looks of the shinny metal and it makes the area seem bigger.
I bet you could sell those metal animals you have on the post holders. Do you have other patterns?
We have a place called the Yard Store in Wichita that sells a lot of aircraft leftovers. Some stuff is new never used and some is used or defective. They had some aluminum sheets with the deck tread on it, some is like new and mirror shinny, and some is a little blemished but could be buffed out with doing the right procedures of polishes and towels. I have a section of 10' where most of the dirty work happens, welding, cutting, grinding etc. I like the looks of the shinny metal and it makes the area seem bigger.
I bet you could sell those metal animals you have on the post holders. Do you have other patterns?
I think Ill just give it a good dose of paint and think a bit on the aluminum, I don't think it will be necessary. I probably could sell some brackets but honestly I don't want to pick another thing up. I cant keep up with orders as it is (signage mainly). But yes Ive got thousands of different files and always buying and making new ones up constantly adding to the art collection.
Shop is nearly complete now. The 3 bay doors get put on this week. Electricity got hooked up last week. That was a pain! Took about a month and a hundred phone calls to get that done, but done it is! Poured a small pad outside the building for a compressor enclosure. There is cement splatter all over the side of the shop by that little slab but it wipes right off. Ill build the enclosure about 8' tall from the same tin as the shop siding so it all matches. Moved a couple racks over and got one set up then my forklift died on me and wouldn't restart. Acted like it wasn't getting any fuel so Ill have to check out the fuel pump and filter. Im thinking filter because the gas was low and it may have sucked something up from the tank but I didn't have time to dive into it because I had a family reunion to get to and my wife was calling me every 30 min wondering how it was going plus no extra filter on me anyway. So... with the help of a lever I dumped that 900 pound rack off the side of the trailer and unloaded the rest of the steel by hand and there was ALOT of it. One piece at a time despite it all being on pallets. I have 4 forklifts and Im unloading 8000+ pounds of steel by hand, something is wrong with this picture I kept telling myself. And it was hotter than he!! to! I ran out of water and found a couple bottles of water in the truck but that water was HOT man, but I chugged it anyway and it still was refreshing despite being boiling hot. You know your hot when hot water satisfies! Well kinda anyway. Oh also got the walls painted. Didn't do the ceiling though. The lights are very bright as well which I was quite pleased with.
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tjdux
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Thats a great looking shop you have. Any chance to see some pics of it all finishes and outfitted?
Signiture; Check out my garage progress http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352703
Signiture; Check out my garage progress http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352703
The painted walls look nice. On the alum sheets, maybe put them 4'high X 8' long and just in the area you do all the sparking. It might even help save the walls from accidental wacking..
You get the forker up and running?
You get the forker up and running?