My fabrication shop. YEAH!

[tatra]

hey jay, told my cuz to look at your build for the first stage of his cottage build...........he was impressed..........wants to build a shop to live in first then build the main res and convert the original to a shop when he can afford it...........lolololololololo.........no not laffin, cuz will know what this means.........hopefully he joins and contacts you,,,,,,,,,

 

[ephotrod]

I really like this build! Are there any up dates.

 

[JaysinSpaceman]

Sorry I haven't made any updates lately, I've really been focused getting it set up and building equipment and moving equipment. Give me a day or two and I will get something together.

Thanx
Jaysin

 

[Tman]

Looking forward to the updates.

 

[KELLHAMMER]

Jay
Were those clerestory windows made out of poplar? In my part of the world poplar doesn't last very well used outside.

 

[ephotrod]

Don't mean to be pushy but have you had a chance to take pictures. This is my favorite shop, the show of craftsmanship is outstanding. I like that it was a family project as well. Jay come down from space and let us know hows the shop is.
Josh

 

[chromeyellow]

nice garage, I like how all of you had fun putting it together. One question about the shelves, did you bolt them directly to the studs in the wall? Do the chains run down to the center of the shelves or the outside edge?

 

[Topcat]

Nice job so much pride went into it - love the steel fab work

Classic class!

 

[d110pickup]

Jay that's a fantastic shop; I've enjoyed keeping up with your progress.
Mike

 

[ephotrod]

Jay hows it all coming along?
Josh

 

[JaysinSpaceman]

Wow, I seem to be really slacking here. I've been busy trying to make a living and just haven't thought to get any pictures for you guys, sorry.

I only have two update pics for you.

First I moved my workbench in along with my little Sheldon lathe. You wouldn't believe the amount of weight that I needed to unload from this workbench to move it, cylinder heads, blocks, cranks, manifolds and the majority of it was cast iron or steel. If I had to guess about 1000+ lbs. of engine parts. But it is here now and my dad is letting me store the parts at his place still.

The second thing I did is to find a tool box that I could put just my welding and fabrication tools into. So I consolidated all of my general auto and mechanics tools into one box and freed up this old Snap-On for the welding tools. I have a label maker and so I started to label the drawers that have tools in them that are going to stay in those drawers. The rest will get labels as tools find their homes. I labeled the drawers so that when friends come over to work with me I don't have to tell them where the tools are constantly or tell them where they belong when it comes time to clean up.

By the way the first picture was taken with no electric lights on in the shop just the natural light that comes in through the clerestory at about 9am. Come about noon time these days I really don't need the lights on at all to work in the shop. Even though the clerestory was a bit of a pain to build, and added considerable expense, it was well worth it.

For Chromeyellow who asked about the shelves, they are bolted to every stud along the wall and the chains hang at the outer edge of the shelf. It means that you have to work around the chains but so far it hasn't been any problem.

I haven't gotten to my crane yet but I have the I-beam I need and I hope to start work on it soon, when I do I'll post up pictures.

Thanx for waiting for me to post an update.

Jaysin

 

[Jack Olsen]

Looks great. Your fan base appreciates the update.

Having just rocked through today's mild 4.1 quake, I wonder: what happens when a propane tank drops onto concrete? (I honestly have no idea if there's a ignition/explosion danger from that.)

The natural light is awesome.
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RC165

 

[JaysinSpaceman]

So it also dawned on me that I have just installed the stops that the clerestory windows open against. As you know it was winter when I finaled it and I had not quite gotten to making limit stops for the windows, but now it is almost summer and it is time to get them open. So here's how they look open. They do a wonderful job of venting the building and I think they will go a long way toward keeping it cool during the summer months to come.

The two end windows open as well they just aren't in the picture.

And just to show off another tool that I designed and built, a roller stand for holding material while cutting it in my horizontal bandsaw. All the parts were designed in autocad and cut out on my cnc plasma table. The height is adjustable with the spinner handle under the roller.

Well that all for now.

Thanx for looking.
Jaysin

 

[Fins/413]

Beautiful job on everything. The welding table is fantastic and it gave me an idea of how to provide for movement on a bench of mine. Right now I've got old piano rollers under the legs which works fine until you try to put too much torque on something in the vise. The table reminds me of a workbench my neighbors got out of the Lehigh Valley RR shops in Sayre when I was a kid. The top on it was at least 3/4' thick and liked to have ruined several of the men that helped unload it. More photos as the work continues please.

 

[rieferman]

Really insprising, all of it. Very creative, and great craftsmanship. Props

 

[ephotrod]

Very nice work as always! I think you need to start posting in the fabrication section and share the vast amount of knowledge you have, with people such as myself. The clerestory windows look great, I may just have to steal your idea and design for myself in the near future.
Josh

 

[A_Pmech]

Great work Jay, I love the architecture!

I'd like to hear more about your plasma table. I've been knocking around the idea for a while now. Is yours shopbrew, or a commercial unit? Regarding the lightening holes on your roller stand, are they as-cut? Damn nice surface finish if they are! Love the stand design, I like your design style.

 

[firebird1999us]

Awesome!

 

[shocksystems]

Beautiful shop.

Jim

 

[ol55]

Nice job! Great fabricating skills. That 37 pickup looks right at home in there. I should have built a garage like yours, it would match my house!!

 

[Vinko]

This thread is ****. The shelving (a design which I'd considered, except I'd wanted to use marine cable), the welding table, the material holder or rolling stand, all of it. Great stuff. I love the aesthetic of it all especially.

 

[sharpe427]

Just read thru the thread..awesome job full of nice details. I appreciate a guy who does it himself rather than farming everything out. Especially nice that the whole family seemed to be involved. One detail I really like is the concrete block used as the footers. having the 2-3 blocks around the perimeter make it easier to clean (less dirty walls) and, IMHO, give it an 'old fashioned' appeal.
Great job!

 

[Vicegrip]

Very nice shop and work on all the details. It looks like a happy place where good work will come from for many years. Please continue to post you work. It is good to see good work.

 

[SteveG]

Great build,,, on everything - garage, metal fab etc!

 

[chromeyellow]

Jay,

Thanks for the answer and congrats on making the front page!

James

 

[AussieDan]

Congratulations, your shop is a work of art.

 

[Enloe]

I love the shop and the vent windows are awesome.

 

[JaysinSpaceman]

Man-oh-man!! You guys are going to give me a big head or something. I am really glad everyone likes it and I hope that you feel free to take ANY of my ideas and use them. I am happy that I could bring something good to this great forum.

Thanx
Jaysin

 

[sandbag]

hey Jaysin, check your PM's

 

[hobie1dog]

Awesome work, beautiful welding too. You are a lucky man.

 

[e-tek]

Having just rocked through today's mild 4.1 quake, I wonder: what happens when a propane tank drops onto concrete? (I honestly have no idea if there's a ignition/explosion danger from that.)

It's an acetylene tank and nothing much. They roll around, you pick them up. But just so jumpy-Judy's don't flip out, people normally affix them to the wall somehow. Guess I should do that with mine some day.

Awesome work, beautiful welding too. You are a lucky man.

+1 here!

 

[T VETTE]

Just found this thread and what a really nice looking shop you have. You really built a one of a kind!!! I plan to do a small additional shop this spring.

You mentioned PG&E and by looking at the trees was wondering if I live near you or not. I am off HWY 41 below Yosemite in Coarsegold Ca. Nice Job!

 

[Fidget]

Wow, that is really a great space you've made! I admire your creativity, drive, talent, and the way your family helped you out.

 

[peter08]

After seeing this, my shop is officially just a 'shed'.

 

[ephotrod]

We'd like to boost your ego even more. Please take more photos of your shop as you use it. You have such great ideas and talent that its unbelievable. Your pictures and shop have inspired some creations in my shop.
Josh

 

[mdesloge]

awesome shop! one thing - won't the paint on the bottom of your welding table burn off the first time it heats up?

 

[JaysinSpaceman]

awesome shop! one thing - won't the paint on the bottom of your welding table burn off the first time it heats up?

Well if I am welding on the top of a piece of 1/2" plate that measures 4' x8' that is a huge steel heat sink and I manage to heat the paint on the other side to the point where it burns off I have been welding WAY to long and I simply don't like to work that hard.



Jaysin

 

[N8]

Hey Jaysin,

One trick we do at the fab shop at work with our welding tables is wire a duplex or quad receptacle right below the top, or mid way down the leg with the cord running out from there.
That allows us to keep the immediate (grinders) tool cords tight to the table.
Better for walking around as you work.

Great shop!

 

[JaysinSpaceman]

Alright guys,

A wee bit of an update.

Well my clerestory windows had a small (HAHA) problem. The glue ,Gorilla Glue, decided that it didn't want to hold the windows together any more. I went to close one of them up and realized that one of the corners of the wood frame had come apart and upon closer inspection we found the two of the 4' windows had all but completely fallen apart.

Now the corners had been assembled as a bit of a T & G (tongue & groove) but my father, the wood guy, didn't really see the need for any screws, so needless to say they really started falling apart once the glue failed.

Now you may just think that it wasn't the glue itself that failed but where the joints had come apart there was no wood transfer at the joint. Now my father went a talked to the boys at Woodcrafters in Sacto and the two guys working that day both said the Gorilla Glue will not hold up to water or to the wood swelling and contracting due to moisture. We had specifically chose the Gorilla Glue because it said on the bottle that it was 100% waterproof, well that seems like a crock of S%&T to me.

Well we got the windows back together with new glue where it had come apart and screws in every joint. I also painted them with oil based primer and paint that matches the rest of the trim. I am just waiting for a hand to get them put back up in place but the world is more or less right again.

I wanted to post this up because I want other people to know that there is a possibility of problems when using Gorilla Glue where wet conditions exist around the wood. Just be careful, I wouldn't want others to have similar problems.


On a completely different note as an update on what's going on inside the shop I will send you over to a thread I started at the OFN about the build of my electric tube bender.

There are a few other things that I gotten done like some modifications to the bottom of my welding table to allow the storage of short (less then 8') lengths of steel material.

I have also started the design work for some clam shell style cabinets for more storage, when I get them started I will post up as we go.

Anyway, thanx for listening to my little rant and I hope you enjoy the bender build thread.

Jaysin

 

[Bevis]

got a build thread on the welding table ? or info.