Below 265 SQ/FT My little workshop

[Batg]

My little shop, not big but enough room to make projects. I have a homemade anvil type thingy works well I made out of two pieces of railroad track which I welded together then welded a piece of .500" thick AR500 steel to the top. Installed it on top of pieces of 6x6 pressure treated wood beams bolted and glued together.

 

[Just_Steve]

Nice.

 

[Tynee]

Looks like a handy little shop to me. I assume your career is/was in some sort of metal fab?

 

[Batg]

Looks like a handy little shop to me. I assume your career is/was in some sort of metal fab?

When I went to school in the 70s & 80s they had metal and wood shop classes, as a kid I always liked building things. When I went into the USAF in the early 80s I picked airframe structural repair as a career field on the advice of my Sensei of many years. Later in my life I became involved with race cars and fabrication, they allowed no titanium parts so one part I made was a titanium nut guard. I made a template off the old 8-pound .125" steel one and made one out of two pieces of .032" titanium and riveted the whole thing together with .125" Monel steel button head solid rivets weighed 3 pounds. The cars were northeast big block modifieds about 750 Horse motors, one night Bob is flying down the backstretch when all you see is white sparks and the car dies, I am thinking the worst as the driveshaft sits between your legs, they towed Bob in still sitting in the car big smile on his face tells me it worked did not even damage it amazing stuff titanium.