Above 1200 Sq/FT Shorty's Shed

[Toolfool]

Thanks.





Might need to plan a Texas/Oklahoma trip to see what kinda goodies I can con, er, I mean get. Trade Andy some aluminum for a caboose. Lol.

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You're gonna need a bigger truck.....

 

[Bob Heine]

Thankfully it doesn’t snow so no puddles unless the puddle of tears from the Hooters ladies count. They cry when I leave for some reason.

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Stewart, I wasn't there but is it possible they started crying when you arrived and didn't stop until after you left?

 

[Craptain]

I think Bob is onto something.

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[shortykorte]

Bob, those are tears of joy for making their day. lol

A few miscellaneous projects started, some completed, some not. Not sure how or why I started rearranging the bolt drawer. I had all my SAE bolts, nuts, washers, lock washers grouped together. A look at a pic on GJ, let’s change things up. I think I might like this better.
Also made a stand out of scrap to hold our Christmas light timer
Just 2 weeks til Christmas.


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[Strouty]

Shorty, I think that looks pretty good, it all depends on how much of each type of hardware you end up with. I have one drawer (with some room for expansion) for each size of hardware I use a lot. I do keep fine and coarse threads together and I have not gotten to labeling things like you have, I just have "3/8" hardware" on the drawer front.

And I didn't send you any frost, it must have been someone else, I have plenty if you want some more though..

 

[shortykorte]

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[shortykorte]

Strouty, it’s definitely a work in progress. Great thing, the cabs are versatile.
I guess we got a little bit of the cold. SIL is in WVA and is getting snowed over. Send any extra snow to the Midwest please.


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[1/2 Cup]

$19.95 that's a bargain Shorty..

 

[shortykorte]

While up on the roof of my shop,. I realized I’ve been remiss in providing my monthly safety sessions. Lucky for you all, no blood, so no reports.
Yesterday was gutter cleaning day. Yep my mind was in the gutter.
Joys of having trees provide shade, they’re the gift that keeps on giving.
The view is pretty nice up here. Sun deck maybe?



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[Strouty]

That would be a great patio!

 

[BBChevro]

You could modify some chairs by shortening the legs on one side in accordance with the pitch of the roof. [emoji4]

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[shortykorte]

You could modify some chairs by shortening the legs on one side in accordance with the pitch of the roof. [emoji4]

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That would be a great patio!

It would make for an interesting patio. Getting up there on a regular basis might be an issue. If only I had an order picker to use as an elevator. Ummmm?


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[shortykorte]

Stopped by Jim Reed’s garage yesterday. Always a nice visit and I learn something new new every time. He gifted me this vise.
Jim has a vise & anvil on a stand together which gave me the idea to mount this vise and my section of rail together. Project 987....or is that 963?
Back at the shop, I knock out a couple of quick projects.
First one was fixing my failed attempt at mounting lights on my wife’s vanity. OSB and 3M tape worked for awhile but not long enough. OSB was a spacer so looking in scrap bin, I had a piece of MDF already at the right thickness. The piece was cut to size, glued in place and light frame screwed in place.
The finished project. She’s happy.
Watching a Ron Hazelton show, he built simple jaws to covert a vise into a wood vise. Here’s mine. Should come in handy.
Last little thing was to start on the prototype for brackets for a flip down shelf. Originally I was thinking something in steel but thought cast aluminum would be slick. Now, who do I know that trades aluminum for cast parts.


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[cbacres]

Shorty, you have a wood vise, remember?

But then again it has been a couple years!:lol_

 

[shortykorte]

Shorty, you have a wood vise, remember?



But then again it has been a couple years!:lol_

Oh so that’s what that contraption is on the floor under the woodworking bench. I have to rebuild bench (#597) first to accommodate the vise (#923). My vise adapter took 30 minutes.


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[xtremek]

Nice job on the vanity. But I will admit I'm kind of bummed there hasn't been a blood letting lately.

 

[jimreed2160]

Nice jaws.

 

[Duker]

Shorty, May you have a very very Merry Christmas and an accident free New Year! [emoji322]


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[Bob Heine]

Stewart, just wanted to stop by and wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and bloodless New Year!

 

[1/2 Cup]

shortykorte wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a great New Year.

 

[BBChevro]

Merry Christmas and a happy New year to you and your family Shorty.

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[xtremek]

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

 

[cbacres]

So what's on the list for shed this year Shorty

May you have lots of happy blood free time in your shop this year.

Look forward to getting together.

 

[shortykorte]

Thank you all for stopping in and for the Christmas wishes. Here’s to a great New Years to everyone.


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[jimreed2160]

Looks like we are in for some cold weather--all the way down to the 40s. I may need to wear a flannel shirt.

 

[cbacres]

Looks like we are in for some cold weather--all the way down to the 40s. I may need to wear a flannel shirt.

Watch out Jim, shorty might put on some Christmas socks or something

 

[xtremek]

Are you guys hogging all the cold weather? All we get up here is cold rain and mud, lots of mud.

 

[cbacres]

Are you guys hogging all the cold weather? All we get up here is cold rain and mud, lots of mud.

I wish we were, been in the 80s for a week now, getting cool this weekend.

 

[taumac]

Are you guys hogging all the cold weather? All we get up here is cold rain and mud, lots of mud.

Hey, we have all the snowbirds that come down to Florida to enjoy our best times of the year. This is really only time of year to get anything done where your not going through 3 or 4 T-shirt’s sweating your *** off. LOL

 

[shortykorte]

No hoarding of cold weather here. Somewhat chilly for Christmas which was nice. New Year’s Day, back to shorts and flops. Getting rain, unfortunately every Friday and Saturday.
I did have long weekends during the holidays but didn’t get a whole lot of QST. Most of my time was spent cleaning piles of messes at home and shop. I got the garage bench cleaned up along with getting Christmas back into the attic. At the shop, I got the office desk cleaned up. Part of that was doing something with this CNC cut 442 thing I have. it needed a once over with a Scotchbrite, then primer and the base color. . I want to paint the 442 the proper red, orange, yellow but only had yellow. I’ll do the other colors when I get paint. Gerard, you have any orange or red paint? lol.


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[shortykorte]

Another side track, is knocking out a tray for the welding cart. The cardboard template doesn’t hold things well. In the scrap pile, found this aluminum real estate sign the right size. using the little HF brake, I bent up the short ends. Taking a tip from Robert MPC, I used the vise brake to give me a nice crisp bend line on the long sides. The uprights need to curl over, so checking the scrap pile, I found a door handle leftover from shop demo that matched the tube of weld cart. Some body hammer time, hammer time (where’s my MC Hammer pants?), the first test fit.
To be continued.


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[don long]

That looks pretty good shorty but I think the aluminum might be a touch light.

It's been **** cold over on the west coast down in the 30s at night and low 50s in the afternoons.

 

[shortykorte]

Thanks Don. There are supports under the pan and I plan on riveting the pan in place. I’ll use the shelf for gloves, brushes, etc.
I have duplicate pan to make and the aluminum scrap is thicker. We’ll see how that goes.


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[shortykorte]

With a rash of FSD spreading around GJ, I got some much needed relief. I still had a bunch of my mom’s stuff taking up floor space so my brother came down so we could get it out of the shop. In a couple of hours we had it separated into donate, he take and trash. After almost 2 yrs, this bin is empty. along with other space. A quick call to the recycler, the bin was sold for a Benjamin. Yay! Brother helped load it and the boat trailer scrap on the trailer and off we went. He also help me lean the 20’ metal roof sheets against the loft so I could get access to all my cabinets. Here’s the results of our efforts. I’m closed to where a second vehicle could be parked inside.
Yesterday was spent setting up my mom’s old computer in the shop. I will be hooking up my vinyl/paper cutter up to it. since my blast cabinet is still in the box, I broke out the high dollar cabinet to clean a bracket that needs welding.


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[jimreed2160]

Wow! Great mess untangling in your shop. Do you loan your brother out?

 

[Grumblebum]

Wow shorty, look at that FSD free floor. Hopefully another session tonight and my benches will be restored to their former glory.

GB

 

[Toolfool]

A guy could almost walk around in that shop without getting hurt !

 

[bj383ss]

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Bret

 

[Duker]

Wow! Great mess untangling in your shop. Do you loan your brother out?

No doubt... your brother might have stumbled into a goldmine of a
new business!


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[xtremek]

I love the mega dollar blasting cabinet. Now that you have so much room, I'll drop off a few of my projects in waiting.