Above 1200 Sq/FT T-Handles Workshop (The final destination??)

[T-handle]

T-handle, you are living the dream: "A place for everything and everything in its place." I'm with you on the labeling. It seems my brain needs the printed reminders to reduce the number of missed guesses on drawer contents.

Thanks for the kind words Bob

That's why I mount everything to the wall, where I can see what I'm looking for.. Sometimes I just forget what I'm looking for

Started the labeling allready First label was a drawer where the label machine was, so I found it

 

[T-handle]

Let's do more lighting work.
My original plan was a strip of wood on the ceiling with led spotlights, for bench lighting.
Only problem was that the wood strip would block access to the top shelf.

So I ordered a 230v led strip with 120leds/5w per meter. and installed it to the bottom of the top shelf.
I don't get it how they do it in China. 12meters of ledstrip costs 24$ shipped to me

It could be a little brighter but it's okay. Very nice for romantic purposes
I saved this aluminium profile from going to garbage. Yes I am a hoarder, but only for the good stuff







I did some corners and holes for mounting. I found this W.A.Whitney corp. punch kit from a yard sale. Full set with the case and dies 10$. Made in Rockford, Illinois USA. Great stuff









I tested two different styles for mounting the strip on the profile. Ledstrip towards to the pegboard and then to the bench.
Led strip has a 30 degree beam. There was not much difference so I chose the easy way.





I made a bunch of small wooden blocks to help the gluing process. I used Loctite superglue. It's supposed to hold up to 120C. I glued the strip about 4" spacing an placed a wooden block to hold it tight. Removed blocks next day.



Mounted a desk light in the electronics/"command center" area. I'm going to buy one of those magnifying led light there.

I bought some machine lights couple years ago for my machining tools. From a local craigslist. I mounted one for the workbench.
It has 24volt H3 automotive light bulb. I didn't have any transformers for 24volt so I replaced it with 12volt bulb. I think I will buy a led bulb for it.







The lamp has 1meter travel and five pivoting points. So it's pretty versatile.
Tool area and the "command center" is starting to look pretty nice. There is still lot to do and organize

















I ordered one of these large 15$ mouse pad for test. I think I'm going to order couple more. Very good for protecting the countertop.
I was looking for cutting mat but they were pretty expensive and 45cm x 60cm was the largest size I found.

The mouse bad is 4mm thick, size is 40cm x 90cm. And it has protective film for liquids. (and instructions how to build a gun)

Happy Fourth of July everybody

Shop tour movie

 

[patlun]

That is a nice looking shop and lots of nice tools I really like the great lightning in the last post.

I will borrow and steal some of your ideas, but I doubt I can implement them as good as you. I am no carpenter so I don't have your experience working with my hands.

 

[Bommenpro5]

Looks really cozy with the LED lighting.

As allways awesome work!

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[Fredriz]

Amazing workshop i want the same

 

[DynoDave]

Love the indirect lighting.

 

[T-handle]

That is a nice looking shop and lots of nice tools I really like the great lightning in the last post.

I will borrow and steal some of your ideas, but I doubt I can implement them as good as you. I am no carpenter so I don't have your experience working with my hands.

Thank you Nice if you found some ideas. It's the best part of GJ. Plenty of ideas and inspiration Don't worry about skills, I'm no cook but I can make edible food almost every day

Looks really cozy with the LED lighting.

As allways awesome work!

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Thank You

Amazing workshop i want the same

Thank You

Love the indirect lighting.

Thanks DynoDave It's nice add to the lighting.

 

[T-handle]

I have few of these organizer bins. I mounted four already to the wall and couldn't figure good place for these two. So I cleaned them and placed the small bins in to the drawers. It's nice when you can see them all when you open the drawer.

I cleaned and re-organized the bins on the wall too.

I started the labeling so I can find stuff easy. If I want to change the order of stuff I can just change the drawers among themselves.

Few drawers is already organized. I try to avoid all the "misc" drawers But I guess those cannot be avoided completely. Not enough drawers..

I try to place the related stuff on the same drawer. A lot of organizing but it's fun. Found a lot of stuff that I have forgotten completely. I think it looks a lot more professional with the labeling

Have a great weekend everybody

 

[y'sguy]

T-Handle, you done a brilliant job! I love what you've done with the organization as well as the design. Thanks for sharing your effort.

 

[T-handle]

T-Handle, you done a brilliant job! I love what you've done with the organization as well as the design. Thanks for sharing your effort.

Thanks y'sguy

 

[BajaScout]

Wow! I need to get started on my garage. That looks great!!

 

[T-handle]

Wow! I need to get started on my garage. That looks great!!

Thanks BajaScout Garage build.. Absolutely

 

[don long]

I'm really enjoying your thread and the many organizational tricks you are sharing.

Because of your fine example I have started cleaning and organizing my work shop.
I spent all day yesterday removing and cleaning my tools and the display boxes they sit in and today I started re positioning some of my cabinets.
I'm finding tons of dirt behind each cabinet, and dust I didn't see until I started wiping things down

Thank you for sharing and the encouragement to make things better.

Don

 

[Boosted1]

Wow! Your level of organization and cleanliness is impressive.

 

[T-handle]

I'm really enjoying your thread and the many organizational tricks you are sharing.

Because of your fine example I have started cleaning and organizing my work shop.
I spent all day yesterday removing and cleaning my tools and the display boxes they sit in and today I started re positioning some of my cabinets.
I'm finding tons of dirt behind each cabinet, and dust I didn't see until I started wiping things down

Thank you for sharing and the encouragement to make things better.

Don

Thank You sir Makes me really humble to read these nice words. I've had so much inspiration from Garage Journal so it's great to share my own stuff. It's really nice if it's inspirational to somebody

Don. Your place and garage is already a heaven to me

Wow! Your level of organization and cleanliness is impressive.

Thanks Boosted1

 

[T-handle]

I bought this rotating vise from a friend of mine. I think that it's a Uni-spann 2B from Germany.
There is no brand on it. It could be a cheap copy too. All I know that it has been used by government funded hospital maintenance.
I think that those guys don't buy cheap stuff It's about 20-30 years old at least.


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This is pretty much only picture of 2B model I found from internet. There is a Unispann Website . There is a catalog of the models, also a price list from year 2008. 2B-model costs about 250$ new. Pretty expensive for a hobbyist.

It's in good working condition. The vise screw was a little loose. I fixed it and did some cleaning and painted it.























There was a lot of scratches on the ball joint. I think it could be fixed with very hard epoxy. But it rotates just fine, so no worth of effort.

The jaws was pretty beat up. I have to do new ones, when I first fix some machines, so I can do those









I cut some felt between the countertop and vise.





















My son lapping some bolts. He had a work practice day from school. I asked him, do you want to go nursing with mom, or do a vise assembly. Well, you know the answer

I think the original color was machine green. Then someone painted it silver color. If there was a manufacture plate or sticker, it's gone now.

Very nice vise for small work. I think it's a bit hefty for a jeweler vise. Could be a toolmakers vise. It's pretty solid for a aluminium casting. Maybe I'll do a brass or aluminium jaws on it for the gentle work

 

[wasfast]

Really enjoy and appreciate all the detail on your space and tools. That vice is a great restoration!

 

[cash68]

Great work, but IMHO you messed up the LED lighting pretty bad. By putting it all the way 'forward' into the corner of the aluminum, you've basically created a shield to prevent the light from scattering onto your work surface. Instead, the light is hitting that vertical portion of aluminum and bouncing back onto your pegboard. I would remove the light strip and mount it on the REAR edge of the aluminum. The vertical portion fo the aluminum would shield the LED strip so you don't see it, but it would give the light the chance to actually illuminate your bench top/working surface instead of just the vertical wall behind it.

 

[T-handle]

Really enjoy and appreciate all the detail on your space and tools. That vice is a great restoration!

Thanks wasfast

Great work, but IMHO you messed up the LED lighting pretty bad. By putting it all the way 'forward' into the corner of the aluminum, you've basically created a shield to prevent the light from scattering onto your work surface. Instead, the light is hitting that vertical portion of aluminum and bouncing back onto your pegboard. I would remove the light strip and mount it on the REAR edge of the aluminum. The vertical portion fo the aluminum would shield the LED strip so you don't see it, but it would give the light the chance to actually illuminate your bench top/working surface instead of just the vertical wall behind it.

You are absolutely right about that. It was a bad angle photo on the led strip story. It look's like the strip is into corner but it's actually mounted in the middle of the upper profile. I just pushed it temporarily all the way into corner to help it stay up, meanwhile I glued it in.

Here's some better photos.

It's glued in the middle but you cant see the strip because of the lip. Thanks for noticing that

 

[T-handle]

Now when my tool-area and command center is starting to look pretty ready (for now) It's time to start a new area. I still find a lot of things to organize and place into the tool area, going thru my stuff.

So welding area it is. I've been making plans by using CAD.
Not the Computer-Aided Design one but a Cigarette And Drink type of design

I have five areas in my plan. Tool-area, welding-area, machining-area, fabricating/car-area and a man-cave area. It's hard to fit everything in my workshop but I have some kind of plan.

This use to be a place for my lathe. It's a small area under the mezzanine. About 2 x 3 m. I have a 1 x 2 m welding table with casters under it. I planned that it could be pushed in to the welding area when I'm not welding.
So I get a little flexibility with space.

There's a couple of reasons why I picked this place for welding. There's a good place for fume extraction arm near. I also think that all the gas bottles should be near to exit. If there's a fire or something bad happens it's easier to carry all the bottles outside. I mainly tig-weld inside to avoid the sparks. Wintertime I weld inside with all equipment, stick, mig and tig.

I think that the mezzanine stops sparks flying all over the place too. But we will see what happens.

 

[y'sguy]

Started the labeling allready First label was a drawer where the label machine was, so I found it

Yes, this is perfect! haha, I love your space and thanks for letting me follow, along.

 

[T-handle]

Yes, this is perfect! haha, I love your space and thanks for letting me follow, along.

Thanks y'sguy Nice to have You on board

 

[T-handle]

This time I started with lighting so I don't have to work in the dark. I have few lighting fixtures left. Two of 120cm and two 150cm. I bought a bunch of 120cm led tubes few years ago so I decided to go with the 120cm. Except I need three fixtures

So I decided to shorten one of 150cm to 120cm. It was spot welded and pretty easy to disassemble. Couple strikes of sandpaper and the spot welds are easier to find.

I put it back together with rivets. I was thinking to weld it, but that would burn the paint pretty good. Then I made some supports for the fixtures.

And after painting and wiring there was light. These led tubes are too blue. The color temperature is 6500k. I have to buy some 4000k led tubes. Those 6500k tubes are good for high sealing, they are going for the main lighting of the workshop.

 

[Bommenpro5]

As usual, Great job on whatever project you are working on.
I would probably have done the same with the light fixture.

Keep it up and remember ei saa peittää on the light fixtures

 

[cash68]

Do you have a full time job? I am amazed at your progress. I feel like I get home and bust *** until 9pm and there's no way I could keep up with you.

 

[T-handle]

As usual, Great job on whatever project you are working on.
I would probably have done the same with the light fixture.

Keep it up and remember ei saa peittää on the light fixtures

Thanks Bommenpro5 Yes that's a good one It's almost like "omskakas"

Do you have a full time job? I am amazed at your progress. I feel like I get home and bust *** until 9pm and there's no way I could keep up with you.

Yes it may seems that I'm working hard but that's not the trick. I'm posting this project in a chronological order. So I have a few weeks head start

Those light fixtures was mounted about a month ago. Sorry if I haven't mentioned that

I'm quite busy with my life with wife and three kids and a dog. Not a full time worker at the moment, have to overhaul my back issues a lot.

I enjoy my time in the workshop. I'm there always when I can relaxing and doing some CAD and QST

 

[Jumpman-Z]

I can only hope to get my stuff as organized as yours right now! Nice re-purposing of the aluminum profile!

 

[T-handle]

I can hope to get my stuff as organized as yours right now! Nice re-purposing of the aluminum profile!

Thanks Jumpman-Z Organizing takes time but it really pays of when it's done

 

[T-handle]

I bought this Fumex RZX extraction arm few years ago. It's great for welding and sanding. It's also nice for machining purposes. There's a lot of smoke when cutting with oil.

I bought it in a bundle with other tools and it was cheap. Those are very expensive new. I think it's made in Sweden. Fumex

First I washed it with pressure washer. It was pretty dirty outside and inside.

Then we bolt it in to the column with my wife and son. It's not so heavy but it's long and difficult to lift up. It goes up to five meters. (16.5 ft)

Then I tested the movements and it sounded like a hinge of my wallet
So all the joints was pretty rusty. I decided to disassembly it and do some maintenance. Of course it would have been easier when it was still on the floor

I'm glad that I disassembled it. There was a lot of hard dust inside. One nut was missing too. The hose was placed too tight and there was some rubbing in it, but not a thru hole. The hose is secured with giant re-usable cable ties.

I made a special tool for greasing the bearings I made a mix of red moly and WD-40.

I placed the hose another way on it, so the rubbed section is on the straight part. Cleaned all the rust off and greased all the joints. Bearings was dry and rusty but worked fine with new grease.


To be continued...

 

[T-handle]

So let's continue with the extractor arm. I've been using it for few years so I have all the parts ready for it.

Extraction fan has a 5 inc diameter and its pretty powerful for smoke and dust. The airflow is 360 cubic meters/h. I had a on/off switch connected on it earlier. Especially wintertime the full power is little too much. It ***** all the heat from the workshop.

I opened and cleaned it inside.

I have this transformer regulator what I'm going to use for better airflow control.
I did a bench test before install.

The extraction fan is very quiet, so it's nice to have a led indicator on it. So I remember to shut it off after use.
There is a 12volt work light on the arm too, that's very handy for welding.

I covered the wire and the air hose with spiral wrap to prevent rubbing.

I've build an airline in my shop and that is connected to the arm. Very good for air tools, especially for sander. With short air hose the extractor is always above you sucking dust.

Now it works excellent. Turns very smoothly and looks very technical What can I say.. It *****

 

[rixtrix1]

Nice looking fume extractor, especially with a light and air connection!

 

[T-handle]

Nice looking fume extractor, especially with a light and air connection!

Thanks rixtrix1 I'm a fan of multi function devices

 

[T-handle]

I've never been a fan of my white molding. I just kind of used what I had. I made it with leftover stuff and the only thing I liked was that it was free



There's a lot of stuff in my workshop that I made in a hurry to get on with my car projects. I guess everybody does it sometimes. But now it's time to do it properly.

I removed the old molding (is it a trim or a molding )







Then I did some filling work and painted it. I have some leftover paint from my house. I'm a big fan of red, if you haven't noticed







Looks a lot better already.





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Have a great day

 

[T-handle]

After cleaning and sanding I painted the welding area floor.
I think that it's better to do the floor paint after you do all that is possible for ceiling and walls. It ***** when you drop a tool on to the freshly painted floor.. Trust me I know

Before I added second layer of paint, I filled up some holes in the floor. I used automotive filler. Those was just some small holes, I don't recommend it for bigger fills.

Second layer painted for the welding and tool area. I thinned the paint about 15% for the first layer. Second layer really makes it flat and shiny.

I'm dividing the floor in sections, with a strip of paint or a tape. When it's all finished. So the paint seam is easier to hide. Maybe something like this.

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I bought some wooden 12x42mm trim. I had some old floor paint so I painted the molding gray. It's very hard paint so it's easy to clean. I did two thin layers with a foam roller.

Now I just watch the paint to dry

Have a great weekend everybody

 

[T-handle]

Next step is the baseboard. I bend a few 2.5m long trims from sheetmetal. This wall is covered with sheetrock so I used drywall anchors and Bison montage kit.

I Used some weights were there was a gap. I'm going to seal those mezzanine posts with silicone.

I made a new kickboard from thick aluminum. The old one was pretty much beat up. This is the place where I kick my boots winter times

Looks a lot better now




When the glue was dry I started the trim work.

I did a little notch for the sheetmetal base trim.

I think it looks better now. Sometimes it's best to do it two times

Pics for comparison.

 

[Kasal]

I have read all your thread, I love all the work you have done organizing everything. I like to see everything clean and well placed. eager to see his next projects. a greeting.

 

[rixtrix1]

Looking better all the time!

 

[T-handle]

I have read all your thread, I love all the work you have done organizing everything. I like to see everything clean and well placed. eager to see his next projects. a greeting.

Thank You A lot of projects coming

Looking better all the time!

Thanks rixtrix1

 

[T-handle]

I have a three old metal shelves, that my neighbor gave to me few years ago. My neighbor is the best
I had these assembled in my old workshop. There's a lot of grease and dirt, so I cleaned them. Hot water and soap does the trick.
One shelf is going to the welding area and two to the machining area.

I build a washing/painting table from pallets to spare my back

There was some surface rust on the parts so I decided to paint it.
I sanded down surfaces with 180 grit. I think these was powder coated originally.

I used a basic foam roller. I'm lazy for cleaning the spray gun
This paint is so called "shipping container paint". It's a 1K paint but you can add little hardener for harder surface finish.

Paint dries quickly so I had to be fast for even finish. It's a flat finish so it's pretty forgiving to paint.
I picked the color pretty close to original.

Using a foam roller makes a little texture to the finish. I'm happy with the result. I painted two thin layers.



Assembly time. I used some adjustable feeds so the shelving can be leveled.

I like those sheetmetal baseboards a lot. It's nice to but things like this next to the wall and the baseboard does not interfere.

There's my welding supplies cabinet in the picture. Still unfinished though.

There is a lot of storage space for welding tools. I still have plenty to do but this area is starting to look good

 

[DynoDave]

The place is looking great. Do you do side jobs in Michigan?