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

[bj383ss]

Another WoW! and Merry Christmas!

Bret

 

[tj675]

Amazing work! Thanks for taking us on your journey!

 

[T-handle]

Happy Holidays T-handle! You sure have a nice looking home. I like the U-shape and the courtyard.

Jay

Thanks Jay! Well I designed it in my head for many years, I like it too.
The courtyard is closed with a gate so I can do some secret projects wearing just my long johns and no one can't see

Have a great New Year Jay!

Excellent work on those Legos! Will show the pics to my daughters for sure, to show how it should be done

Merry Christmas!

Thanks Matias!

I wish I sorted them long time ago, there's a lot of small items lost in the vacuum cleaner

Have a great New Year Matias!

Merry Christmas "T"

Don

Thanks Don! Have a great New Year Don!

Another WoW! and Merry Christmas!

Bret

Thanks Bret! Have a great New Year Bret!

Amazing work! Thanks for taking us on your journey!

Thanks for stopping by Tj675!




Santa brought a 12" bass speaker for the shopmanager. His wish list was not the most obvious one for a ten year old

I happened to have a sheet of 22mm particle board waiting in the workshop

I know mdf would be better but this is not high end stuff, I think the first priority is to make things shake

So we are going to build a 64litre box for the speaker. Shopmanager is doing some calculations.

I've been "relaxing" with this 1500 piece puzzle, I think there's pieces missing or there's too many

If someone is wondering what happened to the Lightning McQueen, it's standing in the vehicle shop near to our house. I have to go there someday and check the price

Have a great New Year everybody!

 

[gearhead1960]

Happy New Year T! I know how you love Legos so I thought I would post up one of the "HOT" ones this year in US. I found it at Walmart and bought it for my oldest son (28) for Christmas. So I present to you "The Child"!

They are selling well above retail right now on eBay. I thought about buying an extra one and flipping it, but didn't.

 

[T-handle]

I took some pics of the shopmanagers speaker build. We had some QST between Christmas and New Year. Power tools was used and all the fingers are fine





First we did some plans and counted the volume of the box. 50 liters with an air port tube guarantees a soft bass said the calculator.

We sawed the sheets from 22mm particleboard with a track saw and pre-drilled holes for the screws. We get a little carried away with the screws






I made a 10mm ledge for the speaker so it wont stick out so much. It was easy to do with a router. My go to router was stolen from a jobsite years ago and this cheap one has served me good since. I've been eyeballing for a new one for while but can't choose what brand to buy.







When the ledge was done I routed off the center. My smallest bit was too short so I routed both sides.
There's now a nice 3mm cap for the felt to turn in.


We made the air port hole with a 76mm hole saw and it was a bit too small. Pro tip how to do a precise press fit for a round hole is to use a sanding arbor on a router. It does a straight wall hole nicely. Also a nice way to sand some round corners and funny shapes.










Then it was time to glue it all together.





We used a lot of glue and some screws to get it square and even. When it was all together we did the rest of the screws. It's now a very sturdy box.

I filled the screw holes and ruff edges with polyester putty.






Then it was time cover the box with felt, and no! I didn't pick the color We bought a 3mm felt, It's cheap and turns around edges nicely.

We used spray glue and some universal glue for the corners and seams. The seams was hard to get tight, some help with a steam iron and they came out nice.











Some wires and cotton wool inside to remove the resonance.

We installed the speaker and it's ready to go







I screwed some pads on the corners so when the boys start to dance the box stays one piece
It's a nice extra seat too for the shopmanagers dungeon.







Today we bought a 100Hz crossover and tested the speaker. There's about 50watts amp power going to the subwoofer and damn! It sound great and loud.

I think I have to buy some new dining sets soon. The dishes are shaking in the cabinet a lot

Now we go rocking Have a great week!

 

[gearhead1960]

T,

Very cool QST with the shop manager.

 

[T-handle]

Happy New Year T! I know how you love Legos so I thought I would post up one of the "HOT" ones this year in US. I found it at Walmart and bought it for my oldest son (28) for Christmas. So I present to you "The Child"!

They are selling well above retail right now on eBay. I thought about buying an extra one and flipping it, but didn't.

Happy New Year Mr Gearhead!

That's very cool! I think our generation who had Legos growing up will always
appreciate a gift like that.
I haven't build a set for a long time. When we get our Lego organizing project done I will definitely build somethin cool

 

[Jyzze]

Amp is sweet like a candy! Top joob like allway's!

 

[Jayman17]

T-handle, it's great to see you and the shop manager working together on that project. He is learning how to do it right, that's for sure. I think the red looks good!
I've never seen a sanding drum for the router before, that's slick.

Jay

 

[nicholam77]

The speaker looks great, what a fun project!

 

[fartymarty]

When one improves our collective game by as much as you have T', then us critics must improve ours as well.

After all that wonderful work, I can't believe you photographically cut off your son's thumbs up.

 

[rattle_snake]

Cool project, I'm a speaker geek myself.
What is the application? car, home, or ?

 

[Trapps]

Great project!!!

 

[T-handle]

T,

Very cool QST with the shop manager.

Thanks Gearhead! We had a good time eating chocolate and building that thing

Amp is sweet like a candy! Top joob like allway's!

Thanks Jyzze! It sure is a ear candy too

T-handle, it's great to see you and the shop manager working together on that project. He is learning how to do it right, that's for sure. I think the red looks good!
I've never seen a sanding drum for the router before, that's slick.

Jay

Thanks Jay!

I've learned everything by mistake so I'm trying my best to pass the knowledge to my kids and they can avoid some mistakes

Yes that drum sander trick is pretty sweet. I have a variable speed in my router and low rpm is nice for sanding. I figured this trick when I was making tree-shaped coat hangers for a customer. 6mm shank goes straight to the router.

The speaker looks great, what a fun project!

Thanks Nicholam77! It's definitely a best subwoofer I have build. Very nice soft bass. I got a permission to test it once

When one improves our collective game by as much as you have T', then us critics must improve ours as well.

After all that wonderful work, I can't believe you photographically cut off your son's thumbs up.

Damn my mistake! I have to fix that immediately Shopmanager doesn't want to be famous so I focused on deleting the face part

Far better Thanks for stopping by Fartymarty

Cool project, I'm a speaker geek myself.
What is the application? car, home, or ?

Thanks Rattle_snake! Shopmanager has his own stereo system in his dungeon. He has bought an old Yamaha amp with his own money, weights a ton. I gave him my old Hitachi and Jvc 3-way speakers from seventies. I had them in my workshop setup but now I have to settle for my Milwaukee radio

Great hobby for youngsters His only ten but I can sense the car stereo system to be a big thing too.

Great project!!!

Thanks for stopping by Trapps!

 

[T-handle]

Lego organizing part 2


We got all the Legos organized. That was a huge task to do and I'm happy that it's all over for now.

I had to do six more trays and they were just enough. No empty slots available for expansion





There was some twist on the plywood. I glued all the boxes together and placed them under weights for a day. They came out pretty ok. The twist almost disappeared when we loaded the boxes full of Legos.













That's a lot of bits and pieces. I looked up and there's over 4000 different shapes Lego makes
I guess we have a lot of vehicles, one box is full of tires and wheels.











I was surprised that all the tiny ones isn't vacuumed away from this collection There's these cool motors and cylinders and they are still working fine.

I had to sacrifice some space from the workshop for now. I'm going to build a cabinet for these so they can act like a drawers in a frame. Maybe wheels under the cabinet too. It's a bit scary to carry these things, one slip and there's a big mess..

I have to do the cabinet when I feel like woodworking again.

I was thinking to store these inside the house but there's not suitable spot or enough table space to spread them out. So now we're having some family time in the workshop









Had to reinforce the shelf with angle irons, there's a lot of weight for one shelf. I added a support leg too in the middle so the trays wont warp.

Before we stacked the trays we did a small test. We collected one set I remembered we should have. All the instructions can be downloaded from the Lego website.

This is a Indiana Jones set from 2011 and it took about 20 minutes to collect all the pieces. Well, Indy's whip is missing.. I looked at the bedside table as well but no luck





And now there's a airplane fight in my light fixture Indy and Henry VS German soldier

We had a lot of fun and this is a fine example for the kids that it doesn't always have to be a new set and I save some money for tools


Have a great week everyone!

 

[Ronin22]

Dear God, that's a whole lot of Legos!

 

[gearhead1960]

T,

You are the KING of Lego management!

 

[PugetDude]

T-handle, nice job but sorry to inform you that you missed (1) LEGO. A little sharp pointed piece. Same color as your floor.
You will find it when you step on it in your bare feet when you get up to use the bathroom half asleep at 3:00 in the morning. .

 

[fartymarty]

T,

You are the KING of Lego management!

There is a Queen of Lego management as well, on this side of the pond but perhaps I should let tez929rr mention it here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=394988

I hope I'm not diverting this thread too much.

Great job T' getting you son's thumb reattached , you could have been a surgeon.

 

[jbaker323]

@T-Handle, I like the space. What kind of paint did you use on the floor? Is it necessary to go as far as the rustoleum garage floor epoxy paint? I used Benjamin moore 2 part garage paint and it *****. I need something with more build, and that wont flake.

THx

 

[gearhead1960]

Those sets on that website are way too cheap! I think it's a scam.. Be careful Mark!

Thanks for the warning....I'll be sure to watch for fraud...

 

[T-handle]

Dear God, that's a whole lot of Legos!

It sure is a big pile of plastic, I can do a mock up from a car before going to steel

T,

You are the KING of Lego management!

Thanks Mark!
I've been watching some Youtube videos and I think I'm a beginner big time

T-handle, nice job but sorry to inform you that you missed (1) LEGO. A little sharp pointed piece. Same color as your floor.
You will find it when you step on it in your bare feet when you get up to use the bathroom half asleep at 3:00 in the morning. .

Well to be honest I have found those a lot, some point I was planning to add a steel soles to my slippers.

There is a Queen of Lego management as well, on this side of the pond but perhaps I should let tez929rr mention it here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=394988

I hope I'm not diverting this thread too much.

Damn! That is one nice Lego paradise. Thanks for shearing the thread, haven't noticed it yet

Great job T' getting you son's thumb reattached , you could have been a surgeon.

Well actually I have made a 50% of that thumb

@T-Handle, I like the space. What kind of paint did you use on the floor? Is it necessary to go as far as the rustoleum garage floor epoxy paint? I used Benjamin moore 2 part garage paint and it *****. I need something with more build, and that wont flake.

THx

Thanks for stopping by jbaker323!

I used a solvent-borne urethane alkyd paint. One layer 30% solvent 70% paint. so it ***** deep to the concrete, second layer 100% paint and it's pretty smooth and even.
I think the concrete base is the key for success. I have a Mastertop dry-shake surface hardener added to the concrete when it was poured. I troweled it with a machine until the sparks was flying so it's very hard and smooth.

The finish was a bit multicolored so I painted it. Also the metal chips was hard to remove with a brush.

I'm not sure what kind of concrete floor you have but maybe some kind of float filler before the paint? Good luck with the project!

Thanks for the warning....I'll be sure to watch for fraud...

Nice! That sure is a pro looking website but the prices gave me a doubt. I Googled the bricksmatexstore.com and there's been problems. I'm pretty sure it's a scam website.

 

[fartymarty]

I Googled the bricksmatexstore.com and there's been problems. I'm pretty sure it's a scam website.

I think you are correct T'!

https://www.scamadviser.com/ gives it a trust score of only 35%, yesterday it was 45%, dropping fast. GarageJournal gets 100%!

https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/www.bricksmatexstore.com

 

[jbaker323]

Yeah the floor is garbage, its a slab that was poured like 80 years ago. Any easy fix?

 

[gearhead1960]

Those lego kits seem impossibly cheap. I don't know if there's a catch but I clicked on your "beast" link and hit buy. Might go back for more.

EDIT: oh, just read the scam suspicion above. I missed that.

Funny thing is, we got confirmation that the kits were being sent out. Nothing nefarious with credit card to date....we'll see!

 

[T-handle]

I think you are correct T'!

https://www.scamadviser.com/ gives it a trust score of only 35%, yesterday it was 45%, dropping fast. GarageJournal gets 100%!

https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/www.bricksmatexstore.com

Seems not legit to me but I sure hope that's not the case. You can lose 50 or 100 bucks gambling easy but when it's scammed from you it makes you mad

Yeah the floor is garbage, its a slab that was poured like 80 years ago. Any easy fix?

Ok. I think there's no easy solution for old floor like that. It sure can be re-leveled with self-leveling cement or so but there's a risk that it chips off.

It's the moisture raising from the dirt under the floor what chips the paint or filler. It should be insulated before the steel and slab pour.

Here where I live the building code is a bit overkill. We have four seasons so the environment can be hard for a building.

My best advice is to go for a local contractor for tips

Those lego kits seem impossibly cheap. I don't know if there's a catch but I clicked on your "beast" link and hit buy. Might go back for more.

EDIT: oh, just read the scam suspicion above. I missed that.

Funny thing is, we got confirmation that the kits were being sent out. Nothing nefarious with credit card to date....we'll see!

Let's hope for the best! It was super tempting for me too to spend a hundred bucks If you guys score some nice genuine Lego sets I'm going for it too


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Re-organizing

I did some scoring myself the other day. There's a big light fixture company near to me. I go to check their recycling container occasionally. There's actually tree containers I check when it's my turn to go out with Nelli our dog. One is full of wood and furniture, one is full of stainless and aluminum offcuts from laser cutter and one is full of electric stuff, broken tools and fasteners.
It's nice to live next to industrial area

Well it had snowed the whole day and I peeked to the container, under the snow were some black boxes, I took one under the snow and what do you know, Milwaukee HD box

I jumped to the container and found totally seven boxes, or eight but one was broken when throwed to the container.

I guess the work crew have updated their toolboxes so I took the old ones.

I haven't kept my tools in boxes anymore since I had to quit building contractor stuff. So after cleaning the boxes I dedicated them for hardware management.

I cleared five of those big clear boxes inside the HD boxes. It's nice to have dedicated box for stuff like wires, connector boxes etc. I run out of Dymo tape again

I'm not convinced the side latch mechanism on these HD boxes. I guess the Packout boxes are new better version of these.

I made an extra shelf for this cap and now all the things I lost for Legos are back in the shelfs.

I noticed that I have no place for longer stuff so I made a quick spot between the rafters. Now the fabrics stay out of dust too.

I think today is a workshop day. There's -27C (-17F) outside

 

[bdbecker]

I love a good dumpster dive - nice find!

 

[Jayman17]

T-handle, only you could find discarded tool boxes that match the brand you have and are color coordinated to your shop.
Must be clean living....nice score!

Jay

 

[PugetDude]

Nice score, T-handle!
With my luck I would have found 8 Harbor Freight cases- and 7 of them would have been broken.

 

[Unruh]

Holy Lego! I would have loved those wheels when I was a kid!

 

[Trapps]

Your variable lighting is cool! Bright for work mode and then more relaxed for lounge mode.

 

[T-handle]

I love a good dumpster dive - nice find!

Me too! One time we went to the mall and there's was dumpster full of light tracks and stuff. One of the businesses was renovating I guess. My wife went to the clothing store and I went to the dumpster We both did some great finds.

T-handle, only you could find discarded tool boxes that match the brand you have and are color coordinated to your shop.
Must be clean living....nice score!

Jay

Nice score, T-handle!
With my luck I would have found 8 Harbor Freight cases- and 7 of them would have been broken.

I think this was one of those "once in a lifetime" opportunities I have found a lot of fasteners and other stuff there, all new in the box. I guess it's a healthy company and they don't store stuff. I don't have to buy Wago connectors never again that's for sure

Holy Lego! I would have loved those wheels when I was a kid!

Me too I'm taking my poor childhood back now, it's never too late

Your variable lighting is cool! Bright for work mode and then more relaxed for lounge mode.

Thanks Trapps! I like it too. It's relaxing to turn the main lightning down and make a cup of tee, rest my eyes a bit in the darker mode and lurk Garage Journal



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I had a wrestling day yesterday. It snowed a lot at night so I waked up 5am to do some snowplowing and what do you know, John D had a bad morning and flat front tire.

Do anyone have had a bad karma with your vehicles? I feel that if you do some not maintenance work to your vehicle next problem is a mechanical for sure, and a big one.
I was feeling that when I upholstered the JD cabin. And yes! one morning half of the coolant had dripped under the tractor. That was a lower coolant pipe clamp fail. There was a super low temperatures and I guess it did the trick with the hoses. New clamp and it was fixed, I checked all the hoses and clamps. A lot of work still.
Yesterday it was time for tyre wrestling. First one for five years. I drive mainly on the asphalt so no sticks or other stuff puncturing the tyres.

Damn it was hard to get out of the rim. I tried to soak it with soap water and wedge it of with wedges and sledgehammer but no luck. I finally pressed it off with JD's front loader.

I'm glad there was a inner tube because the rim isn't in best shape anymore. Tubeless would leak for sure.

I patched both so the dirt doesn't go inside the tyre. I used some Self-Vulcanisation glue and a Bias patch.(bias patch, say that fast ten times) I have no experience of those but according the smell it's good stuff The glue I mean.

It was super tempting to sand and paint the trim when it was of the tyre but there was a ton of snow waiting for me and JD. So I but it back together and no leaks so far. I'm hoping these were the karma problems and I'm even

My back and arms are sore so today I'm doing something light, like sewing

Have a great weekend everybody!

 

[T-handle]

Shop-apron

Well I actually did some sewing. I was inspired when I watched Adam Savages channel and he did a cool shop apron from waxed canvas.

There's no waxed canvas in our fabric stores so I bought one meter piece of 1000 denier Cordura nylon fabric. It's tuff stuff and waterproof, most importantly it doesn't burn.

I have always wandered what denier means so here's a fun fact from Wikipedia.

(a unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibers, is the mass in grams per 9000 meters of the fiber. The denier is based on a natural reference: a single strand of silk is approximately one denier; a 9000-metre strand of silk weighs about one gram)

So nine kilometers of Cordura fiber weights about 1000grams or what



I also bought a belt buckle and some loops. Velcro was on sale so I took one meter of that too. It's a great stress relief toy like bubble wrap

I have never really sewed anything. well couple times I have shortened my work pants but that's it. First time my wife was in the workshop telling me what to do



I have a leather welding apron so I used it as a template with some adjustments. It's nice when I'm welding but it's too big and heavy to use for longer times.

I copied Adams design about the split leg style but without the straps. It's nice to squat down without the apron rising to you mouth Plus it's nice to take a quick leak without taking the apron off.





I used extra strong nylon thread on the sewing machine, I managed to snap the thread couple times and now I can install the lower thread myself, The lower mechanism is a devil's work and a total mystery!

I double stacked the edges so it's clean from inside too and doesn't tear so easy. I'm a carpenter so I mitered the edges

My wife came occasionally to check out how I'm doing. I'm pretty sure she was there to check that I don't break her sewing machine



After sewing I reinforced all the critical edges and seams with rivets. It was impossible to punch thru the fabric with a hole punch. I screwed the punch on to the drill and it worked perfect
Nice trick when punching something soft and strong.









Pocket design. I planned the pockets to be as light as possible. I have carried a toolbelt for twenty years so I want to keep this thing light.
The pockets are dedicated to few specific tools so I cant load it with nuts and bolts and other stuff.

Lower pocket is for a Lyra pencil and a small 3 meter measuring tape. Phone fits there too if needed.





Pencil pocket is tight as possible so the holster stays in the pocket. There's a led light in the pen so I can work in the dark.



The chest pocket is for two markers, two blades and tweezers. There's a option for a scriber too when I found or make a model where the tip goes inside the handle.

I installed a 2mm cardboard between the fabric on the upper chest part between the strap points. Most of the times there's a "bag" formed on the chest part and it collects everything from sawdust to sparks Now it stays tight to my chest and doesn't "bag"





Here's the weapons of choice. I'm sure those will change when the times go by. You never no what's handy to have on the pockets. I have to do some test projects wearing the apron.





I had almost new safety harness I found from the dumpster. It was used and the fall indicators were ripped, I guess these ones saved somebody's life.
I salvaged them and used a part for a harness to my apron. It's a bit heavy duty but they feel super nice. I especially like the wide straps over the shoulders. Thin straps can sometimes cause a headache for me.

I sewed a cross pattern for the harness points and used some strong thread. It's called a bear thread here.

It's a bit harder to dive in this style harness compering to the around neck style apron but when it's on it's spot on fitment.









I bought one meter of fabric, it's about 1.5 meters wide and I used about half. I can do a version 2 when this one wears off.
The fabric was 19€ a meter and the hardware was about 10€. It's a cheap apron to do and fun project.

What can I say, I will be definitely sewing again! It was fun, except all the needles stinking in my hands part isn't

Have a great week!

 

[gearhead1960]

T,

Awesome job! Nice work!

BTW, the Legos have shipped, from China! Told the wife, we might have ordered fancy pictures, not Legos....we'll see....

 

[mfg0772]

Love the apron. While sewing may be not be a hot topic on here, I think it is a good skill to have that can help bring projects to another level.

 

[bj383ss]

Badass T! I have been wanting to learn sewing. My mom gave me her machine. I also bought the thread and new needles. But I have just putting off learning. Now I'm going to have to learn.

Bret

 

[bdbecker]

Very cool!

My Mom and Grandma both insisted I learn how to sew growing up. While I haven't done it in years, I'm sure it wouldn't take too long to knock the rust off.

You nailed it on the shoulder straps - wide material for the strap making an "X" across your back. I spent way too much time wearing aprons that hung around my neck at the machine shop - those aprons felt really heavy at the end of a 12 hour shift.

 

[fartymarty]

Hmmm...sewing now?

T', by any chance are you related to Gregor (aka sakurama)? I'm starting to notice uncanny thread resemblances in interest factors.

 

[rattle_snake]

Yes wow so many skills. And not just doing it but doing it well. I dabble in sewing for automotive upholstery so I have some idea of how hard it is to make it look nice.

So lets go the other way, what can you not do?

 

[Jayman17]

Very nice apron, when can I get mine? Your attention to detail is impressive.

Jay