Yet another new guy from NC...

[lino]

Hey Y'all,

Thought I'd say hey too.
Just working in an attached garage right now. Decent sized, about 24' square. Too full to put a car in already though...

Here's a pic of the "heavy" side:

Hoping to start building a 30'x40' or so next year, if I can squeeze it onto my lot. I'll probably have it split in two, one large room with a lift and the machine tools, and a second smaller room for the wood working (saw dust making) stuff.
Hopefully an office upstairs too. Still very much in the planning/dreaming stage, however. Next will be the "convince the wife" stage which is likely to make dealing with the permits and inspectors look easy...

Brief bio:
Early 30's, daddy, mechanical engineer, machinist, welder, woodworker, mechanic, among others.
Love playing with cars, own (all Toyota): '76 FJ40, '89 MR2 SC, '92 MR2 turbo, '02 taco, '02 rav4. Haven't had time to work on them much lately so only the last two move under their own power.

North of Raleigh, NC

ciao

lino

 

[thefairlaneman]

You have the machine and I have a couple of ideas,,,,,,,,Lets make a hybrid conversion kit and make millions.

 

[OldCarGuy]

Good use of space, I like the placement of the auto-rewind reels overhead and lathe collet rack.

Nice choice of heavy iron! That’s one fine Bridgeport with a 2J variable speed head. I wouldn’t mind coming across a 4” riser block for one of mine. I assume that the plastic cake cover on the rotary table is for chip and or coolant confinement. Sweet Clausing lathe tucked in there. Any other toys you’re hiding from us? Like a surface grinder.

 

[lino]

Wow! Thanks for the compliments OldCarGuy! I've been reading your garage thread with envy. You've got a tremendous setup as well. It's also good to see what can come from good old plain hard work. No lottery winning or stock market windfalls. It's amazing how fast you can get behind when you use credit. It's also amazing how often and easy it is to buy any and everything on credit!
I used to be terrible at that, but, when I found out we were preggers with our first child I managed to pull my(our) belt in (about 8 notches) and I got out from under everything but the house before the kid showed up. It hurt at the time, but it sure feels good now!

As to the shop, that B-Port didn't look that nice a year ago. I got it for $100, and put a couple hundred hours and a few thousand dollars to get it where it is now. Very happy with it. Yep, the tupperware is to contain brass chips, which I then re-sell.

there's no surface grinder hiding (though I have my eyes open for a small one as a potential next addition).

Got one of these:

Which I took apart and it now looks like this:

It's gonna be a 3 axis CNC, but I'm redoing 100% of the CNC system.
You can also see the tooling rack I built for the B-Port in the pic. I'm using TTS tool holders (Tormach Tooling System - ww.tormach.com), so far I'm very happy. Both mills are R8, so they'll share tooling.

Also have a mig, tig, and spotwelder and some woodworking machines crammed in there...

Thanks again for the compliments!!

ciao

lino