clean shops

Corley5 · January 11, 2014, 05:04:46 PM

Tanning bed ???

isawlogs · January 11, 2014, 05:16:39 PM

Tell me the tanning bed is for hides and not your butt!

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Magicman · January 11, 2014, 06:03:53 PM

No question, I liked my small shop much better than my much larger shop. I could get more done, plus it was much cleaner.

WDH · January 11, 2014, 09:03:01 PM

TR,

I think that is you, lost in the planer shavings.

chet · January 12, 2014, 09:14:07 AM

And here I thought I had a well equipped shop. Now I got ta find me a tanning bed. ;D

21incher · January 12, 2014, 09:34:56 AM

Since I installed my dust collector my shop stays pretty clean and in the winter all small pieces and scrap go in the woodstove. My biggest mess is now made when I do a lot of freehand routing. My only problem is the pile of tools that accumulates on the workbench making it unusable.

DR Buck · January 12, 2014, 10:09:46 AM

Hi, My name is Dave and I'm here because I have a problem..

Somewhere in this mess is the stuff I need to finish the dozen or so projects I'm working on. ;D

LeeB · January 12, 2014, 10:28:44 AM

No problem there. At least you can see the floor. Lindy has a fit anytime she goes into my shop. Wants to start throwing stuff out. She is therefor forbidden to go in without me, and mostly forbidden to go in at all. :D

Lud · January 12, 2014, 10:29:13 AM

There's no reason to get crazy about clean up, that's what the backpack blower and a good SW wind is for! Beyond that , all you have to do is remember where you last used it. IMHO

Like everything else you have to strike a balance. I know a guy who you could eat off his garage floor but he rarely makes anything. During a somewhat loud discussion my Dad allowed as how, " Imagination may be Number One, but Organization better be Number Two."

I try to stay organized, tho it's not my nature, still I would agree with Dad that Organization is Number Two. :D :D ;D

hardtailjohn · January 12, 2014, 12:57:15 PM

Yeah DR_Buck....you've got a problem. The way I see it is that your problem is that you just don't have enough stuff yet! :D You've got room for more, so have at it!! :D I always said I was going to rebuild all my benches to an angle instead of flat, so that anything set on them would hit the floor.... but then I thought long and hard about that, and I'd just have a pile of stuff on the floor to bend over and pick up! haha I'm so glad to see someone else's shop look like mine!!!

logman 219 · January 12, 2014, 08:24:12 PM

Dr Buck I see in one picture you have a plano glue press made by advancs machinery , how do you use it a lot for large panels or what???

DR Buck · January 12, 2014, 09:04:35 PM

Quote from: logman 219 on January 12, 2014, 08:24:12 PM
Dr Buck I see in one picture you have a plano glue press made by advancs machinery , how do you use it a lot for large panels or what???

Just got the clamp system. The boards in the picture are the first use of it. There are 4 pair of glued up oak boards to make wider boards for one of my projects. It is the small clamp and will glue up to 40" width. They make a taller model.

Tom L · January 13, 2014, 08:45:05 AM

Quote from: WDH on January 10, 2014, 08:23:42 PM
You can never have enough tape measures .

just had to buy three more yesterday, put a brand new one in the basement, garage , and upstairs workroom

the other 50 are hiding somewhere, wish I new their secret vacation spot

Mooseherder · January 13, 2014, 09:49:38 AM

I've lost a Palm Sander recently. It just walked off and disappeared. :

logman 219 · January 13, 2014, 10:07:51 AM

Dr Buck I have the same glue press bought on the last day of a woodworking show 5 or 6 years ago. was pricey but got a real deal on it . after some use i ordered one track and two more clamps from factory.I paid more for them than the hole system.That said I use it for large glue ups it works supper so long as your material is real close to same thickness .I have clamps set at 16" on center and then use jorgensen I-beam clamps in between.Ive glued up some large table tops 1 1/4 by 40 by 8 feet long with great results. I have used two clamps at a time for door panel glue ups you can stack panels on top of each other and load each pair of clamps.. the only negative is the wall space it takes up. here is another clamping system that works well for door glue ups www.rrclamp . com they stack on top of each other , i weld mine together in to one unit to take out the shake.

bedway · January 13, 2014, 10:28:33 AM

I suffer from this affliction we shall call lets say, " never achieves completion". Over the course of a year ill probly start 6 major cleanings of my shop. Ill get half way across and sometimes three quarters thru the shop but then for some reason get diverted to something else. Im afraid to admit i think that last quarter of my shop hasnt been cleaned in 10 years. Must be where the machines, tools, and various other stuff have gone to hide. Oh well, some day hopefully ;D

DR Buck · January 13, 2014, 12:40:21 PM

Quote from: bedway on January 13, 2014, 10:28:33 AM
I suffer from this affliction we shall call lets say, " never achieves completion". Over the course of a year ill probly start 6 major cleanings of my shop. Ill get half way across and sometimes three quarters thru the shop but then for some reason get diverted to something else. Im afraid to admit i think that last quarter of my shop hasnt been cleaned in 10 years. Must be where the machines, tools, and various other stuff have gone to hide. Oh well, some day hopefully ;D

Start on that side first next time you get ambition. :D

bedway · January 13, 2014, 01:16:51 PM

Ya know DR_Buck, the wife said the same thing, but it didnt seem so vindictive coming from you. ;D

hardtailjohn · January 13, 2014, 03:34:07 PM

I think the tapes go to the same place to hide that socks do when you put them in the dryer. I bought 12 pair of socks... put them in the dryer and ran it...got 23 socks out, and NONE match!

;) A friend of mine used to say it's all gone to the "cosmic muffy"..... As good of an explanation as I've ever come up with!

5quarter · January 14, 2014, 12:14:13 AM

A couple times a year I throw the bay doors open and clean my shop with the leaf blower. The subsequent cloud is usually large enough to produce it's own weather. :D

MattJ · January 16, 2014, 05:29:17 PM

Your post inspired me to take some pictures of the shop. I just cleaned it, pulled everything out and painted it. Even added pictures to the walls (and a spent TOW missle as a conversation piece!). Probably the cleanest it will ever be so I had to document it.

For dust collection I have a delta dust collector with a trashcan separator, a few shopvacs including one mounted to my miter saw, and a dust filter hanging from the ceiling I just installed. Safety equipment is an investment in your body that I realized through a few poor choices. I made it a bigger focus now.

Peter Drouin · January 16, 2014, 09:56:00 PM

Mine is always a mess :D :D :D

maybe some day :D :D ;D

5quarter · January 16, 2014, 10:38:48 PM

Peter...I was gonna say you didn't have enough stuff cause I could still see the floor. Then I saw the third pic...

you're good to go. ;)

Red Good · January 16, 2014, 10:57:32 PM

Is there a difference between clutter {to many projects } and clean ?

I have 6 or 7 projects on the go all the time due to customer money flow , but the floor is always clean .