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18th Apr 2019, 02:56 PM #31Most Valued Member
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Yeah - I didn't want to get into that because people tell you that you're scare-mongering.
Suffice to say that I have a LPG stove in my boat, and right down just above the cabin sole there's a combined LPG *and* carbon monoxide sniffer/alarm hard-wired direct (it has its own fuse) to the main battery bank. You can't turn it off and the LED shows it's getting power.
Dying from a LPG leak/explosion happens but generally you can smell the stuff. CO is odorless and *will* kill you if you're careless or unaware of the risk.
I've a diesel heater for the boat but that has an external flue.
PDW
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18th Apr 2019, 07:27 PM #32Novice
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18th Apr 2019, 07:33 PM #33Novice
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So I’m a few years into this build, it’s a real learning curve, teaching myself as I go! But I’ve done all the work myself!
It’s a 1930 ford model A, cane out of New Orleans! Basically I’m trying to build a pretty era specific 1960’s east coast hotrod, low, channeled body, I’m running a 292 Yblock bored +0.060” over so it’s about 301 cube. With a VS57 mcculloch supercharger! Hopefully get it on the road one day haha
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19th Apr 2019, 01:18 AM #34Most Valued Member
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I wish we had a DROOOOOL emoji or button. That is GORGEOUS will you leave the paint job as is, giving it the RAT ROD look?????
Just as well you don't live close by, I'd be there everyday helping you.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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19th Apr 2019, 11:49 AM #35
Hi Brainfreeze ,
I do like your rod but had to quickly scroll the screen away from your rod photo when the missus walked in.
Should she have seen the swept, clean concrete in your shed it would have been a real problem.
Expectations would have followed. Words like clean,tidy,neat and organised would have been used.
Questions about putting away tools and cleaning clearing bench tops might have been asked.
Worse still, pressure would have been applied to throw away carefully selected and collected items of metallic scrap that really might have come useful in the next ten years.
Luckily, I was quick enough and the terrible outcome was averted. I think I need a cuppa and a good lie down.
Seriously though, It is a real nice job ,especially as you learned as you go. Not a lot of TV or watching movies for you then?
Well done
Grahame
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19th Apr 2019, 08:39 PM #36Diamond Member
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Hi,
This is my new (hopefully) temporary workshop. I had my old workshop pretty much set up the way I wanted it (minus a few tinkering's here and there) when the wife decided to up and leave, taking 2 out of 5 kids. Sold the house and I've moved back to my parents until we sort out the money and kids.
It's a lot tighter than the old workshop but much the same set-up. It's amazing how much stuff I've packed up and still haven't found. I'm still cleaning up and sorting out what I want to keep or move on. But I'm happy I have somewhere to tinker when I get the chance.
Regards Ben.
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19th Apr 2019, 08:58 PM #37Novice
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19th Apr 2019, 11:40 PM #38Golden Member
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Hey Ben,
I like the milling machine - it kind of looks like its not too big but not too small either - and its got a knee as well ? what breed of machine is that ?
Am trying to fit all my stuff into a smaller space as well ............ my wife wants to move to a place where its always cold and raining and houses generally don't have sheds, only a tiny little garage if you are lucky, so am trying to see how small a footprint I can cram my gear and myself into.
I recently bought a set of drawers and a trolley from Repco $300
https://www.repco.com.au/en/brands/mechpro-blue/mechpro-blue-tool-chest-trolley-26inch-mpbct8d-26in/p/A5274081
I think they are great for holding and organising a lot of stuff in a small space. They have other sizes on clearance prices as well.
Was wondering about seeing what else I could find instead of my current messy hutches opposite the machines.
Bill
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20th Apr 2019, 12:07 AM #39Most Valued Member
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Bill, the things we do for LOVE!!!! Having to give up a decent Man Cave for a pokey little hole. What is this world coming too??? Hopefully she won't make you give up the toys!!!!
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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20th Apr 2019, 12:26 AM #40Most Valued Member
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After 10 years working out of an enclosed car trailer 2.5m X 4m plus a V at the front, and a 6 X 4m shed with a dirt floor, I've now got a ripper shed with concrete floor, 14X4m.
I've crammed all my stuff in there and fun part is trying to work around repairing equipment to be able to make cabinets and O/H cupboards, to minimise the crap on the floor.
Floating Off.jpg
The front 6m is the metalwork side of things, while the back 6m is woodwork, the middle 2 is where stuff crosses over, grinders, drill press etc that are used for both sides.
I'm hoping to line the inside with 16mm melamine white sheets.
When it's respectable, I'll take some pics of the inside.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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20th Apr 2019, 12:40 AM #41Most Valued Member
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kyrn congrats on the shed.
Do you get frost where you are? If so you will need sisilation to stop it raining inside your shed when the sun hits the roof on a frosty morning.
It will be like christmas digging out all the goodies that you have forgoten that you had.
cheers, shed
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20th Apr 2019, 01:25 AM #42Most Valued Member
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Thanks Shed, we do get frosts occassionaly, enough to freeze on the windscreens.
Haven't really noticed the condensation before, but will look at geting something up there eventually.
Hardest part is trying to remember where I put stuff, I've a horizontal bandsaw and a vertical mill in there, somewhere, that I can't find!!!!!!
Forgot to mention that this is a rental place, the landlord paid for the first 24 square metres, and I paid for the rest. About 4 truckloads of dirt came out of the back 32 sqaure metres.
Christmas Day was spent pulling the back shed down in readiness for the excavations.
I borrowed a tracked skid steer and tipper for the day to dig it out on Boxing day.
Hadn't used a machine like that in over 30 years and got it to within 25mm level.
I put the whole lot up on my own and leveled it as well, Friends are never around when you need a hand, or there's work to be done!!!!!
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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20th Apr 2019, 03:03 AM #43
Hi Kryn,
Nice size workshop ! But you do need to put insulation in there.
My workshop is a concrete prefabricated building with a corrugated cement roof. The cold comes straight through the walls and from the floor.
I spent ages tiling the floor with 10 mm insulating sheets, the type that you use under strip wood flooring. After that I put wooden frames on the concrete wall panels and then filled the spaces with 24" inch wide by 72" long 50 mm thick glass wool slabs. After I lined the whole place out with plasterboard. I used 70 mm thick metal foil coated 8 foot by 4 foot expanded foam panels for the roof.
My roof is not peaked, just a slope, so I left a ventilated air gap of a few inches between the foam roof and the low end of the corrugated cement panels.
In winter the temperature never drops below 42 - 43 degrees F, and in summer, like last year I kept the door open because it was quite cool in there even with the 80 degree F outside heat. In short it was very worthwhile putting the insulation in.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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20th Apr 2019, 08:43 AM #44Golden Member
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kryn
That photo is the last time you will see any clean floor space. Also, I have found that acquaintances and some friends are knocking at the door when jobs need doing; theirs that is. Otherwise it is as you said; no sign of them.
Ken
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20th Apr 2019, 10:00 AM #45Most Valued Member
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The day my shed was slid off the truck onto the site cut i went to hospital for 4 weeks and when i got out the shed was up.
My FIL and 2 BIL's dug the footings for the columns, had then inspected, poured them and stood the frame and clad it, i really was a great home coming.
12 x 9 mtrs with a 3 mtr deep mezzanine across the back wall, 3 mtr wall height, 15 deg clear span roof, i mention that because shed manufactures normally only 11 or 12 deg roof pitches and if you have trees around the leaves andbtwigs seem to build up and not wash down into the guttering.
I have no insulation, other than sisilation, and no heating as i dont need it when i am working, i spoze it gets a little cold sometimes when i sitting drawing/working out something. I have a evaporative cooler tho as the hot belts me around these days.
When i poured the slab i had a few try to convince me to paint the floor, my same reponce each time was its not going to bebpool room, no one could tell me what type of floor paint could withstand moltern metal from cutting and heavy metalic item getting dragged across it.
3 phase power is my luxury.
cheers, shed
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