Moving In

August 29

This will be the last posting about our new workshop.  We finally got it finished and all the stuff moved out of the garage.  I better take some pictures of that before it gets filled up with stuff.  Anyway, here is a progression of turning an empty room into an efficient, tidy workshop

 the new table saw goes in the center of the shop

here

The bluish cylinder is the top of the pipe Tom buried for the dust collection system.  The whitish thing is a place for a 4-outlet plug-in of the 110 variety.  The dark round thing is for the 220 line for the saw.  They will be under the outfeed table when things are finished.  By the way, that is a baseboard heater there behind the ladder. 

carrying it in

setting it down

We had a good contractor's table saw (Jet brand) that was about the first tool we had in the garage, but Gary had been wanting one like Norm's (Abram)--a hybrid between a contractor's saw and a cabinet maker's saw.  He was able to get this one slightly used for about half price.  The extension table had been damaged, but he built a better one.  He would have done it even if it hadn't been damaged.  I know--I saw him make several different ones for the Jet over the years.

 

now for the extension table

getting it set just so

This is the new extension table/cabinet Gary made.  The top drawer has all the stuff he uses with the saw, like push sticks and stuff.  The bottom drawer has saw blades each in its own diagonal slot.  Easy to clean under.

the jointer in the garage

and in the new shop

September 3

We had the long lumber stacked on the floor along the back of the table saw.  There was just enough room to open my car door over the top of it.

Now it is on racks on the wall

disassembling the dust collector.

(Notice those shelves on the left. They are 8 feet long and packed floor to ceiling)

The unit goes in this corner.

I don't know how Gary got it up by himself; It is really heavy. . .

but he did.

Next the planer.  It had been at the right end of the table saw on a wheeled stand so Gary could move it out to run long boards through it.  It will still need to be rolled out to run long boards through it.  That thing next to it is the other end of the pipe Tom buried for the dust collection with an elbow sitting on it.

There are a lot of boxes in the garage at this point. Gary started ordering stuff for the shop before we were through digging, and that's where things got stored (or stacked or just put down). No point trying to put the car in, either.

 

(better than Christmas)

We got a new cabinet to put the router table on

It was previously fastened to a home made stand sitting on an old metal desk near the side door

On the new cabinet

C'mon, let's go bring some more stuff in

"Heavy . . . "

September 8

Those shelves are now emptied, disassembled, and given a new top and . . .

Voila! A sturdy 16-foot workbench

That old metal desk is given a larger top, and is now the assembly table (it's on the far left of this picture)

September 10

Starting the shelves and running the dust collection lines. We used 6" PVC

You may have noticed in the previous pictures how the old system in the garage is draped all over the place.  Gary did some serious planning to make this system efficient.  For example, notice the main line runs horizontally straight into the air unit.

September 12

The air filter and pegboards are hung.  Debbie was here for that.

building the out feed table

Time Out!

We had to use a couple of weekends to paint the house before the weather turned. Tom and Ben donated some of their valuable weekend time.

I think my quota of photos for this posting has been exceeded.  It keeps failling.  So, I'll finish this at a later date.  Sorry