Last week I managed to get some jobs done in the garage that had been hanging around for a while.

One was a fabrication trolley where I can mount my bench grinders, angle grinders and other crap I like to keep handy - otherwise everything always seems to be at the other side of the room, now i can just pull it all around with me . The second was a simple welding bench with an extension for using the plasma cutter (no slats in it - just an open frame, I never seem to need them...).

Here is the fab trolley, it has supports for a shelf inside, but I haven't put one in yet. I used nice big castors so it'll roll over any random bits of crap or cables on the floor:

Job done:
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Fully loaded:
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Other side:
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Here is the welding bench, I put a mesh shelf underneath and a couple of bits of bent tube to store tig filler etc:
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So, post up your handy workshop tools / projects that you've made.

Al.

Very nice, is blue this years black?


Garage air compressor set up

Haven't got any pictures of the fridge motor. Maybe I'll take some later.


http://www.crookesmountain.com/projects/air.htm

So this is why you haven't managed to build a vehicle yet? Trying to put Machine Mart out of business!

Errrrmmmm,



To the top left you will see a lovely mounting of coiled airline using some 20 x 3 flat bar formed around something to a hook shape , perfect to restrict useage to people of 6' and above.



From this view you will also notice the "nearly complete" working bench at the left rear - completion date not yet set.

Also, the perfect positioning of my shortened RR chassis allows for convenient placement of drinking mugs and tools in general.



The precision milling machine makes an ideal welding bench for DD

Rog, Im heard a rumour that its Dans dog that does the hard work and he just sits about getting hairier, fact or fiction?

Im saying nothing, but "dog" was struggling to get the 'G' out the workshop yesterday......

Ah John - the car-sized-void in my garage has turned into a car-sized-lump! There's not much to shout about yet, but at least there is a mass to which bits need to be added.

Having these other things sorted will make it all faster. I was fed up with a bench grinder wandering off across the floor every time I turned it on. Pretty much finished now though.

Landymanluke - I looked at that link, but I have no idea what I'm looking at! It all looks very neat and tidy though! What is the PC for exactly?

Re: the blue paint. Yeah, 5 gallon drum, everything I make will be blue until it gets used up, then on to the next colour!

Anyone else actually made anything? Tools / benches etc?

Al.

erm sheet metal folder, small press, big press, small bore pipe bender, the doors to the workshop (over 1 tonne of steel ), trestles, a few jigs, press tooling, steel stock rack, small tube stand, some other stuff. want pics?

I've made most of a 109, does that count?

Currently, its for streaming music off the network locally, or radio 1 off the interweb, looking at datasheets, looking at PDF format of WSM, etc etc.

In the fullness of time (when i'm not so busy), I'll finish the interfacing for the compressor setup, so the PC can monitor and manage the compressor and tanks.

Just got two oscilloscopes, they predate me by a good 15 years (1970) but they're still going strong, and they were free, that's my favourite price! alas, i didn't build them.

No John! That's a car innit - this is a tool / furniture (garage-stylie) / jig type thread.

Jez - sure pics are cool if you have them, especially of good ideas that others could maybe use.

Landymanluke - groovy tools are also good.

I've got a few more up my sleeves, but I need more garage time...

Al.

The scopes..



and the home made bit - an extension lead/ connection box thing

I can beat all of that.
I have

(1) A big shed with no vehicle access
(2) Quite a long workbench, that creakes ominously whenever I give something some welly on it.
(3) A Record 5" engineers vice
(4) A crappo 5" bench grinder from Machine Mart
(5) A crappo piller drill from machine Mart
(6) Barely enough room (because of the junk) to swing a cat.
(7) Dinky little compressor
(8) Various tools
(9) My baby - full size oxy-acetylene welding gear with 20m of hose.
(10) Portapak oxy-acetylene welding gear with 5m of hose.


Luke - your vice is an embarrassment - you need a BIG ONE

Les.

Les, you're right. It's pants!

big one is on the shopping list. Sadly dad wanted to keep his nice old vice that's at home.

Luke

A bit simple, but highly effective:


This is the grinder rack next to my bench (usually it has another grinder in it too). It is dead simple - bit of angle welded to a bit of flat, and screwed to the wall. There is a groove in the end so that the sanding disc grinder rests on it's spindle rather than on the sanding disc. The others are resting on the guard (not the disc!)



yeah, it could probably do with a coat of paint at some point...

Also built the Carport next to the house:



And I never miss an opportunity to post a gratuitous picture of the machine shop...



Cheers
Mark

Mark,
Love the rack, but the 1st two pics made me think I was looking at "Mr Trebus" (from life of grime) workshop.

Love the tidy grinders amongst a sea of S***e

I could feel at home I could "Tidy worker I am not"

Nige

it is a bit like that at the moment... I should tidy up some time...

tidy? Me? Never...

Mark

Yeah,

Tidy I have never been to good at :

I still get reminded by a mate about when I had to shove the LR in 4wd low box





....to get out of the garage due to all the S***E and tools that the tyres were slipping on

Nige

Pah - luxury. I get to do my maintenance in the gutter of a residential street, resting on the broken bottles of last night's drunks and bearing the inutterable jeering from local children who decry my chosen mode of transport. Eee, when I were I lad, we had... well, we had a fully equipped workshop with a ceiling crane, workbench and blown-air heating system, but that's by the by. Kids today, don't know they're born.

Double-Pah!,
When I built my first Series 1 I stripped the front hub down because of a noise and found the source to be a big lump of glass in the swivel housing (Well I thought it was initially).




..... turned out to be ice....


Highlands / Scotland / Winter / Nippy ?

See Scots moan about the cold while the English just build a fire and get on with it...
[tin hat on]




This little soul folds thin stuff with small returns



We have a folder as well but it wasnt home built so not worth a pic



This little "erection" was built.......



For bending time and crushing continents
guestimated at around 300kgs of steel and a push like Vinnys grip round a free pint..


steel stores for flat, round and square


as I move remember I'll ping some more pics up of lab grown stuff as I go round - bit busy last night

< sigh > that all looks so cool. I wish I had a garage. George is in Dan's garage at the moment, but he's becoming homeless at the weekend (apparently he wants it back to do his Rangie ). Back to the bird poo gazebo for me!

...I guess my stub axle candle holders and V8 rocker cover herb garden don't really count as fabrication...

Atleast you have a garage to get a landy in!!!

With Dans expertise i would have thought you would have persuaded him to build you your own garage.

Knowing how good his memory is, you could probably even try the 'remember, you promised me my own garage'

My hybrid would not even get down the rear alley to my garage, and the garage is a permanant home to my other toy, the lotus 7 replica.
I have to rely on the generosity of a guy with a workshop with lots of toys to get my hybrid built.

Jen - at this rate not only will Eddie be on the road before George, but before Bertha too!

the truth:



Daan

This I can relate to

I spent more time looking for stuff than I did working on it last time I went into the garage.....

This sister in law has just moved in so all the gym stuff is now in the garage that was already too full of crap to start with.

Tell me about it. Mine might look tidy, but try finding a bloomin' tape measure when you need one...

I keep buying extra ones in the hope that if there are enough of them, you'll always be near one or two.

It doesn't work.

GRRRRR!

Al.

the only reason the tomcat got built was i have a good friend who lent me their carport for 4 months and now its finished it lives in a rented garage with my bike but i should point out the bikes across the back touching the wall the tomcat touches the bike and the door just shuts

as for tools home made pullers for crank pulley using a bit of ally with big nut and bolt in the middle and three m6 studs through the plate works but could do with so refinement also nylon clutch line up tool made up on my dads lathe
finally its not mine but my dad made his own trolley jack!! he even machined the ram himself mind he did copy it from a friends but still impresses me

mike

thats not a vice........



thats a vice.......


here we have the nice, tidy store shed...



complete with saggy worktop above compressor....



....i must have a tidy up

Yes, ok, thats a nice vice.

However!



That's not an air tank



THAT's an air tank!

yeah, ok, its bigger than our tank....

I have a feeling this subject is going in a very worying direction....

yes but notice the use of a stub end for a soldering iron stand? ingenious

Just modified an old set of shelves to provide some oil storage and keep the commpressors tucked away.

Daan - your workshop is bluddy awful, I've seen skips that are more tidy.
Muddy - your blurred pictures are of a collection of explosive chemicals.
Freeagent - it's not an ingenious use of a stub axle - you couldn't find anywhere to put a hot soldering iron, and a convenient bolt hole just happenend to be that.

Ok, forum sticker to the person that isn't trade that actually has a tidy workshop/shed/garage/kitchen/etc


Les.

sorry les bl**dy camera phone tho. Maybe that can come to be be known as 'the chemical corner'

Nothing special from me, just a bench, and a wall mounted tool rack

Bugger

Thats me ruled out

...............AND Jon W (shed was a H&S video of whats wrong, garage tidy at the mo but he's working on it....), and Tonk (tidy at the mo, but has been know to shovel up tools), and Moglite (near broke me F neck on entering workshop), and Jez (biccies are tidy tho), and Jules, and Ali, ("Interesting" would be a description of Ali garage pre Auzzie leaving, a combo of tardis and antigrav stylee stacking) and fridge (near broke neck entering flat) .....

Next !

Nige

Heres one for Al.....



the new Grinderlac - mmmm stainless



even comes pre-pimped



pump action 9" dispenser


Neons to follow..........

mine needs a tidy again, i've had a accident with a tree been doing some work

So, Jez, is the 8.43 to Kings Cross without a snack trolley now???

*cough* erm maybe....

lol , my shed is my workshop..

that looks about as neat as my container is at the moment...

Hi Luke, nice set up.

Those 'scopes, I used to repair them for the MoD in the 70s but I'm slowly going mad trying to remember the make.
Are they Tektronix or what? just can't quite read the label. Please put me out of my misery.

Bob

I reckon Telequipment ... who's for the next guess?

At least my pair of D83's are stored safely away 'just in case' somewhere warm and dry ... on top of the wardrobe!
Perhaps I should eBay 'em? 50MHz, delayed trigger, high quality dust at no extra cost ... very useful for fixing LR ecu's (potentially).

AndyG

Here is my workshop reasonably tidy!!

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Better show some photos of my garage

oops an soom more





yes i know its a bit of a mess
problem is im emptying my dads house an selling it