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Offline Bill of the 45th

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Getting ready for Winter
« on: November 13, 2011, 12:45:07 AM »
Well, I'm trying to get my indoor shop ready for winter building.  Moved the shotgun and Dillon reloading stuff out, and moved in my pedestal vise.







Supposed to be colder than normal winter.  Will still do my wet work, A/F, and browning applications in the shed.  Now I can get in trouble twice as fast. ;D

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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2011, 01:19:30 AM »
Boy, you are looking for trouble.  That looks like carpet on the floor.  Has you wife seen this room lately?  Har!
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2011, 02:01:04 AM »
My shop hasn't been that clean since the day I finished building it  ;D
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2011, 02:39:19 AM »
Nice looking shop!!
I plan on starting on a new work bench tomorrow.  I moved this March.  At the old house I had a 30 x 30 garage with a 12 x 15 shop attached to the side.  I really gave up a lot when we left.  On the up side of that, we found a house inside the state forest that is only 5 miles from town. 
   Fot now I am going to build a simple 8 foot long 2 foot deep bench.  In the spring, I may put a small building on the edge of the property.
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2011, 07:01:37 PM »
 Nice workspace. It's great to have a shop with year round climate control. Add a cup of coffee and life is good.
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2011, 10:05:04 PM »
WHOA - something dreadfully wrong here - that shop needs a LOT more stuff in it. I can see the floor- and way too much of it.
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2011, 04:48:18 PM »
 :DMade me laugh, Daryl.  I tried to take a pic of my shop once but it looked too much like an episode of 'Hoarders'.   I need to gravitate more towards Bills end of the spectrum, I can see the advantages.
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Offline David Rase

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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2011, 06:07:29 PM »
I just completed installing a ceiling fan in my shop for winter.  I have 10 foot tall ceilings with shelving going completely around the perimeter 18" down from the ceiling.  Last winter, everytime I went up on the step ladder to get something I noticed that it was a good bit warmer up there.  Hopefully the fan will push some of that heat back down to my level.

Bill,  The pictures of your clean shop remind me that I have about 2 weeks to get mine ready for an open house for our local guild members on December 4th.
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2011, 07:29:45 PM »
Bill could you kindly give close up photos of your vice set up . I as obvious flatery would love to reproduce it

THANKS
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Offline Jeff Stewart

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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2011, 06:05:20 AM »
That can't be a shop; way too neat.  Must be photo set up for Better Homes and Gunsmiths.  ;D

Neat mobile vise.
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2011, 03:20:26 PM »
Hey Bill have you anchored that workbench?  I have one just like it am debating anchoring it to floor or wall.
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Offline Bill of the 45th

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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2011, 09:23:29 PM »
Guy's it's not quite as neat as you can't can't see behind the camera ;D

Doc, You can't see to well in the pic, but first I raised the legs on doubled up 2x4's, and lengthen them, and there is a piece of 1/2" plywood screwed to the back to make it more rigid, and then I screwed it to the wall studs.  It really firmed it up for me.

Roamer, Here's the pic's  I rescued this from the scrap heap, as it was found when some one dumped it in the woods, and we were doing forest cleanup.  I think it was originally a grinder stand.  If I were to build one, I would use a light truck rim, leave a tire on it, then fill the tire, and rim with concrete to make the base heavier.




I set the stan on some MDF, and then screwed thru the carpet to the subfloor. Don't worry guys, I'm a widower now, though I still hear her talking to me, ;D :o ::) that's why I vacuum regular, and I'm replacing the carpet in the Spring.
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2011, 06:56:16 AM »
Just in case, you don't think Winter's going to be tough.  A pic from my feeder



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Offline Majorjoel

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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2011, 11:46:55 AM »
Gosh Bill, who put the feathers on that tennis ball? ;D
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Re: Getting ready for Winter
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2011, 09:12:05 PM »


You could find somthing if you droped it on that floor. In my shop if I drop somthing I'm making sometimes I just start over.
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