James Combs
01-18-2011, 8:06 PM
178753
I finished up insulating my shop yesterday afternoon.
In the process of climbing around up there I ran across two bundles of asphalt roofing shingles left over from roofing the shop back in the spring of '09. I got it down out of the way when installing the insulation. When the insulating was done I started cleaning up all the insulation cutoffs and generally cleaning up the shop and of course I keep tripping over these two bundles of shingles. That stuff is heavy, I am not about to put it back up there, what to do with it? Then I have an idea, I have been putting off building a ballast box for the Jet 1642 but had not got around to it. A couple of trimmed 2x6's and some old piano panels later I have a nice ballast box. In goes the asphalt shingles.
178756 178757
I also had a 50lb bag of general purpose gravel left over from leveling foundation pylons for my mower storage shed so I dumped them into the box as well and spread it all around the shingles.
178758
Everything was a perfect fit.
178754
I closed up the box with a half dozen screws and it's good to go. I am guessing but with the box + shingles + gravel there is at least 125-135lbs of ballast. One of these days I will throw some Jet white paint on it to blend it with the lathe.
178755
Since I was working on the lathe I had been wanting to put some 2x4's under the legs to spread the weight of the foot pads over my 2x10 joist flooring. The floor is 1.5 inches thick but I didn't like the small foot print of the foot pads. The 2x4 has two 1/4" deep pockets that the pads rest in to keep if from vibrating off of the 2x4. Of course hopefully there want be much vibration with the new ballast.
Comments welcome
I finished up insulating my shop yesterday afternoon.
In the process of climbing around up there I ran across two bundles of asphalt roofing shingles left over from roofing the shop back in the spring of '09. I got it down out of the way when installing the insulation. When the insulating was done I started cleaning up all the insulation cutoffs and generally cleaning up the shop and of course I keep tripping over these two bundles of shingles. That stuff is heavy, I am not about to put it back up there, what to do with it? Then I have an idea, I have been putting off building a ballast box for the Jet 1642 but had not got around to it. A couple of trimmed 2x6's and some old piano panels later I have a nice ballast box. In goes the asphalt shingles.
178756 178757
I also had a 50lb bag of general purpose gravel left over from leveling foundation pylons for my mower storage shed so I dumped them into the box as well and spread it all around the shingles.
178758
Everything was a perfect fit.
178754
I closed up the box with a half dozen screws and it's good to go. I am guessing but with the box + shingles + gravel there is at least 125-135lbs of ballast. One of these days I will throw some Jet white paint on it to blend it with the lathe.
178755
Since I was working on the lathe I had been wanting to put some 2x4's under the legs to spread the weight of the foot pads over my 2x10 joist flooring. The floor is 1.5 inches thick but I didn't like the small foot print of the foot pads. The 2x4 has two 1/4" deep pockets that the pads rest in to keep if from vibrating off of the 2x4. Of course hopefully there want be much vibration with the new ballast.
Comments welcome