Steve knight
04-06-2007, 12:07 AM
nyone that has seen my shop knows that I am a bit messy
Well to make room for my new cnc router (to bring in outside work and do a little bit with planes) I had to re arrange my shop and in the process clean it up. I tend not to know what to do with my stuff so it gets left around.
So I had to move two of my benches to make room for the cnc and my 14” bandsaw. But it looks like the bigger bandsaw will have to move some too. Since I don’t cut larger items the tools can get pretty close together. But this will be a bit tricky.
Here are pics of a somewhat clean shop. The clutter on the benches never really changes for long.
The cnc table starts with almost ¾” Russian plywood. It is like Baltic birch but tends to have more layers and less open spots. But it costs a bit less.
The rails are 3 layers of the ply to make about 2 ¼” thick and 10’ long and 8” high.
I used a lot of screws (I love good self drilling screws) and construction adhesive (it takes several days to cure it seems) so far I think I have used 4 or 5# of screws.
Check out the small saw I get to use to cut the sheets. It can only handle 10’ long sheets so it is a bit small.
The last pics are of the legs and some of the rails attached. I wanted to get all I could get done today so the glue will cure before I pained and flip it. I used e6000 a silicone adhesive because it sticks to anything and works well on endgrain. I can’t even move these legs they are rock solid and I have not put the last rails or the triangles or the sheets on top and bottom yet. had some problems to work out. like I put the angle iron on the outside of the table and it should ahve been on the inside. this caused the bolt heads to be in the way of the gear. so I have to countersink them and then grind them flush. the pics are in reverse order. not sure how to fix that.
http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/knighttoolworks/
Well to make room for my new cnc router (to bring in outside work and do a little bit with planes) I had to re arrange my shop and in the process clean it up. I tend not to know what to do with my stuff so it gets left around.
So I had to move two of my benches to make room for the cnc and my 14” bandsaw. But it looks like the bigger bandsaw will have to move some too. Since I don’t cut larger items the tools can get pretty close together. But this will be a bit tricky.
Here are pics of a somewhat clean shop. The clutter on the benches never really changes for long.
The cnc table starts with almost ¾” Russian plywood. It is like Baltic birch but tends to have more layers and less open spots. But it costs a bit less.
The rails are 3 layers of the ply to make about 2 ¼” thick and 10’ long and 8” high.
I used a lot of screws (I love good self drilling screws) and construction adhesive (it takes several days to cure it seems) so far I think I have used 4 or 5# of screws.
Check out the small saw I get to use to cut the sheets. It can only handle 10’ long sheets so it is a bit small.
The last pics are of the legs and some of the rails attached. I wanted to get all I could get done today so the glue will cure before I pained and flip it. I used e6000 a silicone adhesive because it sticks to anything and works well on endgrain. I can’t even move these legs they are rock solid and I have not put the last rails or the triangles or the sheets on top and bottom yet. had some problems to work out. like I put the angle iron on the outside of the table and it should ahve been on the inside. this caused the bolt heads to be in the way of the gear. so I have to countersink them and then grind them flush. the pics are in reverse order. not sure how to fix that.
http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/knighttoolworks/