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Chipping away

A project log for Shop Reorganization

Putting my house in order

david-tuckerDavid Tucker 01/29/2023 at 00:480 Comments

So I'm still slowly chipping away at this project.  I have been forcing myself to go through my remaining boxes of junk to sort it out.  So far I have about a box worth of stuff to get rid of and about 1/3 of the total pile sorted by type.  

The goal is to sort this into things I want easy access to or things I can pack away on my high shelf, as well as sorting them into things that belong together in boxes. My short term goal is to get this all packed up so the car can come back into the garage.

Last time I was planning on adding new shelves to my tables.  However I decided to only add a lower shelf to the CNC table.  I just don't have enough plywood on hand to finish two extra shelves and I don't see the point in investing in this just yet.  Maybe as things progress I will have enough scraps to make shelves.  It is nice having the lower shelf on the CNC table, it makes things simpler to organize and keeps my ability to roll things around.

I have been playing with different layouts of tools that I have left to deal with.  I think I like this arrangement.  There is a space here about 55" wide, 25" deep and 38" high for one or two rolling carts.  

I think it makes the most sense to make the miter saw live on its own cart so you can properly deal with really long pieces of material. The miter saw base is 17" wide and 12" deep.  

That is a bit small for miter saws, but I think given the tiny space I have I need to make this cart 24" wide and maybe 24" deep.  I was a bit worried about this being 38" tall, but the drill press is a bit narrower than this and it seems quite stable in spite of having most of its weight a good 60" off the floor.

That leaves about 30" for a separate 'tool' cart to hold the bandsaw, vice, grinder and possibly some sort of belt sander in the future.  This does not need to be as specialized as the miter saw cart, just a simple box with some drawers in it.

I have been spending some time in Fusion trying to model things up. I'm not super happy with the results yet, but I'm slowly making progress.  Hopefully tomorrow I can finish up the shop cleanup and get the car back in place.  Then it is just forcing myself to spend more time in Fusion to try and finalize the designs.  Then I need to collect up the various bits and pieces, and get around to the whole building part of this project.

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