Share your steam bench/corner?

[txlabman]

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I can only repeat what rails4ever said: HOLY MACKEREL! (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)

Paula

(PS, hope you've disabled that garage door opener!)

Funny. I had a friend over last night and he asked me the same question. The Answer is yes. The Garage Door Opener is not electrified. In addition, I have C-clamps on the rails, plus the mechanical locks on each side of the Rails.  🤠

I also have two security cameras in my alley. Unfortunately, we can’t have basements in Texas.

[RedRyder]

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Holy MACKEREL! 

Amazing...!!

[Paula]

...here is my Atlas 618 from several years ago, as I was completing installation of a cheapy, sorta Z-Axis DRO:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/h449/Real49er/Around%20Home/.highres/IMG_7723_zps3jn4g8ef.jpg

Superb Atlas there, Stoker! Atlas was my first love...

Here is a brand new (now 8 yrs old), just unloaded and assembled little milling machine, pre-DRO. It actually ended up about two feet to the left and rotated CCW 45 degrees:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/h449/Real49er/Around%20Home/.highres/IMG_3456_zps9bsemxne.jpg

Sweeeet mill! [ Guests cannot view attachments ] Looks quite capable.

Paula

[St Paul Steam]

Certainly some nice bench's/shops in this forum. Great thread Travis 😊

[Stoker]

...here is my Atlas 618 from several years ago, as I was completing installation of a cheapy, sorta Z-Axis DRO:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/h449/Real49er/Around%20Home/.highres/IMG_7723_zps3jn4g8ef.jpg

Superb Atlas there, Stoker! Atlas was my first love...

Here is a brand new (now 8 yrs old), just unloaded and assembled little milling machine, pre-DRO. It actually ended up about two feet to the left and rotated CCW 45 degrees:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/h449/Real49er/Around%20Home/.highres/IMG_3456_zps9bsemxne.jpg

Sweeeet mill! [ Guests cannot view attachments ] Looks quite capable.

Paula

Thanks!!!   :c)

[RichSteamTx]

All I have are some screw drivers and wrenches ... I do have a nice grinder but I have to hold it down on the garage floor with one hand and grind with the other hand.  One day its going to get away from me ... every time I use it I tell myself I need to mount it on my garage workbench or at least be able to screw it down when I need it (which isn't often).

I seriously need more space but getting a bigger place has past me by - either I'll become homeless or die in this place LOL.  My '72 Chevy C10 LWB and '69 AH Sprint call most of the garage space home, so no place to put cool stuff in there.

Then my "worktable" I showed before, is surrounded to the brim with other crap I collect ... Pinball, Video game (my last of many I've had) Audio/Video equipment, Dell servers with a robotic IBM DAT tape storage, and general other crap!  My place is like a sliding-block puzzle!

[RedRyder]

Panoramic* View of My Work Area

*In 6 pictures

My work area is basically a hobby/machine shop. For making formal videos, I simply lay a bath towel over my (disgusting) bench top, and place a 2'x5' piece of tempered hardboard as a neutral backdrop.

First picture shows my main work area, consisting of workbench made from random pieces of 2x4's and plywood top. From left to right: Wilton bench vise, Grizzly tool chest, jars of various solvents (some resembling urine specimens), parts storage drawers, miscellaneous this-and-that on shelf above, oxy-acetylene outfit and petrified Sackrete bags below. On the right is a 2-ton arbor press:

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Second picture, left to right: South Bend drill press, Gerstner tool chest, S & D drills, manetizer/demagnetizer, surface plate, misc. round stock, and world's crappiest bench grinder:

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Third picture, 1947 South Bend 9A bench lathe, Grizzly G0619 bench mill:

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Fourth picture, Baldor grinder pedestal (for Baldor grinder, being upgraded), another shot of Grizzly mill, Grizzly 14" bandsaw:

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Fifth picture, brooms, Tormek sharpening station, Delta wood lathe parts, Skat-Blast abrasive media blast cabinet:

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Sixth picture, Enco cut-off bandsaw, Jet combination 4x6 belt & 12" disk sander, 1948 Whizzer engine (restored), Paragon heat-treat furnace (below), which brings us back to the workbench:

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(No, I don't have a pump well in the middle of my shop! It's being restored to go in the yard.)

Not shown: South Bend shaper, Miller 211 wire welder, Quincy 5hp air compressor

Paula

Love your shop, Paula!
Especially the magnificent South Bend lathe you restored.

Gil

[Paula]

[ Guests cannot view attachments ] , Gil!

Paula

[Stoker]

I should point out that though I am now overcrowded in a storage/shop situation that is only semi-workable, and rather seasonal at that, it wasn't always this way.

I once had this shop available to me:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/h449/Real49er/Work/.highres/IMG_3416_zps6ovrhzg3.jpg

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/h449/Real49er/Work/.highres/IMG_0126_zpslbkooswp.jpg

https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/h449/Real49er/Work/.highres/IMG_3214_zpsfaomiasu.jpg

.... and add to this a cut-off bandsaw, power shears with 4' throat, 8' bending brake, arc & gas welding rigs along with a few other odds and ends that could be very useful.

Of course I mostly worked in that shop, "on the clock", so had to come in after hours to make personal use of it, which didn't happen as much as I might have wished. But I did use it some. The problem being, if I was there and something needed fixing (pretty much a constant), or the boss had some new hair-brained (often brilliant too) scheme he wanted built or modified, then I'd get the call whether on the clock or not!

Did build some amazing things there, but the last thing I did on that job, was take delivery of my Grizzly G0704 mill on the loading dock.    ;c)

[Inge]

The machine shop corner and the project bench. [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[St Paul Steam]

Dang , that's one of the most complex tig Miller welder ? I've ever seen.  Nice shop .

[MasonvilleEngines]

The machine shop corner and the project bench. (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)

Such a pleasant visage

[AirSpyder]

I'm always a little bit envious when I see other peoples shops and tools, especially when they can also display some of their wonderful collections in the same space.
My shop is a 10' X 20' shed out back, a bit cramped and usually needs a good clean before I can work on anything.
I thought it would be nice to show my small but efficient space so I spent the morning sweeping out the corners.

Three of my small lathes, a Unimat which I refurbished with new spindle bearings and added a quick change tool post to.
The Guilder model maker lathe, also a refurbish which I've posted in another thread, and a Swiss made, Star watchmakers/Jewelers lathe complete with case and accessories.

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A South Bend 9" workbench lathe,

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A Powermatic Millrite, also shown in a thread last year when I moved it into my shop.

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and here's the view looking from the door towards the back of the shop.

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and a shot looking back towards the door.

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The little guy looking back at you is Eldon, he's about a year old.

Cheers,
Bill

[Paula]

Wow, Bill, your shop is great! [ Guests cannot view attachments ] My envy is the same shade of green as that Powermatic mill!

Your lathe is almost the same model as mine, though I see you have the much sought-after v-belt secondary drive. I also see you have a 5C collet chuck for your lathe. I only recently fitted one to my lathe (a Bison) and I don't know how I got along without it.

A Tormach CNC mill? Now I really hate you.   I have a Byrnes table saw like yours, which I don't use very often, but I'm sure you know what an amazing machine it is. The last time I used it was to rip some .045 x .155" Mahogany strips for cylinder lagging.

I see you also have a number of vintage hand drills. One of the first tools I every bought for myself was a Millers Falls hand drill, a model 1425. I think this was sometime in the mid-sixties. I don't know whatever happened to that drill, but I recently found the exact model on eBay, new in it's original box! It even had the little set of straight-flute drills in the handle. 

Thanks for the pictures. I really dig your shop!

Paula

PS, Eldon is cute as a button!

[St Paul Steam]

I'm finding I have a love/hate relationship to this thread, I love seeing what tools & machinery that other members have....& I hate that I don't have some of these fine tools...lol, Bill, you've packed so many fine tools into that shop that there's no way its 10'X20' , I also spotted a metal roller/brake & are those dies on your hydraulic press for boiler end cap making?
FYI...something I just found out is Jim Byrnes has passed away last year & they are not selling any machines at this time, only parts, so sad, I hope they continue on. I have one of their thickness sanders & it's really a nice tool.