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OND's workshop - creating a workspace in the garage -FINISHED-
BadMouth:
...everyone with pegboard also needs this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:872876 ;D
(X-acto knife holder)
Ond:
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With the carpet - how would you deal with liquid spills on it? And what about spray painting - or is the plan to cover the floor or do that in a different area?
I'm currently building my (mobile) workbench. Yes - I'll post a thread soon to show off my shoddy work, haha.
Looking forward to seeing this progress :cheers:
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If I'm working with liquids I'll generally move off the carpeted area and onto bare concrete. The carpet covers about a third of the double garage. I'm not precious about it though, I expect to get the occasional spills and stains. As to spray painting, if it's a small job I just lay down a ground sheet. For larger jobs like an entire cabinet or where I really want to minimise dust, I use a large old nylon tent. I literally pitch it in the garage and use it as a spray booth. When I do use my spray booth tent, I'll take some pics to show that setup. It's a lot easier than hanging plastic sheets and all that.
For sure, post up your workshop progress. I'm always picking up tips and learning something from other peoples approach to their workspace.
--- Quote from: Mike A on September 04, 2019, 05:50:22 am ---I am glad you have a work space again Ond. I would lose my mind if I lost my work dungeon.
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Thanks Mike, I got some good motivation from the pics I saw of your 'dungeon'. I'd like to see more of other member’s workshops and how they personalise them. :cheers:
--- Quote from: Pixelhugger on September 05, 2019, 02:50:24 pm ---Inspired. Oh, and jealous.
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Pixelhugger! Man, I’m chuffed to see you are still checking in on BYOAC! Honestly, I'm enjoying getting setup (yet again) and getting back into project builds. It’s great that my efforts have inspired you ;D. Would that be along the lines of something for your own workshop? :cheers:
@ Badmouth – Ahh thanks for the info, yeah I suspected there had to be pegboard parts that actually fit. That X-acto knife holder is bloody excellent mate! I'm going to get me one. :cheers:
Here are a few more additions for those following along. Having a monitor in the workshop in this hobby is really handy. Not just for keeping an eye on you guys, but also for bench testing setups or learning stuff from Youtube. I wanted a wall bracket that I could move the monitor around on. Also I didn't want to have to keep reaching up behind the monitor to plug in different video cables when I switch between PC's etc. A wall mounted video socket would make life easier:
Attaching the bracket using a plum line for reference.
Cabling added, wall mounted socket for video feed.
The monitor is up off the bench and out of the way but easy to see when I need it. It can be tilted or moved to different positions.
Here I’m constructing a multi globe light fitting to go above the bench. I've used a scrap piece of architrave for the base of the lamp holder.
I chamfered the edges of the base to 45 degrees and then attached MDF panels to form the rest of the light fitting. I used nails, wood glue, aluminium strip, rivets and screws. The design I made up as I went along.
Undercoating the light fitting:
I'm using 6 identical 900 lumen (warm) LED globes in the fitting. I'll attach the lighting battens and wire these tomorrow when a coat of white ceiling paint on the fitting has dried.
Next up …. Ceiling panels, final wall trims and a second work zone/desk area.
Arroyo:
Wow that’s super clean. If you saw my work space you’d be on the floor rolling.
Pixelhugger:
--- Quote from: Ond on September 06, 2019, 04:41:57 am ---Pixelhugger! Man, I’m chuffed to see you are still checking in on BYOAC! Honestly, I'm enjoying getting setup (yet again) and getting back into project builds. It’s great that my efforts have inspired you ;D. Would that be along the lines of something for your own workshop? :cheers:
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Definitely along the lines, if not squarely in the crosshairs. I'm planning on lining the entire shop wall above the workbench with peg board. My ADD addled brain can't be relied on to use drawers effectively. Or at all.
Vigo:
Bad mouth just reminded me of 3D printing and posted the good ol exacto holder, I am going to repost my stuff on pegboards from an old 3d printing thread 2 years ago for anyone interested. :cheers:
--- Quote from: Vigo on November 13, 2017, 02:51:19 am ---Speaking of pegboard, lots of benefits to 3d printing your pegboard stuff for the shop/garage.
I found the parametric pegboard tool to be very very helpful, especially when dealing with my special sized stuff.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:537516
And for pegboard, if you have those hooks that just slip down, these clips are a MUST. I will not go back to hanging hooks without em.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:559094
I also use epoxy all the time, so I made disposable mini pallet knives for small epoxy jobs, since they only give you one mini popsicle stick with each package of epoxy. They work great and hang on pegboard. I attached the STL.
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