Took the first step towards building my shop

[Crusty]

Just funnin' - those are near bulletproof welders.

[Frank S]

Just funnin' - those are near bulletproof welders.

I started learning how to weld on a Lincoln coffeepot then when I was 14 I bought a 200 short hat with a 4 cyl Wisconsin

[Frank S]

Well I now have 4 lights in my shop completely connected Eventually there will be 4 to 6 zones in the main shop area I probably won't have more than 500 wats per zone.
Right now I have them divided into 2 zones

the switches on the left are for the inside of the container one switch will light it up enough to find stuff while #2 will make it daylight
the 2 switches on the right are the first 2 zones in the main shop I ran 3/4EMT to each zone so I can add as many conductors as needed later

This is what a single 15 watt light does inside the container

[Frank S]

LOL, all of the Barneys I even met turned out to be carbon copies of Barney Fife.
Since I am wanting to start on the East wall as soon as possible. I decided while I was moving furniture around inside the shop that I might as well get something moved that has been in the shop since before it was even a tent. Besides hopefully I will get to sand blast and paint it soon then I can put it back together.
I have a pair of trailer tandems under both ends so I could move it sideways off of the tri axle assembly group and have moved it from 1 side of the shop to the other to get it out of my way So in order to move it out of the shop the dolly's had to be rotated 90° No way to lift it with my backhoe and I didn't want to try and drag the A frame over it so that only leaves cribbing and jacks





It is amasing how much stuff will accumulate around or under something in a few months

[Frank S]

well all of the parts didn't arrive before noon Sunday and a couple didn't show up until Monday morning but the truck was running and gone by noon anyway
Now if only the factory will pull their heads out of their umm, and send me the correct parts so I can get his Landoll sliding axle low boy out of the shop I could get started on the tri axle that has been a hanger queen since before the shop[ was here

[Toolmaker51]

"...brought in on a hook...". I'm guessing that means tractor with sleeper came in with the tow rig?
Spectacular in my book, no question.
Reminds me of a former garage turned concert venue in Kansas City. They gutted interior and walls, the new sides are garage style sectional (overhead) glass doors. Closed, it's warm in winter, fully open rest of the year.

[Crusty]

I been in shops that didn't have lighting that good installed for normal use. It's surprising to me that two 100s are giving off that much light.

[Frank S]

I been in shops that didn't have lighting that good installed for normal use. It's surprising to me that two 100s are giving off that much light.

2 100s put out 24000 lumins I think the work lights on the wrecker may have been on as well

[Frank S]

Elvis has left the container.
In my 53 ft intermodal container I had 3 lathes, a Cincinnati horizontal Mill and an American Vertical mill. plus there is a lot of other stuff in there so the only part I could do any work out of was right at the entrance. I am thinking that soon I may need to have a couple of these lathes put in service or at the very least have them under power incase I may want to sell one of them.
The first step was how to get the LeBlond 26x40 lathe out without having to remove everything in front of it Now that I have the electrical panels in place the fork carriage on the backhoe is too wide to fit inside the container meaning the Cincinnati was going to be difficult to get out and return after the lathe was out.
I used a couple comealongs and lots of pry baring to turn it to an angle allowing just barely enough room to slip the 6000lb lathe past it, a long chain connected to the backhoe to pull it reduced the amount of jacking and baring for this task.









in its new home inside the Allied moving van/ machine shop van

[metric_taper]

in its new home inside the Allied moving van/ machine shop van

I have a very cheap China copy of your lathe. Same size and weight. Replacing the original 12" 3 and 4 jaw chucks with Bison, and Pratt Burnerd brands made all the difference. D1-8 spindle taper. My user name came from this lathe, as the manual say's the internal bore is MT#6, which is absolutely wrong. It took some figuring but it's a 90mm metric taper, which I still need to fix the #4MT adapter slug as it was machined wrong from the factory. The minor diameter is .004inch smaller then it should be, so it rocks in the taper. Feels like it's home, but it's not. These metric tapers are some sort of DIN standard. More irritating, you can't get the specs without buying them, like everything DIN.
I have a #2 Rockford horizontal Miller. 1930s era originally overhead line drive, but it came with a Lima conversion (bolt on kit with Ford model A transmission, and 3 phase motor). Sadly, it never gets used with the Wells-Index vertical right next to it. That and the #9 Brown and Sharp spindle taper has limited tooling. I would get rid of it, but it is stuck as the first machine in a long 8x30 foot machine shop location. And I can't move it past the other machines like you've done. For the age of the machine, it has power feed in all three axis.