Robocop

Great looking shop!,
Think I need to fly you to Ireland to give me tips on cleaning my shop, its 18' x 12' and looks a lot smaller than your shop, "pics posted a couple of pages back"our certainly well organised, looks like i have a lot of tidying to do.

Gus

RLHERRON

Very nice and clean shop, utilized space very effectively.
What part of SC? Darlington here.

RLH

dbhost

Nice shop. I honestly have no clue why you are fussing about small space... I see 2 table saws, 2 drill presses, 2 band saws, 2 shop vacs, and more drills than I care to count in there, not to mention an aircraft carriers worth of deck space among those benches. You're not short on space, you are long on equipment!

You are very close in size to what I am hoping to get the $$ to move up into in the near future (12x16 mini barn). I would suggest you put together a separator for one of those shop vacs, and fit it with a HEPA filter at least for dust collection...

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pdiesel

I am in bluffton,SC. I grew up in Camden, and was born in Florence. I guess you can relate to the heat if your shop has no AC?

peerawit

many wonderful place...I will have one soon!

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dbhost

I just LOVE these threads because they help me glean ideas to improve my shop... Which brings me to my question...

I FINALLY noticed how you have your miter saw stand stashed overhead with some sort of strap and hook arrangement. Can you give me some details on what you used? Particularly what is that strapping you are using? I would love to get my miter saw stand, and my folding sawhorses out of the way when I am not using them...

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Sleeper

Well, since you brought it up, I was also noticing all the stuff on Kenbos ceiling. Ken must be a really big guy because I could never reach those spring clamps without a ladder.
If you read this Ken, I also like how you’ve got things.

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Kenbo

I agree with you guys in that it's great to get ideas from other people's shops. As far as my height, I'm 6' 2" and I still have a small step stool that I use to reach the spring clamps, my mitre stand etc. I purchased the straps for the mitre stand at Home Depot. They are made by Husky and are large velcro straps with a clip attached on one side. I believe they are rated for something like 200 pounds each when fully closed. I hope that this helps. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. That's what this forum is all about.
Ken

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dbhost

Must be a Canadian thing. None of my Home Depot stores near by have anything like that. At least that I can find...

Ken, I don't suppose you can give me a bit more detail on them, like a product name, or better yet, a SKU #...

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Sleeper

I bought mine on clearance at homedepot 2 or 3 years ago and I've never seen them since.

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dbhost

Not available through Home Depot in the U.S.A., but they are available in Canada.. I no longer live in the Pacific Northwest, so a quick trip to Canada is a bit tough...

I don't suppose I could talk one of the Canadians here into shipping me about 4 of these?

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Kenbo

I'll have to look and see if the local Home Depot still sells them.
................to be continued

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allthunbs

Hi Ken:

HomeDepot lists two sizes but I've also found reference for a third size, 18". Any attempt to find Husky Tools always comes back to Home Depot. At the same time, I've also found reference to Stanley Tools as owner of the brand Husky but I don't know how relevant that is. Look for the racing team "Team Husky" out of Oakville and you'll see reference to Stanley tools there.

I went looking for a non-HD vendor and can't find one, yet Canadian Tire at one time sold Husky tools. I wonder if this is another Ridgid that is a dedicated brand name to Home Depot.

DBhost, could you use a piece of rope? I would tie a clove hitch on the end of a rope, loop the length through a pully attached to the ceiling and pull it up. I'm not vertically challenged, just lazy. You can also do one end at a time whereas with the straps, you've got to lift the whole thing up and hook in way up in the air.

Rope pullys are available at any marine shop, or an afternoon project to make your own.

Hope this helps.

Allthunbs

dbhost

I don't really need another ceiling pulley arrangement. I think I found a solution at the hardware store...

1" Nylon webbing, 1" Stainless Steel Swivel Snap , Stainless Steel 1" Strap Adjusters , and a couple of large lag ended screw eyes .

Not quite pre made or anything, but you get the idea. And everything is on the shelf of my local Ace Hardware...

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allthunbs

Now we're cookin'! Nothing beats imagination.

dbhost

Robocop,

I was going over the shops again, and I really like yours, but I see something that confuses me...



You have what appears to be a Ryobi BTS20 / BTS20r or similar saw. A great little saw for a lot of users, but what I am confused about is that it looks like you put some sort of white tape over the dust collection port. Why? Keeping the sawdust in the shroud like that will burn up that poor saw in short order. Clean the shroud out, take the tape off, and hook that thing up to your dust collector (via a reducer and hose) and that saw will perform better, and last longer...

At the very least use the OE dust collection bag...

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Jason W

Did you win the big door prize at the local HD?

Damn, everything looks new!

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Robocop

Sorry for the late reply, but the white cover on the dust outlet is infact a home made reducer! adapted from a small tablet box and fits my extractor perfectly. on the subject of the Ryobi, when cutting for a short while it has a habit of cutting out and has to cool off before resetting itself.
Gus

dbhost

Ah, gotcha...

On the heating thing. IIRC you are in the UK... Not sure what your electrical over on that side of the pond is... But undervoltage to these motors is notorious for causing heating problems. (Neighbor of mine has one, and had a wiring problem where his outlet was only getting something like 80V...

Are you running the saw on an extension cord? Is it heavy enough gauge wire? Undersized wire will heat the wire, as well as the motor up because it cannot carry enough amps for the motor... My old BTS21 had problems with that...

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gregL

I built my new shop at 24 x 40 ft with 10 foot ceilings and a second story with 110 ft ceilings that is my office, TV room and exercise room. When I built it I decided to insulate with spray polyurethane foam since I used it when we renovated our house and found it to be an exceptional insulation material as well as having great soundproofing.

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