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Converting an old pig shed into something useable

andy-v Part of things i like cookies :D Posts: 358	Converting an old pig shed into something useable andy-v @creekycrab
	Sept 25, 2016 8:59:54 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	me too, love it


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j4mes Part of things Posts: 168	Converting an old pig shed into something useable j4mes @j4mes
	Sept 25, 2016 17:19:33 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Love this! You're doing a great job. Bookmarked!


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jaykay South East Posts: 857	Converting an old pig shed into something useable jaykay @jaykay
	Sept 25, 2016 21:52:18 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Make sure you use the right fluro fittings around your rotating tools, high frequency if i remember. Other wise the flicker of the lighting can match rotation, and make it look like blades etc arnt moving, cause nasty accidents. As i wrote that it doesnt really make much sense, hard to explain. Try and find some nice low bay lighting.


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colnerov Posted a lot Posts: 2,870	Converting an old pig shed into something useable colnerov @colnerov
	Sept 25, 2016 23:43:14 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Sept 25, 2016 21:52:18 GMT jaykay said: Make sure you use the right fluro fittings around your rotating tools, high frequency if i remember. Other wise the flicker of the lighting can match rotation, and make it look like blades etc arnt moving, cause nasty accidents. As i wrote that it doesnt really make much sense, hard to explain. Try and find some nice low bay lighting. Hi, Yes this did used to be a problem with fluorescent lights and their strobing effect but they altered them to a much higher frequency to combat most to this. However there's still a risk with LED lights of the same kind of risk, the cheaper ones flicker at the rate of the AC voltage (50Hz) but the more expensive one do it at a higher frequency and can still be a risk with high speed machines. Safest option would be ordinary incandescent lamps, which are despite rumours still available, on the work area of the individual machines. Use main lights of your choice for general illumination. Colin


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jaykay South East Posts: 857	Converting an old pig shed into something useable jaykay @jaykay
	Sept 26, 2016 13:26:59 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Sept 25, 2016 23:43:14 GMT colnerov said: Sept 25, 2016 21:52:18 GMT jaykay said: Make sure you use the right fluro fittings around your rotating tools, high frequency if i remember. Other wise the flicker of the lighting can match rotation, and make it look like blades etc arnt moving, cause nasty accidents. As i wrote that it doesnt really make much sense, hard to explain. Try and find some nice low bay lighting. Hi, Yes this did used to be a problem with fluorescent lights and their strobing effect but they altered them to a much higher frequency to combat most to this. However there's still a risk with LED lights of the same kind of risk, the cheaper ones flicker at the rate of the AC voltage (50Hz) but the more expensive one do it at a higher frequency and can still be a risk with high speed machines. Safest option would be ordinary incandescent lamps, which are despite rumours still available, on the work area of the individual machines. Use main lights of your choice for general illumination. Colin I did wonder about led, but stopped being a commercial sparks 7-8 years ago before they were common place, so no research or info on them. Cant beat incandescent full stop imo. Nicer light, just a bit dearer.


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pauloliver Part of things Posts: 185	Converting an old pig shed into something useable pauloliver @pauloliver
	Sept 30, 2016 18:02:47 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Cheers guys! I don't know what frequency my lights are but I will have halogen work lights above several of the machines. I have been getting the short wall sorted, and now have sockets everywhere I still need to get the other 2 sections of strip lights in though. I got a little too excited about putting my big bench in Extractor arm now all functioning Currently how it all stands, loads of stuff to be removed for sale/scrap which will make some room I hope! Wood workshop is a mess but is slowly losing all the metal work stuff, the Commer and the BMC will have to stay for now though.
	'73 Commer Campervan under full restoration, '83 VW T25 Doka under partial restoration to become rolling project, '04 Saab 9-3 Vector Sport modified and certainly not finished...

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westycapri Club Retro Rides Member Posts: 264 Club RR Member Number: 105	Converting an old pig shed into something useable westycapri @westycapri Club Retro Rides Member 105
	Oct 2, 2016 13:23:41 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	This is the dream!
	@fantasticmrford 1984 Ford Capri 2.0s 1978 Ford Transit Autosleeper 1975 Landrover Series 111 Dormobile

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pauloliver Part of things Posts: 185	Converting an old pig shed into something useable pauloliver @pauloliver
	Dec 21, 2016 19:28:20 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	A while since I updated! I've been super busy and the workshop has just been a total tip. I was fortunate enough to be let loose in my friends dads garage which they were clearing, I was told to take whatever I wanted as the rest was being chucked :shock: needless to say I took as much as I could and have distributed it to others in order to prevent it being wasted. I also sold my house and needed somewhere to keep all my home stuff for a while.... and so the workshop ended up being a total dump yard. This has been massively disheartening and it seemed no matter how much tidying and sorting I did, there seemed to still be piles and piles of things that needed organising, chucking or moving. I've spent the past few days really going for it and I've been trying to give everything a home, I've also been trying to figure out where stuff should go to make refurbishing the wood workshop easier. I'm now closer to a point where i'm happy, the floors are nearly cleared and just the work bench areas need sorting out now which I hope will only take an evening. Metal workshop: Wood workshop: Green Ikea boxes are £1 each and fit perfectly in my cupboards and filing cabinets, I got myself a label maker and I have been labelling just about everything: This little book unit was being chucked out at the school I taught at and makes a handy organiser for smaller stuff: Metal rack for useful offcut lengths that was made out of bits of scrap pig gate, it's a little bit covered in spare storage boxes currently but being on wheel makes it easy to shift about if I need to use that workspace: Little pillar drill put onto a small cabinet and on wheels so it can be shared between work spaces until I refurbish my Fobco and also get a floor stander (you can see some of the mess from before when I tidied up): We need a shared space for storage, so an old pig building that was ready for demolition has been saved and will have racking fitted and is just about able to squeeze in the JCB in the centre section so we can shove pallet loads in there. I ripped off the sides and took out some of the internal walls, most of the studs were rotten so I have replaced them all with recycled timbers from a barn my brother has converted into a house. I need to replace the roof sheeting and remove some more internal walls but it should be a good space once completed
	'73 Commer Campervan under full restoration, '83 VW T25 Doka under partial restoration to become rolling project, '04 Saab 9-3 Vector Sport modified and certainly not finished...

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pauloliver Part of things Posts: 185	Converting an old pig shed into something useable pauloliver @pauloliver
	Dec 21, 2016 19:29:04 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I only had one door in the building and figured that it was pretty unsafe in the even of a fire so I bashed a hole in the wall and fitted one that can only be opened from the inside. This nicely tied in with me replacing the wooden section of the wall as it was totally rotten! The only trouble with doing this is I totally underestimated how long it would take! I managed to finish it at about 11PM including making all the window frames, phew! I've also taken down the dividing wall inside, it has moved along one bay making the wood workshop smaller but this was important as otherwise it's a squeeze in the metal workshop as I have two projects vans on the go. I've also whacked in the last bit of internal floor so it's all now level, it's just the outside ramp to do and then the cement mixer can be tucked away! I'm going to add some extra lower noggins so that when I build the new workbenches they can be attached to the wall nice and securely. I'll order the wood for the benches after Christmas, then I can get rid of those wood working benches! I've also been rewiring this side of the building as the old stuff was awful, the lights are now in and half the sockets are in also. Once the campervan is out then the space will look far better!
	'73 Commer Campervan under full restoration, '83 VW T25 Doka under partial restoration to become rolling project, '04 Saab 9-3 Vector Sport modified and certainly not finished...

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pauloliver Part of things Posts: 185	Converting an old pig shed into something useable pauloliver @pauloliver
	Dec 29, 2016 1:03:42 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Another step in the right direction, the Commer has been moved out of the wood workshop and into the metal workshop. This is good for two reasons, one as I now nearly have the wood workshop clear ready to actually get it functioning and two because that means the Commer may get some love soon (There's a T25 Doka that needs finishing first!). It hasn't moved for quite a few years... Temporary home until I reshuffle stuff, It'll go on a rotisserie when I get round to making one! Other than that some more wiring has been done and the new separating wall is in but I forgot to take photos....
	'73 Commer Campervan under full restoration, '83 VW T25 Doka under partial restoration to become rolling project, '04 Saab 9-3 Vector Sport modified and certainly not finished...

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henry's Revenge Part of things Posts: 288	Converting an old pig shed into something useable henry's Revenge @henrysrevenge
	Dec 30, 2016 7:56:33 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Nice work on your workshop it's great to see Was that the commer roof I spied laying on the floor in a previous photo? Or something else?
	Caravans are cool

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gazzab1978 Part of things Posts: 437	Converting an old pig shed into something useable gazzab1978 @gazzab1978
	Dec 30, 2016 10:34:39 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	wow, so jealous of your work space, i would be happy with a triple garage and little workshop as only have a single at the moment which is tight to work on a car in. keep up the good work as cant wait to see it finished


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pauloliver Part of things Posts: 185	Converting an old pig shed into something useable pauloliver @pauloliver
	Jan 12, 2017 7:38:35 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Cheers guys! Yes that is the roof belonging to my Commer, nicely spotted! On the left you can see the store room with storage on top. The store room has always been a bit rubbish both in its construction and the way it has been used. Access is from the wrong side since I moved an internal wall. I pulled it apart and put up a new supporting wall for the beam. The other side received a new supporting beam and the rest removed. The new floor is 7ft instead of just under 6ft so I actually have some head room! The floor was also never finished and basically it was just awful. Inside I will remove the steel racking and use it elsewhere, replacing it with deeper wooden racking. Above will have a wooden rack to the top and for now the rest of the floor space will accommodate my camper vans roof as it's always in the blooming way! I have also been building some benches along the walls. I'm waiting for the top to arrive (the current stuff is temporary so I can place tat on them) but as you can see I have put a shelf in that is split so boxes go in front and behind I can store 3m long extrusions, quite happy with that use of space! The bottom will have drawers when I have spare wood/time. I need to shift 4x wood working benches and then I'll get some space back! The table saw station will probably take up nearly as much room though...
	'73 Commer Campervan under full restoration, '83 VW T25 Doka under partial restoration to become rolling project, '04 Saab 9-3 Vector Sport modified and certainly not finished...

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	Jan 12, 2017 17:29:24 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	That is some serious home workshopery


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