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Have just got the keys to our new place today..   Double car space (my partner will have her car parked outside most of the time as she can't be bothered going in and out of a garage every day), so essentially I'll have both sides! This will be workshop space.  Although there is a stainless prepline frame at work I have put my name on. I think it will juuust fit along this wall to the left of the door. I might have to cut it short. It should clear the garage door, too. It looks to be about 500 deep.  That will get a ply top and I'll source a steel bench for metalwork.  |
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Feb 21, 2020 12:27:19 GMT
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I'd kill for something like this!
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samta22
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The workbench thread. samta22
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Feb 21, 2020 12:36:21 GMT
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yup that is very cool... missing a beer fridge however... (sure that will be rectified pretty quickly!)  |
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Feb 21, 2020 12:51:24 GMT
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That' a fantastic space, and a covered car port out front! Mucho jealousy.
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Feb 21, 2020 13:05:36 GMT
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The carport is just a covered area between the garage and the house, although you could easily slot a car down the side, it'd be a bit of a pain to manoeuvre it in there.
The partners i30 will get mostly covered if she's hard up against the door, though.
There will likely end up a beer fridge or kegerator in there, but I need to make sure it's nice and secure first!
One of the coldroom companies we deal with at work reckons he has enough second hand beer taps he's pulled out of fitouts that he can probably find something to suit.
Anyway, will stop filling this thread with no relevant posts. I'll be back with what I manage to cobble together!
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urbanaw
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The workbench thread. urbanaw
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Feb 24, 2020 16:32:40 GMT
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Yet another thread where I found a lot more and a lot better quality than I expected.
This one goes on subbed list.
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Yet another thread where I found a lot more and a lot better quality than I expected. Plenty to go at on here! |
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Feb 27, 2020 22:33:54 GMT
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I also have this beast which you can almost call a workbench, haven't really found a practical use for it yet. I'd like to know how old the vice is but no markings.  |
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Huh. That's a bit of a weird setup. What does the extra large leverage hinge? achieve that a normal threaded rod as per normal vices doesn't?
It looks like the winder bar is still threaded anyway..
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bricol
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Its a post vice for blacksmiths - that long vertical leg with the cast in collar should be sat in a base plate on the floor. So when you are wellying whatever you have in the vice with a a big hammer, the forces get directed straight down into the floor.
Its a lot stronger than your usual engineers vice - the long hinge is so the effective radius of the movement of the top jaw is as big as possible, so it nearly moves straight
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oldisbetter
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If it has a ECU it's complicated :)
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Feb 28, 2020 13:54:47 GMT
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Huh. That's a bit of a weird setup. What does the extra large leverage hinge? achieve that a normal threaded rod as per normal vices doesn't? It looks like the winder bar is still threaded anyway.. I have a post vice like that i am just making a wood/metal frame and stand for they are very tough and i over restored mine so it is living out side to age up for a bit. |
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oldisbetter
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If it has a ECU it's complicated :)
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Feb 28, 2020 13:57:19 GMT
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this is the other side of the garage with my more technical bench and tool storage.  |
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That's a lot of storage! I'll be impressed if I grow old enough to accumulate enough stuff to need that many storage boxes!  Also, thanks for the info on the post vice. Cool piece of kit! |
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Last Edit: Feb 29, 2020 7:22:54 GMT by varelse
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oldisbetter
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If it has a ECU it's complicated :)
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Feb 29, 2020 14:35:34 GMT
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It took a few years to get that much stuff and be organised but i have other areas of less organised curse word lol
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Mar 26, 2020 15:47:01 GMT
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I recently extended my garage, i am a bit of a tidy freak so the stack of paint on the floor ready for the lockdown is winding me up. Bench is a door blank on a timber frame.    |
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Last Edit: Mar 26, 2020 15:49:09 GMT by sierra1off
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What's the trike from the ceiling? Soapbox racer?
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Is it ok if I ask for ad-vice here?
My bench setup is almost complete (will have pics of it all in position this weekend hopefully).
Next step is to obtain a decent secondhand vice.
I'm seeing old Dawns and Records on gumtree.
A couple of Irwin's (are these Records?)
Any better than the others? I will strip it and grease it etc.
They all seem to be the same varied price of $70-150
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oldisbetter
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If it has a ECU it's complicated :)
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All my vises are cast steel and non are very new, The record and irwin brands are linked somehow but i think as long as you find an old vise in decent shape it will give years of decent use. The vise i use most is an old record no74 auto vise. they look like this
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What's the trike from the ceiling? Soapbox racer? Yep. soapbox  |
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