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Bill DeShivs

Bill DeShivs

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As some of you know, I'm doing some shop upgrades. The addition is not quite complete, but it's in operation.
Today I started cleaning the old shop. I found out my Grizzly grinder is green, not gray! The Hardcore is blue! The mini mill is red!
After 4 hours with a shop vac and a brush, I have it cleaned to "really filthy."
Sonn, Ms. Debbie and I will give it a really good cleaning, and with all the additions, I hope to keep it reasonably clean.
 
So you run a shop that looks like all the equipment is upholstered in grey velvet? The kind of place that if you fart, you have to wait for the dust to settle? Did anyone ever try to pet the shop cat, only to find out it was your bench grinder?


... lol
Rick
 
Rick Marchand said:
So you run a shop that looks like all the equipment is upholstered in grey velvet? The kind of place that if you fart, you have to wait for the dust to settle? Did anyone ever try to pet the shop cat, only to find out it was your bench grinder?


... lol
Rick
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Funny! Sounds kinda like my shop. I swept a bit the other day and discovered that one of my workbenches had a bottom shelf
 
I was moving stuff around and found some floor. Can't figure out where that came from.................
 
I used up over a month cleaning my shop. I moved all the open shelf and counter stuff into my side by side garage which is separated by a wall and door. I could only send about three or four hours a day going up and down a ladder and washing off the walls and flourescent tube fixtures. I found that a combination of dish soap and TSP worked best. The walls were all dry walled and painted. I did get a lot more light ! And afterwards, I just put everything back where it was before. Frank
 
I just cleaned up much of my shop too.

it is also just to the point of really filthy. as long as i can see the floor, find my tools and eliminate the fire hazards i guess i'm happy.

using a magnet to clean up, i'm getting quite an interesting collection of steel chip and dust. by the time i have a substantial mass of it, maybe i'll be competent to try something like oroshigane, or whatever a more accurate term might be. i can dream, no?
 
canid said:
well it's no cat; but i think it's a shop sea urchin:
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Canid, NOW THAT'S JUST COOL! :p

Bill,

When you FINALLY get to the table top where you do the majority of your hand sanding, remind the significant other that the surface isn't really polka dotted, those are blood spatters from way back when... :eek: Yeah, I had to do that not long ago, and I've only been back into this for about a year! The NEW wife hasn't been exposed to much of the knife making world as yet... :p

Charlie
 
This is kind of funny. I just went out over the weekend and started to clean my shop. It went from extreme fire hazard to really messy.
 
this jsut prooves that we as makes often dont bother to "clean" the shop sept for 3 times
1 new tool and we have to make room anyhow
2 there is a show your shop thread and we dont wantot look bad
3 its spring time and like the ground hog we poke our heads out the door and when we do we push all the dirt with it
 
Since I work in an active garage... one, I might add, that my wife uses for storing stuff (including her car), I'm not allowed to leave much of a mess behind. It is expected (and I usually comply, for the sake of peace) that I sweep up my filings and dust at least once every couple of weeks. And since I work so slowly, that means I'm sweeping as soon as it becomes visible without magnification.

All this is to say I'm totally jealous of all you who are allowed to keep the space as MEN like it... functionally filthy.
 
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