My shop is dirtier than yours.

Chiro75

Chiro75

Joined
Feb 4, 1999
Messages
5,786
Here's a pic of my shop floor (the clean part). Anyone want to step up to the challenge of beating this? My bench is usually littered with every tool and material I can find, but I actually cleaned IT up!

<center><img src=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/knives/shopfloor.jpg></center>

<center><img src=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/knives/shopwall.jpg></center>

<center><img src=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/homerani.gif></center>


Say hello to Homer!
biggrin.gif


------------------
My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/madpoet/main.html

 
Chiro...

Funny you mention that,, I just came upstairs from over an hour and a half with the vaccume.... Boy do I need a dust collector...
The dust if finding it's way upstairs,,and my wife was on my case today so I thought I'd better get it cleaned up a bit..

When I'm working,,you can't see wood! tools Everywhere..

Speaking of tools Chiro...

Someone have a sale on Orange handle tools in your area ?? LOL

ttyle

Eric...

------------------
Eric E. Noeldechen
On/Scene Tactical
http://www.mnsi.net/~nbtnoel
Custom made, High Quality
Concealex Sheaths and Tool Holsters
Canada's Only Custom Concealex Shop!

 
I don't know what the deal is with the orange handled tools! I would've commented on those but I'm so used to it I didn't even think about it! Those tools come from the grandfather of my fiancee. A lot of them were his wife's first husband's, if that makes sense. They were both Dutch, and I figure that orange is a Dutch national color, so they painted all the handles orange. Either that or they didn't want their tools to get mixed up with other people's, so they painted them orange coincidentally! I dunno.
biggrin.gif


------------------
My Custom Kydex Sheath page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/frames.html
Palmer College of Chiropractic
On Two Wheels
agocs_s@dd.palmer.edu
Madpoet (Mel Sorg, Jr.) Tribute page:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lab/1298/madpoet/main.html

 
*shudder*

Well, there must be some kind of teleport hole in shop floors, coz that photo of the floor looks *exactly* like my workshop in Melbourne...

Part of me doesn't mind the mess - I know where everything is, I know which piles of rubbish are unstable when stood on etc. But I know it's just a matter of time before I've got the welding hood on, take a step backwards and do some real damage.

This weekend, I spent a day welding up shelving and machine stands to try and tidy things up more. A few more nights work and it'll be neat and tidy - ready for me to mess it up again.

Cheers,
Tim
 
I'm ashamed to admit it, but Chiro you're not even close. I'll forego the pix, but I have a volcano of steel dust one foot high in front of my Wilton grinder.

------------------
Jerry Hossom
www.hossom.com
 
i've got you all beat...
my shop's clean! i took me a couple of weekends, but it sure is nice now. i breath without inhaling steel or wood dust. i'm gonna buy a high powered vacuum, say 300-400 fpm to use as a mobile dust collector.
 
Chiro,
That sure is a funny looking contact wheel on the left hand side in the first picture.
Is that the infamous "Waterford grinder"?
smile.gif

C Wilkins

[This message has been edited by C L Wilkins (edited 02-27-2000).]
 
I can't post a pic right now (no digital camera
frown.gif
), but I've got tools 6 and 7 deep on the benchtop, piles of sandpaper high as yer knees, and the pathways to the bench have sealed themselves shut!
I ended up building a mobile cart to grind on.....so I can push it outside, away from the mess!
Pigpen
 
sorry dude, but i agree with jerry, sometimes i dont clean my shop for 6 months, you need to start making knives 10 hours a day every day without time to clean up for a while and stand on a foot of powdered metal waste to get the award for the dirtiest shop.

------------------
http://www.mayoknives.com


 
I wish I had a pic of my "shop" to post. Right ow it consists of a wrokbench with a table surface area similar to a TV tray. Around it is an angle iron frame with a length of sucker rod sticking off the front right corner.

When it is time to work on knives I attach my vise to the sucker rod (via a pipe welded to a plate on the bottom of the vise), bring out the box of files, the box of other tools and stuff and I set up my drill press on the tailgate of my truck. When finished, everything packs up nice and neat and is placed in the "coat" closet of our living room.

Man I can't wait to graduate from college and move to a place with a garage!

Spencer Stewart
Adapt, migrate, or die
 
well...maybe...but i live on the north shore, where every other house has a surfboard something in the garage, when paul bos first visited here he came to visit my surfboard shop and on the way commented that nothing was dirtier than a heat treat shop, after he left he changed his mind...I know guys who used to glass their surfboards in the kitchen!!!!!!!!! try that. everything is relative....there are places in hong kong where people have little shops that i would be afraid to go in the door.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top