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Well I got my shop ready to use. Still not totally organized , but probably never will be. LOL

Patio that will become location for forging. The big piece of steel in the foreground is for my press built
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Looking in the door looking north. The knife shop part is about 22x22
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The east wall with mill and lathe
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Benches
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Backbench by grinders
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Grinder row KMG, clone, variable speed disk than converts to buffer and sharpener and old buffers
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West wall with oven
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The door you see goes to a small back room where I will install my compressors and dust collector and run pipe out to the stations

Now to go make a mess. I need to find some stools all mine went with the fire clean out.
 
Looking good my friend!!! I'm so glad to see you getting everything rolling along. :thumbup: :cool:

But what's the white stuff on the ground outside there :confused: :D
 
Man, what a cool shop. I could hang out in there forever. And soon it will all be covered in a fine film of shop dust...
 
Hey Jim,

Phew, I was a little worried I'd see some venison hanging from the rafters somewhere! :D

Very nice. Did you do the dry walling? I see you are in good form as a bladesmith and have jumped the gun setting up your shop. I'm with you, the heck with finishing out the mud and tape and painting...but get some face plates on those outlets. :eek: :p

I was a little confused by the double disk'ed shaft / tool bar thingy laying on the floor next to the anvil. In the same photo there's another one on the bench. How does that/they work?

Thanks for snapping some photos and posting. Oh ya, so when's the press build?

All the best, Phil
 
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Phil, my homemade disk grinder has a receiver tube on it much the same as a KMG grinder. The switch and the brass knob are connected to VFD and control direction and speed
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You just loosen the knob on receiver and slide the tool bar in remove the V belt and then slide the tool bar out. Slide the tool bar with buffer shaft all the way in, put on belt, pull out to tighten drive belt and lock down the tool bar. Now its a variable speed buffer.
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The one set of disc is from an old project. I made the discs and tool bar. If you have a step pulley on your KMG drive (even if you have a VFD) then you can slide a setup like this in your KMG receiver and run a belt from an open groove on the step pulley and tighten belt by pulling out on tool arm and locking down. Its a cheap simple way to a disc if you have a KMG, Just need a shaft, a couple pillow blocks, discs, belt and pulley. You could make a buffer shaft too. It is what gave me the idea of making the final setup above.
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I don't use it anymore and am going to use the tool arm and bearings to make another buffer setup for my new one. I got the 9" disk I use now from Grizzly part #21 http://cdn1.grizzly.com/partslists/g1014zx_pl.pdf. I see about 4 Shopsmith 12" disc on ebay right now for $10.
 
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Patrice Lemée;7984649 said:
Here here! Too bad we don't all live closer. :(

For a second there I was hopeful when I saw Vermont. I thought "Hey maybe I can make a day trip to go see Jim". Then I saw WA. :(
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Pattie, you can make a two day trip and visit me. HEHEHEHEHEHE!!!
 
Man that is brilliant Jim, especially the original one double belted to the KMG, although I'm sure the dedicated drive is much handier. Thanks for posting the pics...way cool!!!
 
The double belted buffer looks just too cool for school. My kmg clone is on a 2 hundred pound pedistal on wheels which would be great for a buffer. Did you like the design or does it look better than it is? Great shop!
 
Nathan, it does have windows down the south and west wall, plus I hung 8 fixtures that take 2 4' florescent bulbs. Plus each machine has an adjustable light. I used to go to second hand stores all the time and bought everyone I saw. Most of them I just drill a 1/2" hole in the table and stick it in. On some stuff like the buffer I welded a 1/2" compression fitting in a good place and away I went. I got to be able to see how bad I am messing stuff up

Sabu,
It worked fine as either a buffer or a disk grinder. I am always trying to make something. I just took a piece of sq stock and then drilled and tapped so I could mount a plate to hold 2 pillow block bearings. Then turned a shaft to accept the pulley and milled in the keyway. For the buffs I just threaded the ends of the shaft. For the discs I keywayed the ends. If you can get to the sides of your setup it would work even better as a disc especially if you set your motor up to run in reverse.
 
I can see how you could make a knife in there. You have all the right stuff! The one thing you have plenty of that I wish I had is windows. Man when the power goes off, it is dark in there. I guess I need to look into some emergency lighting.
 
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I can see how you could make a knife in there. You have all the right stuff! The one thing you have plenty of that I wish I had is windows. Man when the power goes off, it is dark in there. I guess I need to look into some emergency lighting.
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I have a 5KW diesel genset right and a gas powered welder that makes 220 also setting outside the door, but, I tried it after my fire and it would not operate the VFD that I have hooked to my mill. I don't know if it would run the one for the grinders.

I will extend a open door to anyone who is in the area. Living space is a bit tight until I sell my place in Washington and build another house. The one on this place is a dump.
 
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