Shop Pics

[STR]

Got my A/C installed yesterday with the help of my wife and a couple nail guns. Managed to get it in before it rained too which was nice. Sealed it up today and am real pleased with climate control for the summer now.

Got my new control arm for my KMG this morning also and figured while out there I'd snap a few pics of that and parts of the shop showing my Mini Drill and Mill with the belt drive unit installed on it I bought from http://www.mini-lathe.com/Mini_mill/Reviews/Belt_drv/belt_drv.htm and my work tables, other grinders and drill press, along with my other misc. dremmels and such. I didn't take any of the bead blast cabinet, compressors, and band saw or table saws. Those are in another section for the bigger equipment. Some of these are dark, particularly the one with the A/C installed up high but I am so happy finally getting kicked into gear to get that baby installed that I just had to show it off!

Thanks for looking.

STR

 

[kda89508]

With the TEMP at 92 today and may make it to 96 tomorrow here I am sure you could use it there. That will make you feel like working longer if you get behind. Talk to you later! Kevin

 

[STR]

Yeap its been scorthin' hot here lately and of course the day after I install my air conditioner I don't even need it. Its been a nice cool down in the high 70s today for us here in Bartlesville which is a welcome break from the heat. Although its still very humid. Last summer we had a terrible drought and this year its like living in a rain forest. Go figure.

STR

 

[Bungwrench]

Nice pics. Neat looking shop.

In that last picture it looks like you have a large "bay" window or at least a large window. Is that the case?

 

[STR]

My wife and I are pack rats that never throw out anything. That window used to be in my house, and so was the side door that is a bit hard to see. We paid a good bit of money for that thing when we special ordered it so I was not about to throw it out you know. I recycled it when the time came.

If you click my screen name and go to the homepage link and view the STRprojects album there I have more shop pics showing the whole thing before and after I remodeled. These are not great pics but the best I can muster. I kept both the door and window we had replaced when we had new Sears doors and windows installed. For the longest time they sat out there elevated up off the floor. My shop used to be much larger. In fact the whole thing is almost as big as my house in square footage. It measures between 55 and 60 feet long and 35 feet wide. It used to be all open because the guy that lived here before us did auto body work so he had heat lamps, curtains, paint equipment and other such things when we moved in that were all left there. It was also heated and well insulated with full electric to run some big stuff wired both for 110 and 220 V. The shop is the whole reason we bought this place and to this day is where we spend the majority of our time since retiring.

The picture window shot in these pics posted here looks like you are looking outside because I had opened up the big door for my wife there to kill a massive poison ivy plant growing up on the building. But, the shot actually is just looking out to another part of parking area of the inside of the shop where there is room for two vehicles. Then behind that wall there behind my mill and drill and grinder is my wife's shop which is actually bigger than mine. Funny when we moved in I had the whole thing. Now I'm down to the last 23' x 18' of what is pictured there with the rest being shared by the both of us. What can I say? I married high maintainance! In her defense though she does a lot of craft work, and antique furniture stripping of her junk finds so I gave her the end of the shop with the big exhaust fan with the thought that I'd have to install my own which is in the works.

STR