Thread: Woodwork al fresco

Welcome to the outdoors, Derek! Your verandah's looking a bit like mine.

With our fresh windy weather, you'll find the biggest PITA is that the floaty shavings from your planes tend to float much further. Cleaning your pool will be fun!

All the best

Col

Keep your tools away from the pool, Derek ... the chlorine (or whatever) will help them to rust before your eyes.

Of course I know you're not teaching them to swim, but the chemicals in the air will hurt your tools badly.

Nothing like a well ventilated work area.

G'day Derek,

Sounds and looks like "fun".

Just curious, the mobile base for the DP - is this a fixture or just temporary?

If fixed, how is the stability?

The reason I ask is that I have resisted bolting mine down as it is not quite high enough. My initial thoughts were halve a truck rim [to get the correct height for me], weld a plate across the rim and bolt the DP to the plate. Should give greater weight and DP can still be rolled on the rim if needed to be moved.

Hi Derek - as you say, it's summer and dry, so providing the builders are on-time and get the job done, you shouldn't feel too much pain.

I had to live like that for about 18 months in Brissy, and it was NOT good for anything containing ferrous metal! The other setback was discovering the roof of the lean-to garage was very poorly conceived and even more poorly executed, so that in a decent downpour, the water overflowed from the gutter into the soffit, and then gues where? Right on my bench!

Here's hoping you and the shed won't be parted for too long.....

Cheers,

Great airy workshop, I'm jealous, might move the lathe to the verandah, not sure what SHMBO would say though

Derek
What's the thingy attached for storage on the side of the of the bench?

SM

The "thingy" is an XY vise for the drill press.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Derek,dust extractor set up to keep any by product out of the pool?

Cheers John

Hi John

What would I use the dust extractor on? The bandsaw? I can use a simple shop vac for that. It is there for the occasional anticipated resaw. All else is cut with handsaws and cleaned up with handplanes.

The drill press is mostly used for deburring and polishing wheels.

The lathe will mess! I have just a couple of small items to turn, then it goes into the container (on the front lawn) with everything else (which includes the tablesaw, etc).

The grinders are used for sharpening blades. I really do not need all I have at this time, but both the Tormek and the 10" bench grinder are new, so I must play with them! The belt sander is 95% used for metal, not wood. I am going to avoid using these too much as the noise will frighten the neighbours (although, saying this, the builders will be louder than I. Still, on the weekends I must give them a little peace).

I have packed all sanding equipment away. It is rarely used anyway.

My biggest headache will be the shavings from planing. I am working on this ...

Regards from Perth

Derek

Originally Posted by derekcohen

My biggest headache will be the shavings from planing. I am working on this ...
Derek

Just move the frog bak, crank that cutter out and take some man-sized chips off. Clean up with a shovel.

All this nonsense about whispy thin shavings.........


Regards,
(just a little facetiously),

Crikey Derek, you have been busy!

You should have taken advantage of Pops and I visiting you on Sunday to give you a hand with the big move. Anyway, I love working outside, even the way you can open up your garage double doors gives one an impression of being outside.

RE: XY vise for the drill press.
I leave mine more or less permanently on the DP.


I general use it for metal but made a set of leather jaws for it to hold small bits of timber. The leather jaws are made of galvanized plate to which strips of leather have been glued - they clip onto the jaws of the X-Y vise. However if I need a cleaner surface such as when drilling a piece clean timber I lower the DP table and grip a timber table in the vise.



An advantage of this is that the X-Y positioning can still be used with the table.

XY vice looks handy, thanks for the lowdown BobL and Derek
I'll have to add to the wish list (but I've a feeling SWMBO is deleting bits!)

re shavings from the plane etc, I've used them to light the barbi, instead of newspaper. OK I was showing off to the mates (who all probably thought I was a bit of a w**ker.)