Thread: Fitting out my little shed

Originally Posted by BobL

A thermal overload switch fitted to the extension cord roll?
Do you have any pictures of this?

here’s the reel with thermal overload switch and instructions

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most important fact on that says to not use it unless its fully unrolled.

Originally Posted by Lappa

here’s the reel with thermal overload switch and instruction

Excellent! thanks

Originally Posted by michael_m

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The bench in what is hopefully its final resting place.

Hi Michael
so you're a lefty.

Great looking bench BTW

Originally Posted by michael_m

Yes, that's one of the reasons I built a gable roof - so I could put longer pieces up there - I've started already, just with some random scraps so far.
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I'm also planning to put shelving/boards under the gables to act as shelving, but not straight away, as I want to put foilboard up first. ...

Like yours, Michael, Baz had sisalation under the roofing iron. He addded R=3.5 insulation batts between the rafters then screwed 6mm MDF to the underside of those rafters, then painted the MDF off-white to keep the shed light (important - unpainted MDF and pine really absorb light).

It is easiest to put shelving on the roof joists, but if you put them underneath them you actually gain over 100mm vertical height. Initiall, I thought the "new ceiling" seemed too low - its 15mm below the joists - but it is so functional that I am warming to it. I am still uncomfortable with the low profile LED light fittings which are only 150mm above my height, but that is purely a perceptual issue.

Baz is a very neat person, if he were here I's say he was anal, but he has acquired a lot of plastic boxes almost identical in size to milk crates, and they sit neatly in pairs on the shelves between the joists, all carefully and neatly labelled. Really makes the storage easy to use.

Originally Posted by ian

Hi Michael
so you're a lefty.

Great looking bench BTW

Yes definitely a lefty, and since the bench is only for me I set it up to work how I wanted. It made for some fun times in the planning of the tail vise, as every reference I could find needed translating from the wrong, right-handed viewpoint, to the correct left-handed view. I haven't regretted it once. When I do need to use something right-handed (such as a plough plane), it works just fine; tail vises and leg vises are wonderful things.

Pat
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What's wrong with tape and paper towel? Nothing, and is there a product out there that I should know about ?

thats a fine wee shed to start with, quietly make items the wife would like for kitchen, living room, (also gifts for MIL always works well) as you progress and she gets impressed with your talents and capabilities little hints like extending one end of shed etc come into play Id suggest a verandah at one end to place the dusty outside and keep your health even better.

Questions about your trailer... aussie built? and how do you get away with rope tie downs? over in South Aus thats a big nono

Hi Tonyz,
The trailer is an easytrailer, from Carlex in South Australia. The trailer itself, I think, is made in Taiwan - it comes as a flatpack and I bolted it together by myself. It folds up vertically and sits against the back wall of our garage and for us, who only use a trailer occasionally to get garden mulch, pick up wood from the hardware store or for 2wd camping trips, its all we need. As far as I know, Rope tiedowns are legal in Victoria, to the best of my knowledge. The VicRoads website says webbing is preferred, but that rope is permitted.

And yes, the dusty will go outside - under the eaves between the shed and the fence - while it's fairly dry there already, I have a little enclosure planned to protect it properly once it does go outside.

Originally Posted by michael_m

Hi Tonyz,
The trailer is an easytrailer, from Carlex in South Australia. The trailer itself, I think, is made in Taiwan - it comes as a flatpack and I bolted it together by myself. It folds up vertically and sits against the back wall of our garage and for us, who only use a trailer occasionally to get garden mulch, pick up wood from the hardware store or for 2wd camping trips, its all we need. As far as I know, Rope tiedowns are legal in Victoria, to the best of my knowledge. The VicRoads website says webbing is preferred, but that rope is permitted.

And yes, the dusty will go outside - under the eaves between the shed and the fence - while it's fairly dry there already, I have a little enclosure planned to protect it properly once it does go outside.

i also have one of those trailers.

one of the best things i've ever bought, especially if you're short on space but its so handy just having a box trailer when ever you need one. i just knocked up some wooden sides but they need re-doing. i've abused the hell out of mine and its still going strong, only 2 annoying things are: the hitch style, i've had a more traditional one sitting there ready to go just never bothered to put it on, and the number plate doesn't swivel when you tilt the trailer so mine bent up to all hell.

would still recommend them to people who can't store a full size trailer.

Originally Posted by A Duke

Hi,
What ever you do, DO NOT use that power lead with the lead rolled up. Loop it loosely on the floor or hanging up so it can run cool or you will have smoke and fire and all sorts of fun.
Yours in the hobby

I've heard it said and all but I am yet to see the issue. I use the leads tightly rolled up on spools all the time on my jobs and they are never even slightly warm to the touch - ever. What are you running to cause a lead to get that hot? What ever it is, it's too much for the lead then if it's getting hot.

During the lockdown, and in between homeschooling and working from home, I've slowly been sorting out some more storage in the shed. There's now a small shelf put up for stuff I rarely use,

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some floodlights as temporary lighting, just until the shops open up again and I can get some LEDs (although in the small space, these floods are doubling nicely as a heater in the cold weather) - not that I've used them much, as the window lets in so much light I haven't been using any power in the shed as of yet,

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and after almost a decade of saws just sitting wherever I can find a space (and lately, piled together on the floor) I put up a saw till, made from a crappy chest of drawers that was going out to the hard rubbish (and a knottier, splintery-er lot of pine you've not seen in a long while).

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But the main thing I've been working on is under-bench storage for all my small tools. I could feel the last lockdown brewing and two days before it hit I grabbed all the wood I thought I would need to make a cabinet of drawers from the big green shed. Since then, I've been using it as a refresher project on using the various handtools that have been in storage, and practising dovetails again after a 6-year layoff.

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I'm now 6 1/2 drawers in (out of 20 - the cabinet is double sided, as the bench is accessible from all sides)

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and now have storage for marking tools, chisels, snipping and gripping tools, sharpening gear, files and rasps, and drill bits (and should have no trouble filling up most the the remaining drawers either, as they come online).

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It hasn't been lonely in the shed either - if it's not visits from the pets,

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my youngest has started catching the woodworking bug, churning out a number of simple monster toys and having a great time with saw, hammer, fretsaw, drill, rasp and chisel.

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Originally Posted by The Spin Doctor

I've heard it said and all but I am yet to see the issue. I use the leads tightly rolled up on spools all the time on my jobs and they are never even slightly warm to the touch - ever. What are you running to cause a lead to get that hot? What ever it is, it's too much for the lead then if it's getting hot.

Hi,
So seeing is believing?
Well after 50 years as an electrician, before retiring 15 years ago, I can say I have seen it.
Conductors need cooling air circulating around them, the wiring regulations down rate bunched cables and those running through insulation. Also you can get some induction effects from it being coiled.
Some free advice, take it or leave it, without having to experience it for yourselves.
Regard

Hi Michael,

I'm a lefty too. Which references did you look at for your tail vise.
I like its heft and the fact that it opens 18" or so away from the end of the bench, with more than one dog-hole on the moving arm, nifty!!!

Cheers Yvan