Thread: BobL's shed fit.

Originally Posted by Burnsy

Looking great Bob, spent today reaquainting myself with this thread during breaks. What did you paint the Dawn Offset with when you refurbished it? It looks very close to original colour, I picked up a 125mm today to replace my old Taiwanese special and it needs a refurb.

Sorry can't remember the brand but the colour was "Indian Red"

Thanks, can you remember if it was off the shelf or you had it tinted? Tin or spray can? Surprisingly little info on the net about refurbishing dawn vices, especially considering what they are worth new.

Originally Posted by Burnsy

Thanks, can you remember if it was off the shelf or you had it tinted? Tin or spray can? Surprisingly little info on the net about refurbishing dawn vices, especially considering what they are worth new.

Spray can. It was Rustguard (white Knight) Epoxy enamel spray can from Bunnings. I haven't seen it in their range for a while. Looks like it might have been replaced with something called Manor red. However I see Dulux have a spray with that colour.

It's been some 20 months since I posted in this thread so I just thought I would post an update as to what has happened "shed wise" in that time.

I finally got around to reinstalling the skylight windows (made from old sliding shower doors laying down on their sides) properly. so there are no gaps between them and with a proper gap for an exhaust fan/ventilator that feeds out between the window. Removing the gaps means a reduction in the number of Bougainvillaea leaves and flowers entering the shed but some still seem to waft their way in one way or another.

Three shower screen doors were used, and two had to be cut to make a gap between them at the right spot for the ventilator.
Cutting the screens I had was surprisingly easy.
Firstly I removed the Al frame and around the door, there are a couple of self tappers and a bit of silicone holding everything together.
Then removed the black rubber seal around the glass panel
The glass is laminated and has to be scored on both sides to cut it, then it snaps just like regular plate glass but it is still held together by the transparent plastic filling that glues the two sides together but this is easily cut with a knife blade.
Then I cut the Al frame and the seal to size and reassembled the reduced sized door.

The ventilator details are here Motor conversion - Where do I start?
Its a squirrel cage fan driven by a 1/4 HP 3P motor and a used VFD.
It exhausts 1050cfm at 50 Hz and 1400 CFM at 60 Hz albeit with more noise
At 40Hz it delivers a useful 900 CFM where it runs very quietly, while at 30Hz it is whisper quiet and still generates around 700 CFM

The ventilator is situated at the highest point in the shed and just above my TS so it exhaust any escaping fine dust from that machine that usually rises up.
I also use it, together with the fan in the welding bay/fume hood to vent escaping exhaust gasses from my forge.
So all up I now have the capability to vent >4000 CFM from the shed which is the equivalent of more than one shed air volume per min.

Electrical wise I added a 15A breaker and dedicated GPO for my motor testing and modification activities, and upgraded all 13 fluoros to LED tubes.
The LED fluoro replacements have been excellent.
The power draw in the original 36 W rated fluoros was around 65W per flour where as the LED replacements are around 17W per tube.

Adding the Auto vent valve to the compressor (1 second vent every 45 minutes) has almost removed the water condensation problem

There have been several minor floods due to gutter blockages - must get some gutter guard.

The floor and bench tops are covered in a mix of crap and good stuff.
SWMBO has encroached on my space with her glass and lapidary work which I need to tackle.

A few things on the TODO List that related to the shed include
Line the small gaps between the old and new sheds
Extend the ducting to the belt/disc sander and router bench
Build a porch for the entrance so I'm not standing in the rain while unlocking the door.
Clean up the midden around the back and sides (including the pile of white anted fire wood - or maybe not)

Otherwise it's a fun place to work.

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

nice

pity you couldn't pick up one of those hands free taps (like in hospitals) great for lathering the hands up, turn on with elbow or forearm and rinse off

Ross51
bit rough asking for a photo 5 years after the post
google is your friend try 'hospital taps'

this sort of thing in hospitals that you turn on with your elbows

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Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

Ross51
bit rough asking for a photo 5 years after the post
google is your friend try 'hospital taps'

this sort of thing in hospitals that you turn on with your elbows

long-handled-faucet-hot-and-cold-taps-medical-medical-public-spaces-dedicated-leader_1256007.jpg

FWIW , about a year after I installed the lab tap I did have access to one of those hospital taps but I have found the lab tap more useful than I thought I would, and definitely more useful than a hospital tap.

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Th

Now that's what I call a decent washing set up, can get eyes under the spout if needed and wash hands also.
Kryn

The air con unit I installed in 2011 when I built my shed shed extension was a 20 year old 2.5kW Carrier unit I got for nothing from my sisters house demo near the northern beaches. It was already very corroded and I thought if I got 2 years out of it I will be happy - anyway I got 5 years so I'm not complaining.

The old air con hasn't been used since last summer and a couple of weeks ago I though I would give the filter a bit of a clean and it was then I notice it was not working. After mumming and ahhhing for about 5 minutes I decided to get a new one and it arrived on Thursday. The new one is a 3.9kW Kelvinator that looks almost identical to the old Carrier except it's 30 mm wider and 40 mm higher so I had to rebuild the wooden support frame in the middle of the Colorbond wall where it sits and remake the support frame that wraps around the rear of the unit and is held in place by an all thread rod higher up on the outside wall. Finally I was able to install it this afternoon in the middle of the first 35+º day this summer.

Interesting to see the new one draws less than 5.5A on Hi whereas the old one drew about 7.5A.
The new one doesn't seem to be any faster at bring the temp down than the older one.

There is one irritating thing about the new one and that is it pokes further out into the room than the old one so that it just blocks the most direct pathway by which I can expand my dust collection ducting so I will have to revise that section - there always so many domino effects with these upgrades and changes.

38.7C here today at 2pm.

I think it's going to be a very hot December and 2017.

Enjoy.

Thanks Bob.

I went to bunnys yesterday to get some bits and pieces and while I was there thought I would take a look at flashing to seal up the gaps around the air con.
They had some 50 x 50 mm cream PVC angle which I though would do the job.
Got it home and cut it up and only then realised I had picked up "external corner" which is less than 90º
Bugger!!!!
Threw that in the bin and pulled out some pine batten and managed to find enough to seal up the inside.
I'll do the outside with Colorbond.

Apart from replacing the air con last year I haven't done much at all to the shed in the last couple of years.

Yesterday I decide the electrics needed a bit of attention.

- I got tired of swapping plugs on a double 15A GPO that I used between several machines and also having the 15A cables crossing walk way so I added another 15A circuit with two 15A doubles on that circuit. No more cables across walk ways.

- I had two 10A GPOS at 1.2m above the floor along a wall where I wanted to store 1.2 x 2.4m sheets so moved those GPOs 200 mm further up the wall.

- Added a 10A GPO to a spot just above the inside of the main door. This is for the remote shut off for the mains gas for my forge.

- Numbered and labelled all the circuits on the breaker board and GPOs.

This is the breaker board for the newer side of the shed
The panel meter above the box show total current through that board.
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Circuit 1 =Lighting
Circuit 2 = 13 x double 10A GPOs
Circuits 3,4 5 and 6 are all 15A circuits. 3 = compressor, 4 alternates between welder/plasma cutter and the DC, 5 is for odds and sods (right now it's a washing machine full of horse blankets), and 6 has the Band saw and the Belt sander hooked up to it.

On the other older side of the shed there's the original breaker box with a separate lighting circuit and 6 double 10A GPOs on a 20A circuit.

I was going to scrap the original breaker box but having two completely separate circuits is good value especially when one wants to work on one circuit the other one can still remain active.

Was having a bit of a clean up and found an old lab sign I retrieved when the first ultra clean laboratory I built in 1986 at uni was being being decommissioned in 2002.
Anyway I thought I'd put it up on my shed door.

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Bob

Very fitting.

Regards
Paul

Its looking rather grubby and messy inside the shed at the mo'. Dust collector was out of action for about 2 weeks while upgrade occurred plus big tidy up to shoehorn a small metal mill into the metal working section. Stuffing more gear under the house helps but sort of sidesteps some issues.