Hi all
Thought I'd post a few pics of my workshop build. It's been a much slower process than I'd have liked due to other commitments, but I'm finally building some steam and hope to start moving in around mid March. Wifey will be very glad to have her garage spot back =)
The old shed ... good for garden tools but not much more
Site cleared
Layout plan and elevations for new shed
New shed up and slab poured ... solidly compacted sand base with 100mm N20 slab, SL72 mesh, on plastic
Interior view of rear wall. Note the floor socket (100 SHS 4.0 x 1000 deep) which can be used for tool stands and the like.
Interior view of right hand wall.
Interior view of front wall.
Floor painted with Bondall Factory Floor Paint; Ametalin Thermalbreak 8 insulation fitted; fluoro troffers hung
The Thermalbreak 8 insulation makes a huge difference to the temperature inside the shed on hot days, as you can see in this thermal image taken while I was installing it. It's relatively expensive but I'd highly recommend it. All the joints were taped and each sheet is installed continuous up one wall, across the ceiling and down the other wall so there are very few gaps in the sheeting.
My plans from here are to install vertical Tophat 64 battens to all the walls with slightly compressed 75mm Earthwool R2.0HD thermal and acoustic batts between them, then line them all with 15mm F8 non-structural ply. Should let me hang anything I want anywhere I want and provide good acoustic and thermal insulation. No plan on any further finish for the ceiling at present.
I'll then have it wired up with lots of 10A and 15A powerpoints including a couple suspended from the internal trusses, and am planning on running piped compressed air around the perimeter too. Consider this a 'tinkerer's shed' rather than a specific woodworking or machining workshop - I have a lot of other hobbies (offroading; multirotors; hunting; gadgets) that this shed is supporting.
I haven't entirely decided on my final layout, but I'm intending something like the following:
http://i.imgur.com/4LaGIsE.jpg
The Sierra has been a project of mine for many years and while rarely driven now will be hanging around indefinitely, so it needs it's space. It'll be pulled out of the shed onto the lawn when I need room to work in the shed itself. Having it there also forces me to keep a space clear should I need to work on one of my other vehicles.
The tool post socket isn't really in a great position with that layout. It worked for the layout I had planned previously, but deciding to fit a planer thicknesser in changed my plans regarding the lathe position. What's done is done though; at worst it's just less useful than I'd hoped.
I'm planning on building all work surfaces to 940H, particularly the workbench and wheeled fabrication table, so I have some options for infeed/outfeed and working with longer pieces. The workbench will be steel framed with 150x50 jarrah infill on flat, then a sheet of ply glued over that and an oiled masonite work surface screwed down to the plywood. Should provide a solid surface that can take load and a bit of a pounding, plus allow easy replacement of the work surface.
The fabrication table will be all metal construction on HD levelling castors with a 1m x 1m x 20mm mild steel plate surface. It'll primarily be a welding table but I'm planning on having swing-up tool ledges on two ends that can fit my cold cut saw, SCMC and table saw flush with the work surface. I may also build a larger timber torsion table that can be hoisted up to the trusses when not required and dropped onto the fabrication table when needed.
The major equipment I'm fitting in there is:
- Ingersoll Rand SCD 25E10L compressor
- Paramount Browns MMD45 mill (RF45 clone)
- Linishall 200mm grinder w/ linisher
- Hafco 30T pneumatic/hydraulic press
- Hafco 76L parts washer
- Weldsmart 200A MMAW/TIG and 40A plasma cutter
- Dewalt 872 14" cold cut saw
- Dewalt 745 table saw
- GMC 14" SCMS (a bit junky, but still goes)
I'm also eyeing off (and have SWMBO's approval for :D):
- Carbatec 10" planer thicknesser w/ spiral head
- Jet DC-1200 dust collector (to be wheeled outside workshop when in use)
- scroll saw (Carbatec or General; not decided)
I've carved out floorspace for a 300x900 lathe but that will have to wait for a while. Either until wifey forgets the pain of the present expenditure, or my brother-in-law buys one for gunsmithing and stores it in my shed :D
Anyways, that's a much longer post than I intended. Any suggestions re layout or my planned equipment purchases would be appreciated.
Cheers
Tim (Moph)