Shop Talk

[fjh]

6 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

I for one reckon this is good, can't even get young or old people to be an apprentice in Australia 

All to precious or something, dunno when I was starting out 1 apprenticeship had 200 applications 

Good on you all for running these programs, I  dont have the answers on how get young people to understand that been a tradesman is a noble and proud profession 

If you work hard and have manners you can make good money 

To me there is no shame in doing a honest days work for a honest days pay

Keep up the good work

Paul

Paul I agree whole heartedly with your statements! There is the issue however of Morales Some guys are in it for the money only !weather they do a good job is secondary! Working hard is only as good as the intent of the person doing the job! A person that is seeking credibility as a good wrench regardless of the pay  Or a person seeking just a pay cheque! Pleasing the customer was High on my list but that's me! If your in it for the money only WELL......... you get my drift! Unfortunately you can lead a horse to water but you can't make em drink! 

[Joey Mack]

Hi Guy's..  

For a few years now I wanted to buy a big gunsafe, but I do not have $2000.00 + to get one..  Well in the scrap dumpster and my new City Job, was this Jewel..   I am no craftsman, but this will work...   

[mowerman]

Like wow man what a catch… Bob

[Joey Mack]

So far I have about $25.00 invested, and I removed about 30 pounds of White Brass, 10 pounds of copper, and the rest is mixed metals,..  when I scrap the metal I will profit..   

[tjc transport]

that looks like a very large stainless steel power panel.

[Joey Mack]

Yes sir, I beleive it was a transfer switch unit for our diesel generators..   It burned a couple of the 480 contacts and melted them down..  they just throw this stuff in the scrap dumpster..   I also scored a smaller stainless cabinet, that i removed from a lift station..   not only do I get usable cabinets, but the last one I got had about 30' of copper wire that is 3/8" diameter..  I am going to use it for my new battery cables and starter cables on my '48 Int. I also got 50+ feet of 12 gauge wire, that has a hard insulation..  I will use it to run my lights and such..  

[Joey Mack]

it is 40 inches wide and 76" tall, and inside is 18" deep...     I made a rack that will hold 12 of my long guns, and the bottom should hold all of my hand gun's..  

[70mackMB]

4 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

I made a rack that will hold 12 of my long guns, and the bottom should hold all of my hand gun's..  

[70mackMB]

[tjc transport]

39 minutes ago, 70mackMB said:

me too. 














i lost all mine in a tragic boating accident 2 miles offshore in the Atlantic when a rogue wave struck and washed them all overboard while i was cleaning them.

[other dog]

46 minutes ago, 70mackMB said:

I'm really good at that, I do it every day. 

[67RModel]

I built my shop back in 2016 and have never had heat in it until now. When I poured the floor back then I insulted underneath and the perimeter and put the pex tubing in for in floor heat but never got around to making it work until now. I always found other uses for that money and just said "ill just use a torpedo heater this winter". I finally got the boiler hooked up and running and now my shop is a nice comfortable 65 degrees. This was my first rodeo with  radiant floor heat and its a game changer. Night and day comfort difference when compared to forced air heating.

[tjc transport]

I was going to do in floor heat in mine, but the Mason poured the floor two weeks early without telling me he was coming.

He also forgot to put the gas pipe in for the furnace.

[Onyx610]

3 hours ago, 67RModel said:

I built my shop back in 2016 and have never had heat in it until now. When I poured the floor back then I insulted underneath and the perimeter and put the pex tubing in for in floor heat but never got around to making it work until now. I always found other uses for that money and just said "ill just use a torpedo heater this winter". I finally got the boiler hooked up and running and now my shop is a nice comfortable 65 degrees. This was my first rodeo with  radiant floor heat and its a game changer. Night and day comfort difference when compared to forced air heating.

Yea that radiant floor heat is great. It’s too good. You get hot quick! Our lower garage that all the Mack’s go in has that. When putting tire chains on, that heat will have you down to your underwear in no time. 

[67RModel]

42 minutes ago, Onyx610 said:

Yea that radiant floor heat is great. It’s too good. You get hot quick! Our lower garage that all the Mack’s go in has that. When putting tire chains on, that heat will have you down to your underwear in no time. 

I don't ever get hot lol. A room can never be too hot for me. The hotter the better in my opinion so this heated floor is a game changer for me. My house is the same way. I usually keep it anywhere from 74-76 degrees in Winter. I light a coal fire in my coal stove usually around mid December and it doesn't go out until early April.......Winter sucks for me lol.

[tjc transport]

1 hour ago, 67RModel said:

I don't ever get hot lol. A room can never be too hot for me. The hotter the better in my opinion so this heated floor is a game changer for me. My house is the same way. I usually keep it anywhere from 74-76 degrees in Winter. I light a coal fire in my coal stove usually around mid December and it doesn't go out until early April.......Winter sucks for me lol.

i am the opposite. house is at 65 degrees year round. i hate heat. i melt if over 80 degrees. 

but in floor radiant heat is the way to go. i had it in the body shop. it only heats the area needed, floor up around 5-6 foot. not from the 20 foot tall ceiling down. 

 

[Joey Mack]

Dammit !!!  I wished I would have thought about heating my floor before pouring it..    My shop is only 22'x25'..  High ceiling..   I would rather have heated the floor, and let the heat rise..   🤔

[67RModel]

It’s really nice since the whole slab is 65 degrees. The whole shop is being headed with radiation from the slab rather than convection from a warm air furnace or unit heater. With the slab controlled at 65 if feels much warmer than 65. I don’t know what the air temp is since the thermometer reads the slab temperature. The trade off is its much more costly to install than a unit heater or regular furnace.

[Onyx610]

Let’s see more pics of the place!  I want the tour….can’t stop there with that clean and organized plumbing setup picture. 

[67RModel]

I’ll have to take some more pictures of it tomorrow. I actually don’t have anymore of it lol. I have a bunch of when it was getting built initially but nothing recent. 

[Onyx610]

20 minutes ago, 67RModel said:

I’ll have to take some more pictures of it tomorrow. I actually don’t have anymore of it lol. I have a bunch of when it was getting built initially but nothing recent. 

Please do! I like seeing peoples working space, tools, and trucks. 

[Big R]

Only downside to floor heat is don’t set your beer on the floor 

[tjc transport]

11 minutes ago, Big R said:

Only downside to floor heat is don’t set your beer on the floor 

unless you are german and like your beer hot.

[67RModel]

On 12/14/2022 at 7:16 PM, Onyx610 said:

Let’s see more pics of the place!  I want the tour….can’t stop there with that clean and organized plumbing setup picture. 

Its a pretty small setup. 24' wide by 40' deep with 12' ceiling height. I just added the lean-to this past summer for some extra storage and it is 12.5' x 40'. It started out as a shop to keep and restore my 1967 R Model. Well you know how that goes. I now have 4 trucks. one working and 3 antiques. It is very cramped now because I try to keep everything under roof out of the weather. So I really have one bay in front of the overhead door for working on things. The rest is basically just storage. Plus its not even finished. I still need to put up the interior wall metal sheeting and run some better electrical throughout. Also I really need to commit and move all my tools and other shop equipment into it. Right now its scattered between my house garage, a shed, and this shop. My plan now that I have proper heat is to knock most of this stuff out this winter. And do a lot of cosmetic and preventative TLC to my 94 RD triaxle. The 94 is bunked inside with the 1960 B81. In the lean-to are my 1967 R model and my 1974 White Road Boss. My plan to finish all the odds and ends on the B81 in the next year or two drive it around for a summer and then sell it. I don't have a lot of interest in it and I don't want to keep it around given the limited space I'm working with. That way I can keep the two remaining antiques in the lean-to and have a much larger space in the shop for working on things and keeping shop tools along the walls etc. In the future I would like to get a nice sand blasting cabinet and press and maybe a larger toolbox. That is the plan I have at the moment, which is written in sand and subject to change lol. My wife and I would like to move to a place that is more secluded with some more property but the last 2 years have kind of put a damper on that idea. We will be fine here until hopefully a little normalcy returns to the real estate market. Plus the thought of moving all this stuff and "starting over" is somewhat dreadful lol.

[Onyx610]

Damn this is awesome, good for you! Yea I’m with you on the wanting to move with more land and privacy. I’ll wait it out for a while no rush. However land/privacy is becoming a lot more scarce out here in Chester county.