A little weding and fabrication job.

[4shorts]

4shorts:

That is an impressive shop and impressive work. I didn't have time (yet) to look through all 890 Flickr pictures, but, with all due respect, I looked at enough to be convinced that you have a second shop you aren't telling us about.

First, your show shop is much too clean. There is no trash on the floor and no piles of half (or less) finished projects (or in my case projects that just didn't work like I hoped).

Second, the grinder is not visible. I know you are good, but there is no way you could have cut that smooth round circle to fix the hay rake with the plasma torch, even with the circle cutter. You must have ground it afterwards. I'll bet there is a 10" pedestal grinder in the other shop.

Third, where are your workbenches with two or three layers of cut off steel, grinding dust, old bolts, broken coffee cups, and of course all the taps you could not find when you needed them.

Fourth, there is no paint overspray on anything. I understand it gets cold where you are, so I know you have to use the rattlecans inside. None of your machine guages have paint spots on the dials.

Please, show us the other shop; otherwise I (and many other viewers) will develop a permanent inferiority complex.


Farmerford

:laughing: Ah Farmerford you gave me a good chuckle. I needed that today so thanks for that plus your kind remarks.

I will admit I'm a clean freak. To prove it I posted some pictures for your entertainment. In my shop I have three shop vacs. One by the milling machine. One by the lathe and one just for using on vehicles. I clean the shop at the end of each working day. what is it they say "Cleanliness is next to Godliness" or something along those lines.

All my restorations are done here in my main shop. The other shop is just to display my work. Kind of like having an art gallery I guess. No work is performed out in the display shop. I will admit that I do have another shop. It's attached to the house and one time I used to do all my work out there. Now it's used for my wood working and a place to store my motorcycle and trailer. As you can see I need to do a little cleaning out there. :ashamed:

Yes I have grinders and yes I have a 10" on a pedestal (how the heck did you know that" :laughing: I snapped a pic of that for you as well. OH and the circle cutter on the plasma did cut the perfect circle but I used a little trick. I placed a lazy susan that I made for the cabinet blaster under the plate and turned the plate instead of moving the plasma torch and it aloud the torch to be steady enough to cut the perfect cycle. Look at the pics I posted and you'll see it

I have a work bench plus I use the motorcycle lift as a bench at times so that works well for me. shaker cans don't get used allot here. all my paint equipment is applied via HVLP guns with minimal over spray and everything is washed down before and after spraying paint.

No coffee cups or dirty rags are aloud in the shop. There was a time we had a candy dish in the waiting area and my buddies would come in and take the candy and to get me going they would lay the candy rappers around the shop so I removed the candy from the shop and never brought them back

Seeing you were so kind to post on the subject and give me a good chuckle I went and snapped some photo's for your entertainment.

You'll see the display shop that we call Gasoline Alley. That's the building with the tractor in front of it. You'll see all the shop vacs :laughing: and the main shop. It's always clean around and then you'll see the shop where I keep the carpentry tools.

No you giving me a inferiority complex thinking I may be to obsessed with trying to keep my shop to clean :laughing: Thank you sir for your comments :thumbsup:

 

[4shorts]

A few more pics!

 

[4shorts]

And the last pic!

 

[mjncad]

4shorts:

That is an impressive shop and impressive work. I didn't have time (yet) to look through all 890 Flickr pictures, but, with all due respect, I looked at enough to be convinced that you have a second shop you aren't telling us about.

First, your show shop is much too clean. There is no trash on the floor and no piles of half (or less) finished projects (or in my case projects that just didn't work like I hoped).

Second, the grinder is not visible. I know you are good, but there is no way you could have cut that smooth round circle to fix the hay rake with the plasma torch, even with the circle cutter. You must have ground it afterwards. I'll bet there is a 10" pedestal grinder in the other shop.

Third, where are your workbenches with two or three layers of cut off steel, grinding dust, old bolts, broken coffee cups, and of course all the taps you could not find when you needed them.

Fourth, there is no paint overspray on anything. I understand it gets cold where you are, so I know you have to use the rattlecans inside. None of your machine guages have paint spots on the dials.

Please, show us the other shop; otherwise I (and many other viewers) will develop a permanent inferiority complex.


Farmerford

Paul's filthy shop as you described is in my basement!

 

[jayste]

Paul's filthy shop as you described is in my basement!

I beg to differ! It's my shop! Not to mention all of the other items that are "stored" in there and have to be moved around to work!

Paul, we've got to find you a head shrinker to help you out with some of those cleanliness issues! Any of those types out on that rock you live on?:laughing: Sometimes at the end of the day I find it too tempting to just shut the doors and go to the house instead of cleaning up first. Then I come back the next day and wonder why I didn't clean up a little when I quit the night before!

 

[Farmerford]

Paul:

If posters are envious from the pictures above (and I am), they should not even look at your Flickr site. My favorites are the older Super Shell pump (because my grandfather's country store had one in the 1950's) and the Coke machine (but I can remember when it said "Deposit 5 cents" rather than 10 cents). Then Cokes went to 6 cents and for a while they had two coin slots, one for a nickle and one for a penny.

Did you personally restore every item in the pictures?

Perhaps the most pride should come from your son in the Marines. My father served in the Air Corps in WWII and I served in Viet Nam, so I can appreciate what he does.

We all look forward to more pictures.

Farmerford

PS: You have inspired me to clean up a part of my shop over the long Labor Day weekend. I think I will start (and probably end) with the five gallon bucket of assorted nuts, bolts, and washers that I have thrown in the bucket over the past 10 years or so rather than put them back where they belong.

 

[teg]

We should do a "show me yours, I'll show you mine" contest for shops!!! I'm too embarrassed to show mine!!!! We have my wife's grandfather's coke machine (everything original) in our foyer... 6 cents. She was thinking about getting rid of it... I'll try and add a photo of it tonight.

 

[Farmerford]

teg:

Don't get rid of it; keep it for sentimental reasons and because the way things are going six cent Cokes may return.

 

[teg]

teg:

Don't get rid of it; keep it for sentimental reasons and because the way things are going six cent Cokes may return.

She watched "Hoarders" and was on a kick to get rid of things without a purpose... I need to convince her that "sentimental reasons" can be it's purpose, I guess. (hopefully, this thread is not going to get shut down for getting political!!! )

 

[4shorts]

I beg to differ! It's my shop! Not to mention all of the other items that are "stored" in there and have to be moved around to work!

Paul, we've got to find you a head shrinker to help you out with some of those cleanliness issues! Any of those types out on that rock you live on?:laughing: Sometimes at the end of the day I find it too tempting to just shut the doors and go to the house instead of cleaning up first. Then I come back the next day and wonder why I didn't clean up a little when I quit the night before!

:laughing: Ya Jay there's a few shrinks around here but there off the wall altogether and even worst than I am. I remember when I worked for GM. I was doing transmissions and half way through the rebuilds I would stop and clean up my tools and put them all back in the box nice neat and tidy. For awhile it would drive the boss's nuts but then they realized my productivity rate was higher than the other guys in the shop and my come back rate was zero. When your shop and tools are clean and organized your projects will automatically improve as well. Honest!

Paul:

If posters are envious from the pictures above (and I am), they should not even look at your Flickr site. My favorites are the older Super Shell pump (because my grandfather's country store had one in the 1950's) and the Coke machine (but I can remember when it said "Deposit 5 cents" rather than 10 cents). Then Cokes went to 6 cents and for a while they had two coin slots, one for a nickle and one for a penny.

Did you personally restore every item in the pictures?

Perhaps the most pride should come from your son in the Marines. My father served in the Air Corps in WWII and I served in Viet Nam, so I can appreciate what he does.

We all look forward to more pictures.

Farmerford

PS: You have inspired me to clean up a part of my shop over the long Labor Day weekend. I think I will start (and probably end) with the five gallon bucket of assorted nuts, bolts, and washers that I have thrown in the bucket over the past 10 years or so rather than put them back where they belong.

Farmerford there's no need to be envious or anyone else for that matter. The stuff you see in my Flickr photo's are just things that I've restored and was just a bunch of junk when I dragged it all home.

Yes everything you see in those photo's are my work. I did the fabrication, welding, body work and painting including the airbrush work. When I'm doing that type of work I make sure there are no flaws in any of the pieces. It's always my goal to have a flawless item by the time the item is restored or built. I seldom sell any of the items so that's why there's so much in that building. The Coke machine is a 1957 model and I restored it as well. I also did a couple of Coke coolers. One I turned into a sofa while the other one was turned into a diner table. Ya I'm nuts

Tip my lid to you sir for have served your country. Just by telling me that you've earned my respect. Your the best of the best my friend to have done what you've done for your country.

We have two kids. Both are boys and both are members of the Canadian Armed Forces. My eldest son is a Biomedical Engineer in the Army and my youngest son is in Logistics in the Navy. Mom and I are very proud of them both. My eldest son will be heading to Afghanistan soon.

While doing an interview a while back the reporter asked me what I felt my greatest accomplishment was and I replied "That's easy. Raising to fine boys who caused no one any trouble who went on to serve our country trying to help others". She liked my answer

If you look at my flickr page you'll see two projects I did for both sons. One was a toy pedal car boat that was built in 1966 and I restored it for my Navy son while I did a 1953 Jeep for my Army son. The idea of both vehicles is when the boys get promoted or come back from tour all the info will be added to each vehicle and at the end of there career I'll give them there vehicles and they will be like a time line/trophy for there service in the military.

I'm always happy to learn that I've inspired someone no matter how big or small. You'll have to post pics of the progress you make with your cleanup. :thumbsup:

Thanks again for your comments. There always very much appreciated.


Here's just a small sample of the junk I've restored or custom built.