Best Workshop/Bench Design Concepts

[RobS]

Good eyes MR, yes that is an X-10 module. You'll see a window candle light in the same picture. We've got 18 of them that come on at dusk and I can override them with a single switch. Ain't technology grand /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[cedarranch]

I would have never thought to use pvc pipes for compressed air. /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif Is that safe? /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
I have seen low pressure waterlines come apart, could not imagine putting 100psi in them. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[cedarranch]

x-10 module? /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif

 

[Pks]

Bird,

What are the dimensions of your barn? The ceiling height looks like it's 12 ft.

 

[MossRoad]

X10 is for home automation. I can explain in another thread if you like. It is cheap and easy to automate just about anything. My entire living room, master bedroom and one of my kids rooms are on it, as well as all of the outdoor holiday lighting. Good stuff for small bucks.

 

[cedarranch]

Please do - sounds very interesting /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

 

[MossRoad]

I'll post it in Off Topic and Just for Fun in a few minutes.

 

[Bird]

David, all the "experts" say to NOT use PVC for compressed air lines, so I don't recommend you do it. Another case of "do like I say; not like I do."/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I used material on hand at the time (over 3 years ago) and know a lot of other folks have done the same with no problems, but if I were going to buy the material to do it, I'd probably use rigid copper and sweated joints. And low pressure waterlines come apart? Are you talking about the joints pulling apart; not the line itself breaking? If so, yes, I've seen a bunch of them; always because of poor workmanship in putting them together in the first place.

 

[Bird]

Peter, these pictures are not of my "barn"./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif My barn is a ragged old dirt floored, corrugated metal building; used primarily for junk storage since I got rid of the goats and rabbits. However, my shop building is only 10' ceiling (if it had a ceiling/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif) with a 7' overhead door, and it's 40' x 60' in size. It was here when I bought the place. If I were building a new one, making it taller is only one of several things I'd do differently.

 

[cedarranch]

<font color=blue>And low pressure waterlines come apart? Are you talking about the joints pulling apart; not the line itself breaking?</font color=blue>
Yeah the joints comming apart. Never had one of mine come apart /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif but I have sure fixed a lot that have. Most due to not being secured to the joist well and its own weight pulling it apart. Some due to poor glue joint.
I guess I am just to scared to take chances so I tend to do overkill - like my father did. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I use more nails, larger lumber, etc. than is really necessary. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif