Container Weld Shop build -

[BukitCase]

Oh, forgot ventilation - plan is simple; deep breath, spray fast, RUN - (you, not the paint )

 

[dragoneggs]

Oh, forgot ventilation - plan is simple; deep breath, spray fast, RUN - (you, not the paint )

You're killing me.

Shop time... I need heat! I almost bought an old gas ceiling hanging mount heater today at an estate sale for $50. But it looked in tough shape and in a couple pieces. Might go back but I don't have experience with these things.

 

[BukitCase]

Heat - you have too many nice tools to EVER use ANY heater that doesn't make use of a heat exchanger - using natural gas, propane, kerosene, ANY carbon based fuel where the actual COMBUSTION takes place in the heated area - will give you a RUST problem you won't BELIEVE - I have one of those "torpedo" heaters, the propane version - and I quit using it several years ago because I couldn't keep up with the rust.

My next door neighbor runs a custom car shop and has propane heat, but his is an actual FURNACE that draws air in and vents OUTSIDE - the heat of combustion is the ONLY part used INSIDE because of the heat exchanger.

Here's what happens if you burn propane INSIDE, with INSIDE exhaust (like my "torpedo" for example)

Google Answers: Combustion of natural gas

Check out the amount of water generated, about a fourth of the way down from the top...

I have several cast iron topped tools and even keeping them WAXED won't stop rust if I'm using gas heat; and I haven't found a REAL gas furnace I'm willing to pay for yet, so I just use a couple of electric heaters for now.

I'm lucky we're on a co-op for electric, 8-1/2c a kw beats over TWICE that for Pacificorp customers -

Oh, if that ceiling heater you looked at LOOKS rough (and if it uses a heat exchanger) the exchanger is probably full of HOLES, so besides adding as much water as you burn gas, it'll nail you with CO that should have gone outside thru the flue - probably best to keep looking.

If I scared you with all that, GOOD.... if RUST isn't enough to spoil yer day, DEATH probably would be ... Steve

 

[BukitCase]

Forgot to mention - what I do to keep woodworking tools in shape between uses - I use one of these

Router Speed Control

to feed a power strip, with several of these

Woods 15-Watt Brooder Clamp Lamp With Porcelain Socket (6-Foot, 18/2 Gauge) - Led Household Light Bulbs - Amazon.com

plugged into the strip(s) - then each tool gets at least one of the clamp lamps with a 100 watt INCANDESCENT bulb - the big table saw gets TWO, as do both my jointers (one under each end), both wood band saws get one each - My milling machine also gets one under each end of the table. ALL get oil cloth covers over. I turn the "speed control" down to around 50%, which cuts power usage to 1/4 - if it gets colder than usual, I'll either turn it up some or bypass it. A side benefit - those light bulbs last for YEARS at the lower power...

The object here is to keep all metal surfaces ABOVE DEW POINT temperature, so any vapor won't condense on their surfaces.

Then, when I'm actually gonna BE there I have a couple RADIANT electric heaters I keep pointed at me from about 3-4 feet away. Cyclone dust collector and an air filter help keep combustible particulates down so I don't get the "wrong" kind of heat

Hopefully this covers a couple things you can use... Steve

 

[Oldpath05]

" still glad he kicked the Hildebeast's ***** tho -"<<<<<<<<<<<WOW, I guess we do have something in common:thumbsup:

 

[Oldpath05]

Heat heat heat heat<<<<<<<<<I see your using that word a lot, makes me wonder how you can weld without your welding lens fogging up? That's the problem I had a couple years ago before I put a woodstove in my shop, soon as I started welding, lens fogged all up. I finally tape a piece of soft foam just below the the welding hood lens so it would divert my breath downward, but then I had to take my glasses off and install a cheater lens in my hood because that foam piece would hit my eye glasses.

 

[Oldpath05]

Why is that light call a Brooooooooooooooooooooooder clamp light? I know another stupid question. I use these clamp lights, have about dozen of them >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Woods 162 18/2 SPT-2 Clamp Lamp with 1 Inch Reflector, 15 Watt, 6 Foot Cord - Led Household Light Bulbs - Amazon.com

 

[BukitCase]

"I guess we do have something in common" - yup, couple things at least :thumbsup:

"weld without your welding lens fogging up?" - I START with a warm hood; keep a heat gun plugged in where I'm working (OK, playing ) - if it's been long enough for the hood to cool to ambient, I wave the heat gun under the hood til it's a little warmer than ME ('bout 8-10 seconds @ 1-2 feet away) - doesn't fog up then. Fog is just condensation, doesn't happen when the item is warmer than what's called the DEWPOINT. IF the hood's cold and you put your WARM head inside, it causes moisture in the air to gather on whatever's COLD.

Cheaters - never use 'em, I'm so nearsighted my world ENDS at about 10" from my nose, so I just take off my glasses when I weld (or look over the tops, more likely) - WITHOUT the glasses, I actually have BETTER than 20-20 vision up to that "end of the world" point... If position won't let me get that close, the glasses let me see ALMOST as good as close-up...

"Why is that light call a Brooooooooooooooooooooooder clamp light?" - NOT a stupid question at all; IMO, the only STUPID question is one a person DOESN'T ASK 'cause they'd rather let people think they know more than they do...
People who call those "clamp lamps" BROODER lamps are used to using 'em to keep baby chicks warm til they get more feathers. Personally I haven't done much "chicken ranchin'", so I call 'em clamp lamps.

For small animal meat I prefer rabbit; they don't stink as much when you process 'em, no dang feathers, and ya get FOUR drumsticks :licking: (two of 'em are kinda small, tho ) 'Nuther downside is rabbits don't lay the right kind of eggs - unless you're lettin' 'em lay in the garden ... Steve

 

[BukitCase]

Mark (or anybody looking for a SIMPLE paint "booth" for smaller projects) here's an idea -

Simple, home made indoor paint booth - The Garage Journal Board

...Steve

 

[BukitCase]

Well, it finally warmed up enough to get a little painting done - - and a couple smaller parts ready to paint - - And some that still need "shinified" - - manana's 'sposed to be warm (above 50) too, might actually get somethin' done TWO days in a row ...Steve