Large Scale Central

C.V.S.Ry. Rockhill Shop

Indoor and Micro
#201

I said I could live with the slight binding in the drawer slides, but once loaded the bind was much worse. The twist and an error in keeping the rails parallel caused it to pop out a few ball bearings breaking the slide function. I was able to correct most of the twist and make them to be closer to parallel. I found all the little balls and got them back in place repairing the slide.

After finding a new home for most of the heavy items I loaded it back up. The slide seems to be functioning normally now :grinning:

Next up is to install a hanger bar in the workshop area. In the 80ā€™s I made it from a dressed up 2x4 and we used it in the kitchen of any early apartment. Iā€™ve been carrying it with me ever since through 6 moves never using it for anything more than a source of hooks. It will finally find a use!

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#202

Some ā€œmicro organizationā€ today. I hung that bar, unpacked more tools and hung a bunch of themā€¦

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The bar clamp rack also accommodates spring clamps. I added an extension for C clampsā€¦

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It will be 70Ā° here tomorrow. Time to pick up all the trash in the recently cleared area by the tracks.

#203

I wish I was that organized. Iā€™m moving cabinets around in the garage. My organizational technique is throwing everything into a box, move cabinets, put everything back in sorta almost the same places, almostā€¦sorta.:grin:

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#204

Organized maybe. Smart, not so much! See that blue bag hanging under the clamps?

I hung it there before the first face trapping it. I need to get it off, so a lot will come apart to do so.

Today I started on setting up my audio/video system. I still have a lot to figure out to get 5.1 up and running, but I might have stereo in a day or soā€¦

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The cabinet was Marilynā€™s but itā€™s too tall for her craft room.

It-s almost too tall for the shop. Basic components in placeā€¦

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Now that my big stereo is functional and the office area set up, it has become comfortableā€¦

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Motivation level suffers as a result!

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#206

Sweet! Yeah, kick back dude, you deserve it!

#207

As soon as you lay the carpet.

Just kiddingā€¦ :grin:

#208

I really donā€™t know what if anything Iā€™ll do about the floor.

The carpet I had was crap and it went with the trash man. Iā€™ve considered roll (sheet) goods, but I donā€™t think the adhesive would stick to the floor that has some oily spots. Masonite underlayment would work, but my budget of both cash and energy is about to run out!

#209

The Business end looks all but finished.
Jon whatā€™s next? Will be you going with a hammock, La-Z-boy or a Murphy bed?

#210

Funny thing
I was going to ask if that leather looking chair was a recliner

#211

I get the feeling that Jon has done all this work on his ā€œMancaveā€ because his wife has given him notice that she wants him out of ā€œHerā€ house, as part of the reason for the big mover in the first place. I expect the last expense will be an addition of a simple one holler and a heated shower stall. I guess the idea of a ā€œMurphy Bedā€ reminds Jon that sleeping in a chair was not a good ideaā€¦!!
This tale of marital bliss, ends up with a bundle of roses and some kind and happy moments for Marlyn and Jonā€¦I do hope.
Fweddy

#212

ā€¦ohā€¦I guess they will share the kitchenā€¦!!!
Building a kitchen might just exceed the budget, unless ā€œTheyā€ plan on opening a snack bar to help pay for added expensesā€¦!!
Are we having fun yetā€¦!!!

#213

I hear ya. I used the cheapest vinyl roll from HD, and glued it down with their adhesive.

It would be tough for you to put it down now, but maybe some time if youā€™re motivated to sling some furniture, you can lay it just in the office area. Maybe without glue, since the furniture will hold it down (but Iā€™m not sure if bubbling will happen, over timeā€¦ maybe you can stretch it back out).

#214

I was hoping heā€™d put in a direct connection to his RV parked alongside. Passenger car diaphram would be coolā€¦

#215

I considered wall to wall sheet vinyl, but most come in 12 foot widths and the building 13ā€™6" :frowning: Then I thought I might just do the center isle, which is still an option.

The problem all along has been the ā€˜stuffā€™. Since this started as storage for what wouldnā€™t fit in the house, there has never been a time since our stuff got here that the entire floor was open.

For the near term Iā€™ll live with the ugly plywood.

@freddy You are partially right. Marilyn wants my stuff out of her craft room. It still fills the closet and covers the top of one dresser to the cieling!

#216

So, moving forward, I am starting to think about putting some track down. Earlier in this thread I built the bench that will be the main yard or a switching puzzle, or both. I also showed the storage shelf construction for what will be a fiddle yard.

The main bench is built like a battleship with 2x4 framing on 16" centers and an 11/16" plywood top. It will be extended in both directions with lighter construction. Re-posting an earlier picā€¦

To the left there will be a small R1 industry above the black tool box with a ramp track to get there. To the right will be two tracks that will round the corner bound for the fiddle yard. One track may have a straight option to exit the building in the future.

Itā€™s the bench work for the two track section that has me scratching my head. I know I want it to be a shelf about 12" deep. I donā€™t have the material or desire to build it as heavy as the main bench. The top will be left over 3/8" sheathing. The framing is my design issue.

I could use regular metal shelf brackets, but that adds a bit of cost.
Orā€¦
I could rip what I have left in 2x4 to 2x2 (or 1x2) and build light framing, like the fiddle shelves, and use the existing shelves and furniture to support it. Most of the original section in CT was 1/2" ply supported by furniture with no frame.
Orā€¦
Another idea I havenā€™ though of yet.

This needs to stay inexpensive to build.

#217

A major technical setback over the weekend. It appears I have lost all of my CAD work for this project :frowning:

Normally, all of my Visio files are stored in a dedicated data directory that gets backed up regularly. For some reason, when I began this project, I stored it in a shared folder so I could access it from my other PC. Inside the share I foolishly used a folder named TEMP.

Fast forward 6 months and Iā€™m needing to free up space on a hard disk. The TEMP folder was full of things I needed to move from one PC to the other and was a good candidate for deletion. I thought the CAD file located here was, as the folder name indicated, a temporary copy, and it got deleted and other files were shuffled around.

Yesterday I wanted to open the file and got the dreaded ā€œfile not foundā€ error. Once I realized where it had been stored I knew I screwed up.

The Windows file recovery tool was able to find and restore the file, but Visio says itā€™s corrupt. Not surprising after all the file moves I did after the deletion.

I will attempt to find a Visio file repair tool in hopes of recovering at least some of it, but I donā€™t hold out much hope.

#218

The loss of my CAD file set me back a bit and momentum has definitely slowed, but thoughts have been concentrating on getting some track down.

My track planning software is good for track, but not so much for bench work. I did a rudimentary layout in Visio for the corner plan and then went old schoolā€¦

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The area drawn up is the ā€œofficeā€ wallā€¦

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I have decided on 2x2 wood framing and probably a few metal shelf brackets. The shop wall will once again provide most of the structural support. I have just enough 2x4 left to frame this out. Top will be 3/8" plywood drops leftover from the walls and ceiling.

There is no firm track plan yet. This corner was designed to accommodate two tracks of 8ā€™ diameter curves. There is space for a ā€œwideā€ switch to continue straight toward the wall for an eventual escape to the outdoors either East, South, or both.

The near term goal is getting track under the fiddle yard shelves to make that portion operational.

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Itā€™s supposed to warm up a bit Thursday. I think Iā€™m done doing major cutting inside now that there is so much stuff to catch the dust. The table saw will fit through the door so tomorrow will be rip 2x4 day and maybe start putting up the framing.

Iā€™ve not ordered them yet, but Iā€™m probably going to use some metal brackets on the 12" section which will be framed on 24" centers. In CT I just built stilts to the furniture, but Iā€™d rather not do that here.