Post-Poned modeling due to this:

[426-Hemi]

Well, since my absence due to the surgery I had, it left me to do some light work and I still made progress without hurting myself, MUCH needed organization, and some light turning of a screw driver..... "Light stuff" so.....



A small drawer added under the Unimat. this is for files, and sizing charts. NOT a "catch-all" like the last one was.. I limited its size for that very reason!

I also did some light wood working on getting that shelf that holds my computer monitor, some bracing..... NOT that it needed it with just the flat screen hanging from it, BUT, I want to use the top of it for what it is as well. a shelf, SO I added some Maple length support, and a vertical post of Maple as well. These parts will probably have things, hanging from it more then whats seen here BUT its a start.....





Then that "leaf" that folds up & down on the end of the machine bench. this is NOT a permanent up position leaf! ONLY used in-place for the 2 arbor presses I have, OR my 8 inch shear/brake for light sheet metal work for hobby stuff..... Made to hold at least, 50 pounds..... In a very short distance! The brace underneath it, is solid Oak, about 5 and half inches wide by the length you see it from the bottom of the shelf, to the side of the bench, the "cleats I made on the bench and the underside of the leaf, are solid Maple, screws every 3 inches for strength!



Then as you all know, I'm a Model Railroader too. I had to use what I had for them as well, this cabinet seen here is mounted to a boxed-in studded corner of the chimney...... The aluminum shelves seen here are actually extruded aluminum shelving made for displaying scale model trains, Just so happens I have numerous 4 foot lengths of it, and cut them in half for a shy 2 foot section, which fit perfectly inside this old knife display case, that LOCKS and I even have a key for it so...... I placed it in the shop for "in-progress" trains that I was working on before I had began to take a short leave of the hobby and get back into the model cars!

UNDER this shelf and the racks above it, will have tools to support the Machine bench right across the isle from it! To the left of it, will be the model train bench, and to the right of it is where I have been modeling/building my auto's..... Across the isle from there is my molding bench/area!

Behind all this is my wife's work bench for crafts! That will be made a little differently to approach her area as mine runs down the other side of the chimney as well (painting bench and exhaust for it) out the window!



Then, you have my little partner in crime. watching me organizing all this, and since my surgery (either of them really) he's been keeping an eye on me closely, ever since my open heart surgery in '13.....

Thats it for now, the next installment will be of the train bench and soldering area! If interested, stay tuned!

[FASTBACK340]

Me & the Mrs. have been talking about moving. With moving comes the love/hate of searching for what you want and what you need. I'll concede the 2 car garage down to a 1 1/2, but I need a bigger hobby area. With light and ventilation and windows. Post these pictures and give me another item to add to our wish-list: bigger hobby room. I look at peoples work areas and try and find something useful. I've gotten a million ideas from some of the posts. Good job re-organizing!

As an aside, Queens is officially full. Long Island here we come. It's gotten too BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH congested and too much dumb is moving in. It was nice while it lasted……

Edited July 4, 2015 by FASTBACK340

[426-Hemi]

Fastback, Glad I could inspire..... Thats the whole intent of this thread......

 

Sadly due to an accident i'm not doin much of anything but healing.....BUT slowly organizing as I'm able with very little use of one hand.....

[426-Hemi]

well, as a few know, i've been in a firework accident, and have been healing, so, i thought i'd post a pick or so taken the day after my last doctors appointment.....

 

 

Me while in the hospital, looking like a deer caught in the headlights.......

 

 

This one taken the day after my last doctors appointment, and one coming up this Thursday......

 

I omitted the gory ones, I got a split chin from it, 9 stitches in there, (the black mark on my chin) is burnt edges, with some healing the stitches there have been removed. then in the pictures the burns on my chest...... and as well bandaged up hands......

 

outlook tho, is good. i am kinda sorta right handed, (was ambidextrous at one time but now favor my right) also due to a long time ago work-related accident. But, I was told that in the end, I should regain almost all control and movement except for my left-hand pointer finger tio, as its been amputated to the first knuckle, the vey end of that finger.

[426-Hemi]

.....WELL now, it has been awhile...... My last rendition of this ole posting was put on hold came to a sketchin' halt when I went through a bad accident with my hands (and its still not "over" yet........... I'm going through physical therapy on that, BUT I am able to do things a bit more as well as the working the hands, helps more then I can actually say (I had to go through NO dexterity type therapy what-so-ever due to that! ANYWAY, New Years Eve hit, and the wife & I got to talking about things around the house and things that I had "stashed/stored for future use in different household projects... one of those being my shop's "reset"...... I got a LOT of supplies so.....-Had planned to do this over the summer while the weather was nice, BUT I wound up getting hurt so that was all said-and-done with for a while till I healed.....

WELL, that time has returned! I'm healed enough, to do some things, so..... To get supplies used and in-place for the shop would be a GREAT thing for the household not having to deal with all my stuff just setting around!

So without further waiting, I got right back to it, where I let off in July, last year!

So to go back, and show what it went from:

What a wreck! It was so-so usable, not the greatest, but it worked for a time! It was done here in a hurry, I had to get something going or I was gonna go crazy!!!! (And I'll admit, THAT already is a short ride! LOL) Anyway, ripped that all out and down before I got hurt:

Starting to remove things! I used that ole 3 drawer dresser under the machining bench! -Why its missing! Then got right into building that area like this:

Left-to-right, the bench is "split". The left side is for electrical stuff, soldering etc. The center area id decal storage! and the right side is where my train stuff will be worked on, the area nearest that yellow 4 foot level standing there.

Pic taken nearest the electrical/soldering bench. The train bench furthermost away. The shelving seen behind that yellow level is where a lot of detail stuff is stored. Mostly train stuff.

Now however that same area is being "set" as I had planned for most of it way back in July, over the summer. -Time was to get things moving in the right direction again, and to make the shop......more user friendly! With that comes some old thoughts....

Stay tuned, more to follow after these short messages!

Edited January 13, 2016 by 426-Hemi
Bad link.....

[426-Hemi]

As you'll see, I got A LOT of "peg-board", This stuff, is ungodly expensive in the amounts I have! -Not that I spent a single red-cent in any of it. See, I used to work for a business that was retail, and I myself was part of the maintenance division, so when things got to old and all or shelving got old they'd toss it and replace it with new stuff as the old stuff, wasn't made any longer or in some cases, that particular shelving company wasn't even in business anymore. SO, I'd get to look over things they had me toss and decide if it was usable for my shop or not.... A LOT of times other things were wrong and the parts couldn't be used in any other type shelving so. I'd bring it home! (My wife, loves it! She wound up getting a BUNCH of metal sale floor shelving for organization in our basement!) But anyway, this peg-board, all came to me this very way! I myself just cut it to fit where it was going to go! BUT I have stacks of it! -For hobby use the stuff is GREAT, Plus I have a place in our basement for household repairs and tools so......

Having said all that, MOST of the last places new benches were built, will have the walls covered in white peg-board for hanging purposes! BUT, first I wanted to get things in place (some of the sections of peg-board I have), have a bad corner here, or was cracked all the way across the top or bottom, but big enough to be used NOTHING smaller then a 36 by 36 piece came home! Big enough for me......

Anyway, I began the whole thing by first removing the book shelf I had above the entrance way..... It went over head of the new bench work, I then had pieces of an old nicely built office desk, that was a "built-in" version of the store I worked for, offices..... They were gonna toss the whole sha-bang, and I brought home very valuable parts of it, that are on the next lowest shelf from the book shelf, that was for a keyboard to sit on and is completely adjustable, allowing me to use it to hold my test power pack, and some test track for the trains that will slide from side-to-side over either of the 2 benches, and that shelf its mounted on is then got a light with magnifier on it.

The parts organizer thats sitting on that shelf in black, I'm not sure its gonna stay there. Its merely only sitting there for the time being.

A close up of all this.....

A shot from the electrical/soldering bench side. With a bit more in place.

Now comes the peg-board I mentioned..... What a difference that one little section makes! Sure does brighten up the area too! -That little "frame" under that black organizer is a digital picture frame that I can plug a SD camera card into to show pictures of things I'm working on without having to turn 180 degrees and look at the computer in the shop. An old one, but works pretty good for what I wanted it for! -Picked up at a yard sale for I think a dollar!

Long reach on that magnifying light!!!! -Electrical bench has a power strip along the front edge..... Picked that up at a local Circuit City store that was going out of business a few years ago that was for powering they're computer area.. I think I got 2 of them (last 2 they had) for $2.00! NICE units, I have to say! That black frame thing on the right behind the sliding shelf, there, against the wall is a TV wall mount adjustable fixture, "arm"..... I plan to put a rotary tool holder on that and have it in one of 2 choice places in the shop, haven't decided yet on that location, BUT it will fold in-and-out of that area, where it is, out for use, away for "storage" out of sight/the way....

Test power pack, and wiring routing..... It will have a set of wires to power either of the 2 tracks seen here, HO & N scale. And then have a "jumper set" of wires with insulated alligator clips on it for testing things on the bench not requiring track. (Mechanical stuff) I had this all set up once before, but NEVER routed the wires down through the table, ALWAYS had them over the top (off to the side)...... This will work so much better this way! I also limited the length of the jumper set, 2 feet, MAX...... Before when the shop had the make-shift benches these were like 4 feet long and could reach the floor. a LOT of wire really not needed!

Here shown is a close up of that little digital picture frame too! Plus some surrounding messes that are that way due to the work going on.....

Needless to say, I got a ways to go and a lot to sort through and some supplies yet to use up, BUT the white peg board will be on top that second lowest shelf, and go up the wall all the way to the underside of that book shelf near the ceiling. Its edge will be even with the piece already on the wall, that way, I can run another section up the side of them, from the work bench surface all the way to the edge of my wifes work area bench...... As hers & mine are slightly different in height. I plan to put up a sectioning wall, her side will have a nice shelf for whatever she wants, my side is gonna be peg-board, and covered in hanging supplies!

Thats it for now, more to come when more is done! (Probably when the next section of peg-board is up, and things are in-place in that area a little better.)

[426-Hemi]

Well back to adding some pics to this whole mess..... (Actually clean-up but. its still a different sort of mess)

The whole corner here is finally peg-boarded. And the walls look GREAT with the white on them, instead of that nasty looking old horse-hair plaster finish from the 40's..... This area, the whole room was to be a storage room for our house, NOT meant to look exactly "pretty". BUT, makes for a GREAT shop area!!!! Can make all the danged mess I want and not have a lot to worry about other-wise even tho, the mess will clean it all up a bit (organization) so......

So, I got the corner in, the peg-board goes right around, for this bench-area. I have since re-thought the top of that cabinet too. The white boxes are train sets and should not be there.....

I moved them, and replaced them, with this:

With that cabinet there, I'm still not sure, I like this, (it be easy to move elsewhere if I choose too) so. we'll see!

A little further down the wall, I went back to place another "organizer", with several drawers in it, to be mounted, in-place. The black organizer:

Thats all for this area right now! Because of other things that may belong here, elsewhere needing relocated.....

SO, moving on, to another "area" I got to re-setting part of the bench I use for model cars....

Made some paint bottle racks, mounted right to the wall. and a tool holder above them thats magnetic, and a bench-top mounted oganizer as well..... This bench also sports a coffee warmer, and a Dremel Flex-Shaft machine suspended from the ceiling! All controlled by a variable speed foot pedal!

Yeah, thats a BIG "Dremel" its an older Dremel "9000" Advantage, with a flex shaft attachment.... What a machine! (Was a gift from my Dad!!) -I also added high-mounted peg-board for model car supplies!!! -There has been other items in and around this area since this picture was taken!

WOW! A "CLEAN" bench top! Imagine that!?

Then you go around the corner......

This area once was my Wife's work bench for crafts..... She has been moved further to the right of this area! (Gave her a bit more place to be and storage for her stuff, that I'm also putting in place!) The cabinet stores spray paint cans, and other paint related items. This bench here is to be re-built too and will become a "paint bench", for mixing, and spraying and have a "leaf" that can be added or removed for bigger projects.... UNDER this bench will be a shelf, built to it, thats to house/hold all of my tools. Mini Dremel Table Saw, Mini Grinder, Mini bench-top Belt Sander, Mini Dremel "Moto-Lathe" for wood, so..... Kinda a "general" tool area underneath. The leaf to it will be 2 legged, and have removable pins to where it can go here, OR be connected to my other bench for extension to it, the machine bench, that has my Unimat on it.... BUT, down the wall from the wooden cabinet here, there will be a BIG shelf for my Wife's craft area for her to store stuff on, (something her area lacks right now.)

Paper towel holder under that spray paint cabinet, and the wall BEFORE it got a peg-board covering. The work bench seen here is apt to be taken apart, and rebuilt, (its to low) so. and will provide materials for the bench to take its place!

Thats it for now! Hopefully, have a lot done to this, and will be able to get back to some sort of modeling next week! (That will be NICE for 2016!!!!!)

 

[disabled modeler]

John...I hope you have a quick recovery.  Shop looks nice.

[High octane]

I hope that things go well for you John, and that you have a SPEEEEDY recovery/

[426-Hemi]

Thanks guys, but the accident wasn't "recent" it happened back in July! I was working on this way back then and I'm now finally "able" to do a little more with it, I still have limitations but, nothing that completely impedes me from using my hands! I began working my hands after the accident, by modeling, building them, BUT at that time wasn't able to use heavy tools...... Now however, over 6 months later, I'm able to use heavy tools, I am just limited to how long I can use them. (the tools) so. I'm trying to pick up, where I originally let off to recover from the accident!

Thanks guys! Much appreciated!

[426-Hemi]

So guys, I thought I'd say here and now Sorry for my absence! I have had some computer issues and it wouldn't allow me to sign in, I was getting a 502 Error except in e-mail! Thanks to DeeCee for posting WHY I wasn't around in the General area..... I would up keeping the computer I was here on, originally, due to finding it had a virus/bug from Facebook that my wife picked up, that locked us out of EVERYTHING but e-mail, and Facebook. Go figure!

ANYWAY, I thought over the time I was gone, I'd come back with replying to PM's, and posting what I've been up too other then working on the computer. (I will say again), I'm not sure how long it may last, BUT it seems "good to go" for now......

So, to the next installment of my shops progress.....

This is the area I dedicated to be the Train & electronic benches, they're shaping right up! NICE to have white peg-board walls! Got my magnifier light in-place, as well as the electronic bench set up with my soldering station.... (I have several of these) but this is my main one, the others are either back up's, OR portables, to go to my train layout and other places needing soldering work, other then the actual bench area! The train bench will have a Dremel Flex-Shaft machine hung from the ceiling, as there are already 2 of them within the shop, its always nice to have the tools at finger tip reach!

Better pic of the train bench! Showing test track for both HO scale (1:87th) and N scale (1:160th). G scale (1:22-1:28th) will be span across BOTH these benches if need be! (And yes, there is some within my shop to go with my model cars! LOL

The Train test track also slides to the location of the electronics bench, to do testing and electrical work on the trains there as well as test them!

Better shot from another angle of the electronic bench.

Unlike the last way my shop "was" set up, this time around things are being organized a bit better as seen here!

The train bench Detail cabinet. showing to have a secondary cabinet on top of it, that has since been removed (I did not like it there so I moved it else where till I see if I even need it, the area behind it and off to the left of it, has been fully peg-boarded, and a circulation fan put in the top right hand corner to keep heat & A/C in the entire shop....

THEN it was off to the Machine bench, where the Unimat is, and my Dremel Work station, The walls were horrible and needed something to be functional, SO having the amount of Peg-board I have, I thought why not! Removed EVERYTHING from the walls here placed the peg-board, and rehung mostly what I took down. Some small things I had on the wall here will be put back, BUT not where they originally were. Trying to utilize the space as best I can!

Then........ I was off to work on the wall behind my "General" bench, where I build the model cars!

One of the lights was removed (the one to the left of the bench!) THEN I built a "display" kinda case, thats NOT meant for "display" its a dust case. to put the current models I have out, in it to keep any and all dust off them! -It has since had a "seal" put onto the plexi-glass to "seal it to the case to prevent as much dust from getting in it as possible. This will ALSO serve as a drying rack, too..... For larger items to dry when painted to keep dust off them!

To the right of this bench is where the paint bench will be NOT for actual painting, but the mixing there-of, and working on the air brush as you can see it hanging there, as well as "storing" it when not in use but still at my finger tips! I also have a hot plate there for keeping my favorite drink warm. COFFEE!!!!! LOL

Dremel suspended from the ceiling at my fingertips as well.... ALL of these featured tools (suspended Dremels) are foot pedal controlled for RPMs! Sewing machine style!

As well as some designed, and custom made organization racks and chest of draws. The racks on the wall are made from metal studding pieces I salvaged from my last job I had building stores..... (I saved anything from 1 foot in length to 4 feet in length from a single build I was part of, that used fire-proof/resistant building materials throughout as per that cities fire code. Stuff works wonders for holding paints and taking up little space to do!

Then around the corner from the air brush, I got to the paint area!

This area has yet to be completed! I got the walls DONE first, and will build the bench-work next as it will connect to my wifes work area for her craft work! This bench will be sort of "shared"..... She will get the far right hand side of it, and I'll have just the far left corner for paint clean up, mixing, etc..... This bench will also have a removable leaf to it for doing bigger craft projects and for my Wife's sake, gift ideas shes in-progress of!

The lazy-Susan, had a modge-podge of tools in it, and some will be relocated to the proper bench, others will stay, for my General bench as its sitting on a TV swing arm wall mount, that I found at a yard sale last spring! For $2. And it does just what I intended it to do, perfectly, swing the tool rack to me, when needed and away from when not needed..... Out of the way when mixing paint, and back when done.....

Then, my Wifes craft bench..... She is STILL organizing as I'm not done building racks and drawers for her use!

Thats it for now. more to come soon!

Edited February 7, 2016 by 426-Hemi
Typing paragraph not spaced right!