Winky's Workshop Shop Tour! 2020
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- I've had a lot of requests for a workshop tour. After I completed the video I realized I left a few things out but this is the bulk of what's in my workshop. Question and suggestions upcoming videos are welcome!
the floor vac outlet is a stroke of genius !!!!
It seems to work well, thanks
That certainly is a spotless shop. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.
Old video... still fairly clean but a little more crowded
Dear Winky, you can be justly proud of your well equipped, functional layout. With dust collection on almost every machine, you could eat your dinner off the floor! Thanks for sharing.
This is actually the fist time I have ever had my shop organized this well. In fact it took me 63 years to get to this point. Okay, more like 53, I didn't have a workshop until I was 20. Anyway, it really is nice to have a clean shop. Thanks!
Thanks for the tour Winky. Every shop is different . The main thing is that your happy with it. Thanks again.
So true!
Nice layout and the thought process for your shop enjoy your videos thanks for the update
Thanks 👍
Thanks Mark, always love shop tours so interesting.
Thanks!
Your welcome, thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing. I upgraded my mill-drill per your video. Sure made a difference. Much better than cranking to raise and lower. Holds tighter too👍
That's great to hear!
What a great space Winky I could do a bunch of what you have done with my space. I call it organized confusion. Mixing wood and metals is really hard to do well. You have it pretty well figured out my friend.
It's a bit worse now due to the prices of wood and metal. I'm keeping more scraps! Ha
@@WinkysWorkshop I worked with small ranchers, farmers etc for many years. Nothing is thrown out until it is completely worn out or destroyed, EVER. Even an old bent and twisted piece of pipe may have a use tomorrow. The same as far as any kind of wood. Seems it all finds a purpose sooner or later eh.
The Shop looks Great Winky 👍
Thanks 👍
Nice set up. Love the Router Bit Storage.
Thanks... It used to be mounted on the wall. I was really surprised I had the right U bolts. The cabinet itself is really handy. the shelves pull out. If I need a bit I remove the whole shelf. this allows the shelves to be closer together and the bits to be double stacked. So the cabinet holds twice as much. Note the extra shelf on top, this is in case my mix of 1/4" and 1/2" shank bit changes. BTW the wood is Sassafras. It look like oak if you stain it but is super light weight.
WOW what a wonderful workshop love it love to have one like that cracking job well done winky
Thanks again Michael, I'll have to admit, my workshop has never been as organized as it is right now. I finally have is arranged where it's easy to utilize and keep clean. "Cracking Job"? Australia I presume? The internet is amazing.
@@WinkysWorkshop yes you have it nicely organised well done to you
Winkey,
Nice shop.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
That's a very nice set up. Definitely worth dancing a jig to.
That jig was hard on me... I think I'll forget the break dancing! Thanks for the comment.
Nice shop! Mine is always a mess. Cleaning is for when you get thru I just never get through lol.
Thanks for sharing.
Right now the shop is more organized and clean than it ever has been (I'm retired now) Thanks.
Love your "Turret Grinder"
Turret ! That's what I should have called it!
Good video. You have done an excellent job in maximizing your limited space. Very creative. It is so helpful when craftsmen share their skills and tricks with others. Keep up the good work. Bob in Jacksonville, FL
Thanks Bob. I'd love to have a larger shop but really my current shop is large enough for the type of work I do.
Nice shop! Real clean!
Cleaner than it has ever been I think! Thanks!
Getting around to catching up on videos. Nice shop tour, lots of great. Ideas. Nice and tidy as well. ☺ --Mark
Thanks!
Great looking shop hope you do a video on the south bend restoration.
That's the plan, it will likely be early spring before i get to it.
Very impressive. Your drill press sacrificel table eliminates clean up as well. Good show. Thanks
Thanks 👍
Just ran across your channel. Great shop tour! I haven’t got to all of your vids yet but all looks great. Love that square column setup on the drill press! Great channel, thanks for sharing!
Great to hear, thanks for watching!
Hi Winky. Very neat and nicely laid out. I like the way you have combined two somewhat different skill sets - metal and woodworking. They complement each other and obviously greatly help in building storage solutions. That floor sweep is clean genius! Very good use for a basement. Wish I had one but our frost lines are not deep enough for our 'new' buildings. Old ones here often have them as coal cellars - or wine cellars in a really big house! Lovely channel. Best wishes. BobUK.
Thank you very much!. The underground dust collection is just a pvc pipe that goes under my saw and over to the wall. The basement is heated so no danger of frost. After I cut the concrete I dug down 8 inches and installed 4 inch pipe. I drilled holes in the side of the concrete cut about every 6 inches and drive 6 inch spikes in. it bonded the new concrete to the old floor. I also installed the table saw electrical underground and put a utility outlet on the saw. NO tip hazard on the floor now.. I love it.
Lookin good, Thanks for the tour. later from Texas,usa.
You bet
hi winkhy ihave watched some of your videos and would like to say thanks for sharing knowledge and ideas with us looking forward to checking out the rest of series thanks again from jim in ireland
Hello Jim, this is an older video so a lot has changed around the shop. Thanks a the positive comment! Also thanks for watching.
Very nice. You should be very proud. Your creativity is awesome. Keep up the good work. Making videos while trying to get projects done has to take a lot of time away from productivity. It also cost money. I would like to thank you for providing us folks with many hours of great insightful, educational. And entertaining videos.
It's fun making the videos. There is some expense involved and a lot of time for sure but not extreme. A restoration video is the hardest. The power hacksaw restoration was a real pain. You leave the camera running because everything is unplanned. It's like you don't really know what you are getting into. The problem arises when you try to edit the video. You end up with 20 or 30 huge 1-hour plus video clips and you end up using two of three 5-minute sections from each video. The bogs a computer down to a crawl. Build videos have a plan and you only video what you need.
Enjoyable video, thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for watching!
1st your floor sweep is not crude it is the R&D phase.
2nd great job on putting the power and vac system under slab in your shop. And leaving a opening for the floor sweep.
3rd Awesome router table. I have been wanting to build a system that incorporated a sliding miter like yours. I am stealing your idea. 😁
4th to get your fence to move the same on both ends. (Hope i described it well enough) here goes. Draw four circles 3/4" around about 6" apart in a square. These are pulleys. Now draw a line from the top side of the upper left pulley to the top side of the upper right pulley. Now draw a line from the bottom of the bottom left pulley to bottom of the bottom right pulley. These lines represent a aircraft type cable about 1/16" thick. Now draw a × to the right of the top and bottom pulleys on each line 2" from the upper left & bottom left pulleys. This × represents hard attachment points to each side of your fence. Now draw a \ from the upper left pulley to the bottom right pulley. Now draw / from the upper right pulley to the bottom left pulley this now makes the cable connected. Now as you move your fence across your table it will move evenly because of the crossed cables each top and bottom attachment points move simultaneously in the same direction. You will have to add a tensioning pulley on a pivot arm to remove cable slack. You will have to use some additional pulleys to rought around your router but this will get you started down the path you desire. I have been married 35 years and i don't think i ever wrote something with this many words to her and Hallmark did not make a card describing this idea.
Ha... funny, thanks for the details. Send me an email mark21056@gmail.com
nice I think it is well organized!
Thanks Ron, it looks better now than it ever has.
I like your dual purpose work shop. Personally I more of a machining guy, but the layout is well thought out. I converted one of the 12” Craftsman wood bandsaws like yours to a metal cutting one. One of the handiest tools I have
Thanks James, machining only would certainly simplify my shop. I'd like to have a metal cutting band saw. I thought about getting a 14 inch wood band-saw and modifying my craftsman like you did but where would I put it. I'm thinking about restoring and selling the south bend. I was thinking a welding table where the lathe sits but maybe I can squeeze a small band saw in there too
Winky's Workshop I need more space. I’m looking to use a metal building “carport” mainly for my car and like welding and such. On the bandsaw conversion in my case the saw was $50 but the pulleys and pillow blocks was $150. The metal stand was bed frames and other material I had laying around or donated. I have the little HF table and it works ok. I just need some more bar welding clamps to use with it.
@@JamesDedmon - I use to have two good resources for steel, bearings, pillow blocks, and basic industrial junk. One source was was a fabricating shop, I knew the owner fairly well and he was always generous. He retired and sold his shop. The other source was the printing company I worked for. I'm retired now but still get some metal from time to time but not being there everyday limits what I can get. Fortunately I hoarded lots of stuff HA.
Very nice work shop you have worked very hard, it makes a big difference having a efficient dust extraction, I'm sure we would all be interested in seeing that lathe restoration, thanks for sharing 🇬🇧.
Thanks you, The lathe restoration will be a big job but i will be doing it soon. The lathe was designed for line shaft drive and the upper pulley drive is not original. There may have been a add on drive available but i don't have it... So, I'll have to make the drive. The one that is on it is very poorly made although the cone pulley will be used.
@@WinkysWorkshop My lathe would've also previously been driven from a common line drive in a university engineering shop. When the shop was discontinued, this lathe, which was the professor's lathe, got moved to and stored in a room and forgotten about for a long time. It was found a handful of years ago during a renovation project. The person I bought it from had to build a drive system for it.
@@RAYAR54 - Wow, that's very cool. I have no idea on the history of mine. The drive that came on mine was cobbled together when I got it. I'm guessing it was line shaft drive or a wall bracket at one time. Fortunately it came with a matching cone pulley. Whoever made the drive before drilled the bed (I would not do that) so I utilized the same holes when I made my drive. I found an old 1/2 HP repulsion induction motor to put on it. It must way 80 lbs. I put a reverse shift lever on it.... works great.
@@WinkysWorkshop Mine has a modern 1/3 HP that is electrically reversible. It has the lever switch and it's mounted on the leg just below and to the right of the QC gear box. it's in a very convenient location. When I got it, the switch was mounted lower and more under the QC gear box and it was zip tied on to some existing holes.
My motor bracket is mounted to the bed by a custom made clamp and also used two existing holes in the leg below it. I discovered the clamp was not allowing the carriage to fully travel to the left by about 2", so I was able to add about a 1/4" of spacers (two nuts) and used two slightly longer bolts in the clamp to allow the carriage to pass by it.
I like what you did with the reverse set-up on that motor. Looks good and seems to function beautifully.
@@RAYAR54 Yeah South Bend made drives support that clamp to the inverted V in the ways. I found one for $100 but I had already started building my current drive setup. Believe it or not I have a light switch for power on mine. I think I found one rated at 20 amp but I've used the standard 15 amp cheap switches for power before. In fact I had a 2hp table saw wired for 220 that used the cheap version. The table saw came with a toggle switch for power. I replaced it twice the first year I had it. Then I installed the surface mount box and light switch and ran it for another 7 or 8 years before I sold it.
Thanks for sharing! Nice work shop plus well organized. I like your belt sander. Do you have a video on that. Great job I'll be looking for some more videos.
Thanks, no video on the belt grinder yet but I need to do one... hopefully soon
My plumber suggests that i call it a water heater. If it was a hot water heater, it would heat hot water ;)
I admire you and your shop !! Wish I could hang out and get to know you!!
Maybe one day!
I'm not showing my workshop because it's a mess." Hmmm, you should see my 'workshop' - I can show you what a mess really looks like ! In all honesty, you should be really proud of the shop you have - particularly in respect of all the home made improvements to various things. I note another commenter likes your 'turret grinder/polisher' but for me the BESTEST part of your workshop is the hole in the floor to sweep the shavings into. Never seen that anywhere else and it's such a great idea to make clearing up so much easier !
Thanks! Yeah, I love my shop and love old machines too. The dust collection under the floor is common in cabinet shops and the woodworking industry but not so much in the home shop. It's very handy but the biggest plus is not tripping of a cord or dust collector duct! Cutting the basement floor was very easy, I rented a wet saw to do it. Well worth the time and effort.
@@WinkysWorkshop Haven't see it in the UK. More likely to have a duct coming down the wall in a corner and ending just above the floor for a similar purpose - but not in the floor !
@@WinkysWorkshop The old lathe - physically explains the name 'back gears' !
@@millomweb Yes it does!
Nice tidy workshop till i get in there for a couple of days, lol. It looks strage having a mill with round column and drillpress with square column, its usually the other way round, especially square column on the mill gives better results Its still a shop to be proud of.👍
You are right... my shop is backward. The mill needs a square column. I'm glad to have a mill but the round column is crazy. With that being said, the drill press s very accurate, probably + or - .003". For hole drilling this is almost always close enough. With the Harbor Fright hand drill driving the table lift locating and drilling is very fast. I guess what I am saying is, if I had a normal mill I'd still use the drill press for most drilling.Thanks for the comment.
Nice shop. That floor sweep reminds me of something from the movie Robinson Crusoe
I agree! Thanks
Well said. I seen a version staring Dick Van Dyke when i was a kid at the drive in. I laughed so hard i missed a lot of the movie.
You think your shop is unorganized come stumble throw mine,hell I lost a shop vacuum, took twenty minutes to find it. Great video man,keep'um coming.
Sorry about the shop vac... lol. My shop was clean the day of this video although I keep it fairly clean anyway. My shop is 24 x 26 and I have both metal and woodworking machines in it. It's hard to find a place to work sometimes!
"...Several requests for a shop tour." And this video saves you getting one from me :)
Right on!
Well done Winky, thanks for such an interesting tour and description of your workshop, you certainly have come up with some super ideas. I love your wire brush / buffing wheel combo, wish I had room to make one.
It beats the heck out of clamping the buffer to my work bench. Thanks!
If you sell your belt grinder I would be EXTREMELY INTERESTED in purchasing it!! Please keep me in mind. Thanks!!I love watching all your video's keep them coming!!!!
Thanks Dave, I'll keep you in mind.
You have a nice shop there Winky. Not sure about the dancing machinist. 😊😁🤷♀️
I think I'll retire from dancing... I'm too old!
Your dust collection system looks powerful enough to pull your shoes off. Does the built-in dust collection on the Porter cable sander work okay?
The dist collector is 2.5 HP and works great. The good part is that is cleans the air better than most. The bad part is the drum is too small and fills up quickly. It has about the same suction as any 2.5 hp dust collector. The sander with the dust collector works great but it works well with the built in dust collector. too but the bag is messy to empty.
Thanks for the tour. How do you like your Porter Cable disk/belt sander?
Your welcome. I never use the disk but the belt is fine. The table is a little flimsy but bang for the buck its a good sander.
By the way, what brand and model is your bench vise?
I'm not sure on the brand but it's made in Poland. It's an excellent vise but has one negative. On most vises the back jaw is stationary. This allows you to hold something long vertically. For instance, if you wanted to hold a piece of pipe to saw a notch in the end. With my vise the fixed jaw is the front jaw and the back jaw moves. The bench gets in the way of anything hanging down below the vise.
Very clean workshop.How did you do that?
Lots of effort... ha
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Do you have an opinion on whether using a 2hp 3400 rpm pump motor for a 2" belt grinder is a waste? Last night I watched your M-II belt grinder build and think you stepped up the speed to 4K FPM. Would you think there's any point to a still higher speed?
A lot of people use a 2 hp but personally I think this is overkill unless you want to run the belt super fast. I've read about knife makers that run them about 7,000 FPM but most everything I have read 4,000-4,500 is ideal. Mine is around 4,000 with a 4.5" wheel... maybe go up to 5" to take advantage of the power. There are two other consideration. 1) large wheels are hard on a motor while starting (probably not a problem with 2-hp) and 2) Balance. Mine is very smooth. I don't know if I got lucky or what but I'm guessing the weight of metal is consistent.
@@WinkysWorkshop Thanks, Wink. This late in the game I'm inclined to use what I have rather than acquire new stuff. Hope there is a smaller sing phase motor somewhere in my scatter.
@@markkoons7488 Over powered is better than under. I'd go for it.
You didn't show the metal lathe you use?.I think it's a logan.I have a Logan 11" mod 1920.Thanks for your great vids.Ernie,
I did show it but not in much detail czcams.com/video/ShF9HhcubAA/video.html
Mine's a 1947 820 10". Logan started making lathes in 1935. The first lathe was a 200 but had no model as it was the only lathe they made in 1935.
You didn't talk about your Logan lathe what model is it what swing is it?
Oh... sorry. It's a 1947 model 820 with a 10 inch swing. I restored it several years ago. Thanks for watching!
Mark, is this in the garage, under your house?
Yes sir! Perfect climate control year round!
Very interesting video thanks. Reading through the comments section is often as interesting as the video too. We all struggle with shop size. My shop is 16' x 32' and I can't believe how cramped my floor space has gotten. Mostly metal work and some woodwork too. After watching the video, I'd like to know the floor size of your shop (length x width)? Thanks.
Hello Jim. My shop is 26' x 24' but it needs to be about twice that big. Separating wood working from metal would be a big plus. However, I suspect I'd fill it up anyway. I'd love to have a surface sander, a nice welding table and a TIG welder but they just won't fit. More table space would also be a huge plus. Currently my 4 x 6 table saw out-feed table gets very well utilized.
@@WinkysWorkshop Thanks Winky! I am fortunate enough to have a large concrete pad 13' x 30' just outside my shop which helps a lot (weather permitting). Local building codes prevent enlarging my shop though.
@@Changtent - I have a slab outside my shop also. It's handy for spray painting a bunch of parts or working on big stuff. I need to put a cover over it.
9:46 what kind of vise is that? Lots of creative interesting ideas in there.
Thanks, I have no idea on the vise. It's made in Poland and had an logo... like 3 letters inside each other. I got it at a garage sale about 40 years ago. It is an excellent vise but the back jaw moving is a bad idea. You can't clamp a bar or pipe of any size and let it hang below the vice. Still I've worked around the limitation for the last 40 years!
@@WinkysWorkshop Speaking of Poland and horizontal boring, I bought a Polish horizontal mortising machine. I'll post you a link with photos.
@@EngineersWorkshop - Interesting!
Nice shop. Thanks for sharing. How do you explain to people how you got holes in the back of your shirt :) Gary
HA... I cheated, there was a pillow and a lazy suzan on the floor!
That definitely sounds easier on the body :)
Thanks for the tour of your shop Winky. I always enjoy your creativity. Are you planning on fixing up the South Bend for your main lathe?
My Logan 820 is a really nice lathe although I need to do some work on the back gear. I suspect I'll keep the Logan as my primary lathe. The south bend has a sleeve bearing spindle and the Logan as ball bearing. I've never used a South Bend before but from what I hear the sleeve bearing are not quite as solid and they can not handle higher speeds. I'll know better when i get it running. I like the larger spindle bore for sure but the main reason I bought the lathe is that I got a very good deal. $100.
Your shop looks like a hospital next to my mess.
Ha! I had it cleaned up for the tour. Thanks!!
clean . not at all like my shop . that a mess .in retired But never have the time to clean up it seems LOL .
I enjoy my shop when it is clean. When it's a mess I lose tools constantly
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Thanks
Why some people got so many tools?
Addiction problem
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I am ashamed at how messy my shop is. Any flat surface collects junk. Your water heater looks neater than mine...
Mine is definitely the cleanest it has ever been right now. Of course being retired played a huge part in that.
do you hire a cleaning lady?
I keep it fairly clean but this is the cleanest it has ever been! And no cleaning lady.