Garage Time Thread

Pretty much got the shop addition wrapped up aside from a few small details. Was tough to work on it with other commitments so nice to be at the near end. Nice to have plenty of power out there and no more lead cords

 

Heating system with added zone for the addition floor

 

New (to me) lathe
I found a lathe a couple hours away and trailered it home in a Jan snowstorm
It's 10hp, 3 phase, about 4300 lbs, I discovered it was all there functionally but had not been maintained recently so I took it all apart and went thru it plus added a digital readout. I had to make a few parts to replace ones that were worn.
Also purchased and wired in a 20hp rotary phase converter

 

As the late Steve Irwin would say...



That is so commercial looking, I'm looking for employees in the pics. I have a nice "tinkerer/maintenance" shop, but nothing as serious as that. That said, I inherited my dad's "serious" shop (why I never needed on) up in North Carolina, but it's a mess. I may post some pics on here showing the upcoming clean up effort, which is the tail end of a long list of things I had to do up there over the last couple of years. Also, may post some "what is this?" questions as well.

Great work though! What do you plan to do with it primarily?

 

Thanks, I have a machining side business that I hope to eventually do fulltime. I currently work nights and weekends at it. I have a CNC lathe also that I use mostly but it's nice to have the manual machine for one off stuff.
Winter months are usually slow so the timing of this project was good as I need to stay busy, my OCD gets the best of me sometimes and I end up going deeper into these types of projects more than planned. I have been looking passively for a bigger lathe over the last couple years. This new one makes my current one look like a toy by comparison. I had to move some things around to fit it in so I re-positioned my Bridgeport to a better location while I was at it.

 

Few things bring out the green in me quite like a home machine shop ..... I barely can fit my bikes in my garage.