08-28-2015, 01:56 AM
Hey fellas thanks heaps for the input, I really appreciate it. Especially considering I have very little idea what I'm doing here!
Have been having a bit of a bad time here this week, came down with a virus on Monday afternoon so have been off work all week and mostly in bed feeling like crap. Then yesterday we had about 2 inches of rain and our rainwater tank overflow leaked straight into my workshop and made small islands out of my lathe, mill and drill press. Then today the internet was down (had 2 power outages with all the rain yesterday, probably blew something).
Anyway I'm feeling a little better today, have spent what little energy I had cleaning up in the workshop, and now the internet is back so things are looking up.
Anyway back to the topic in hand.
Rob I really like the idea of using the moulding bench as a pattern making station as well, will definitely incorporate that into my setup. And a steel frame build suits me as well, never been much of a woodworker. The bathtub i plan to use for a sand basin is about 5' long so should provide a good basis for a nice big work area, I'm thinking if I have a divider in the tub I can use one end for shaking out and keep the used sand separate from the fresh.
I have a fair bit of re-organising to do to free up the space i have in mind for the moulding station so might be a little while before i make any progress. Have a few rostered days off now but still not much energy so this might not go as quickly as I had hoped.
And hey, nobody warned me about shovelling....
Have been having a bit of a bad time here this week, came down with a virus on Monday afternoon so have been off work all week and mostly in bed feeling like crap. Then yesterday we had about 2 inches of rain and our rainwater tank overflow leaked straight into my workshop and made small islands out of my lathe, mill and drill press. Then today the internet was down (had 2 power outages with all the rain yesterday, probably blew something).
Anyway I'm feeling a little better today, have spent what little energy I had cleaning up in the workshop, and now the internet is back so things are looking up.
Anyway back to the topic in hand.
Rob I really like the idea of using the moulding bench as a pattern making station as well, will definitely incorporate that into my setup. And a steel frame build suits me as well, never been much of a woodworker. The bathtub i plan to use for a sand basin is about 5' long so should provide a good basis for a nice big work area, I'm thinking if I have a divider in the tub I can use one end for shaking out and keep the used sand separate from the fresh.
I have a fair bit of re-organising to do to free up the space i have in mind for the moulding station so might be a little while before i make any progress. Have a few rostered days off now but still not much energy so this might not go as quickly as I had hoped.
And hey, nobody warned me about shovelling....
Lathe (n); a machine tool used in the production of milling machine components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.