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trim router on the floor that makes me feel at home.
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Hahaha - you know why the router's on the floor, don't you?
when it’s down there, it can’t fall any farther?
Mike I want some of those racks.
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when it's down there, it can't fall any farther?
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Exactly....
We have about one micron of tolerance between box sitting ''too low'' and ''too high''. Once we get that puppy set to ''just right'', I'd like to weld it there. Every time it fell off my tool table I'd have to spend 45 minutes re-setting it. Kirk B (much smarter than I) told me just to leave it on the floor.
girvin, any good metal fabricator/welder can make you a set, but it ain't gonna be cheap. If you want more specs/dims I can supply. Only change I'd advise is some small gussets on the corners of the end pieces.
I know what you mean. I have several routers, each adjusted for a particular task, with a particular bit installed. It’s too much of a pain to have to re-adjust… and I hate dropping tools! (mine don’t fall off tables, but I do knock them off once in a while.)
Man, Paul – I don’t know if I’d EVER come out of that deluxe workshop. I don’t see the bar or couch, but there’s room.
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(mine don't fall off tables, but I do knock them off once in a while.)
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Hahaha some more - whaddaya trying to do, unseat Greg Tate as ''funniest man on swaylock's''?
I swear sometimes stuff jumps off the table, sort of a ''tool suicide'' leap. And then there's the old corallary to Murphy's Law: ''A dropped tool will land where it can do the most damage''.
Because I've had several requests, here's some basic measurements off my racks. The baseplate on the floor is 6'' square, tapcon holes (note washers on tapcons) 4.25'' apart. I don't know the exact size of the tapcons, and I'm not backing one out to discover. The 3'' upright off the baseplate is 18''. The 2.5'' that sleeves into it should be long enough to go to floor when rack is in lowest adjustment position. There is a thin ''wrap'' of neoprene (or similar) on the 2.5'' to make the upright assembly very snug and solid.
The horizantal 3'' is 36'' long and it is 26'' off floor in my set-up. If you're doing a lot of tiny narrow boards, make it a little less than 36''. Nuts are tack-welded to provide threading for bolts that secure adjustment points.
The yokes are plate steel (forgot to measure thickness) 4'' wide, welded to the 2.5'' tube that sleeves into the horizontal. Yokes are 9'' across at bottom, 12'' vertical, 3'' lip that blank sits on. As mine are set, the lip is at 38.75'' off floor. I have enough padding on mine to bring work height to just over 41''.
Thanks for the information. Industrial Metal Supply in Irvine for the materials. Time to break out the Lincohn Welder and make a few.
I like the single stand. Easier to keep racks level.
Best set of racks I’ve seen (shaping racks that is).There are Racks and then there are RACKS, if ya know what I mean. The single point on the floor is PERFECT. How many times have you stubbed a toe on stand up racks? My buddy and I are designing a new shop and I suggested we put in a whole house vacuum set up not for shaping but to clean up the floor easily. We are going to put in toe kicks at the perimeter with vents and with the system on, just have to sweep to the walls and pick up all the residual dust. This coupled with the recovery system for the planers will make it much easier to keep most of the dust off the floor, walls , and everything else. This will be done all on a raised foundation to make room for ducting. Hope it works!
I knocked most of the dust off and took glamour shots last night, should have included these in previous post...
Thanks for photos. I will build off of them.
Happy Fathers Day!
Here’s the shaping bay some friends and I built relying 100% on insights from Swaylocks! The actual shaping bay is 7.5’ x 11’ - we put up two walls and framed a door to create the shaping bay in the corner of a semi-underground storage room in Marin County, California. The outer room is where I do non-UV glassing and stash the blanks.
Huge thanks to all for sharing their ideas here - this wouldn’t have been possible without you.
Shlac
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Hi am Lilly,
The shaping bay pictures that are displayed above are very nice.
But I don't know what is Swaylocks?. Please give reply.
Thank you.
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Sway Locks is a commercial/ industrial/ military security firm where we specialise in currency vault locking mechanisms.
Focussing on securing the national bullion and cash reserves for nations around the world our mechanisms have a patented SWAY technique where the combination constantly occilates or 'sways' through millions of combinations every second making it impossible to illegally open our mechanisms.
We have offices in many countries and our company has the highest security clearances from agencies around the globe. We have multi lingual representatives who are only too willing to offer a unique service in securing your vast cash reserves as though it were there own.
What is SWAYLOCKS you ask...?
the SWAY is derived from the beer posters imbibe.
LOCKS is what happens to all the interesting threads.
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paul..
now i know what heaven looks like...
i amso not worthy.
wow.
Hello,
Time to show you guys my little factory
Everything you see i did by myself.
I'am a 24 year old surfboardbuilder and repairguy
Located in Belgium
Entrance with the greatfull death logo on the wall by RICK GRIFFIN
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The shapingroom
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The glassingroom (did al the paintwork myself)
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The sprayroom i love jimmy
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thanx to my friend Glenn for the style pics
cheers Angelo
Wow awesome room. Now get to practicing. Remember don’t plane to much, don’t over shape.
Where in Belgium? And under wich name? I suppose you’re not arrowhead?