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Offline jefftrin

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Show us your Workshop
« on: December 25, 2015, 08:30:28 PM »
Recently due to circumstances beyond my control I lost my 1080 square feet workshop and 90% of my tools and machinery......Now im in a rental and starting from scratch

The property has a 20x8 feet room much like a single mans camp donger off a mine site but stripped out of beds and furniture .The room had previously been used as a hobby room so I have claimed it for the new workshop.

First restriction I cant screw anything to walls
Second restriction wife says no money for workshops so I took this as meaning if I can do it for very little its ok
pic 1 outside of the Donger

pic 2 putting together Dexion shelving I love this stuff few clips and a couple of nuts and bolts and its all over .I managed to pick up the shelving out of a hospital rubbish skip for $10 a bay
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Re: Show us your Workshop
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2015, 08:51:28 PM »
pic 3 first 3 bays in place

pic 4 workbench 1 made out of salvaged cyclone fencing, start of the electrical someone's fish tank fluro, the red overhead lockers where a steal delivered damaged with forklift holes in boxes I bought site unseen for $40 got them home unwrapped thinking panel beating and new paint , forklift tines had only gone into polystyrene
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Re: Show us your Workshop
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2015, 09:05:15 PM »
pic 5 I salvaged a old kitchen cupboard for a demolition job

pic 6 workbench 2 the nuts bolds screws and timber was procured from two pergolas I had demolished a couple of weeks ago the legs are oregon pine all the workshop tops and backboards where left over mezzanine flooring picked up at a salvage yard for 20 dollars for three sheets and I just cut of the water damage ,the timber overhead cupboards ive started are all made from roadside throw out furniture , wardrobes and all kinds of Ikea junk

Running total at this stage is $40 Dexion shelving $40 red lockers $20 for mezzanine flooring =$100

A work in progress more so come
« Last Edit: December 25, 2015, 09:15:58 PM by jefftrin »
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Offline john k

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Re: Show us your Workshop
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2015, 09:19:58 PM »
Excellent work and wonderful scrounging.   Sorry to hear you lost your last shop, I would find it devastating.   For my shop I built the work bench from scrap dimensional lumber.  The steel shelving I drug home from work when the parts department upgraded.  The light over my bench was $5 from a thrift shop.  I'd say you have done extremely well.  Keep the receipts so you can convince the wife!
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Re: Show us your Workshop
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2015, 12:26:13 AM »
Nice shop, great job for $100. keep it up...
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Re: Show us your Workshop
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2015, 07:01:07 PM »
Very nice, especially for the money you've spent. I really like those "damaged" overhead lockers. Please let me know if you get any extras :grin:
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