Peter.
Looking really good,especially in such a short time.
Well done.
Take care and stay safe.
Regards Bill.

Peter,
I will be interesting to see how long it stays clean LOL!!

Martin555.

Finally cleaned and tidied the Workshop. There is still a lot of sorting and repositioning to do but the floor is clear. It is a little hot in this 36 degree heat but I added a small fan today and it is surprising the difference it has made. I have a surplus mobile air conditioning unit if things get too warm.
Peter.😊

Hi Peter.
Good to hear you are getting sorted in many ways.
We all look forward to your updates.
Regards Bill.

Hi Peter good to hear you have the machines installed that's the hard part done.Bench and the set up will come latter. A glass of water not a cold brew.
Rick

Nice looking level, essential for accurate boat building😁

JB

I am fortunate to have plumbing and heat. The workshop is in the corner of the basement where the laundry room would have been. Our house is a walkout basement with good ventilation and large windows.

Well Peter you can guarantee when that bit has pinged out of the tweezers it will try and hide under the heaviest machine it can find LOL!

Martin555.

Hi Ron.
The machine is supported by four machine feet. I drilled 12mm (1/2”) holes through the wooden floor. Moved the feet over the holes and screwed in M12 studs. Above floor the cabinet sits on M12 nut off of the wooden floor. Then another nut and washer bolts the whole lot to secure. The feet as supplied had too much bounce so I made some large stainless washers to reduce this to 3mm (1/8”). This is very stable. The machine does not make contact with the wood at all but is fully supported by the 22cm thick reinforced concrete slab.
The wood house is only 3m by 3m so not too much room. I have a temporary work bench but I have a lot of sorting out to do. I will change the bench later.
Clamps etc are still packed away. Now that the machines are in place, I can organise the rest.😀
No plumbing. The wife brings me a glass of water from time to time.

Hi JB.
The problem with levels is that I always buy one long enough for the job. Many jobs later, this is what happened. I have a couple more old ones as well. By the way, the shed is level. Oh, I missed the machine level.😃

Does your shop have a poured concrete floor? Painted, and the using tap-con to screw your machines to the floor?

Where will your work table, clamps, and such be going? Do you have any natural light? Is there plumbing? Washbasin?

Looking good Peter, but are you sure you have enough levels ?😁

JB

Looking good shipmate, maybe I should move then I could have a tidy workshop again (just for me).
Cheers Colin.

Things are looking up in the Shipyard. The really nice Hungarians have just helped me to place the Mill. I can now look at tidying the place.

Thanks for the help. I found the small hole in the side. Still looking for the others. Still no door so I have to go in through the top.😬

Neither Pete,
The Beatles were out.
It was Diane Ashley.
😎


"Origin of the song according to Paul-

McCartney said the song was inspired by Apple scruffs (dedicated fans who hung around outside the Abbey Road studio, the Apple Corps offices, and the individual homes of the Beatles), who broke into McCartney's St John's Wood home. Diane Ashley says:

We were bored, he was out and so we decided to pay him a visit. We found a ladder in his garden and stuck it up at the bathroom window which he'd left slightly open. I was the one who climbed up and got in.

She then opened the front door to let the others in. The scruffs also stole a number of photographs in addition to clothes. Another Apple scruff, Margo Bird, remembers being good friends with McCartney – she would often take his dog for walks – and later got a job at Apple Corps. She says that she was asked to retrieve a photograph of his father Jim, which she did."

Was it just Paul and Ringo Rick?😆

Pete

The Beatles Came in threw the (bathroom) window. Sure when you find the door the leak will be found LOL.
Rick

Hi Peter,
You say "I am experiencing a rather annoying water leak".

Well looking closely at the photos i would think it is coming in through the Roof, Window, and the Sides also where the Door should be LOL!!!

You also say:-
"It is also a problem getting into it as there is no door".

You are correct There is no door, LOL!
But again after studding the photos you could walk in through the sides then once inside you will clearly see the door frame so you could exit the shed from there LOL!!!

Martin555.

My new workshop is nearing completion. I am waiting for four huge locals to come to help me lift my milling machine into place. It weighs in at 220kg.
I have built a small shed at the rear to take all of our garden tools so that the ship building yard is just that. I am experiencing a rather annoying water leak. My brother and I have had a look but we have yet to solve the problem. Might be coming in the window. It is also a problem getting into it as there is no door.😁

Might just have been a clear plastic sheet rather than Poly or Acrylic. I've seen it here on kitset glass houses, ( I also used a similar cheap corrugated stuff for the roofing on the deck, and you can probably see in the picture that it has faded to light blue (was quite dark originally also gets brittle with age)
Just put up as a temporary roofing while working on the house. Been there 9yrs (only supposed to last 3), waiting for it to rip off one day. Poly roofing is expensive (about $100 a 12ft sheet). Used that on my first house along the garage (closed in double carport) sides and still looks the same after 24 yrs.

Must just have been the stuff on my greenhouse then ,was yellowed within a couple of years👍

Used 5mm Acrylic (perspex) sheets for my large sliding deck windows and it has been there for around 9 years without too much deterioration (faces Nth with full sun). I never touched it with any polish and just washed it with a hose on the outside, and it's stayed good all this time (pretty much self cleaning). Will scratch if you rub it with a cloth before removing dust though. Cost me about $600 for the 2 sheets.
Didn't want glass there as was too heavy and dangerous if it broke in the high winds we get here at times, (Acrylic flexes)

Hi Mary,
Sorry to disagree, the polycarbonate sheet I have used for the last 35+years is still as clear as the day I bought it. It comes with a 30 Year warranty against weather, uv rays, impact up to 100kg per square meter.
Slightly more expensive than standard p/c. 2 off 4ft x 3ft cost us £62 including delivery.
Cheers Colin.

The only problem with polycarbon is it marks and discolours ,I got toughened glass cheaper than I could get polycarbon .

That's a good idea to use polycarbonate sheet for windows. We've taken the easy way out and bought second hand double glazed windows and door. The imitation stained glass panels in the door add a nice touch.

Nerys

Thanks for the comments.
For safety as our grandchildren play here I used 4mm polycarbonate safety sheet direct from the manufacturer cut to the sizes of my window frames.
Cheers Colin.

Nice shed Colin. Much lighter than mine. A window needed in mine I think.😊

Workshop looks good jb.😊

Was that a flight of F16s that just went over?!!! (kiddin)😀 Interesting stuff.

Hi Doug,
In reply, Alice tells me she agrees with everything you say about the loop aerial. It has a motorised airspaced variable capacitor that can resonate it from about 3.4 to 10.2 Mhz. Yes it is very directional and should be on a rotator. It is a bit low to the ground but it does have a two sharpish nulls. It is designed for transmitting, but at very low efficiency! The capacitor won't arc over at even 100 watts of SSB! (Alice doesn't have a linear) but Alice uses it as a receiving aerial or extremely low power transmit because of the danger of high RF flux in the vicinity of it. The phone lines around here are overhead drop wires some are still unscreened pairs. She could be wrong as there are other noise sources, such as ethernet over mains wiring adaptors, SMPSU's and all sorts of poorly suppressed cheap crap but Alice thought that ADSL frequencies were something like 262Khz to 13.7Mhz well within the HF spectrum.

Cheers,
Nerys

Absolutely Nerys👍
many of my (former) customers wanted to use these things on HF, mostly from aesthetics or stealth (🙄) aspects. Er! Efficiency? Wossat? 😉
They're not actually designed for transmission! Unless the circumference is a significant proportion (>30%) of the wavelength to be transmitted.
Even then, put significant power into it and you risk burning anyone near it!
Put just a few watts RF power into a small loop antenna and you get kilovolts on the antenna terminals, that's cos the TX current in the antenna is so high. So it needs a large expensive resonating capacitor with a very high breakdown voltage and low dielectric loss.
What you have there looks more like a DF receiving antenna to me.
I trust it is rotatable cos it's propagation/reception characteristic will be two main lobes 180° apart on the axis through the centre of of the circle.

You mention "frequencies it's designed for", what frequencies are you using it for?
I assume shortwave.
Surprised that you have interference from ASDL! Although I realise that ASDL uses frequencies from 26.075 Megs upwards to 137Megs for the Upstream communication ASDL connections are usually screened underground cables which shouldn't bother you!?
Unless there's a fault in the cable or your local distribution box😠

I only came across such loops (or more usually rectangular frame antennas) on board ships as an attempt to reduce the radar signature. Unfortunately at the expense of COMMS efficiency.
☹️
Cheers,Doug 😎

Marky and Martin, that's a magnetic loop aerial, it's a very compact aerial for the frequencies it's designed for, but is better for receiving than transmitting. It's just one of the aerials in the garden.

cheers,
Nerys

Thanks for the compliments jbkiwi, Alice has a FRG7, sitting in the kitchen, it works but she has a lot of problems here with noise from overhead power distribution, ADSL broadband etc, but we can go up the mountain, a couple of miles away to practically complete silence.

Cheers,
Nerys.

Thank you for all those kind words Doug. Alice's call sign is G(W)7SEH which she has had since she was 18, but she isn't on the air at the moment as her 'shack' had to go when the room was converted to a Dialysis chamber (of horrors). To prove that I could learn something new at over eighty, four years ago, I did the Foundation course and have the call sign M(W)6TLN. Once the shed is completed, Alice will set the shack up again complete with work benches for her main interest of restoring vintage radios.
Future exploit, Alice wants to buy a milk float when one comes up at a sensible price and not too far from home and convert it into a campervan.

Cheers,
Nerys

Marky that is just a DF loop for one of her models LOL!

Martin555.

Nery's ,that's some serious radio antenna in the garden,or just bad telly reception😀,Great bit of workshop building 👍
Cheers Marky

Don't you mean "that's another Yagi" These ladies sure have a big 'Array' of talents don't they! Still have my old 1978 Yaesu FRG7 comms rec in its original box, can't seem to get a lot from this place, (facing Nth but have 10000v, 400v power lines down the road outside and just get tons of noise. Going to have a crack one day at putting a big whip up my 16m Macrocarpa tree, (had one while working on Norfolk Island (between NZ and OZ) and I got from Scott base to the Coast Guard in Kodiak island Alaska.) Used to enjoy listening to the US Coast Guard chasing smugglers etc.

You're onto it Martin, you'll be fine cuddling up to your specially heated giant model Sea Bass comforter!! (with LED night lights and Marylin Munro sound unit 😉

Kiwi of course ahem, cough cough. Alan Gibbs has a farm here on the Kaipara Harbour with fantastic huge sculptures all over it (he commissions artists from round the world) He also has the largest TESLA private lightening coil in the world outside his house there (check out Gibbs Tesla coil and Gibbs Farm NZ.) He also makes aqua quads, trucks and an aqua bike (many of the vehicle sales/ad demos are done on his huge private lake (created from a reshaped gully on the farm)
Ex CEO of Air NZ and a million other companies, lots of $$$ Check out Gibbs vehicles, could be some model possibilities amongst them (like the Aqua truck) Unfortunately another Kiwi co (like Hamilton Jets ) forced to produce O/S, but we still have Rocket Lab !! (so far)

Unfortunately, I sold my Vauxhall to a mate who put a full race 186 cui 1966 Holden motor and box (full race cam, head job, triple Strombergs etc) and a complete disc brake holden front end. He took it back down to Otago while he was at university, and won just about every hill climb event in their car club. He also had a fully worked 13:1 Norton commando which he won the clubs 'Flying mile' on a beach at 130mph.
We had a falling out later and he chopped the Vauxhall up and put it out for the inorganic kerbside collection, (probably to p me off) I only found out later that the Vauxhall was quite a rare version (full wind down windows, no 1/4 lights),- mind you I only paid $250 for it while at high school and old cars were worth nothing then, (once saw an XK120 at a car fair , bit rough but the guy (pipe smoking uni type) couldn't sell it for $400 because it smoked, (later kicked self many times!!!)
See Vaux in as bought cond (had run bearing) LOUD!!

Fun times Red,! few friends had proper (not repro) Mk 1 cortinas with alloy panels, everything drilled etc,- went like the clappers. Mate had an Anglia with 1340 crank and rods, cam, weber etc went real well too. Another mate had a 107e with disc brakes and a brand new Mk 4 Cortina 2L OHC motor and box (he worked for Ford and they were selling off old stock) Those were the days when you could build anything which would get a WOF , now almost impossible. Had a mate who had a Fordson pickup with a flathead v8 stuck just behind the cab for his lawn mowing business! Mk 3 Zephyrs with 283 Chevs were common, (made a nice car of them), virtually all my mates had some form of modified car or yank tanks.

"I have to share it with Alice. She is a radio 'ham' who collects and likes restoring vintage radios"
Ye Gods and little fishes! What an incredible pair of ladies😮
Both my main interests, ship modelling and radio, in one convenient package👍
Not to mention general handiwork!
Where have you been all my life??
What's your call sign Alice?
I never went for a Ham license (had enough expensive hobbies already) but did work the night shift for a mate of mine in Hounslow during 24 hour competitions, so he could get some kip. Very interesting.
He was quite impressed once when I made him some contacts in North Norway. We deduced that the transmissions might have been bouncing off the Aurora Borealis, cos we had to track with it to keep the link, using a rotatable log periodic antenna, as it wandered about!
We had fun erecting that huge HF log-p in his back garden, but that's another saga🙄
Respect to you ladies, looking forward to your next exploits, in the Coracle maybe?⛵😉
Cheers, Doug 😎

"Makes our attempts rather dull,"
Don't try to hide your whatsit under a bushel Colin😉
You an SHMBO ain't doin' so bad either👍
Although you don't bear much resemblance to Annie Oakley 😁😂🤣
😎

Nerys,
I have just showed my wife your new workshop and she said to me "if you want one like that make sure there is room for your bed"

I don't get what she means.

I think she meant get bunk beds, the bottom bunk for a bench and the top for shelves LOL!!

Martin555.

Shamefully extravagant, I love it. Makes our attempts rather dull,
See pics, wife's craft room 10x8.
And now building a small garage for my mums disability scooter, 8x5. This one we are building inside my garage as the weather is rubbish, once built and painted it will be dismantled into sections ready to bolt together on site in Aberystwyth. Both of them are built from scrap sheds from freecycle.
Cheers Colin.

Fantastic shed Nerys. Well done to you and Alice. Looks bigger than my house.😃

Hi Nerys,
You and Alice are both very skilful people, it's nice that you both have hobbies that you both enjoy and may it continue for many many years.

Martin555.

Thanks everyone for the very kind comments you are all making about our workshop, however, I must confess that I have to share it with Alice. She is a radio 'ham' who collects and likes restoring vintage radios , so also needs bench space.

Cheers,
Nerys

That's a brilliant shed Alice is building Nerys - looks even bigger than the ones at Hengistbury Head where people use them as "Holiday Cottages" on the beach.