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captain_john
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Im impressed with the can do attitude. Im not sure I would have even started if I had a shop tha small. Impressive!!
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Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
Current Build: 2 years into a beautiful little girl
nice DRDT-2 Thanks for the encouragement, men. We'll see how far I get in here. After all, it's taken me the better part of a year just to acquire some tools and start to figure out how to use them. But it seems I'll have enough room at least for the tail.
I'm finding that, obviously, I can only have one thing in front of me at a time. So the dimpler goes on the floor under the blueprint shelf when I'm not using it. One untouted advantage to the DRDT is that it's so heavy that you don't need to bolt it down. I was sliding it all over the table, turning it at an angle, etc., to keep the skin from hitting the wall as I worked on it. And since it's one-handed, I don't need to surround it with equal height table top, just balance the skin on it with the other hand.
The compressor is behind the wall by the light, in the laundry room. The big parts I'm not using are still in the shipping box under the bed. And when I need to use a band saw, milling machine, etc, I take the part down to the shop where I work.
So I'm not 100% limited to doing everything in this little room. But it's great to have it at home. I rented a 500 square foot workshop for a few years once before for a project, and I never went down there because once I got home I didn't feel like going back out.
Jon
I'm finding that, obviously, I can only have one thing in front of me at a time. So the dimpler goes on the floor under the blueprint shelf when I'm not using it. One untouted advantage to the DRDT is that it's so heavy that you don't need to bolt it down. I was sliding it all over the table, turning it at an angle, etc., to keep the skin from hitting the wall as I worked on it. And since it's one-handed, I don't need to surround it with equal height table top, just balance the skin on it with the other hand.
The compressor is behind the wall by the light, in the laundry room. The big parts I'm not using are still in the shipping box under the bed. And when I need to use a band saw, milling machine, etc, I take the part down to the shop where I work.
So I'm not 100% limited to doing everything in this little room. But it's great to have it at home. I rented a 500 square foot workshop for a few years once before for a project, and I never went down there because once I got home I didn't feel like going back out.
Jon