2 car garage fabrication lab

I've been lurking for a bit now, checking out all of y'all's awesome garage/shops. I just moved out of a house where there's only one 220 plug. Naturally, I'm not moving all my tools unless something was done about electricity and lighting.

Updated the new place with 200amp main panel, and hooked up the garage with 125amp sub panel, some T5HO lights, a few 220 plugs on each wall, and a 5hp rotary phase converter. Now with most of my tools moved in, I'm ready for a Garage Warming Party.

but you're not interested in that stuff, you wanna see the tools, right?

here we go:

welding table and Syncrowave 250DX
4'x4', 1/2" top


matco 5 series 3 bay


Lincoln 175T mig, plasma cutter, 4x6 band saw (for sale), and Ellis 1800


BP clone step-pulley milling machine with Xfeed and DRO. Clausing 5914.
tooling are in the tool boxes in the corner, only thing I dont have is more space.


better shot of the clausing lathe


BruildPro table and a Matco 7 series 2 bay (holding the buildPro's tooling)




Tennsmith notcher, IR compressor, JMR 2" belt sander


there's a 12" shear somewhere in there, not pictured is a JD2 tube bender.

RPC panel (Leeson 5hp idler motor not pictured, Thanx ZTfab)


I like using stuff that was made by me. I'm interested in the manufacturing process. I tinker. I pretty much grew up in a glass factory that my family owned. Operated the mold since i was 4 (open and close mold by hand with a glob of molten glass dangled inches from my face, not the CNC-injection stuff of today where you push "start" and "stop" buttons in an air conditioned room).

I'm not in it to make money, but if you're gonna pay me to make you stuff, i won't say no. I make a wide range of stuff. From shoe rack, yard gates, camera accessories, to bed frame to *** toys (that's another topic all together).

anyway, that's my introduction, hope you enjoy the pics

That is a nice setup!

You TINKER???? Wow, what an Awesome collection of tools. Lurk no more. Thanks for sharing with us.

I've now learned about a few new items that can go on my wish list - Ellis 1800 miter bandsaw, BuildPro welding table, Bridgeport, Clausing... Wow. It's posts like this that spend my money faster than I can earn it. Thanks for enlightening me to what a garage coule be!

Of course you will have to post a few pix of the results of your labors and talent. At least those that are family friendly...

So what do you make?

Wow, that's a serious shop. Get adoption papers for 2.

Tell me about that belt sander

Very Kool Shop!

Nice shop! That BuildPro Table is awesome and has triggered a major case of tool lust!

Jim Stabe said:

Tell me about that belt sander

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http://www.jmrmfg.com/

They make great fab tools.

That's some seriously cool machinery you got there. I am deeply envious.
You gotta start posting more and don't scrimp on the pictures.

Bruce.

very nice stuff! I wish I had half of those machines

cajunfirehawk said:

So what do you make?

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Other people jealous.

i've made just stuff that's needed around the house, nothing spectacular, I actually just got started a couple of years ago

made this bed... (eastern king) it's huge


this is a camera flash holder for my brother


some adapter for more photography stuff


a bending plane tool for my tube bender.


century stand..


garage stool, made several of these. A mechanic friend of mine really liked it.

Diggin that bed, looks strong as **** too, how much?

Thanks a lot for the compliments. I've spent a lot of time hunting down these tools. Sometimes i win ($2000 for that matco 3 bay) sometimes I loose ($400 for a Speedaire 60 gallon compressor that's now a BBQ smoker).

Having the tools is the easy part, all it takes is money. Money can't buy you creativity or fabrication chops. I'm working on those now. I can't blame it on the welder, belt sander or cheap clamps when I make a non-functional widget.

Tools don't make up for talent. I've seen some amazing stuff on the web built with less tools then what's in my garage. Heck, the pictures of the stuff I built I just posted on this thread was built before I got most of these stuff.

Jim Stabe said:

Tell me about that belt sander

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that's a JMR 2 inch belt sander. Burr Kings were out of my price range, but my wallet liked the JMR. Especially used. It's got a 110/220 baldor motor, and I like it a lot. I have since rewired the motor to 220. Feels like it spins up quicker (probably psychological, or it may really spins up twice as fast because my old garage's 110 was on a single 15 amps circuit and was running everything).

edit to add: I've called JMR a few times, as i also have their tube notcher. Their customer service is great. I would highly recommend these two JMR tools.

I'm not saying this is as good or better then a Burr King, as I really haven't spend enough time with a BK. But for what I do, it does more than I need.

NUTTSGT said:

Other people jealous.

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Trust me guys, I don't do anything else. This is my ONLY vise. I hunt craigslist all day long when i'm not poking around in the garage. I'm practically a shut-in.

cajunfirehawk said:

Diggin that bed, looks strong as **** too, how much?

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thanks. How much? how much did the material cost? not sure I understand your question. I didn't built it to sell, I built it for me to sleep in.

For what it's worth...I appreciate your style of fabricaton..OVERBUILT!!!

If you wouldn't mind, could you put some tooling or fixtures inserted into the table so I can see how it works? (holds)

Also How does each section move? Are there rails to keep alignment of the sections?

Thanks...

Ok....scratch that....I just found a good video on the stronghand table...WOW!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7n7sHXAgQ-4#t=464s


Damn it....something else to buy...


-T