Show us your shops!

[Fly_Cut]

Nice setup Fly_cut.

Thank you sir.

 

[someidiot]

Sorry.
Client confidentiality.
I can only say so much.

Funny.

 

[Janger]

Umm... I'm just trying to find the words... oh, there they are: HOLY SHIT?! $4400?!

I'm not ready to expose the rest of my disaster-area-in-progress (had to jam a bunch of stuff in when the weather turned and I'm tearing out a wall), but I'll show you this much. After 25 years of not having any heat in my garage, I finally quit screwing around last winter and did something about it. Bought a 30K BTU/hr radiant on kijiji for $500 from a guy up around Red Deer. Cost a hundred to get it trucked here, and another few hundred for hanging hardware, the iron pipe and fittings for extending the gas line from the (attached) house, and proper inlet/outlet vent - and I'm pretty sure the total didn't break a grand. Just turned it up a couple of weeks ago and it's running nicely, though it didn't take long for me to figure out that a lot of the heat is rising - and staying risen - so I'm going to add a ceiling fan to stir it down. I'd never considered a forced air (either floor or hung) because of both the noise and the real estate (in the case of a floor unit).

Forgive the terrible photo - I couldn't back up further 'cause there's a car in the way. It's tilted at 45 degrees with the required clearances, so it's not actually pointing straight down at the various possibly-flammable stuffs on the shelf below - they're a little behind it.

Out in the country there are much cheaper options! I've don't think you would find anyone in town to hook a used gas appliance up, and a home owner can't get a do-it-yourself permit for gas, so you're kind of at the mercy of the HVAC companies. Or go your own way and accept any consequences.

 

[Fly_Cut]

Funny.

Wasn't meant to be.

 

[140mower]

Yo Don, that's not your shop I hope.

Nope, wasn't mine. Other side of the river.

 

[DPittman]

For those who want to know: "AISI 8620 is a low-alloy nickel, chromium, and molybdenum case-hardening steel. It’s commonly used in parts that need both toughness and wear resistance, such as camshafts, fasteners, gears, and chains/chain pins." -McMaster

And buttons!

 

[skippyelwell]

, though it didn't take long for me to figure out that a lot of the heat is rising - and staying risen - so I'm going to add a ceiling fan to stir it down.

Similar situation, ended up using an inline fan to blast the warm air down to the cold end of the shop.

 

[Susquatch]

Sorry chum, you forgot to factor in the cost of the machines to refill the space.

You must be using metric or new math again. That's not a cost - it's a benefit! Double negatives equal a positive!

Lucky guy forgot to offset the cost of the heater with the money he gets to spend on new machines!

It's analogous to the way the wife saves me money by getting stuff on sale and then spending the savings on more shoes.

 

[someidiot]

Out in the country there are much cheaper options! I've don't think you would find anyone in town to hook a used gas appliance up, and a home owner can't get a do-it-yourself permit for gas, so you're kind of at the mercy of the HVAC companies. Or go your own way and accept any consequences.

That sounds ominous, but so far the consequences I've accepted (working backwards) have been: A warm garage; a small gas grille on the deck that's really handy; a gas dryer that's less expensive to run than the electric it replaced; a gas stove (though my girls swear by the induction top that came with their house); a demand water heater; a high-efficiency furnace bought shortly after we set down the house. Given that the Atco installers who pulled in the service complimented my work, I don't have any worries.

 

[someidiot]

You must be using metric or new math again. That's not a cost - it's a benefit! Double negatives equal a positive!

Lucky guy forgot to offset the cost of the heater with the money he gets to spend on new machines!

It's analogous to the way the wife saves me money by getting stuff on sale and then spending the savings on more shoes.

I like the cut of your jib. There's clearly some fine thinking going on out there.

 

[jorogi]

You must be using metric or new math again. That's not a cost - it's a benefit! Double negatives equal a positive!

No, it's machinists mathematics, I think there's a chapter on it in the Machinerys Handbook. Simply put, nature abhors a vacuum. The space in question is in a workshop so satisfying nature inevitably means filling the vacuum with machines and/or tools. As the original source of this vacuum is home heating, all costs associated with, and subsequent to the replacement of said furnace, now fall into the "domestic operations" column of the household ledger thus in no way impacting the "toys" column.
Spend away Tom.

 

[someidiot]

Similar situation, ended up using an inline fan to blast the warm air down to the cold end of the shop.

Hadn't considered an axial blower like that - I do have a few of them around, but they're pretty noisy. It sure would do a good job of specifically relocating that hot air, and one could attach a flexible vent pipe to it so it can be redirected as needed. Hmm... that'd be particularly good for working in the pit under the car.

 

[whydontu]

No, it's machinists mathematics, I think there's a chapter on it in the Machinerys Handbook. Simply put, nature abhors a vacuum. The space in question is in a workshop so satisfying nature inevitably means filling the vacuum with machines and/or tools. As the original source of this vacuum is home heating, all costs associated with, and subsequent to the replacement of said furnace, now fall into the "domestic operations" column of the household ledger thus in no way impacting the "toys" column.
Spend away Tom.

My father’s saying was “junk accumulates to fill the allotted space”. Which is why I have two lathes, two drill presses, 7 engraving machines, and 300 hex keys. Just honouring my dear ol’ Papa.

 

[skippyelwell]

I put mine fan on a dimmer so I didn't have to listen to the fan on full all the time.