But you can lift heavy things 🙄
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Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?
- Thread starter Dan Dubeau
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Clever.
I think I used Paint to make this. Dropped in screen shot images of the tools. I think.
Yo, see if you can click on those walls and drag them out a bit.
It's from 2006 before I had decent CAD. Totally didn't factor in shelf space or the bigger newer compressor. The sheet metal stuff or bench grinder never made it into this area. Nor did the casting bench.
Big dreams.
Guess I'm just a squatch. I put different sized rocks into a cardboard box, shake the box and sometimes an arrangement I like appears magically through the fog.
Seriously, I cut paper models of the footprint and arrange them by hand on a template of the room. No need for a puter.
I like that! Gunna hafta see if Android has an app like that.
Why is the main workbench upside down? I got a headache moving everything around in my head so I could read that.
Edit - too many choices.
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Dan Dubeau
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Tried that. Gave me a false high that I actually had that much more room to work with.
Reality is going to set in even harder when I start adding all the other stuff like the lathe, shaper, welders, etc....
Not to mention the piles.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Piles are assumed for every flat surface. Including floors
You've been doing CAD all along - Cardboard Aided Design.
You can laugh but I'm taking a box back to ON with a cardboard template for a part. Sometimes older technology is still reliable
140mower
Don
I'm taking a cardboard drawing home tonight myself to make a couple parts to get Dad's tractor back to being slightly less ghetto..... I just spent the last 3 days unfixing the creative wiring of days gone by. 🙄 😛
Nope, sorry Don but I think you're closer to Cro-magnon, Neanderthal's were the smarter ones. 😀
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
There's nothing more permanent that a temporary wiring repair....trailer wires especially.....
But does the tractor have a clock? Two birds one stone here 🙄
140mower
Don
Does the hour meter count? I fixed that while I was back there too, however, it might be backwards....... it could use a few less hours on it anyway. 🙄 😛
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
A couple more years and it'll be brand new!
To build a liberty ship, you take these plans, then lay out each steel plate in 1:1 scale on heavy paper stock. Cut out along the lines to make a tracing template. Then you roll up the paper templates, take them over to the fab shop, glue them down on to sheets of steel. Find a chunk of chalk or a grease pencil and trace the template on to the steel. Grab an oxy-acetylene torch and cut out your tracing. Weld together. Repeat until the hull is finished.
If paper and chalk was good enough to build a liberty ship in 42 days, no reason not to do the same today.
And Seaspan Shipyards in North Vancouver was still using the same technology to build ferries in the 1990s.
