"Clean" Area in your shop?

[R Q]

Can't you use your office? maybe seal it off a little better. Might be out of they way to get things while you are working, but seems logical to me. Not really sure what you use it for at this point. Even just a steel upright cabinet in it, I don't imagine much would get inside the cabinet inside the office with the door shut.

Yes but it's packed pretty full for storage plus it's inconvenient for goggles. I need something like a bathroom vanity but taller and deeper. I think I'll be looking for a couple of lockers on our antique trips soon. They are just the right size I'm looking for and compact and I see them often (until now when I'll be looking for them)

 

[awheelterd]

I'm failing to see what you guys are needing to keep clean? My shop is perma coated in a fine layer of grinder dust. Need safety glasses? Pick up the least scratched pair from the table and wipe the dust off with your shirt. Need a welding helmet? Same process. Just remember to grab a few paper towels on the way out the door to wipe the grime off your forehead from the helmet headgear.

 

[mcutler]

I'm failing to see what you guys are needing to keep clean? My shop is perma coated in a fine layer of grinder dust. Need safety glasses? Pick up the least scratched pair from the table and wipe the dust off with your shirt. Need a welding helmet? Same process. Just remember to grab a few paper towels on the way out the door to wipe the grime off your forehead from the helmet headgear.

[emoji28]

For me, it's more about overall cleanliness throughout an entire build. I'm a very organized ocd type, and when shit gets scrambled and overwhelmed, my productivity and sunny disposition drops. Keeping dust off seats and other expensive parts that myself and clients have paid for is important to me, and speeds up things in final assembly. As well as tools that shouldn't see metal dust, including my lungs.

This way, the main area shouldn't need a good sweeping and cleaning but once a month or so, where as the dirty room will get swept daily... or not. Easier to sweep 300ft² vs 1344ft².

By the by, I've also closed in a second attached shed at 375ft² that will be the parts warehouse and shop buggy storage. There will be a mezzanine (which will be 45" from ground to store mounted wheels and tires below) with (5)-4x6x2' shelving racks for all client parts with inventory sheets on each client's designated shelf unit.

(Also built a new 375ft²shed closed on 3 sides for other storage and activities- work van parking. )

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[awheelterd]

Insert xzibit meme "I see you like lean-to's, so I put a lean-to on your lean-to"

 

[paradisePWoffrd]

[emoji28]

For me, it's more about overall cleanliness throughout an entire build. I'm a very organized ocd type, and when shit gets scrambled and overwhelmed, my productivity and sunny disposition drops. Keeping dust off seats and other expensive parts that myself and clients have paid for is important to me, and speeds up things in final assembly. As well as tools that shouldn't see metal dust, including my lungs.

This way, the main area shouldn't need a good sweeping and cleaning but once a month or so, where as the dirty room will get swept daily... or not. Easier to sweep 300ft² vs 1200ft².

By the by, I've also closed in a second attached shed at 375ft² that will be the parts warehouse and shop buggy storage. There will be a mezzanine (which will be 45" from ground to store mounted wheels and tires below) with (5)-4x6x2' shelving racks for all client parts with inventory sheets on each client's designated shelf unit.

(Also built a new 375ft²shed closed on 3 sides for other storage and activities- work van parking. )

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Very cool. I have been talking about adding on a "parts room" off the back of my shop for a while. It would make the shop space seem much bigger.

Im guessing the dock height door ended up not being used much?

 

[mcutler]

Very cool. I have been talking about adding on a "parts room" off the back of my shop for a while. It would make the shop space seem much bigger.

Im guessing the dock height door ended up not being used much?

Thanks.

With the current workload, I have 6-7 clients parts (and the shop buggy's) already here or arriving daily. And it really all gets in the way, and cluttersome for workflow. It's been a hindrance for some time on my OCD and efficiency. There are currently 22, soon to be 26, mounted 42+ tires and wheels on the property and it's a challenge to keep them from getting nasty when not attached to their units.

Never intended the 'dock' door to be used as such. It was just cross ventilation, (which I don't need any longer with hvac and the other side being the dirty room now), because I had the doors in surplus. Now that door will be used to access the 'warehouse', and walk out onto the mezzanine, with steps down to concrete. Tube bender cart will remain in warehouse, just don't use it much (especially with my chassis being CNC cut bent) and the cart is huge and heavy. The roll up door on opposite wall has been closed up with a restaurant style swinging man door to enter the dirty room. I'll reuse that particular roll door on my carport building, being that it's roll door is broken.

 

[Jody Treadway]

This man speaks truth. Never seen anything quite like the Treadway shitter. Gears are doing great though Jody, thanks again.

I don't mean to be a messy Marvin in regards to the shop crapper. I piss outside usually and only go in there to wash up before leaving.
Regardless, as soon as I'm not slammed building diffs, I'll go all HGTV on it.
Until then...I personally like the 1/4" of grinder dust on the seat. Even @Loganwayne hovers when he squats here.
Bonus points for the tubing bender doubling as a TP holder. Which reminds me, I'm out of striking paper.

 

[awheelterd]

I don't mean to be a messy Marvin in regards to the shop crapper. I piss outside usually and only go in there to wash up before leaving.
Regardless, as soon as I'm not slammed building diffs, I'll go all HGTV on it.
Until then...I personally like the 1/4" of grinder dust on the seat. Even @Loganwayne hovers when he squats here.
Bonus points for the tubing bender doubling as a TP holder. Which reminds me, I'm out of striking paper.
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Reminds me of the machine shop I use's bathroom. Do you have the 90's playboy posters on the wall too? I remember the first time dad took me there when I was a wee lad. Had to take a leak and they directed me to the bathroom. I peed there at least twice every visit after that

 

[Jody Treadway]

Reminds me of the machine shop I use's bathroom. Do you have the 90's playboy posters on the wall too? I remember the first time dad took me there when I was a wee lad. Had to take a leak and they directed me to the bathroom. I peed there at least twice every visit after that

No bush princesses, but there are some mini-posters from ATX Wheels and some other vendor.
Plus a super cool Jeep poster with a bunch of random outhouses. Says "Go where few have gone"

 

[jeepinmatt]

I don't mean to be a messy Marvin in regards to the shop crapper. I piss outside usually and only go in there to wash up before leaving.
Regardless, as soon as I'm not slammed building diffs, I'll go all HGTV on it.
Until then...I personally like the 1/4" of grinder dust on the seat. Even @Loganwayne hovers when he squats here.
Bonus points for the tubing bender doubling as a TP holder. Which reminds me, I'm out of striking paper.
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Do you poop in the toilet tank first and then flush?

 

[Jody Treadway]

Do you poop in the toilet tank first and then flush?

Upper decker.
The well water here at my shop is admittedly pretty disgusting.