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Presenting my workshop and how I am fighting uphill to get order into it
Hellmut1956:
I am currently working on making a dedicated table for the 3D printer. Just this week I decided that it will also be on wheels. One reason is that the wheels on the table for the circular saw do slip over the floor when its breaks are set. So the new set of wheels I hope the table will not slip anymore. So I will use the current set of wheels for the 3D printer table. Sadly the lockdown makes it very difficult to get wooden plates cut exactly in the dimensions I want them. Potential suppliers speak that the dimension would be +-2mm which is unacceptable for me. I will buy one wooden board for the bottom so that the wheels can be attached there. The second wooden board would be attached vertically to the rear side of the table to make the table more rigid. The right side of the table will be screwed to a shelf that I have made more rigid by using a steel board. So that will make it more difficult to move it but will add considerably to the rigidness of the 3D printer table.
I am also planing the cabin I will build around the printer to protect it from dust and chips the table saw and the table router will make. This also opens the possibility to heat the air around the printing volume of the 3D printer as required for filaments of certain materials. But the key is, that once I have transferred the 3D printer to its new table from the working surface of my old workbench finally, after quite a few years, I will work on fixing my milling machine.
Hellmut1956:
Preparing to build the table for the printer in times of lockdown is a bit challenging.
I have started to use my circular table saw to make the drawers for the cabinet I have built for my circular table saw and router table combination. It has become a very high priority because I had the chance to buy and get the wooden boards I will be using for the cabinet for the 3D printer and the boards to make the drawers for the cabinet of the circular saw. I tell you, those boards were really heavy. I bought the 2 largest boards in the morning hours and succeeded to get them near my house using the bus. I went again to get more boards for the printer cabinet and the drawers and I did underestimate how heavy they were. When I arrived with the bus to the bus stop close to my home I had to call my wife to help me. It took us 2 trips, a lot of sweat, and injuries in the heel area of my left leg. After having done it I had a lot of pain from over-exercising myself, the pain of the muscles, but also the other kind of a pain in both my legs and hip that kept me from recovering for 2 days. But hey, the boards are now at home.
As the cabinet I am about to do requires joining a lot of boards I decided to buy a dowel drilling set so that drilling the holes for the 5 mm wooden dowel at the exact locations hopefully will be easier now.
I hope I am capable to accomplish the task well.
Hellmut1956:
Well, I had problems trying to drill holes for wooden dowels with a diameter of 5 mm.
I am in the process to build the drawers to be placed in the spaces below the equipment. my concept is to put a wooden plate over which the drawers slip. That means that the holes drilled into those MDF wooden plates need to be in exactly the same position as the holes drilled into the lateral walls for the wooden dowels. One problem is to access the places on the walls, especially the middle wall while starting to install drawers. While I have decided to begin just fixing the wooden plates on its 4 corners, a second problem remains in getting the wooden dowels and the wooden plates on both sides of the center. A single wooden dowel would be used to fix the wooden plates on both sides. But how do I get those wooden plates that just fit in the space on the right side?
Another problem is the depth of the drawers. I did learn from the huge drawer I had above the "hangar" I laced for my hulls below the so-called old workbench. Are the drawers too deep the probability that chaos happens just by putting stuff in them for a while. The top drawer on the left side has to have the full depth as it is there to collect dust and chips falling from the table saw. But the other drawers will just have 50% of the depth so that the option is left for me to add drawers from the other side of the furniture.
The next challenge that I did not succeed properly with, was drilling the holes into steel bars that will stabilize the structure of the 3D printer. Investigating the options in YouTube channels I came across a video of the channel called Ingos Tipps about a drill bench. Here a picture of what I do mean:
The bench is full of wonderful features that you can see in the video. It is in German, but the images say enough! So I decided to buy the drill shown in the picture. It is a bit newer version but otherwise identical. I do like especially the cross of 2 lasers it has, which show exactly where the center of the hole to be drilled is going to be. The drill is due to arrive here tomorrow.
Hellmut1956:
The first bench drill I received did not work and today I received the replacement. I have set it up and it works. But I found out that there is a certain amount of vibration when the drill is working. I will buy a plate of rubber as it is used in homes to reduce the noise generated by a washing machine i.e. I will place it below the drill to prevent the vibration to get into the surface of my new workbench that has the milling and lathe machines on it.
Also today I received the news that the radial ventilators I have ordered will be delivered today April 10th.
This is the "small radial ventilator i did purchase with the intention to be used as a part in a system to remove the dust and chips with which the air in my workshop is highly polluted.
This filter category G4 is there to catch the greater párticles in the air to reduce them in the air going through the ventilator and into a cabin for my 3D printer.
These pocket filters are placed behind the first filter shown above and it catches particles down to 1 µm. This way the air will not just be fine for the 3D printer but also for me and my health in my workshop.
Here the large radial ventilator I did purchase and that will arrive tomorrow too. I am planning to use it to decontaminate the air in my workshop placing in front of it the filters like the ones shown above.
From the feedback, I have received from a forum member in another forum, he used a radial ventilator with a throughput of 40 ^3m and he wrote that that was a lot. So luckily I have purchased a radial ventilator with speed control and a small digital display so I can regulate its performance to be OK. This is not the first time I had been shocked as when buying a barrel with 210 liters capacity.
So the work on my workshop is finally advancing faster and the effect gets visible and the results of benefit to me to use them in my workshop.
Hellmut1956:
Hi everybody! Health is impacting by making me slow, but perseverance your name is Hellmut.
One milestone was getting a new PC:
I still have problems generating pictures and having them stored on my PC. That is why I choose these 2 images. A very good friend of mine with whom I used to fly at least once a quarter with his Bonanza in San Jose, CA, is retired and now lives in Hawaii. As my old PC broke down, I did kill it due to electrostatic discharge, which made me a present in giving me the money to buy a PC so we could now fly together virtually with the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. It is amazing that today's technology makes it possible for him to be in Hawaii in front of his PC and me here in Mammendorf, close to Munich. We can each fly a plane and see ourselves on the screen. It looks like soon it will be even possible to fly together sitting both in the same plane. This powerful PC in this full tower housing with a top motherboard and an i7 11700k CPU, an RTX3080 graphic card, and a 2TB m.2 SSD is going to be my last PC. But that same PC is available to design 3D objects for the 3D printer to use in my workshop and in my model sailboat. Being busy on this for 10 years I have the hope to get my workshop ready to continue the work on my sailboat model.
Nut what is sad as I am being retired this year and my wife Anja next year, our 3 kids have moved out of our house we will have to change to 2 small 3 room apartment what means that my workshop might have to be given up! But as I have done in the last 20 years, I continue as if I would have my workshop forever and that my life will also last forever. This attitude has kept me energized and motivated. What I am trying is to see if we can get an apartment with a garage or a nearby place I could move my workshop to.
As of now, I am learning how to change elements of my 3D printer like the nozzle and PTFE tube and, due to the high level of humidity, about 70%, my 3D printer stopped working. So I did start to realize a DIY Drybox like in this video on youtube:
https://youtu.be/jHho6Y9Ly34
I will also have the filaments placed in the dry box shown in the video will have a tube in which the filament runs to the extruder. So I have to learn how to switch filaments fast and easily and the filaments in the tubes will be protected from humidity also outside the dry box. But I have a hen and egg problem. To print the parts needed for the dry box I will have to print them first!
I think I will be able to keep the 3D printer, the PC and the electronics lab as they would fit if I get a room for that. But the 2 workbenches and the equipment that goes with them will need to have a separate omm at least the size of a garage.
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