Popular Post BillyJack Posted December 27, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Trying to organize and compress the shop. Funny how you have too much, then nothing... Take awhile but it's a start.... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 That looks like fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Gotta compress the shop a bit to make better flow. Too many things hung in front of something else. Way too many clamps. Bad flow for an ex production worker ... Everybody wants more more more. After you get it you can't hardly work because of the clutter... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 @BillyJack, how do those spade bits work out for you? Any tricks to cutting a clean hole? I seem to get a lot of tear-out around the edges when I use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 I use them for rough out work inside for lighting,etc. I use regular ones for anything important. There more construction grade... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 30 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said: @BillyJack, how do those spade bits work out for you? Any tricks to cutting a clean hole? I seem to get a lot of tear-out around the edges when I use them. I know it's a PITA, but if you start your hole with a brad point or forstner, then go to the spade bit, your surface will have a clean hole. Then you can always sharpen the spade bits with a tad of an angle on the two points, and see how that will work. Sharpen only on the inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 I have several sets and just use the regular ones when necessary. The bosch are good for rough in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BillyJack Posted December 27, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 That thing took awhile to take apart and sand. I think I'll paint it white Sunday as I have a treatment and I baby sit the grand baby on Sat. It will probably end up Jorgensen orange as I'm tire of seeing Dewalt yellow, Bosch blue and Milwaukee red I everyone's shop....haha.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BillyJack Posted December 28, 2019 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Grand daughter went to visit today. Guess I'll work in the shop. How come everything you take off a shelf don't fit back on the shelf. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Probably the same reason that i always have an extra bolt or two when i get done putting something together after I take it apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Beasley Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Thats similar to the problem at the grocery store checking out. A cart full is unloaded on the conveyor then it takes a cart and a half to hold it on the other end! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Spent some time trying to sort some things out. Not sure I like it... I got too many clamps everywhere.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 And I thought I had too many clamps. So now that, like me, you're retired what's your long term game plan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Actually this came unexpected and taking time to soak it in... Put days into the shop vs all the nights I use to when I was younger. Im really into poker tables, shuffle board tsbles, etc. Got a lot of things to build for the grand daughters room. I figured first things first. Get the shop more suitable to my needs..... Got walnut blanks and legs for a shuffleboard I've had glued for 2 years and a poker started fir 3 yrs. Gonna get them started again... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Honestly since I'm home all the time my wife calls me Hazel.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ronn W Posted December 28, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Chestnut said: Probably the same reason that i always have an extra bolt or two when i get done putting something together after I take it apart. If you take something apart and put it back together enough times you will have parts for 2 of them. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 1 hour ago, BillyJack said: taking time to soak it in... That's a smart move. Take some time with this, it's a big life step. But let me give you some unsolicited advice, people say you need a new identity/purpose, a new answer to the "what do you do" question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 Retirement is a strange occupation. I went from driving all over this country for more years than anyone should, and I found that it took me more than three years to drive into town. I did nothing but work in my tiny shop, and play gardener. I never went off my little one acre. I still haven't found that idenitity/purpose yet. It like "closure" I'm not sure I want it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 5 hours ago, BillyJack said: Honestly since I'm home all the time my wife calls me Hazel.... One of the older ladies in our office put up a notice in the break room “ clean up after yourself as Hazel doesn’t work here”. No one knew what she was talking about. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 Only a few of us watched under 12 channels and black and white.. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 Kids today say how did you live back then with no cell phone, 500 channels or online shopping... I tell them I had a REAL life...this were less complicated then.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardA Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 You're lucky, you had TV. I had radio, there was no commercially available TV when I was a young'un. My mind turned out to be better and more imaginative than anything TV ever shared with the world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 I played with army men and gi Joe's when I was a kid. We had imaginations then...now a days kids have to have tv for a reality check. I grew up with leave it to beaver.... personally I liked Eddie. I would hit on Mrs. Cleaver too... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chashint Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 I retired two years ago by choice and did not suffer any retirement transition issues. I have been very pleased spending time getting my shop setup, woodworking, traveling, cooking BBQ, and playing video games. I have no idea how I had time to go to a job every day for 30+ years. You have built some major projects, very nicely done. Your shop projects are looking great as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyJack Posted December 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 The shop was always production so it will never be fancy. Hard to start over. I found out each time I organize I have to find a place for stuff that doesn't work there anymore... If I had to start over I would have painted the concrete. #1 thing you should do with a garage shop... I thought I would have surgery and go back to work but it didn't go that way...forced disability... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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