Shop is coming together!

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smokindawg
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Shop is coming together!

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Well, as many of you know, I've been adding to the shop for a while now, in hopes of being able to make pipes. I was tired of working outside when doing sanding and shaping, so recently I purchased a large dust collector and now finally after building the addition to my small shop I needed to house the unit, I now have it all installed and hooked up. I even set up my sander/buffer under the bench so that I could set while working and not take up bench space. Here are a few pics of my shop addition and the collector hooked to the machines.
I didn't like the small vac hook up for the band saw so now have a 4" line to it and it works great.

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And here is the small Atlas metal lathe that I'm setting up for tamper and stem work among other things. I have both a 4 jaw independent and a 4 jaw self centering chuck, a Quick Change Tool Post with boring bar holder and cut off tool and a live as well as dead center for the Tail stock. The lathe has no wear at all and was barely used.
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Christopher Brunton
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Post by Christopher Brunton »

Nice! Cool little Atlas. Clean the rust off that chuck and find yourself a live center and you're in business. One thing I notice, though, that dust bucket under the disc sander looks like a knee-buster.

Glad to see shop pictures. Thanks for sharing. Now git carving!

-chris
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Olivier
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Post by Olivier »

WHAT!!!!!!!!! Not a single speck of dust.......................................????????
You better get workin'......................................!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by smokindawg »

Christopher Brunton wrote:Nice! Cool little Atlas. Clean the rust off that chuck and find yourself a live center and you're in business. One thing I notice, though, that dust bucket under the disc sander looks like a knee-buster.

Glad to see shop pictures. Thanks for sharing. Now git carving!

-chris
Chris that dust pickup I made actually sets back in from the edge of the bench, although it doesn't look like it in the picture. And it's just the right height for my chair.
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