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Joined: 9/15/2002 From: Alta Loma, CA, USA Status: offline
Have been in hobby since 1986, and just now getting my own shop finished. The trick I think is to have planes all over the house until the wife screams, "This is not a hangar". First 3 pics of converted bedroom.
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Everyone, your work shops look great. Does anyone have some room for me? I will not drink your beer!! This is what I have so far. pub
Pub - that reminds me of all the planes that I built when I was younger still at home with my parents. Long, long time ago. The plane looks great! Goes to show that very careful craftsmanship and a simple setup can produce as good or better quality than a blown out shop.
Keep up the good work!!!
Bion
< Message edited by housedad -- 2/8/2008 1:44:11 PM >
I've been flying for 2 years now, building planes in the spare bedroom of our 3 bedroom house. Last year brought my new daughter home, so now every time a visitor comes, I had to clean up the "plane room" for them to sleep in. Really bugged me!
Our house is a former lightkeepers residence, and it was once kinda hard to get to, despite being only about 10 miles out of the city. In the '60's when the Coast Guard built it, it was standard to build a cistern in the basement, to collect roof water for non-potable use. Basically, a concrete room about 7.5'x20' with a 6'6" concrete ceiling, all heavily rebarred. The previous owner used a hilti-hammer to blow a doorway thru the cistern's 14" reinforced concrete wall, making a storage room. So it has been for all the time we have lived here.
The last visitors we had were our friends, and their new baby. Way to cramped in our plane room, so the move to the cistern began!
Bought some wood and concrete anchors, planning some better lighting yet (a few flourescent strips should do it!), still gotta run some power in there, but the basics are done! Classic hollow core door on sawhorses for a building table, enough storage for the current fleet, and a good batch of shelving (more to come here, too!). The bulk of my crap is there now, and I'm liking it. I really need some posters on the walls, very grey in there right now....
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Joined: 12/9/2007 From: new brighton,
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Housedad,thank you, I do have most or all those tools, I have a 4000 sq.ft. machine shop. its 6 miles from my home,I was going to build plane at work. Not a good idea pub
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Joined: 9/4/2002 From: Bruce,
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Sean, you have it going on there I like your layout. I saved the picture of the cabinet that stored the balsa and covering, etc. and I may decide to build one like it.
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Joined: 6/19/2002 From: Malvern,
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Thanks Buzz...I had some empty space behind the door and it seemed like the perfect spot for a set of deep shelves. I opened up the top on the side to serve as a spot for books. It's really nice to have two spaces. One is the workshop that I can close the door too, and the other is just for plane storage. A 'clean room' of sorts. While it doesn't stay totally clean, it's a lot better than keeping the models right where I'm sanding, etc.
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