norvalwilhelm

I took a few pictures inside the shop tonight, This is in front of the mustang and the corvette.
This is my Bridgeport mill. It has digital readout, power feed and the tool board on the left for collets,drills over 1/2 inch and asortment of tapes. The cupboard is full also
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This is my lathe. It swings 14 inches and comes complete with 4 jaw, steady rest, dividing head and hundreds of tools.
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This is an overall shot of the lathe and mill. I use horse mats for this area for cleanup and to protect the rugs The bin to the right of the mill is full of bolts in very size, metric and inch and the green cupboard to the extreme right holds cutter, mics, verniers, and various vises and other tooling
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This is my work bench. A good 6 inch record vise, a varsol wash tank., a floor drill press, a 20 ton press in red on the left and on the bench a 12 ton in black. Also on the bench is the pinion for the 456 I am installing.
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I am very proud of my shop and will do pictures of the welding table and various welders soon.
The lighting in the shop is 6500 watts, the floors are heavy heavy wood and rugged, the walls are gloss white plywood and is the ceiling, the windows are thermopane, the walls R 13 and the celling R26. 100 amp service and a FULL drive in basement.
Working on rugged wood floors makes for very dry working and pleasant laying under the cars. The floors are 1 1/2 inch plywood with 4 the 10 joice on 12 inch centers. Nothing moves these floors.
This is totally my area and the wife rare visits this private sanctuary and certain never sugjest puts anything in storage in the shop. This is sacret ground.

:lol: :lol: :cheers:

AGVI

Norval, your shop looks great and I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say, I appreciate all of your input and knowledge on the forum. thank you, Les :D


[Modified by AGVI, 8:04 PM 3/24/2004]

MikeC

Looking good Norval!

I might have to come borrow the lathe this summer, just leave the keys under the mat. ;)

Cali,68,L-79

now that is a familiar sight. That baby's standard equipage for any machinery repair shop onboard on of our ships. Spent many a restless hour waiting as our MR1 cut me new pump impeller wearing rings or whatever we needed in the engine room. Wish I had learned the trade. :sad:

norvalwilhelm

Thank you Les and Mike. Afraid the shop has tight security. You need 3 keys and a password for the alarm. The lathe is free to you anytime you need it. I will supply the beer and the hamburgs like last time Mike. :cheers:

red79c3

:thumbs: nice set up, I wish it was in my house :thumbs:

Eddie 70

Super nice garage!! Way beyond I could even use. I wish my wife would take everything out of the garage so I could just have my stuff in there. Ha...I can dream.

norvalwilhelm

Super nice garage!! Way beyond I could even use. I wish my wife would take everything out of the garage so I could just have my stuff in there. Ha...I can dream.

My shop is not part of the main garage. It is 275 feet from the house behind the pool and pool house. YOu can't even see it from the house. It is MINE and only MINE. My wife wouldn't dream of intruding with her things into my shop.
The main garage at the house is for cars, not working on them.

stpman

Norval

it's first rate and I thank you for the tour and for the knowledge you shared with me. :thumbs: :thumbs:

Steve

turtlevette

Norval,

How hard is it to turn titanium? I would like to make some O-Ring style front brake pistons out of titanium billet.

I have seen some mini-lathes selling on ebay for around 300 bucks. Would a lathe like that do the job?

norvalwilhelm

Turtlevette other then some parts for my saddle I have had very little to do with titanium. I did mill it for my saddle but nothing for the vet.
A $300 lathe is not much of a lathe. I cheap little south bend's are still $1000 used and that is the smallest I would go.
Be prepared to spend $3000-$4000 for a used lathe and $6-7000 for a mill.
While titanium is very light is it that important for the caliper pistons??
YOu can get more then the weight of the pistons off the rotor itself. Mine are 3 pounds lighter per rotor . That's 12 pounds total.
And contray to what some will say my rotors have stood up. The backs are still original.

TedH

Norval:

We're Not Worthy... We're Not Worthy (Wayne's World...)

I'm impressed. Got some heavy machinery there! :thumbs:

turtlevette

the racers use titanium brake pistons because they don't transfer heat to the brake fluid as rapidly, but i've heard its an extremely hard metal and thus very difficult to machine.

That's an awesome shop, do you do it as a business or is all that just for play?

JRD77VET

Norval,
You have a very nice set up there. :cheers: Looks like you have everything pretty well covered.

I'm a machinist and Titaninum is a PITA to machine. Speeds and feeds must be very precise. Just when you think everything is going fine , dink , there goes another carbide insert. :cuss

We were doing a titaninum job at work, 3/8 rod which we threaded 3/8-16NC for 1" of thread.

We had a guy from a major carbide insert supplier right in the shop suggesting speeds and feeds. He left extremely frustrated. :yesnod:

:seeya Jeff

stickboy

:thumbs: :cool:

Turbo-Jet

:thumbs: what? no 5-axis?

i'm jealous! i don't even have my own garage anymore.

for those interested in purchasing their own machinery- tooling adds a lot to the startup cost.

Twin_Turbo

looking awesome, and clean too. :thumbs:

Pauld

Very nice setup Norval, it's an impressive workshop you have there and i've seen some pics of the your work that you have posted on here. I am in the manufacturing industry in the UK and I can appreciate the skills involved. :cheers:

DMONSVETTE

You are good to go! :cheers: :smash: :thumbs:

gerry72

Will you adopt me?