JasonPAtkins
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- Joined
- Sep 30, 2010
- Location
- Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Hey all, I'm working on laying out a new shop. The machining portion of it is going to be a sloping roof, the low edge of the trusses will be 10' tall on the short side (where the lathes will go) and 13' tall on the high side (where the mills and VMC will be). I know lots of threads have looked for workarounds to ceilings that were too low. I think I'm clear of that, as I don't anticipate anything really tall like big boring mills.
I'm planning to make the doors from the fabrication area into the machining room be double doors, 8' or maybe 10' wide. I'm trying to figure out how tall those doors should be, for when we need to move equipment in and out. Does 10' tall seem like as much as you could reasonably need for normal machine shop equipment? I think even a VF3 would fit in that, which is a size bigger than I can ever imagine.
I'm still in the design phase though, so if I'm being shortsighted, I'd rather know it now when I can still fix it.
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I'm planning to make the doors from the fabrication area into the machining room be double doors, 8' or maybe 10' wide. I'm trying to figure out how tall those doors should be, for when we need to move equipment in and out. Does 10' tall seem like as much as you could reasonably need for normal machine shop equipment? I think even a VF3 would fit in that, which is a size bigger than I can ever imagine.
I'm still in the design phase though, so if I'm being shortsighted, I'd rather know it now when I can still fix it.
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