dalmatiangirl61
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2011
- Location
- BFE Nevada/San Marcos Tx
When I first unloaded my machines they just got stuffed into shop area, mostly against the walls with a center walk space, have added to collection last few years, they went where ever there was space. The main shop area is 12' wide x 90' long, midway there is an area that bumps out about 12', but with a column in middle it does not really give me an open area.
I have started trying to re-arrange things, I'm thinking lathes/mills at north end, grinding/polishing/sanding in center area, welders/bandsaws/press at south end by the door. I'm starting at north end with the lathes, neither is really big, 26x30 and 13x36, both approx 6' long overall.
I'm struggling with placement of lathes, back to back would save floor space, but they share tooling, and running both at same time (rare) would not work. Front to front, just me operating so space between could be narrower, and tooling would all be centrally located.
If lathes go perpendicular that leaves me 3' at either end of lathes as a walkway, one side will probably get some cabinets/shelves to hold tools, not sure that is going to work. I could place lathes where one has headstock to wall, other has tailstock to wall, but that limits how much stickout a workpiece can have thru headstock or over end of tailstock (it happens sometimes with a short bed).
I don't think diagonal is going to work either. Which would you rather lose, stickout from headstock or tailstock? Thoughts and musings appreciated.
I have started trying to re-arrange things, I'm thinking lathes/mills at north end, grinding/polishing/sanding in center area, welders/bandsaws/press at south end by the door. I'm starting at north end with the lathes, neither is really big, 26x30 and 13x36, both approx 6' long overall.
I'm struggling with placement of lathes, back to back would save floor space, but they share tooling, and running both at same time (rare) would not work. Front to front, just me operating so space between could be narrower, and tooling would all be centrally located.
If lathes go perpendicular that leaves me 3' at either end of lathes as a walkway, one side will probably get some cabinets/shelves to hold tools, not sure that is going to work. I could place lathes where one has headstock to wall, other has tailstock to wall, but that limits how much stickout a workpiece can have thru headstock or over end of tailstock (it happens sometimes with a short bed).
I don't think diagonal is going to work either. Which would you rather lose, stickout from headstock or tailstock? Thoughts and musings appreciated.