Someone mentioned they would feel better if they saw some pics of a one car garage. So here's my "shop"
When I bought this house I was only into motorcycles so this garage was plenty big. The next house I buy is gonna have at least a two car garage and a basement.
Sadly this isn't a joke

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However, I live alone, so I don't have a "man cave" My whole house is mine. My fridge is in my living room, I have pictures of naked women on my family room wall (I take those down when my mom comes over), I have a pirate flag for a curtain, my motorcycle has been in my family room, there is a cylinder head on my kitchen table, gun cleaning solvent on my coffee table, and my kitchen has been under construction for 5 years and nobody complains. Just stating all of that makes me feel way better about my garage.

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this brings back fond memories of friends with harleys disassembled in the living room, chevy parts covering the dining room table, oil and grease on the carpet, empty beers all over the place. the good ole days

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**********"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
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**********"The problem is not the availability of guns, it is the availability of morons."
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lmao i like it! my wife did let me cut tires in my living room but that is as far as im brave enough to go...

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lets just ride

More like "KEEP MY SANITY CAVE "

It's not much but it's better than what I had

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not much... yea every one has milling machines in their shop...

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**********"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
- Sigmund Freud **********
**********"The problem is not the availability of guns, it is the availability of morons."
- Antonio Meloni **********

i have an ol bridgeport, but no tooling ... anyone wnat to sell anything? vice, chuck, collets, etc.

Well, everybody should have one! Everything bolts on if you have a Sawsall, Plasma Cutter, Welder, big hammer and a machine shop.

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Water cooled Dry Sumped Subaru Powered Turbo Charged Fuel Injected 2500CC Tank. Oh Rah! He who dies with the most Toys not only wins, He also wears them out!

Man I thought having a mill was a man cave requirement. I could have avoided moving this heavy thing in here.

My other fun toy for making stuff.

after the fire burnt down everything i had, this is what i built up since '02, its really well insulated, i turn the heat on in the fall and turn it off in the spring,








the most improtant tool of the whole shop is the refridgerator






jeff, get a hold of me, i have a while bunch of extra tooling and maybe an extra vice

where do yall get all these wonderful tools/toys i would luv to have a couple myself but new ones are just way too expensive for the occasional home use?

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Just Stand On It!!!!

Chris

pm sent dave... Just got to keep your eyes out for deals, my uncle was scrapping stainless food machinery for Heinz, and got the bridgeport, so I paid $500 for it from him... HGR in cleveland usually has some decent buys, if it hasn't had the nuts ran off the machinery...

hey jeff i heard you had a man cave well thats what the bathroom wall said at the truck stop lol

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i dont always ride my buggy but when i do im glad it has a bad ass bow tie makin the horsepower

Jesus loves me, but everyone else thinks im an asshole.

Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail us now!

How are you guys powering those Bridgeports? Every one Ive seen has been 3 phase 460 volt. Are you guys running transformers & phase converters or did you swap motors to single phase 240 volt?

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I have 3 phase power, just flip the switch.

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to power up the bridgeport, i bought a little drive, for about 200 bucks, it adds that extra leg for 3 phase now for my lathe whch has a higher horsepower, i use a rotary phase converter. believe it or not, when i run this equipment, i really dont notice it on my electric bill.
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My residential supply is limited to 100 amp 240 volt. I have to keep my equipment on the small side. I envy you guys.

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i only have 100 amp service 240 volt single phase in the house, and i just ran 50 amp out in the garage, thats plenty. its not like your running all of the machines at once,
dave

Ive had clothes in the dryer, my torpedo heaters both goin, shaping metal on my bench grinder & my compressor kicks on & my shop lights dim.

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Check the amp load on your panel and make shure it is balanced from one leg of 240 to the other. If you are pulling all that stuff off of one leg you will have the light dimming problems and it can actually make you electric bill higher.
Also you can get single phase 220 motors for most mills. You will loose a little hp with a single phase, so you just have to take smaller cuts.


When I get a bigger garage I'm getting a mill. Actually I have a slab house so I could put one in the family room........hmmmmmmmmm...........where's my tape measure.....

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Why do I hate everyone?...................because they deserve it

I built a rotary phase converter. They aren't really very hard to build. The physical packaging of the system is the hardest part. Most the original bridgeport motors that I've seen can be wired either 220 or 440. My J head came out of a local school's machine shop when they revamped it. I found my lathe on craigslist.

Mine is cluttered right now working on the new buggy, but if it was not a new buggy build,it would be something else tore down in it.






Woody

my pictures are always larger on here. Any suggestions?