Hi mate. 👍 I have just found your channel whilst I was looking around. I am very impressed with what I have seen in some of you videos. I will be looking at your other builds and tool reviews. I have subscribed also. I'm looking forward to being one of your followers. take care and be lucky mate. 👍👍😉
Following up with the previous comment: I built a downdraft grinding table based on this - ua-cam.com/video/q6lKa_P1X2Q/v-deo.html&ab_channel=TheFabricationSeries For your shop you could make a smaller version for sure. I use mine in winter when I have smaller things to grind, or prepping the ends of tube, etc., for welding. It works very well to capture the conductive dust and sparks. You can use cheap box fans and commonly available furnace filters. If you could locate your welding / grinding station near the door it would be better. I arranged all the welding / grinding near the garage door in my shop and it seems to work ok; rather than doing this work deep within the bowels of your space!
A few things to consider: MiG and stick welding will produce a lot of spatter. TiG is much more clean and rarely will spatter unless the technique is very poor (and you won't weld anything). In my experience, it's the grinder that starts fires. Spatter is actually little balls of molten metal that extinguish quickly on contact with a cooler surface. The grinding disk contains material that holds heat and will throw sparks in all directions. These WILL ignite the dust bunnies under your cabinet and turn to flame as soon as you leave. They will ignite almost anything combustible. Having said that, I endeavor to weld inside, and grind outside. It would be well worth the effort to set up a vice and a small table to leave outside your door, and put a simple tin roof over it. Always keep a FULL spray bottle of water handy and of course a Co2 extinguisher that is tagged within current date for use. You probably know this, but I have had some bad scares from grinding for a few seconds - then going in the house for something while the shop tries to burn!
Exactly the same in my garage, my storage and retrieval feels like it’s a 3D jigsaw puzzle. As much as I like to aspire to Adam Savage’s first order retrieval notion there just isn’t enough space, so now I’m working on the idea of second order retrievability 😂, with any storage boxes on the floor going onto castors for easy movability allowing access to lower shelves.
Great video thanks David 🍺👍
I just cleaned out my space as I had the space space issue. Selling old tools I didn’t need made it so much better to work in
Hi David great video 👍👍
Thanks very much Barry 👍
Hi David, I feel your pain, I have to move things about in my workshop to get something else in ha ha but it's fun.
I suppose we are lucky to have workshops Steve even though we have no space 🙂👍
Just make sure that Tommy is outside when start welding 😁😁👍👍👍👍
Yes Tommy was outside when I was welding in this video and I will make sure he is in future 🙂👍
Nice one David looking forward to the tig learning .I’ve also fancied learning that myself
Cheers Terry 👍
Hi mate. 👍 I have just found your channel whilst I was looking around. I am very impressed with what I have seen in some of you videos. I will be looking at your other builds and tool reviews. I have subscribed also. I'm looking forward to being one of your followers. take care and be lucky mate. 👍👍😉
Thank you very much 🙂 👍
Hello David,
A clever idea to be welding in the cupboard, A good video, thank you.
Take care.
Paul,,
Cheers Paul 👍
hi new sub i like your videos and have been going though all your old videos/
Me too. Good stuff.
Steve.
Thanks very much Leonard 👍
Cheers Steve 👍
Following up with the previous comment: I built a downdraft grinding table based on this - ua-cam.com/video/q6lKa_P1X2Q/v-deo.html&ab_channel=TheFabricationSeries
For your shop you could make a smaller version for sure. I use mine in winter when I have smaller things to grind, or prepping the ends of tube, etc., for welding. It works very well to capture the conductive dust and sparks. You can use cheap box fans and commonly available furnace filters. If you could locate your welding / grinding station near the door it would be better. I arranged all the welding / grinding near the garage door in my shop and it seems to work ok; rather than doing this work deep within the bowels of your space!
A few things to consider: MiG and stick welding will produce a lot of spatter. TiG is much more clean and rarely will spatter unless the technique is very poor (and you won't weld anything). In my experience, it's the grinder that starts fires. Spatter is actually little balls of molten metal that extinguish quickly on contact with a cooler surface. The grinding disk contains material that holds heat and will throw sparks in all directions. These WILL ignite the dust bunnies under your cabinet and turn to flame as soon as you leave. They will ignite almost anything combustible. Having said that, I endeavor to weld inside, and grind outside. It would be well worth the effort to set up a vice and a small table to leave outside your door, and put a simple tin roof over it. Always keep a FULL spray bottle of water handy and of course a Co2 extinguisher that is tagged within current date for use. You probably know this, but I have had some bad scares from grinding for a few seconds - then going in the house for something while the shop tries to burn!
Thanks very much for the useful advice Andrew and thanks for watching 👍
I'm not sure if you have access to a different size gassless wire (flux core) but when it comes to sheet metal I run .025 .
Cheers Justin 👍
Hi David. Your like me too much gear & too little space for it all. I see another shed coming .
Regards.
Steve.
Ha 😀 I think the wife would say I have enough sheds Steve. 👍
Get a proper welding smock, that hoody with go up in flames
Exactly the same in my garage, my storage and retrieval feels like it’s a 3D jigsaw puzzle. As much as I like to aspire to Adam Savage’s first order retrieval notion there just isn’t enough space, so now I’m working on the idea of second order retrievability 😂, with any storage boxes on the floor going onto castors for easy movability allowing access to lower shelves.
Ha 😀 happy wheeling Mr B 👍
I'm another Adam Savage fan 🙂