Pictures of the finished shop upgrade

[Tom in SoCal]

I finally finished my shop upgrade. My sanctuary is housed in a one car garage which is adjacent to our two car garage but seperated by a wall. When I originally designed this I layed it out to utilize the space as best I could without having to move things around. The layout is working quite nicely and I thought I might share some pictures. The most recent addition is the Unisaw. I added the second outfeed table which is hinged to the extension table. Mounted underneath is my thickness planer which can be flipped up onto the extension table when in use. I also upgraded the DC with the Creative Dust Control system. When it works it is great but I have had many difficulties with the automatic blast gates. Three out of five are not working or working intermittently.

[Handy Al]

Sweet Shop. You must be taking lessons from Rod Kirby - no sawdust.

[cgallery]

That is one nice shop! I like the dust collection piping. Looks very professional.

[Pappy]

Nice set up, Tom.

[lcm1947]

Very nice. Everything in it's place. It looks comfortable and should be fun to work in. Have fun.

[Stormbringer]

Packaged very nicely!

[mater]

That is a very nice setup. It looks good.

[Jim Boyd]

Sweet! Now dirty it up and make it look like a real shop

[lrogers]

So neat, so clean and so well laid out. Like Jim said, mess it up so we know you work in it!

[jhart]

I'm jealous. Nice shop

[GeekMom]

Very nice!

[THyman]

Great Set-up. I notice you have the Hitchi drill press. How do you like it? did you mount it to the floor or is it steady enough so that floor mounting is not required?

[PJC]

Excelent shop Tom! I wanted to do something similar with my dust collection. How are the hoses conneced to the PVC?

[gmack5]

Excellent layout on your DC ports, Tom.

I'll probably use a modified version in my own Shop. As near as I can figure, I'll need about 12 ports, split into two runs (one down each side of the Shop).

Do you have a Floor Sweep in your setup?

[Tom in SoCal]

The Hitachi Drill press is great for the money. It is really nice with the table and T track. I don't have it anchored to the floor. So far this has not been a problem but I haven't worked on anything sizable that might cause a stability problem.

As far as the DC hose is concerned I managed to fit the flex hose into the coupling of the S&D pipe. It is a very tight fit which requires some coersion but once it is in it doesn't want to come loose. I also clamped the hoses to either the equipment port or the blast gates where appropriate. The S&D pipe works very well and is the most cost effective solution that I could find.