I agree. Awesome! I can't imagine 26 lights either. I used 8 footers, 9 of them with the daylight bulbs and its plenty bright. You did a ton of work in a short time. Looks great. have fun!
Todd
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Told you it was all lights! LOL!
I was sitting in my dark dingy shop today staring at the 6 tubes. Figured I should get it up to 18. 26 would knock my socks off!Comment
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Brian: The "slick engineering reason" is that the factory 5" hose that was on my HF 2HP DC had slowly developed a permanent flattened kink in it, closing its cross-sectional area down to perhaps 20% of what it should have been. The sheet metal replacement is fabricated from ordinary 5" stove pipe ... one 2' length of straight pipe, cut roughly in half, and two adjustable elbows. Total cost: under $10 at HD. Since taking the picture, I've sealed all the adjustable elbow seams with a few wraps of black electrical tape.
26 Lights, Redux: On weekends I'm typically in the shop by 6:00am, or a few minutes after. I always take a Thermos of coffee with me; now, with all these lights switched on, I can fry my breakfast eggs on the jointer.
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Well now with that PM, you've got room to make eggs AND sausage for ALL of us .... we'll be there by 7:00
oh yeah .... might wanna buy a bigger thermosIf it ain't broke.. don't fix it!!!... but you can always 'hop it up'
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Larry - thats just awesome! What a setup... Got a lot of great ideas for my own setup from your pictures...thanks for the inspiration!GaryComment
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Holy Cripes, step away from the forum for a week or so, and look what happens! One of our very own slips off to the dark side! I guess I did have a sneaking suspicion....
That's looking like a pretty sweet setup, Larry -- I could spend days/weeks/months procrastinating a project in a shop like that. (Well, I do that in my own shop already, I guess, but still....
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Keep those pictures coming!
Regards,
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Larry - the shop looks great! Can you please show a close up of your clamp rack? Do you have dividers or do the clamps just hang from a L shaped cleat?
Thanks!Comment
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Ryan, the clamps racks are simplicity itself: a vertical 1x4 and a horizontal 2x4, with the vertical leg of the 1x4 screwed to the wall. These are just something I knocked together quickly for temporary use when I moved into my previous shop about ... uh ... three years ago.
There are no dividers, no notches to locate each clamp, or anything like that. The long rack under the window, and the shorter one to the left, are put together with glue and biscuits. (I'd just gotten my plate joiner and was using it on everything that didn't move.) Those two racks are holding up well. The one holding the long clamps at right is one I put together with drywall screws (no glue) when I moved into this building and already the 2x4 that the clamps hang on is sagging (tilting) under the weight of those big heavy Besseys. I really do need to build some better racks, and hope to get to that RSN.
I'd be glad to get you a better picture, but you might want to wait for the better design I have in mind.
And as a general update for everyone who's been following this thread: this past Saturday I got the electrical subpanel in, as well as a couple short remaining sections of the DC piping. Everything in the shop is now fully operational -- yippee!!! Still working on that storage problem, though ...LarryComment
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If temp use is three years, and two shops, I don't think I will hold my breath waiting for the new improved version.
I know how those temporary things go!!! Boy do I know. 
Ric
Plan for the worst, hope for the best!Comment
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Larry thanks for the details on the rack. Can't wait to see your new design.Comment
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