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May 22, 2009
studio organization
by sven at 7:00 am
In preparation for work on The Whisperer in Darkness, I've been doing some major re-organization of my studio room.
I already had 48 feet worth of track shelving on the north wall. I've just installed shelves on the south wall, for another 40 feet of storage space. (It fills up so quickly!)
It's not a typo. To shape metal, a milling machine uses end mills -- which are like extra-sturdy drill bits. End mills can either be held in place by a collet or an end mill holder. End mill holders are much faster to switch out, so I've collected a few… Thus ultimately necessitating an end mill holder holder.
K&S brand brass tubing is extremely useful… But it's frustrating to hunt through a jar for the specific size you need. So, I took a piece of flat cardboard and used hot glue to construct a box with dividers. Now I've got separate bins for 1/16", 3/32", 1/8", 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" stock.
(Guh! Can you imagine how much more intuitive that list would be if the fractions were all just listed in 32nds?)
To put the raw steel stock I need close at hand -- yet out of the way -- I created this simple hanging rack. It's a cardboard tube that's had 1/3 of its material cut away. Little brass hooks (anchored in bits of wood) allow it to hang from the track shelving's rails.
OK! All organized! Now… GO!
posted by sven | May 22, 2009 7:00 AM | comments (6) | categories: studio space
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woo. Nice but wishing for bigger pix to see all the org.
Posted by: Shelley Noble at May 22, 2009 8:51 PM
Wow -- that is some sweet looking studio space!
Posted by: michael5000 at May 22, 2009 11:29 PM
How thick are the walls of your K&S? The stuff sold by my house is really thin- it can't take a center punch because it will buckle.
If I can source some thicker stuff, it might get used in an armature or two for BAS.
Posted by: Don Carlson at May 24, 2009 1:39 PM
GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jriggityPosted by: justin rasch at May 24, 2009 9:50 PM
Wow! I'm lovin' the wonderfully organized studio space!
Posted by: Dayna at June 22, 2009 2:45 PM
A nice set of end mills and holders!
Michael, if you can get a small piece of solid square bar, hold that in the vice and slide the tubing on to it. Then you should be able to punch the tube without distortion.
Posted by: Andy from Workshopshed at June 23, 2009 5:50 AM