We finished anchoring the rotophase and got the manual knee mill leveled and anchored. The hammer drill I bought recently is a champ. Tomorrow we plan to level up and anchor down the manual lathe. It has leveling screws and it's light enough we can use the porta-power to lift it. After that we will work on the air compressors. Need to flip them on their side and remove the drain plug, will replace it with an elbow, a short section of pipe and a shutoff valve. Since we're mounting the units on some antivibration pads we'll have enough room underneath for the plumbing. This will make it easy to drain out the condensate. Also have to enlarge the holes in the mounting pads to accomodate the antivibration pads.
Once the a/cs are anchored the electricians can come in and finish up the wiring. The plumbers will come back in a couple weeks to put the piping on the wall for the air lines but until then we can use some flexible air hoses to hook up to the CNC machines and any air tools we might need.
The plumbers showed up and installed the water heater and all the bathroom fixtures. They used a bypass to go around the water meter to test the lines for leakage but by law they had to disconnect it from the system when they were done. The water dept will install a meter tomorrow so we ought to have working plumbing - hot water and flush toilets - real soon. Yeah!
Here are a few shots. I was standing by the center door on the east side of the building and tried to get a panoramic photo montage.
South wall. An air compressor will go where the tricycle is sitting. Our MIG and TIG welders will probably be parked there, there will be two outlets along the wall to for extension cords. We have enough cord length to weld anywhere in the building if need be.
The center machine is a small Rockwell horizontal milling machine, it will plug into a three phase outlet.
The center machine is a 15' x 50" Clausing manual lathe. It will get leveled tomorrow.
The center machine is a 10" x 54" vertical (knee) mill. The short gray machine to the right sitting in the corner is a tool and cutter grinder. Had this stored off-site, now we can finally use it. Visitors coming in the door will be able to see the whole shop through the polycarbonate windows while still being protected from chips and flying debris.
Our rolling chuck rack, welding table and shelving and tool boxes.
Our cutoff saw (not in its permanent location), foreman's desk, and some shelving we got from Home Depot.
Our foot powered forklift in front of our new shelves, our other a/c, and the end of our CNC lathe.
Our CNC lathe along north wall.
Along the wall is our drill press and a 7" South Bend shaper. The miscellaneous hardware in the foreground will get moved to a better location.