I love it. I haven't been in my shop much at all. With the arrival of spring, all my chores have found me outdoors. At work, I'm essential personnel and we just went to a new schedule to minimize contact as much as possible. We have three teams now that are in a staggered rotation with 5 days on and 10 days off. So I hope to make some headway into my shop this spring!
Found your channel from Tested. As a first time viewer, I must say there are some great ideas here. I'll definitely be borrowing some and incorpoting them into my French cleat tool storage wall. Nice job!
@@AndrewKleinWW in the middle of the shop organization my wife said " Since you're doing all that stuff, how about adding some outlets to the upstairs bathroom?" - house is circa 1840, that space had no power, it's been 6 days.......shop still disorganized lol Congrats on your updates!! I'll bet that it feels REALLY good down there now! Cheers!
Good for you man. Great therapy for the times. I have almost completely cleaned my 1,008 sq ft shop and found some tools I don't remember having as well as getting rid of that stuff that I would use someday and haven't in 15 years. I can't believe how much room I have now. Now I want to build something! I hope you and your family stay safe and well.
Thank you for thanking the time to make this video, it has done a lot to motivate me to do what I need to do to get things done, and not worry so much about how "good" I can make it.
I think the best part about all of this for me is, it's not a French cleat wall system that takes $17kabillion (in today's market) to build and uses materials that we've all been hoarding since the French cleat revolution. I've recently moved from a 360sq/ft shop to working on getting it all into a 170sq/ft shop and all of my stuff will need to be anchored in a block wall (typical 80s basement here in Ga.). Good stuff!
Andy, I’ve been following you for about six months now and have been very impressed with your work. Especially like the vise and workbench projects. After 20 years of being in my basement with a dull white flat finish on the walls I finally painted the walls a gloss white with dry lock. And then painted the floor a slate gray, the floor had no finish on it at all. The difference with the paint on the walls and floor is unbelievable. The shop is so much more inviting and comfortable and well lite. It looks like you painted your floor and I think i’ve heard you say you want to paint the walls also. I’d highly recommend that. This particular shop project that took you a week was very satisfying to watch and I’m sure you’re very happy with all that freed up floorspace. I also like what you’re doing with your with your videos. I recently started my own TH-cam channel and I’ve been coming back to you tubers like you to pick up some tips and tricks. Thanks for all you do for the community and good luck with your invention side of your business. I live in New Jersey but my daughter lives in Denver and the next time we’re out there i’d love to contact you for a shop visit.
Hi Bob, thanks for the comment and for following along. I definitely do like the epoxy on the floor and paint on the walls would be great. Good luck with your TH-cam channel.
I was in your live feed a few nights ago, really enjoyed it. You're giving me inspiration to clean up my shop. You gave me some good ideas on how to store some of the things that I have been struggling with. Love the workbench!!!
The soothing beat of Muricio Ravel's Bolero Concerto accompanied by the melodic tones of Andrew Klein makes for an incredibly calming and enjoyable video.
Haha, glad to hear it, I’ve gotten several complements on the music choice, that doesn’t after happen. I picked it because it’s repetitive, the same thing over and over, kinda like one shop improvement after another. Seems to work.
Cheers Andy! Some great ideas here. I've set myself a goal of several shop/organization projects and this is great motivation. My reward is going to be one of your vices, so maybe it works out for both of us.
Interesting I just spent two weeks e organizing my 22 x22 shop. I do this once a year. I consider all space in my shop as “valuable real estate “. So everything gets looked at as to whether it stays or goes. It’s good therapy and it’s like Christmas for my grandson 😎😎 nice job
Tnx. Went throught a similar organization ritual when moving the content of my toolboxes to my shop wall. Life changing. I'm stealing the hanging jars thing (saw this in quite some movies, but forgot about it). However, I think I will attach square plywood to the lids of the jars, so I can slide the jars, with the lid, out of some aluminium U-profile slides at the bottom of the shelves. Metal pile is timely for me. I'll probably make an umbrella stand with metal bars, so I can store rods of different lengths, easily visible and retrievable.
Bravo Andrew ! J'admire tout ce que tu fais parce que tu vas au bout des choses. Un atelier bien penser et bien organiser devient un outil en lui-même !
It's a great time to do these sorts of projects. Working out a suitable "harness" for whatever tool or jig that needs stowing can be a fun puzzle to ponder. Drilling into masonry (not just concrete) has often been a PITA for me. If it is important, I tend to drill a series of smaller diameter "pilot" holes and if the brick/concrete/stone is soft and or crumbly just enlarge carefully with the percussion off. Cheers, David
I have problems w/ Tapcons too. I've found backing the drill in and out a few times helps to clear the hole of dust and debris, And it reams the hole out a little bit making it easier to drive the screw. Also, driving a hex head is a lot easier than a Phillips head.
To address your concrete comment: I had a similar experience with inconsistent concrete fasteners and I found that a proper SDS drill and bit was much more consistent. It seems that concrete does have a decent bit of variability and the Carbide SDS drill bit + SDS combo makes it through the hard sections of concrete much better giving your anchors a more consistent hole to hold in. Not sure if that’s what causing your particular problem.
Any really high quality Carbide four flute hammer drill bits (not the cheap 2 flute type sold with Tapcons) work properly if you drill straight, pullout of hole frequently to pull out chips and dust which would otherwise work to grind the hole larger, and finish with compressed air (hose or can) with thin long tip to deeply blow out deadend holes. Thus allowed a uniform proper sized hold, no debris to cause thread jamming and screw breakage. Finally, never remove and reinstall a tap on without adding epoxy to the reused fastener. (30 years on the job)
First time viewer - I think I'll stick around for more. I am envious of your sense of organization. (I also highly approve of your choice of beverage! It's one of the best.) Very well done. Multiple ideas that I will use. Thank you.
If you look at the head of a concrete drill bit, you will see it has a couple of tabs that stick out wider than the drill bit shaft. If you are not careful and keep the drill exactly perpendicular to the wall, it can wallow out the hole. Also, concrete walls tend to not be homogeneous and has rebar and wire in it to strengthen it. You can easily glance off this which will also create a larger hole. My advice is to limit the number of holes you put into the wall. But how can you do that when you want to put a lot of hangers on the wall? Well, I would put in a treated 2x4 horizontally across the wall top and bottom and then put up a sheet of plywood. Then either connect directly to the plywood or create a french cleat system with multiple cleats running horizontally down the plywood. I hope this helps you and others with issues drilling holes in concrete.
My bench was buried! Had to shove stuff around to make something. Made a nice tool wall with tools grouped by function, measuring devices, screw drivers, hammers. When I couldn't find a tool, it was off to the store. Scary how many duplicates I have! Put the extra in a box for emergency replacement.
So relaxing to see a workshop getting organized. Always learn or get an idea from your videos. Building a rack for drill bits will be on my priority list, (have big list). Love Lagavulin! My favorite is the distillers edition, didn't see if that was what you got. Thanks, Miki
Well done. I predict that your craftmanship and creativity will greatly improve over the short term. It seems that clean, organized work area brings this ZEN wave around which is conducive to high quality projects. That's my wish for you ! I love your work !
Dude, I’m with you on the cardboard boxes. No need to reinvent the wheel just for better looking rims. My wife has been so patient with stumbling around my mess in the basement to get to her laundry. I’ve got 6 days of work myself
So we were your motivation for getting organized...and this video is my motivation to keep getting my shop organized. Thanks! Would love to see what you come up with for lumber/sheet good storage. This is what is holding me up.
Well done man! I especially liked the way you threw the wrenches into the bin. So it is necessary to do. Although, perhaps, this tool you do not need, would suit someone in need ... But no, you did the right thing. Let that one in need remain the same in need! These are your tools! What to do with them is your decision! In general, you are well done!
Getting started on organization projects, to me, is always the hardest part. Once you actually get going, though, you can get into a good groove and knock things out fairly quickly. Now that you've taken the shelving apart, you have more materials for more projects. Nice work.
Nice video and thanks for taking the time to make it. It was the plane storage thumbnail that got me. Clever. I'm not sure this was addressed by another, but I too have had issues with tapcon type masonry screws. I believe the masonry bit deflects when it hits various pieces of aggregate in the concrete matrix making some holes larger than others. I've also hit "soft" spots of concrete like you described but I'm not sure of the details of that. You'd think poured concrete being mixed in a truck for 35 miles would be about as homogeneous as possible. I've moved to the ramset system for convenience, but also use the wedge style fasteners for posts and the like. Also, I've found the common drywall anchors (you know, the red and blue pen cap looking things that come with your smoke detector) work very well. If you muck up a hole in the future then use them with ordinary screws. I wouldn't trust my life on them, but they hold like the dickens. I built a workstation on top of a couple of rolling tool carts (posted a video on it) and feel drawers under your workbench very useful. Thanks again, and sorry for the long comment.
Your plane storage idea got me thinking and I built french cleat modules for each of my planes with only 2 pieces of wood. A 1/2inch plywood base the length and width of the sole. Then a french cleat mount glued on at the top. I put a single eye screw at the top so it could have a single piece of paracord go through it. Each plane has a loop for the knob that I then tied a stopper knot above the eye hook to hold the plane at the right height. A single rare earth magnet is set into the plywood base just to suck it against the module. One hand grab. Two hands to put away. It's like a scalable plane till. Thanks for getting my brain going in a new direction instead of building those complicated sloped tills with all the dividers that takes longer to make than a bedroom suite.
Great job organizing. That's always been one of my many weak points. A designated area for each tool grouping will certainly save much time and frustration when working on any project, be it wood, metal or mechanical. Thanks!! 👍
Great improvement. It seems that your shop is about the same size as mine in the basement, but more organized now. I learned some things that I can use as I have to deal with concrete walls too. I just might be motivated enough to tackle this monster myself. Thanks for sharing your talents and thoughts my friend. I enjoyed it. Stay safe and healthy.
Aloha Andrew, Wayward anchor holes for plastic anchor in concrete: sometimes the concrete drill bit hits a real hard bit of aggregate in the location and will follow the path of least resistance ,thus the too loose hole or the too tight hole. Love all you space, now disabled but had big shop spaces in no less than 5 companies and at home . One was about 10 acres under a roof. Now , vertigo for the most part has my limited to just my small outdoor sheds.
It was very cool to see the shop and the improvements you made. Now that you have all that room maybe it's time to start looking into getting a metal lathe and a small mill. For what you're doing I think those tools would be indispensable and I'm sure you'd take to it very quickly.
A well earned celebratory libation! This is just the video I need right now! Don't stress about the disaster corners. We all need a bit of a disaster area to keep us humble :)))
Nice progress~! Space reclamation is always a good thing. I saw a couple of things that you did that I may mimic in my own shop. Thanks for the ideas~!
Nice ideas and thanks for taking us along! Regarding concrete anchors/tapcons... it depends upon if you hit a big hard chunk of aggregate and drill straight through so your screw is grabbed all around by a hard chunk of rock. In this case, it is possible to break one off. Alternately, if you don't hit anything, even partially, it will feel loose/soft and easy to strip it out.
Andy, I would love to see folding out feed table for the saw. Rollers work, but a nice sized out feed table makes a great assembly area. You have a great shop, nice size and layout. I think a rolling sheet goods rack with a method to rip sheets on the side would work good. Stumpy Nubs channel has a great one. I imagine the alcove near the furnace is where the future bathroom will be, it would be a nice corner for a workstation for programming up the 3D printers and the CNC.
That turned out awesome an you got more floor place nicely done, and to your tap con problem, I have the same problem from time to time and I think the smaller holes you get are because your drilling into a stone and the bit can't make the holes little over sized as if you are just drilling into the concrete, I'm no expert at it but I've had to drill a bunch of holes into concrete so I know your struggle
Hey Andy, concrete anchors are junk. What you want to do it drill a hole, depending on your screw size, and stick copper wire in it. Then a regular wood screw and your set. For reference a 3/16 hole and 18/2 wire works great for #10 screws. Use 14/2 wire if doing lag bolts! Works great in solid concrete
One of the best videos out Andrew, however I would have seal coated white paint on the walls before installing the tool storage. You did a good job with the reorg of the shop Keep doing the great videos. Having fun during the present USA virus working in the shop is very good for the mind- Thanks and be safe.
Hello Andrew, nice Video there, i think not every project has to be the kind of super flashy high craftmanship content to come along with. You have shown your skills and creativity often enough, and sometimes also the small things count. To your concrete hole problem, out here in germany we use the hammer function a big handdrill comes along with, especially on steelconcrete. Dont know how its called in the U.S. and if you guys even have those kind of stone drill bits with a special shaft form called SDS. Hammer function and stone bit in combination dont need much preasure apply from the user to go into the wall. The drill has enough power (about 1-3 joule "force per punch") and with the hammering action it digs itself into the wall. But dont use your normal 12v/18v driver, its to heavy action for the small motors. hope you can follow my thoughts and sorry for my bad german english "denglish"... Keep the good work up bro, stay healthy and all the best for you, your family and your business.... day will come, i´ll get me a freakin´ turbo vise, yep, yep, yeeep...
A good bit of organizing a shop can definitely feel great. I also feel the same with the anchor screws into concrete. I've tried all brands and types and sometimes its great and other times its either too tight or just get's stripped. I suppose the tolerances are pretty tight. I end up using concrete anchors a lot now so that I don't have to worry and they feel stronger. I also don't do it all that much so it's not a big deal
I thought, “for sure” you were going to add an off feed table onto your table saw. I have the exact saw and i love my off feed table that i built, problem is you find yourself fabricating on it all the time. At least i do....Loved your brackets and hangers and the whole concept. As for the concrete, if it ever breaks out........Fill and Pack it full of lead wool (very tightly) then you can thread a screw right into it. Love your shop !!!
At around ten minutes you ask a question about drilling concrete. A lot of it has to do with your drill. An SDS drill is made for that specific job. It drills a consistent smooth hole, whereas the drill that you were using is vibrating in spinning but not with the same consistency of an SDS. A much more forgiving way to set screws in concrete is to drill a hole that fits a golf tee and then cut the head of the golf tee off once you have hammered in the hole and then chase it with your screw. I have installed thousands of commercial anchors, but I would say for what you doing with your shelves that a golf tee and screw would works sufficiently. Another alternative if you are having difficulty with consistent holes is to use a lead anchor. It is much more forgiving. Thanks for your encouraging videos. Also, I was really glad to see Pasaon woodworking installing one of your new vises.
Really fantastic work, Andrew! Well done! 😃 My work space is almost ready... The first thing I'm going to have to make are a few benches for power tools and stuff... A proper workbench... And then I'm going basically to do the same you did there. 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
In CT, my shop was in my basement and thus concrete walls. I found the best option was not to attach to the walls directly; but, to build framed walls and attach to them. I see you have several framed walls. I found it to be easier, more flexible, and more secure. I had a wood storage rack attached to one of the walls that I would have NEVER considered attaching to the concrete. Why did you did you choose to attach directly the walls?
I had the same problem with the concrete anchors, I upgraded my drill to a dedicated hammer drill with sds plus drill bits and never had any problems with woobly anchors
A word of caution on the magnetic drill bit holder. Over time your drill bits will get magnetized. When you drill steel the chips just stick to the bit. I learned this the hard way and now only use the magnet for bits I use in wood and aluminum and keep my bits for ferrous material separate.
Great and simple rack for hanging planes on a wall, but you should incorporate two horizontal strips under the face plates of the planes to insure that the blades are not touching the wall. The planes should not be placed where the blades will touch a horizontal or a vertical surface. Or make sure the blades of each plane are fully retracted before hanging.
On the concrete anchors, my experience is that you really need to get all the dust out of it and get quality anchors (my go to plugs are the fisher SX series). If it really needs to hold a lot of force, I go over to a chemical anchor (like soudal CA1400, it's some sort application specific two component stuff) Thanks for the video, this was a real (desperately needed) relaxing moment and I might watch it again just to look to the time laps itself
While the solutions are good to great, it's not often that I wish the background music had been a little louder. When I was a teenager I would put Bolero on my turntable and go to sleep by it. The resonance in my cheap turntable's tone arm played it at just the right level for going to sleep. 1812 was another favorite.
Nice👍👍👍been organizing as well. Hammer drills whether they are the screamers that you are using or the contractor type ads basically destroy bits. Your type does it much faster. Also you definitely get what you pay for. I did a job where we were drilling 1/4" holes , 3 hammer drills going. One brand we were lucky to get a day out of. Changed brands got 2-3 days. Plus pull out often & try not to overheat. If anchor is tight, bit is junk. Sloppy, the material you're drilling is poor. Try a longer anchor sometimes it improves or gives more grab
Variability in the concrete is a constant issue with concrete screws. If the screw is too tight, make sure you have ream out all of the dust/debris from the hole. Have some tie wire handy. If the hole is too loose cut off a piece of wire and stick it in the hole and reinstall the screw - works like a charm.
As for fastening into concrete, what are you using? In CZ we use plastic plugs and regular screws, or premade plug-screw combo, that you just hammer into a wall, both work great, none of the issues you mention. Regular brick walls can be much worse for plug fastening.
What do you make in your shop, I was unable to understand what you said? One of the first things I would do with concrete walls like yours is to cover them floor to ceiling with plywood! Once done, viola, no more drilling into concrete! Some good ideas for tool & fastener storage, but none I think I'd use personally. 3-D printing is cool, what do you normally make with them?
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I love it. I haven't been in my shop much at all. With the arrival of spring, all my chores have found me outdoors. At work, I'm essential personnel and we just went to a new schedule to minimize contact as much as possible. We have three teams now that are in a staggered rotation with 5 days on and 10 days off. So I hope to make some headway into my shop this spring!
Hope you find some shop time but glad you’re staying safe
Found your channel from Tested. As a first time viewer, I must say there are some great ideas here. I'll definitely be borrowing some and incorpoting them into my French cleat tool storage wall. Nice job!
Here too from Tested. Subscribed. 😎
I've been doing very similar stuff in my shop and you're right, it feels great to get stuff organized.
Yes it does!
@@AndrewKleinWW in the middle of the shop organization my wife said " Since you're doing all that stuff, how about adding some outlets to the upstairs bathroom?" - house is circa 1840, that space had no power, it's been 6 days.......shop still disorganized lol
Congrats on your updates!! I'll bet that it feels REALLY good down there now!
Cheers!
Good for you man. Great therapy for the times. I have almost completely cleaned my 1,008 sq ft shop and found some tools I don't remember having as well as getting rid of that stuff that I would use someday and haven't in 15 years. I can't believe how much room I have now. Now I want to build something! I hope you and your family stay safe and well.
Nice, yes, we are safe, hope you are as well
Thank you for thanking the time to make this video, it has done a lot to motivate me to do what I need to do to get things done, and not worry so much about how "good" I can make it.
I think the best part about all of this for me is, it's not a French cleat wall system that takes $17kabillion (in today's market) to build and uses materials that we've all been hoarding since the French cleat revolution. I've recently moved from a 360sq/ft shop to working on getting it all into a 170sq/ft shop and all of my stuff will need to be anchored in a block wall (typical 80s basement here in Ga.). Good stuff!
Wow what a transformation! Look at all that room!
Andy, I’ve been following you for about six months now and have been very impressed with your work. Especially like the vise and workbench projects. After 20 years of being in my basement with a dull white flat finish on the walls I finally painted the walls a gloss white with dry lock. And then painted the floor a slate gray, the floor had no finish on it at all. The difference with the paint on the walls and floor is unbelievable. The shop is so much more inviting and comfortable and well lite. It looks like you painted your floor and I think i’ve heard you say you want to paint the walls also. I’d highly recommend that. This particular shop project that took you a week was very satisfying to watch and I’m sure you’re very happy with all that freed up floorspace. I also like what you’re doing with your with your videos. I recently started my own TH-cam channel and I’ve been coming back to you tubers like you to pick up some tips and tricks. Thanks for all you do for the community and good luck with your invention side of your business. I live in New Jersey but my daughter lives in Denver and the next time we’re out there i’d love to contact you for a shop visit.
Hi Bob, thanks for the comment and for following along. I definitely do like the epoxy on the floor and paint on the walls would be great. Good luck with your TH-cam channel.
I like a lot of the solutions. I think the drill press column shelf is the one I'll most likely implement in my shop.
I was in your live feed a few nights ago, really enjoyed it. You're giving me inspiration to clean up my shop. You gave me some good ideas on how to store some of the things that I have been struggling with. Love the workbench!!!
The soothing beat of Muricio Ravel's Bolero Concerto accompanied by the melodic tones of Andrew Klein makes for an incredibly calming and enjoyable video.
Haha, glad to hear it, I’ve gotten several complements on the music choice, that doesn’t after happen. I picked it because it’s repetitive, the same thing over and over, kinda like one shop improvement after another. Seems to work.
Cheers Andy! Some great ideas here. I've set myself a goal of several shop/organization projects and this is great motivation. My reward is going to be one of your vices, so maybe it works out for both of us.
Awesome man, thanks!
Interesting I just spent two weeks e organizing my 22 x22 shop. I do this once a year. I consider all space in my shop as “valuable real estate “. So everything gets looked at as to whether it stays or goes. It’s good therapy and it’s like Christmas for my grandson 😎😎 nice job
Fantastic video! I really like your push block for cutting the plywood squares in half on the bandsaw and your plane hanging idea!
Tnx. Went throught a similar organization ritual when moving the content of my toolboxes to my shop wall. Life changing. I'm stealing the hanging jars thing (saw this in quite some movies, but forgot about it). However, I think I will attach square plywood to the lids of the jars, so I can slide the jars, with the lid, out of some aluminium U-profile slides at the bottom of the shelves.
Metal pile is timely for me. I'll probably make an umbrella stand with metal bars, so I can store rods of different lengths, easily visible and retrievable.
Nice on the plane storage, and the reward at the end of the day! Great work!
All very workable solutions, including what looks to be a very nice scotch for post-project analysis enhancement! Well done!
Bravo Andrew !
J'admire tout ce que tu fais parce que tu vas au bout des choses.
Un atelier bien penser et bien organiser devient un outil en lui-même !
It's a great time to do these sorts of projects. Working out a suitable "harness" for whatever tool or jig that needs stowing can be a fun puzzle to ponder. Drilling into masonry (not just concrete) has often been a PITA for me. If it is important, I tend to drill a series of smaller diameter "pilot" holes and if the brick/concrete/stone is soft and or crumbly just enlarge carefully with the percussion off. Cheers, David
Amen Mr. Klein, good job at kicking out that project, better job at celebrating with that nice shooter of dark liquor!!!
I have problems w/ Tapcons too. I've found backing the drill in and out a few times helps to clear the hole of dust and debris, And it reams the hole out a little bit making it easier to drive the screw. Also, driving a hex head is a lot easier than a Phillips head.
Helps to take an air compressor blower and stick it in the drilled hole and blow out the dust in the hole.
I'm at the very beginning of setting up my first real workshop. I'm getting some great ideas, thank you.
Great, glad you found it useful
To address your concrete comment: I had a similar experience with inconsistent concrete fasteners and I found that a proper SDS drill and bit was much more consistent. It seems that concrete does have a decent bit of variability and the Carbide SDS drill bit + SDS combo makes it through the hard sections of concrete much better giving your anchors a more consistent hole to hold in.
Not sure if that’s what causing your particular problem.
Any really high quality Carbide four flute hammer drill bits (not the cheap 2 flute type sold with Tapcons) work properly if you drill straight, pullout of hole frequently to pull out chips and dust which would otherwise work to grind the hole larger, and finish with compressed air (hose or can) with thin long tip to deeply blow out deadend holes. Thus allowed a uniform proper sized hold, no debris to cause thread jamming and screw breakage. Finally, never remove and reinstall a tap on without adding epoxy to the reused fastener. (30 years on the job)
Feels good just looking at the new - clear space created. Love your creativity in simple mounts. Great job. Ahhhhhh
Congratulations friend, you have a very complete workshop. God help me to have one like this. Greetings from Colombia.
You can get there!
First time viewer - I think I'll stick around for more. I am envious of your sense of organization. (I also highly approve of your choice of beverage! It's one of the best.) Very well done. Multiple ideas that I will use. Thank you.
If you look at the head of a concrete drill bit, you will see it has a couple of tabs that stick out wider than the drill bit shaft. If you are not careful and keep the drill exactly perpendicular to the wall, it can wallow out the hole. Also, concrete walls tend to not be homogeneous and has rebar and wire in it to strengthen it. You can easily glance off this which will also create a larger hole. My advice is to limit the number of holes you put into the wall. But how can you do that when you want to put a lot of hangers on the wall? Well, I would put in a treated 2x4 horizontally across the wall top and bottom and then put up a sheet of plywood. Then either connect directly to the plywood or create a french cleat system with multiple cleats running horizontally down the plywood. I hope this helps you and others with issues drilling holes in concrete.
My bench was buried! Had to shove stuff around to make something. Made a nice tool wall with tools grouped by function, measuring devices, screw drivers, hammers. When I couldn't find a tool, it was off to the store. Scary how many duplicates I have! Put the extra in a box for emergency replacement.
So relaxing to see a workshop getting organized. Always learn or get an idea from your videos. Building a rack for drill bits will be on my priority list, (have big list). Love Lagavulin! My favorite is the distillers edition, didn't see if that was what you got. Thanks, Miki
Well done. I predict that your craftmanship and creativity will greatly improve over the short term. It seems that clean, organized work area brings this ZEN wave around which is conducive to high quality projects. That's my wish for you ! I love your work !
Dude, I’m with you on the cardboard boxes. No need to reinvent the wheel just for better looking rims. My wife has been so patient with stumbling around my mess in the basement to get to her laundry. I’ve got 6 days of work myself
So we were your motivation for getting organized...and this video is my motivation to keep getting my shop organized. Thanks!
Would love to see what you come up with for lumber/sheet good storage. This is what is holding me up.
Cheers Andrew! 🥃 ... Great job. I'm currently redoing my garage. This is great inspiration.
Well done man! I especially liked the way you threw the wrenches into the bin. So it is necessary to do. Although, perhaps, this tool you do not need, would suit someone in need ... But no, you did the right thing. Let that one in need remain the same in need! These are your tools! What to do with them is your decision! In general, you are well done!
Getting started on organization projects, to me, is always the hardest part. Once you actually get going, though, you can get into a good groove and knock things out fairly quickly. Now that you've taken the shelving apart, you have more materials for more projects. Nice work.
Nice video and thanks for taking the time to make it. It was the plane storage thumbnail that got me. Clever. I'm not sure this was addressed by another, but I too have had issues with tapcon type masonry screws. I believe the masonry bit deflects when it hits various pieces of aggregate in the concrete matrix making some holes larger than others. I've also hit "soft" spots of concrete like you described but I'm not sure of the details of that. You'd think poured concrete being mixed in a truck for 35 miles would be about as homogeneous as possible. I've moved to the ramset system for convenience, but also use the wedge style fasteners for posts and the like. Also, I've found the common drywall anchors (you know, the red and blue pen cap looking things that come with your smoke detector) work very well. If you muck up a hole in the future then use them with ordinary screws. I wouldn't trust my life on them, but they hold like the dickens. I built a workstation on top of a couple of rolling tool carts (posted a video on it) and feel drawers under your workbench very useful. Thanks again, and sorry for the long comment.
So many good ideas here! What type of CA and accelerator were you using?
Th brand is Stick Fast, and I’m using the medium viscosity
Love how you set up the rocker claps. Going to do that. Thanks Andrew as always.
Your plane storage idea got me thinking and I built french cleat modules for each of my planes with only 2 pieces of wood. A 1/2inch plywood base the length and width of the sole. Then a french cleat mount glued on at the top. I put a single eye screw at the top so it could have a single piece of paracord go through it. Each plane has a loop for the knob that I then tied a stopper knot above the eye hook to hold the plane at the right height. A single rare earth magnet is set into the plywood base just to suck it against the module. One hand grab. Two hands to put away. It's like a scalable plane till. Thanks for getting my brain going in a new direction instead of building those complicated sloped tills with all the dividers that takes longer to make than a bedroom suite.
Great job organizing. That's always been one of my many weak points. A designated area for each tool grouping will certainly save much time and frustration when working on any project, be it wood, metal or mechanical. Thanks!! 👍
Thanks, I think it’s one of those things many of us know we should do, but have trouble getting to
Great video, Andy. And the finished product(s) for organization came out very nice.
Great improvement. It seems that your shop is about the same size as mine in the basement, but more organized now. I learned some things that I can use as I have to deal with concrete walls too. I just might be motivated enough to tackle this monster myself. Thanks for sharing your talents and thoughts my friend. I enjoyed it. Stay safe and healthy.
Great Job Andy. Spent today doing similar.
Thanks Gary
Aloha Andrew,
Wayward anchor holes for plastic anchor in concrete: sometimes the concrete drill bit hits a real hard bit of aggregate in the location and will follow the path of least resistance ,thus the too loose hole or the too tight hole. Love all you space, now disabled but had big shop spaces in no less than 5 companies and at home . One was about 10 acres under a roof. Now , vertigo for the most part has my limited to just my small outdoor sheds.
It was very cool to see the shop and the improvements you made. Now that you have all that room maybe it's time to start looking into getting a metal lathe and a small mill. For what you're doing I think those tools would be indispensable and I'm sure you'd take to it very quickly.
Those are definitely on my list!
Ah, an Islay man. Nothing like a glass of campfire smoke to celebrate a job well done!
A well earned celebratory libation! This is just the video I need right now! Don't stress about the disaster corners. We all need a bit of a disaster area to keep us humble :)))
So glad it was what you needed!
Nice progress~! Space reclamation is always a good thing. I saw a couple of things that you did that I may mimic in my own shop. Thanks for the ideas~!
You bet, glad to help
Andrew, you did what I should have done (working on a raised planter box instead).
Nice work man! Sub'd!
Well to be fair the box is nicer than what I did at the end.
Nice ideas and thanks for taking us along! Regarding concrete anchors/tapcons... it depends upon if you hit a big hard chunk of aggregate and drill straight through so your screw is grabbed all around by a hard chunk of rock. In this case, it is possible to break one off. Alternately, if you don't hit anything, even partially, it will feel loose/soft and easy to strip it out.
Hitting rebar doesn't help much either
Cheers to you too Andy!
All this and Lagavulin too...! Excellent choice.
For a minute I thought I was watching a ice skating channel...you're music playing is the Bolero from Torvill and Dean the British ice skating duo !!!
Great organization. You just gave me an idea. Clear boxes for scrap wood! That way you can quickly see what to grab. : ) Mahalo for sharing. : )
I like it! This is a perfect time to clean up, straighten up, and organ up! ??? New word here?
yes sir
The un-Ravel-ing of this video is very satisfying. 😇
Andy, I would love to see folding out feed table for the saw. Rollers work, but a nice sized out feed table makes a great assembly area. You have a great shop, nice size and layout. I think a rolling sheet goods rack with a method to rip sheets on the side would work good. Stumpy Nubs channel has a great one. I imagine the alcove near the furnace is where the future bathroom will be, it would be a nice corner for a workstation for programming up the 3D printers and the CNC.
That turned out awesome an you got more floor place nicely done, and to your tap con problem, I have the same problem from time to time and I think the smaller holes you get are because your drilling into a stone and the bit can't make the holes little over sized as if you are just drilling into the concrete, I'm no expert at it but I've had to drill a bunch of holes into concrete so I know your struggle
Thanks, yes, I think its just not that reliable a process, probably need to go with those expanding sleeve things if you want a sure thing.
Hey Andy, concrete anchors are junk. What you want to do it drill a hole, depending on your screw size, and stick copper wire in it. Then a regular wood screw and your set. For reference a 3/16 hole and 18/2 wire works great for #10 screws. Use 14/2 wire if doing lag bolts! Works great in solid concrete
You gave me some ideas with the organization you did. Thanks for sharing!
One of the best videos out Andrew, however I would have seal coated white paint on the walls before installing the tool storage. You did a good job with the reorg of the shop Keep doing the great videos. Having fun during the present USA virus working in the shop is very good for the mind- Thanks and be safe.
Hello Andrew, nice Video there, i think not every project has to be the kind of super flashy high craftmanship content to come along with. You have shown your skills and creativity often enough, and sometimes also the small things count.
To your concrete hole problem, out here in germany we use the hammer function a big handdrill comes along with, especially on steelconcrete. Dont know how its called in the U.S. and if you guys even have those kind of stone drill bits with a special shaft form called SDS. Hammer function and stone bit in combination dont need much preasure apply from the user to go into the wall. The drill has enough power (about 1-3 joule "force per punch") and with the hammering action it digs itself into the wall. But dont use your normal 12v/18v driver, its to heavy action for the small motors. hope you can follow my thoughts and sorry for my bad german english "denglish"...
Keep the good work up bro, stay healthy and all the best for you, your family and your business.... day will come, i´ll get me a freakin´ turbo vise, yep, yep, yeeep...
Great choice of music. I haven't listened to Ravel's Bolero in a long time.
Thanks!
Good work... like your file and plane storage... will steal these two
Nice work Andy. I’ve been working on organization a bunch this year. I may steal some of your ideas.
Thanks, steal all you want
Thats a nice sized shop 👍
Only when organized
Even when a mess...
Your machinery alone would not leave walking room in my "shop".
@@thomasarussellsr lol yup same here...
Mine so small i have to call it a sho cuz i dont have room for the P 😆
A good bit of organizing a shop can definitely feel great. I also feel the same with the anchor screws into concrete. I've tried all brands and types and sometimes its great and other times its either too tight or just get's stripped. I suppose the tolerances are pretty tight.
I end up using concrete anchors a lot now so that I don't have to worry and they feel stronger. I also don't do it all that much so it's not a big deal
I thought, “for sure” you were going to add an off feed table onto your table saw. I have the exact saw and i love my off feed table that i built, problem is you find yourself fabricating on it all the time. At least i do....Loved your brackets and hangers and the whole concept. As for the concrete, if it ever breaks out........Fill and Pack it full of lead wool (very tightly) then you can thread a screw right into it. Love your shop !!!
Very good tip on the lead wool, assuming steel wood would work also? I’ll try this for sure.
Andrew Klein, Yea one would think, and lead wool is probably hard to come by. Although lead packs in real good.
At around ten minutes you ask a question about drilling concrete. A lot of it has to do with your drill. An SDS drill is made for that specific job. It drills a consistent smooth hole, whereas the drill that you were using is vibrating in spinning but not with the same consistency of an SDS.
A much more forgiving way to set screws in concrete is to drill a hole that fits a golf tee and then cut the head of the golf tee off once you have hammered in the hole and then chase it with your screw.
I have installed thousands of commercial anchors, but I would say for what you doing with your shelves that a golf tee and screw would works sufficiently.
Another alternative if you are having difficulty with consistent holes is to use a lead anchor. It is much more forgiving.
Thanks for your encouraging videos.
Also, I was really glad to see Pasaon woodworking installing one of your new vises.
Awesome improvement. The bad news....reorganizing a shop never ends, they are always a work in progress....lol
true, gotta enjoy the never ending journey
Really fantastic work, Andrew! Well done! 😃
My work space is almost ready... The first thing I'm going to have to make are a few benches for power tools and stuff... A proper workbench... And then I'm going basically to do the same you did there. 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
In CT, my shop was in my basement and thus concrete walls. I found the best option was not to attach to the walls directly; but, to build framed walls and attach to them. I see you have several framed walls. I found it to be easier, more flexible, and more secure. I had a wood storage rack attached to one of the walls that I would have NEVER considered attaching to the concrete. Why did you did you choose to attach directly the walls?
Some great tips cheers Andrew and be safe
Thanks, you too!
I had the same problem with the concrete anchors, I upgraded my drill to a dedicated hammer drill with sds plus drill bits and never had any problems with woobly anchors
Ain't nobody ever gonna say ya didn't use enough screws LOL great job cheers
Never!!
Speeking of which, do you by any chance, have a link to the tapered/counter-sink drill bits?
Ravel’s Bolero for background music ... nice touch.
A word of caution on the magnetic drill bit holder. Over time your drill bits will get magnetized. When you drill steel the chips just stick to the bit. I learned this the hard way and now only use the magnet for bits I use in wood and aluminum and keep my bits for ferrous material separate.
awesome job Andrew!
Great organization, one thing that will come out of this lockdown is garages and shops across America will be more organized.
Worldwide you mean
Great and simple rack for hanging planes on a wall, but you should incorporate two horizontal strips under the face plates of the planes to insure that the blades are not touching the wall. The planes should not be placed where the blades will touch a horizontal or a vertical surface. Or make sure the blades of each plane are fully retracted before hanging.
Much more light and free space!!! Cheers🥃
On the concrete anchors, my experience is that you really need to get all the dust out of it and get quality anchors (my go to plugs are the fisher SX series). If it really needs to hold a lot of force, I go over to a chemical anchor (like soudal CA1400, it's some sort application specific two component stuff)
Thanks for the video, this was a real (desperately needed) relaxing moment and I might watch it again just to look to the time laps itself
While the solutions are good to great, it's not often that I wish the background music had been a little louder. When I was a teenager I would put Bolero on my turntable and go to sleep by it. The resonance in my cheap turntable's tone arm played it at just the right level for going to sleep. 1812 was another favorite.
This has me inspired i may steal a few of your ideas. I just need to find the time.
Steal away, that is what the video is for
Nice👍👍👍been organizing as well.
Hammer drills whether they are the screamers that you are using or the contractor type ads basically destroy bits. Your type does it much faster. Also you definitely get what you pay for. I did a job where we were drilling 1/4" holes , 3 hammer drills going. One brand we were lucky to get a day out of. Changed brands got 2-3 days. Plus pull out often & try not to overheat. If anchor is tight, bit is junk. Sloppy, the material you're drilling is poor. Try a longer anchor sometimes it improves or gives more grab
"Any excuse will do" =) I love it!
Variability in the concrete is a constant issue with concrete screws. If the screw is too tight, make sure you have ream out all of the dust/debris from the hole. Have some tie wire handy. If the hole is too loose cut off a piece of wire and stick it in the hole and reinstall the screw - works like a charm.
Great Inspiration 👍 thanks
As for fastening into concrete, what are you using? In CZ we use plastic plugs and regular screws, or premade plug-screw combo, that you just hammer into a wall, both work great, none of the issues you mention. Regular brick walls can be much worse for plug fastening.
Great music choice for the background - love Bolero
Seems at least 1/4 inch holes in concrete work good also I prefer the lead drive pins.
What do you make in your shop, I was unable to understand what you said?
One of the first things I would do with concrete walls like yours is to cover them floor to ceiling with plywood! Once done, viola, no more drilling into concrete! Some good ideas for tool & fastener storage, but none I think I'd use personally. 3-D printing is cool, what do you normally make with them?
After I tied a hubcap to my chuck key, I never lost it again. Hehe
Inspirational
I think that your clamp rack added additional strength, support and rigidity to your house foundation. 🤪
Ha! My wife doesn’t like me drilling into the foundation so I’ll mention that to her
If anything, each penetration into the concrete adds a place a stress crack can occure. Any screw holes that line up can increase those odds.
Ravel's Belero is a very fitting theme for organization.
@19:03 Is that some peaty goodness of Lagavulin? Hmmmm. Kudos to you for the Scotch...ur I mean all the hard work you put in to optimizing your shop!
At least there's a whole bunch of scrap wood and hardware that you dont have to store anymore!
Yep, used quite a bit of it up
Thanks Andrew, turned out better than expected. Whats your thoughts on the Bosch Glidial saw after all this time?
I like it, if it didn't have such terrible dust collection it would be perfect.