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A shop for my old Delta's ( Or my portable Delta-Shop)

At the same time I am restoring my old Delta machines, I am also creating a workshop for them.

But I live in the county with the city at two sides of my property. The city will not allow me to put up a shop without annexing to the city. Doing so would increase my property taxes to roughly four times what they are now. So I have taken the battle to the next level. I am building my workshop in a converted 24 foot camping trailer. The county zoning restrictions are vague on this, but will allow it as it is not considered a permanent structure. What this means is as long as it has axles under it, and it can be moved the city has no say in it. I also cannot hard wire an electrical connection to it. I say not a problem as campers can simply be powered through a plug in 30 Amp circuit. So that solves two problems. One I get my workshop, Two I get power to my workshop.

But this limits me to a workshop that has inside dimensions of 7 1/2' x 20 1/2' of floor space. Both ends of my workshop tilt back towards the inside of the floor space limiting the vertical ends further. Cramped but I believe workable. It's going to have to be because it's what I have to work with.

I will be replacing the old crank out windows with some vinyl sliding windows that I have,and vinyl siding the camper for appearance sake. Putting in bigger doors to allow using my table saw and jointer, and various other modifications along the way.

At the present time the camper is now a gutted empty shell. I will be adding a second layer of 3/4" plywood to the floor and putting in new walls electrical etc.

So feel free to offer suggestions, just follow along, or laugh at me while I take the fight to the next level in the creation of my portable Delta-Shop.

I'll be supplying photos in upcoming episodes of this adventure. (it's dark out now so photos will have to wait)

I wasn't going to do a write-up on this but Jack (Tool613) convinced me some members here might be interested

So until later,

Larry

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Permalink Reply by Will Winder on March 1, 2012 at 5:15am

Hey Larry, great to see you are feeling better and already back in action (with a schedule by the sounds of it!).

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Forum HostPermalink Reply by Larry Buskirk on March 1, 2012 at 6:54am

Thanks Gene,

For something that we can't see, they can really kick some butt!

It feels good getting back to doing something again!

Thanks for the compliment about my work, I appreciate it.

Larry

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Gene Howe said:

Glad you are back at 100%, Larry. Those viral infections are nasty.

As with the rest to your rebuild, I like your electrical work, both mechanical and trim. Nice and neat.

Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

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Forum HostPermalink Reply by Larry Buskirk on March 1, 2012 at 7:00am

Thanks Will,

We'll see how trying to do things with a schedule works out. But I'm sure that I'll run into a monkey wrench in the works somewhere! It just never seems to fail!

Larry

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Will Winder said:

Hey Larry, great to see you are feeling better and already back in action (with a schedule by the sounds of it!).

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Forum HostPermalink Reply by Larry Buskirk on March 21, 2012 at 7:03pm

Hi Everyone,

Well now the weather is quite unbelievable here in S.E. Wisconsin, we've had temperatures in the low to mid 80's for the past couple of days. So I've been trying to get a few things done. I've started working on my " Old Delta's "again, and I'm also getting back to work on the " Shop " My typical doing 90 projects all at the same time.

So as to the shop, I've been putting the pink styrofoam insulation back into the walls, but due to increasing the wall thickness will have to get quite a bit more. But I have managed to get enough done in the front wall to mount the outside lights. I've decided to run the interior wiring through conduit mounted to the inside wall, so I don't weaken the wall framing drilling alot of holes for wiring. That and so I can have full insulation in the walls. Doing so requires that I get all of my wiring to exterior lighting put in place as I insulate. I will be using the space between the roof and ceiling as a wiring chase, and only drilling through the top plates for wire access.

So here is what I managed to get accomplished today. Besides running in circles

I had to pick up another 3 1/2" hole saw to cut the holes. Now that I've done so I'm sure that I'll find the one I had.

It's hard to tell but the lights are on. The following photo shows it better.

I'll have to pick up the typical trailer lights required by the D.O.T. as the old ones weren't worth saving. I will be using vinyl siding mounting blocks for most of the exterior lighting, and recepticles. Doing so will make it easier to do the vinyl siding when I get there.

Well it wasn't much, but more than I've gotten done for a while!

So until next time,

Later,

Larry

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Forum HostPermalink Reply by Gene Howe on March 22, 2012 at 6:05am

Looking real good, Larry.

Good idea running the electrical through conduit instead of through the studs.

Are you going to uses screws instead of nails on the siding? We get some 50 MPH winds here and I had to replace nails with screws often. I think I've got a handle on it now. The corner pieces seemed to be the worst. There's a good sized gap, to accommodate for the siding profile, that catches the wind.

Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

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Forum HostPermalink Reply by Larry Buskirk on March 22, 2012 at 8:01am

Gene,

The siding will be attached with wafer head screws.

The heads of these screws are a little bigger than the head of a roofing nail.

So far there is not a single nail in the whole project! Everything has been assembled with screws, and bolts.

I figured it was my best bet as to keeping everything together.

As to mounting the interior electric to the interior walls, it just seemed to be the better way of doing it. ( less work!)

Larry

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Gene Howe said:

Looking real good, Larry.

Good idea running the electrical through conduit instead of through the studs.

Are you going to uses screws instead of nails on the siding? We get some 50 MPH winds here and I had to replace nails with screws often. I think I've got a handle on it now. The corner pieces seemed to be the worst. There's a good sized gap, to accommodate for the siding profile, that catches the wind.

Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

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Forum HostPermalink Reply by Larry Buskirk on March 22, 2012 at 8:37pm

Hi Everyone,

Today I decided to get the weatherstriping and threshold installed on the rear garage door. Normally there would not be a threshold for a garage door, but this isn't a normal use for a garage door.

The first photos show cutoffs of the materials that were used. The wider material is made for trimming the door jambs. Both of these are a man made synthetic material. The weatherstrip has a bonded rubber type seal.

If I was doing a normal install, I would only use three weatherstrips. But I want to keep as much water out as possible so I used a forth to create an overlap at the rear edge of the threshold, which is mounted with the edge closest to the door 1/4" higher than the overhanging edge to create a runoff away from the door.

So it would appear that I was successfull at keeping the water from getting in as just after I finished thunderstorms broke out. The rain was coming directly at the door, and didn't come through that I could see.

That's it for today,

Later,

Larry

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Site AdminPermalink Reply by John Morris on March 22, 2012 at 9:06pm

Larry that is real pro looking! I think you missed your calling, a garage door installer!!!

Just curious, did you keep it a sectional or did you bolt it together as one?

John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

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Forum HostPermalink Reply by Larry Buskirk on March 23, 2012 at 8:47am

John,

The door is a roll up sectional. It's an Ideal Door Company insulated R 12.9 value door. Even at the narrow 6' 6" width the sections are plenty heavy. I just finally got around to putting the weatherstripping on.

And as to installing these as a living

Larry

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John Morris said:

Larry that is real pro looking! I think you missed your calling, a garage door installer!!!

Just curious, did you keep it a sectional or did you bolt it together as one?

John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops