I'm not into V-logging but I thought
I'd just make one of that type of videos
just to try it out.
So, if you don't like it, just give it a thumbs down
and go away because I'm not gonna build
anything in this video. This video's gonna be
about various things in my big garage workshop.
And there's all kinds of little things to
ramble about so that's what I'll focus on.
So I've got my old homemade dust collector here.
It's not as good as the new one that I built.
And I thought I'd bring it here, just to use it.
But I was too cheap to buy the proper hose for it.
So I tried a 2 and a half inch dryer hose
and that works pretty good.
Although I had to make a fitting to actually
make it go on here.
And that's using the proper adapter piece.
And then a yoghurt cup to get up to the
right diameter. And it's just duct taped on
here. I have to get another piece of
hose like that. This sort of hose works
actually pretty good. I used to use a
dryer hose on my table saw in my old workshop.
And I never had a problem with it.
So, I figure I'll just use it until it breaks.
I recently switched out the wheels on this one.
For some office chair type wheels.
Because I decided I needed the casters to
to make another dolly. So, these are just
screwed into a piece of Baltic birch
and that's on here. And if these
casters are strong enough to sit on
they should be able to support this dust collector,
no problem.
Also with this type of wheel
is this table which I originally built just to hold
my Pantorouter XL but now that I've got a
better base for it, I brought it out here.
And this table is quite handy just to
use it wherever I need to use it.
I got the simple table that I built
a couple of years ago as my workbench.
And there's the other workbench. And I
just mounted some pieces of plywood behind it.
Just plywood from the garbage.
And next I need to make a bunch of tool
holders so that I can put my screwdrivers and
stuff like that on the wall, which is much more
convenient. All the machines I've got out here
are all sort of my seconds. So this is my old
small drill press, radial armsaw which I never
used in my shop. A drill press that somebody
gave me. My 6 inch jointer, which is a
heck of a lot better than not having a jointer.
I don't have a cast-off planer
so no planer out here.
My horizontal boring machine.
Nothing really wrong with that machine
It's just awkward to set things up with it
so I usually just use a drill press table.
Here I've got the stand from the
Craftsman bandsaw that I smashed.
So, in the meantime, it's good for propping
things up onto until I make more shelf furniture
for in here.
I've got the wood stove here for heating.
And I thought one of these torches
would be awesome for lighting it because
these lighters really...Whoops.
These lighters really don't work that well
when they're cold, and I have to warm it up
in my hand but it turns out
the piezo ignighter, this part here, doesn't
work when it's cold so, kinda useless.
The wood stove, I have a bunch of fans there
to blow air at it, but they're quite loud.
Not really loud, so I turn them off if I'm
recording, and that really helps to spread
the heat around the shop.
If I have this thing going full stoke, it's enough,
just enough to keep the workshop warmed up.
But that's with the slab being at below zero.
Because I don't heat the shop regularly.
I also have to turn the fans off if I'm
stoking it because otherwise it just blows
too much smoke into the workshop.
Whoops.
The stove is not very good at heating the
place up but I've got the propane heater
up here, which is very powerful and also
very loud, so I always turn that one on
right when I get here and I run it for
maybe half an hour, and that gets the shop
nice and warm, up to 20 degrees easily.
I know that's about 60 something in Fahrenheit.
Back here I've got a bunch of scrap metal.
I bought a wire feed welder at a yard sale,
couple of years ago. And I've been meaning
to get more into that sort of thing but
I'm terrible at welding. I have welded
a few things though. For instance here is
a really dreadful weld that I've done.
But it does stiffen up the shelf a bit.
So maybe I'll get better at it, but
don't look to me for how to weld videos.
Here's my wood and it's actually on a
cart that I made, which is one of those
hand truck things that I found in the garbage.
And I just put a caster on this side so I could
move the whole wood pile around.
And in here I've got some boxes of scrap wood.
from my workshop which is also stuff I burn.
Plus my dust collector uses buckets like this.
And I dump those buckets of sawdust
straight into the wood stove.
You can't really dump the sawdust on top of
a fire but if you start a fire on top of a
bucket worth of sawdust, it burns it
away eventually.
I still have my scaffold here. I thought I'd
take that apart once I'm done using it
but it's just come in so handy, like if I need to
drop a bandsaw or something like that.
So, I think I'm just gonna park that more in
the corner and maybe use it as shelving.
Yes, it is perhaps not the safest and not
whatever approved, but you know what?
If it's dangerous, people like to watch it.
Got a shelf back here which I made a video
about and I've got lots of crap stored on here.
And I got my ATV, which I primarily use
as a tractor sort of thing because
I tow a trailer with it.
Because I'm not really into the motoring
around just for fun.
Got a fridge here that came with the shop.
It works although maybe not super well.
And I got a bunch of cushions up here.
If I feel like taking a nap, I can spread those
on the floor. Comes in handy from time to time.
And here I've actually got some cooking stuff.
So, I've actually fried some stuff for lunch
here one time. But mostly I just warm
things up in the microwave.
And then I've got some other food type
things in here and this is quite mouse proof.
When it's closed and that is a bit of an issue.
I have had some mouse damage to various
pieces of cloth, including one of these
drop cloths, which I cut the damaged part
off of. And so I set-up a mouse trap back
here. And this hasn't been working that well
lately, although it has caught a few mice
in here. So the mice can get up in here and
I smear Gnutella or peanut butter on here
and the mice get on here and eventually
fall in down here.
But I didn't put enough anti-freeze in there
so this is frozen over again, so...
My hope is, after I've heated it, it'll be
not frozen for a few days and maybe the
mouse will fall in there.
But somehow, I don't know how, they
Gnutella has gotten eaten off of here.
It may not be mice. I've had another trap
where I saw mouse poop in the bottom.
So they fell in and were able to jump off the ice.
But yeah, I want to set something up to
film that when I'm not here
to see what exactly happens with that.
That might make another interesting video.
I'm also thinking of maybe making some
cantilevered shelving off the walls.
And put that way up here.
Basically not connected to anything with
the ground so that I can put fabric-type
stuff in there and the mice can't get at it.
And here I've got my computer station.
The laptop I always bring, the keyboard and
monitor I keep here. It's just an old
keyboard and monitor, nothing very good.
And is one of my wheelie desks.
Which I made several of.
So very good use here and I just pull it up
to the armchair when I want to use the
computer. Much better than pulling the chair
to the computer.
And for Internet, I rigged this thing up.
And I made a video about this, too.
Which is a parabolic-ish dish and that works
very good for getting signal. But since then
I've switched to using a Linksys box with
DDWRT installed on it. And that basically
catches the wi-fi signal and goes to wired.
So it does exactly the opposite of what
this thing is normally doing.
And I've got a reflector behind it, which
it kind of works without it, but I actually
didn't put this reflector on here, last time
I left here and I could not reach things
remotely, hardly at all.
So, this reflector really does help.
These halves are parabolic and
I've got marked on here where the focus is
of the parabolas.
And I make sure the antenna's are exactly in
the focus. And also I calculate the size of this
parabola so that the incoming signal
is gonna be in phase with the reflections
when it meets with this antenna.
So that I get maximum boost from this
reflector. I've got several lines coming off
of here and 2 of those go to things on
the wall here. So, here this is a V-Star
cam, IP camera, so I can remotely
look out the window and it's set to
motion trigger when there's stuff happening
out there. And I can also swivel around
and make sure everything's OK in the shop.
And also look at the thermometer remotely.
Although it turns out, the infrared lighting
on here, when the lights are off
makes the red on here not work, so
I put this mechanical thermometer on here
and I colored the needle black so it shows
up better with the infrared.
But the motion trigger on this camera isn't
terribly good so I set something else up
here. This is a Raspberry Pi.
It's in this wooden enclosure and this is
the camera module added, of it.
And it's aimed out there, and I still have to
finish off my software to detect motion on
that, so this thing shouldn't miss anything.
And it's also connected to Ethernet
to the router back there so I can access
this remotely. Except the last week I
couldn't really get it very well because
again I neglected to put the reflector
behind the router.So, I defiantly need that.
And I've got hooked up to it right now,
a monitor and a keyboard. Which I needed
just when I set it up initially.
But that should go away again. I really
don't need a monitor and keyboard there.
It runs Linux so I just access it remotely.
And back is more junk. I've got a workmate
that I picked up off the curb.
This is a planer stand from my planer
that I got from Canadian Tire.
And I'll use that with my other bandsaw here
which I just brought out today, so I need to
put this back together so I can have a
second bandsaw here because
for some things you want a coarse blade.
For some things you want a fine blade.
And I can't be bothered to keep changing
blades which is why I really need a second
bandsaw here.
Back here is my 70 dollar welder that
I've welded with. It works fine.
Nobody sent me a free one.
And I'm fine with that. Because that way
I get editorial freedom.
I've got my cheap dust collector that
I bought for in here and I mostly use it with
my homemade table saw.
It really doesn't have enough suction. It's
supposedly a 1 horsepower motor.
But the impeller on here is just too small
a diameter to really get a lot of pressure.
And this bag has a lot of resistance.
Bill Price, on his actually, put one of these
filter bags on the bottom as well and I
might just do that as well.
Although at that point it might help to put
some garbage can thing ahead of here
to catch the coarse dust because
you don't really want to fill the filter bag
completely with crap. Although even
that would still help and these plastic bags
are just awful to put on here, so
I think this will help a lot when I switch
that over. And my drills
and such, all disorganized. Those will
eventually go on here so I can get at them
more easily.
And here's my homemade tablesaw, which
I have to say is not as good as the
contractor type saw that you could buy.
But a friend recently gave me a small little
table saw. One of the ones you can get for
like a hundred dollars. And that thing is just
awful. So, this is much better than that.
And, I'm quite happy using this.
I will probably get a real table saw out here
eventually. And let's see, what else have we
got here. Here's my antique desk drawers.
Which I'm using here as a workbench.
Nothing is attached here, it's just held
together by gravity.
And another drill press that somebody gave
me for free. About the same capability as the
Grey one back there. So, not very powerful
but could come in handy. The chuck was a
little bit seized on it, too.
And it had a bit of rust.
And here's one of these things with the
drawers that I found at a yard sale real cheap.
Kind of handy but you don't get much
oversight, so I think having just a bunch of
yoghurt cups that you can see from the top
more like this is much better and I still need
to make something to hold these in place so
they don't slide all over the place when I
open and close the drawer.
So, next I should put this bandsaw
back together. And I'm thinking
maybe I'll take this Raspberry Pi and I'll
just aim the camera module into the shop
and maybe that way I can get a time lapse
of putting this together.
Finally got this bandsaw back together.
Took a little longer than expected because
I bought the wrong belt and so I had to
move the motor out a little bit and
that ended up hitting the belt guard
and what not, so I had to carve things out
of it here. The other thing is I'd last
used it as summer mode so I had to switch
everything over in terms of configuration.
And here's a weakness of this bandsaw
design is, if I do a lot of sawing, I get
dust caught in here now. This is the dust
from having cut up several logs. So, it's
not so bad. For ordinary sawing you don't
really end up with very much dust in here
and I'm just gonna suck that out with
a vacuum cleaner.
There, I think that's working good now.
I'm still loading on it. And these pennies
are hard to balance. And it doesn't take
much to bump it.
These are both 14 inch bandsaws.
And both use 93 and a half inch blades.
Except this one can cut twice as deep
as this one.
Been puttering around some more
and here's my new jig for holding the router.
So holding it from the top instead
so that the whole length of the antenna
is in the reflector and that goes against
the window, like so.
And I should have much better reception now.