Shop Pictures
From Fozzee.net
This is a few pictures of various fixtures in my shop (aka "the garage").
My toolbox, as shown in the first picture is actually a stack of 3, 15 drawer 3x5 card files. It's mounted to a set of 4 casters, screwed into the lip around the edge of the bottom cabinet. The cardfiles themselves came from my grandfather, who acquired them at auction a long time ago. The wheels came from an old 19" equipment rack, long since scrapped (wish I would have hung onto more of that steel...) In any case, the drawers aren't quite as deep as I'd like, and sometimes a flatter, shallower drawer would be nice, but it's hard to argue with Free.
The second picture shows my "tool bench", designed as a place to bolt down tools requiring bolting down. I sort of planned on putting a short-bed 3-in-1 mill/lathe on it someday, but we'll see if that happens. In the meantime, it's got my drill press, Anvil and bench grinder bolted to it, and has a bit of storage at the back.
Update: The grinder has been moved to a dedicated stand and the bandsaw has arrived. The anvil remains on the bench, though having it stand-mounted would be nice, sometimes. I'm not sure it's worth it for such a small anvil, though. For what it's worth, the Anvil was the $15 HF special. The surface of this bench is made of 2x4s, cut to length, and nailed and screwed into a solid surface. This style, with the legs underneath, makes an extremely stable and "bounce resistant" surface.
Below the surface of the bench is storage for all my various power hand tools: Drills, Saws, Sanders, Grinder, etc, as well as some larger air tools. This shelf, however, was sort of an after thought, once I noticed that the cross-bracing provided a good place to set a shelf. As such, the workmanship of this shelf leaves something to be desired.
To the right of the toolbox is my main workbench. It has a 5" Wilton vice bolted to the front corner, and has the welder, ramps and air compressor stored underneath. The top is 2x4 feet, and is doubled 3/4" particle board. This bench is where I do the bulk of my work. It's fairly sturdy, but the particle board spanning that whole area (even doubled) gives quite a bit under heavy banging.
On the floor in front of this bench is a jute rug that used to be Becky's. I've been experimenting quite a bit with garage floor coverings, and have yet to find anything that I like AND is cheap enough to be feasible. The jute rug is great from a durability standpoint, captures dirt and cruft well, but is a real pain in the feet to stand on. It also isn't a lot of fun to lay on when it's wet, which is often, as it takes forever to dry.
You cant see it here, but in front of the tool bench is a section of that soft foam tile stuff. It too has advantages: It's cheap, $10 for about 12 sqft. It's nice to walk on, it doesn't absorb water. The main downside is that it's too soft to park on, or put heavy things on. Also, nothing rolls nice on it.
Also not in this picture is the rubber tile in front of the door back to the house. It's great stuff, conforms to the floor, is soft to stand on but still allows things to roll, etc. The main downside is that it's hella expensive. like $2+ per sqft. They claim it's leak-resistant (ie thing spilled on the top won't end up underneath) but I don't know how I feel about parking wet winter cars on it...
