• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

As requested: an introduction from a new member

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Frank
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Hello all

I saw a great mention of the forum in another place so popped over out of curiosity... it certainly seems a busy place to be 😊

I'm retired - but not getting much free time as I expected to... family seem to take for granted *my* free time to allocate to them, 'though with a 4yr old grandson it's given freely 😂.

When I do get the time, I'm trying to resurrect my small workshop area of just under 12ft by 8ft... it used to be big enough when I mainly did woodturning (Falconry blocks mostly - Falconry being a previous hobby). After my mother passed away it became a bit of a dumping area of unused bits... Somehow I managed to make a rocking chair for my daughter before she gave birth to our grandson in 2021.
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Finding at that time that the workbench was infested with woodworm it became a WIP... beech bench removed and fliptop workbenchs adopted for the TPT125, mitre-saw and Tyme SL750 lathe as well as the replacement table saw: Evolution R255TBL+ and other units. ALL from 'reclaimed' timber and faced chipboard offcuts. They're still WIPs as they need some drawers making up and edging in place to hide the plywood edges. So... (please ignore the untidy bits - as said, WIPs 😊😎)
 

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Welcome Frank for NW France.
As for workshop tidiness I live under the mantra of “where there’s work there’s no order”:)
 
duke said:
Untidy, I have a hell of a mess in my shop to deal with on the weekend ;)
Can you show us the mechanism for the flip tops please?
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Before this the untidy 'bits' was pretty much the whole workshop, including the floor area and I'd have to move stuff out to get through to the back. PITA when having to get the lawnmower out 😎... somewhere there's another photo as evidence 🙄 😂.

Hopefully these photos will give an idea of the mechanism for the flip. Basically the tops have a 1"/25mm stainless steel tube going through the tops and resting on the side panels of the unit. The one for the lathe does not run through the full length.

Because the top/s have to be pulled towards you to unlock from the slot in the back panel to flip/rotate, the side panels have slots to allow this movement, photo #3. To stop the tops lifting up/out there's a strip of timber over the side panels - as in photo #4 - which also shows the slot in the back panel to lock/support the fliptop.

The measurements shown are for the TPT125 unit... which I'd have liked to be wider but I'm restricted for total size when units put together. All are on castors.
 

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Hi Frank and a warm welcome from sunny (I wish :rolleyes: ) Northumberland. Many of us started out with a smaller and in my case far less tidy work space.

I have some bad news for you. Grandkids don't get easier, just bigger and more expensive. We have one granddaughter, 12 going on 30+. Still a bundle of joy and we can give her back when we're knackered. :)
 
Thanks @Lons 🙏😊. Good to see another name from the other forum 👍... I've seen a few others also.

When we moved here it was an 8ftx 8ft - thankfully with electrics. Extended by another 12ft, because of a different hobby at the time, so total external measure is 20ft x 8ft - wood store/dump in the original back 8ft unit. Id have to find the other photo of what it was like around 10 years ago...

Yes... grandkids...love 'em. He's at nursery 3 days a week so don't see him as much as we used to - however, out of the blue, we'll suddenly get asked (when he's under the weather and not going!) to look after him. I do sleep well afterwards 😂
 
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