Nothing spectacular but...

[Accipiter]

Useful

Over the years I've accumulated quite a bit of offcuts of different lengths and widths etc., of timbers and melamine faced chipboard - never mind the yew t&t boards and some PAL English oak. Gradually been making a hole in it with the units for my workshop - a post I keep meaning to get to grips with and post .

Well... today I managed to assemble a few offcuts of ply and faced chipboard to make a mobile unit to put my Sheppach air filtration unit on to. Ive been stacking it on various boxes in different parts of the back area! I've been pondering on this for some time and began sorting out which bits to use since mid last week.


It's now usable if yet to be completed by deciding on the placement of a shelf in the open space and to make storage for various tools and/or fittings (screws maybe ) on the left-hand side and around the back...

Oh! Edge banding of some sort plus some finish to the bare wood surfaces. Something that I have to do to complete the other (fliptop) workbenchs.

 

[AndyP]

I do so enjoy that type of woodwork, recycling at it’s best, function over aesthetics.

 

[Accipiter]

I forgot to put these photos in... taken before getting on with assembly...

 

[fuse]

Thats great
I thought I was the only one repurposing chipboard
I made a custom pc stand last year

 

[Accipiter]

That's really nice Martin (@fuse ) . Yours is looking as a finished item - mine a bit of a 'bodge' at the moment if I'm honest - but I'm now able to use it to move the air unit around rather than shift it backwards and forwards. I don't have the ceiling clearance to ceiling hang

I had to give this one of mine some thought as I didn't have two long pieces for the sides or the back - only one (the white one) at 38" used for the left-hand side which I had to make wider by adding 1½" down the back edge. The right-hand side is made up of three pieces (from an oak faced wardrobe - shelves possibly ) which are joined using 6mm dowels... that was fun - not!

The top is some shiny faced MDF - kitchen side panel offcut while the base is from an 18mm ply offcut with other ply reinforcement glued/screwed underneath for the castors and the screws for them. Back is two pieces of 9mm marine ply (had for over 30 yrs)

There's another offcut of chipboard from another old wardrobe for a shelf... I need to decide a height to fit it at or if to make it adjustable - ive some of those push in metal shelf supports used for kitchen shelves and such. Then decide on what to use for storing/fixing/hanging tools etc., on the left and back. Hum...

 

[Accipiter]

It's been a little while since I got further with this mobile AC400 unit... Now has a couple of side/back shelves and tool storage... room for other bits but yet to decide.



Please ignore the F clamp... - not in place now.


Yesterday I turned my attention to the dust extraction system I've been muddling along with for some time: a length of hoover pipe and different sized other pipe and connectors to set for each machine each time needed... and drapped across other benches or across the floor: PITA

From the Evolution R255TBL+ tablesaw... and:


The various pipes... the grey one is one that can expand or contract when turned/twisted to different sizes. The bigger black one, concertina type, you can manoeuvre when stretched out.

Now, temporary, fixed in place using black drainpipe, held in place with 'duct tape', Y connectors, flexi pipe (2 sizes) and blast gates...

The pipe will be fixed in place using pipe brackets but I need to make slots in the support board for the 'fixing' plate section to drop behind the board to stop the pipework extending more over the worktop area...


Connector for the mitre-saw...


End pipework... tucked behind the board for storage presently. The end away from the dust commander has a blast gate and two different flexi pipe (offcuts) and vacuum hose for use on the bandsaw (opposite wall) as well as for dust/chippings collection from the floor and worktops. That's the idea anyway

As the machines are on fliptop workbenches I'll still have to connect each one individually as required BUT I won't have the vacuum pipe draped across everything on the other top when used on the mitre-saw as previously. The mitre-saw one, as seen hanging, will store away behind the timber support in front of the window.

The present empty/unconnected blast gate - near the dust commander - with take the black flexi/expanding pipe AND the tablesaw extraction.


Very much a 'Heath Robinson' affair I'm afraid... trying to make the most of my small workshop area...

 

[AndyT]

Another thumbs-up from me - this is what salvaged materials are best at!

 

[duke]

Having expanded your dust removal system is a big plus for your health. I had to do a system about 10 years ago because the dust was giving me allergy like problems. I supplement the system with a dust mask and a respirator when needed.
Good use with the mobile storage.

 

[shafiq]

Really good recycling going on there @Accipiter and same here. Only that I eas starring to fall out of love with faced chipboard (my oldest shelving unit, still standing in my dad's loft/attic, was my first use of bought chipboard.. from B&Q, 25+ years ago) and had been trying to use/recycle as much of the wood I had accumulated.

But if chipboard is good enough for you, then maybe I could give it another life!!

 

[Accipiter]

Over the years I built up quite a supply of different chipboard materials from various old wardrobe units @shafiq - telling myself "it'll be handy one day". Some of the doors and side panels got ripped down the middle to make up shelving for my son - instead of for me... I'll live with it .

I also gathered other offcuts of ply (some marine ply from a hawk travel box when I was a falconer), mdf and softwood timbers and hardwood from working in a hardwood timber merchant. Never the right amount (after cutting up the wardrobe stuff for my son) to put to any use for workbenches.

Last year I had to replace the outhouse and workshop flat roofing so ordered in some sheets of ply. The offcuts were used for the mobile fliptop workbenches for the TPT125 thicknesser, Evolution R255TBL and mitre-saw benches and the lathe, an old Tyme SL750 I've had since 1989~1990...

The unit, not fliptop, for the bandsaw was made up from old offcuts of worktops, a bit of OSB, ply back and an old drawer from a kitchen unit. The latest, for the Sheppach air purifier unit is a combo of other sheet materials. Oh! Ive some drawers *roughly made* from smaller chipboard melamine faced offcuts just glued and screwed together - NO finesse to them at all . Just making use of as much of the otherwise stuff that would have gone to the tip years ago.

I did my introduction post on here with photos of the mobile fliptop workbenches when I joined - they *like* lots of photos here . I made a post in UKW for a WIP for my workshop and keep trying to put one together for here... I could just 'copy/paste' from t'other place but I believe that The Woodhaven deserves better than that of me

DEFINITELY find a use for the chipboard you have %

 

[shafiq]

Thanks @Frank yes indeed, I did leave some out at the front and it got taken (after I put a note one, feel free to take, good wood') but then the OSB and other peices of contiboard (can't help calling it anything other than that - I think the ex B&Q employee in me) got brought back in.

My main problem is space but slowly getting there. The current drawers I'm making are on their 2nd (with me) recycling projects/uses. Thanks Frank and I'll try not throw em away.