Shop Building & Machinery Improvements - Official Work Thread

[Bill Baskerville]

Boy, nothing like a few snowy days to make things go fast inside the shop to help keep it warm.  Great progress all.

[ALAIN DELASSUS]

Good job of work you all did . You are soon going to have the nice and warm place to work you need given the wintry temps in Maine  . If only we could do the same in the AMTP Pithiviers workshop and enginehouse. Thanks for the pics Brendan.

[Mark Spremulli]

Great job. Could someone refresh my memory, how is the shop heated?

[Graham Buxton]

Could someone refresh my memory, how is the shop heated?

One of the wood stoves can be seen in this photo from earlier in this thread:

[Jeff Schumaker]

You guys are moving right along.

Jeff S.

[Ed Lecuyer]

There will be a second, identical stove placed near the south end of the shop. It is on-site but not yet set up. The stoves burn wood or coal.

[John Kokas]

I'd say burn the wood.  We have lots of it and more to take down on the mountain extension.  That and the always present blowdowns and storm damage should keep us stocked.  I assume we are going to bring loads of wood down to Sheepscot to cut up and split during SWW.

[Joe Fox]

Unfortunately most of the wood is soft wood and would require constant attention. We already have a supply of anthracite for the stoves. Any hardwood that we can save we will use for firing up the steam engine(s).

[John Kokas]

Well I certainly hope it's Pennsylvania anthracite!  If needed I'm sure I can work with Wayne and find a pallet of bagged nut coal to come up on the truck for SWW.

[Wayne Laepple]

Blaschak Coal Corp., Mahanoy City, Pa. bagged or super sacks

[Mike Fox]

Machine shop toolboxes have arrived, and Alan had a crew starting to sort and organize, and even put on temporary labels..







Jay was also busy putting up more shiplap



And here we see Alan inspecting the newly installed crane rails after some adjustment by Kevin

[Paul Uhland]

How much more wall and ceiling insulation, sheathing, is left to install?
The shop looks better with each photo. Warmer?
Will stove 2 go in before spring weather arrives?

Great work!

BTW, nifty toolboxes. You'll love 'em!

[Jeff Schumaker]

Paul,

One stove was installed sometime early Decemeber. I saw it when I was there for Victorian Christmas.

Jeff S.

[Gordon Cook]

Re: New  Toolboxes....
Thank you, thank you, to the donor of the toolboxes for stepping up. They should make a huge difference in improving the efficiency of the shop.
And thank you to Alan and helpers for sorting and organizing.

[John Kokas]

I would strongly suggest to get some closed cell foam sheet and cutout profiles of specific tools as they would be organized in each drawer.  We did this in the USAF and it made finding and storing tools amazingly easy.  At the end of the day, you can quickly scan and check for missing tools before you lock up.