[TheForge] RE: ] Shop Cleanliness

[Bob Ehrenberger]

This is a subject that everyone has some experience with. I cleaned my shop
for the first time in three years last September in order to host the BAM
meeting. It took my son and I a whole week. We vowed to keep it that way and
for the most part have done pretty well. I get the main floor swept about
once a week and put cut offs back on the stock rack about as often. The only
area where I'm falling down is my work bench is completely covered again and
I have to move things to work on it. Fortunatlly I spend most of my time at
the forge and not at the bench, maybe that's why it gets covered with stuff.

Speaking of shops. The shop where the BAM meeting was last weekend was one
of the nicest I've ever seen. They had convereted an old school into a shop
and it was sweet. He used a water cooled side blast forge. I never really
understood about that before but it all makes sense now. He had a 100# trip
hammer of a make that I had never heard of, two chambersbergs air hammers,
two fly presses, two platen tables, and lots of special tooling that he had
developed for various jobs. He also had a 1,000 ton hydrolic press, this
thing had a cylinder on it that was about 2' in diameter. The press was in a
different part of the building so I don't think that it is used for forging,
he shares the building with his brother who does fabrication work. His
brother's area also had a wood working shop that has a surface plate that
was 6'x12' and 12" thick, thats a lot of grannet.

Bob Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo
> Hey Guys(Gals);
> I've looked at some of the recent shop pics posted to the site, and I am
> embarrassed. My shop is an absolute pigsty by comparison. How many of
> you'll have the ability to keep such neat shops.
>
> For me, if I'm in the shop I making a mess. And sometimes I have to move
> one mess to make another one. Maybe I'm spoiled by too much room to make
> messes. If I had to be more organized I guess I would be......
>
>
>
>  Ray Miller
> Metal Concepts
> 8415 Miami Road
> Cincinnati, Ohio 45243