[TheForge] Re: Gazinta

[Jerry Frost]

Gazintas.

I have 46 gazintas IN my shop floor. I can say IN THE shop floor now because 
there's actually 6" of concrete surrounding them! I can hear the power 
trowel right now. <grin>

Anyway, they're 2 1/2" x 3/16 wall sq tubing with 3" x 1" x 1/4" wall sq. 
reinforcing band at the top. They all sit on a subfloor exhaust system and 
are welded to the rebar in the floor for grounding. They're spaced on 4' 
centers and cover the entire shop floor except the smalish area of the 
machine shop.

I have pictures but the photoaccess site says the files are too small and 
won't accept them. <sigh>

So, when the shop itself is covering the floor I'll have a large grid I can 
use to jig projects, mount vises, grinders, tables, etc. etc. The 
welding/cutting "table" will be the piece of bar grate I scrounged some 
years ago. It's legs will socket into the gazintas so it'll draw smoke and 
fumes down into the floor and out.

I didn't put in any BIG gazintas caus I didn't know where I'll want em and 
sure as concrete is grey I'd put them (however many I put in) in exactly the 
wrong place. I figure I can't go too far wrong with a whole bunch of small 
gazintas on a nice even grid. If they're in the wrong place, I'll just shift 
the place a bit. <grin>

As soon as I figure out why my pic files are too SMALL for photoaccess I'll 
post a couple.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.