For those who saw WPF for the weekend of 13-15 Jan (2012), you know that Selector is starting an ambitious new layout.
I thought I’d help him out by creating a thread where he can post progress reports to keep us all up to date. [G]
How 'bout it, Crandell? Ready to share? [A]
Mark B.
I think that’s a great idea, Mark… I’m up for it, Crandell…[:D]
Tom
I was very much impressed by Crandell´s old layout and I am looking forward to see, how the new layout evolves.
Keep us posted, please.
I’d enjoy it, also!
Terry in NW Wisconsin
(Warning: whines to follow…)
You guys are killing me! Who could live up to such pressure and scrutiny? [:$]
It is actually quite cold for the left coast, with temps around a bone shaking 27 degrees F! It’s even snowing, and I have to do all my cutting on the deck outside the sliding door. If I had wanted to be a real construction worker, and not a soldier, I would have worked outdoors all my…wait, disregard that.
My wife is home from her (too) short visit with her mother, during which I had the place to myself (mwahahahaaa…!), and didn’t have to watch endless reruns of HGTV’s House Hunter series with her.
Did I mention its darned cold out? It is painful to handle a circular saw for any length of time out there.
I’m having second thoughts about using the loft. This morning, three families of mice were pounding on the sliding door asking for their home back. It was the little ones, you know…? [:|]
Okay, okay, here is a first image. I am not a carpenter or cabinet maker, so my work will be a little [:^)] This is an angled join. I am flaring the main yard module by 6" at each end, and this was the second cut and screw. The first was the 10 foot rear member joined to the cut side member which appears coming from left in this photo.
Crandell
Crandell,
Are you mitering the ends so that the fronts angle down and inward? Or, is that just a distortion of the picture.
Ooooooooo…a new layout. The suspension is killing me…[:P]
Tom
Tom, yes I guess that’s the right term, mightinger…mitily, metric,…miter. [:)] The angle is 16 degrees, and I have to do it freehand with a circular saw. My Dad has a chop saw with a mitering capability in his garage, I wonder if I should ask to use it.
Crandell
If you are needing to do that often, Crandell, I would take advantage of that. It will give you a nice clean joint.
The other option is to make yourself a 16-degree jig out of a few scraps of wood and drywall screws. Just make sure it clears the motor housing on the circular saw. It works; it just takes a little more time. [:D]
Tom
I thought I was the only male on the face of the planet that had to endure the agony of these shows. Until HGTV hit the airwaves, wives did not require new kitchens and bathrooms every six months.[:-,]
Nice room Crandell. I am imagining that Selkirk plying its way around it now. The space appears to be about 25’ x 12’. Am I close?
Like others I am looking forward to watching your progress. Hey maybe this should be on HGTV! I would certainly stop squirming and would sit down with a cuppa.[:)]
Good Luck!
Brent[C):-)]
Hey! Why don’t you and Crandell start a support group?
This is a great idea. When I saw the photo of the loft in WPF I just started drooling. So I’m really looking forward to seeing the progress as this new layout develops (I was a huge fan of the old layout).
I know what Crandell’s talking about as far as the weather–that blizzard that’s hitting him in BC right now is due to drop south and hit us down here in SunnyCal this evening for about 4 or 5 days, so it’s going to be overcoat time in my garage for a while.
At least your loft looks INSULATED, Crandell, LOL! [:P]
Can’t wait to see the progress!
Tom [:D]
Oh oh Crandell’s building a new layout? WOW!
I know you’ve been talking about it.
Me like the others are dying to see how this turns out.
Looking Good so far, keep up the great work!
Thanks, Brent. You are very close. It measures 22’ x 13’ at the floor, but because of the angled walls, the finished dimensions will be closer to 11 X 21, with the shorter length allowing a bit of clearance between a far wall baseboard heater under the large window, and also some at the sliding door.
I will be building this layout with frame sections that can be unbolted. I will use better wiring with terminal blocks for ease of deconstruction when it comes time to move.
The construction is 1X4 sides and joists, joists at 15.5", 1/2" flooring grade plywood surface, the legs are 1X2, and I am using blocking of waste ends of either of those to anchor the tops of the legs against frame corners. Except for some carriage bolts, I have most everything I will need.
Crandell
Do you have a track plan?
[I] Darn, I knew I was forgetting something!!
I’ll post it once it is finalized. Righ now it’s in a state of rubberishness. Flexibility, that is.
By the way, I really ought to have thanked everyone for their interest and good wishes. Where are my manners?!
So, thanks everyone. [:)]
Crandell
.Crandell,
My wife watches NCIS and all the CSI’s, messy, messy. I have a TV (MR videos and sports) near the workbench and tread mill, which are next to the layout room. AN ESCAPE.
I have a camp in the southern part of the state and mice used to be a problem. Now we put dryer sheets around and they haven’t messed the place up for at least three years. Might help keep the little critters from trying to move into layout housing and sampling who knows what.
Hope you can keep the room warm. 27 would be balmy right now. Was -15 the other morning and suppose to head that way, but not quite that far tonight.
Good luck,
Richard
Is that an official MRRing terminology? I didn’t find it in the glossary!
Congrats, Crandell! [bow]
Enjoy the Sn*w!!!
[8-|]
You make me feel like a slacker. Here you built, operated and outgrew a very nice layout, and I’m still mucking around in the Netherworld…[(-D]
Of course, things in the construction department should start picking up speed soon. My health problems seem to be under control, and I finally finished my novel. (Yes, the lady got the hero…[(-D])
I solved the HGTV problem in my house, but the solution isn’t universally applicable. I just got NHK (aka Japan TV) linked to our cable. (If your wife doesn’t u
Crandell, Now the pressure is on. Now it will be tough to slack off!!.
Very nice space, must have been just screaming for a layout. Better than just filled w/ junk.
Is there some reason for that 16 degree tilt to the outer benchwork? Just wondering, different, and could make placing facia a bit difficult esspecially on any spots that may need to be taller due to any elevations.
If you don’t get that miter saw, making a jig for the angle as mentioned will help. Setting a sliding bevel for every free cut can be a pain. I would suggest a piece of masonite/ 1/4" ply screwed to a 1x2. this can act as your preset 16 degree fence for all the cuts. Could even clamp it to the work if you like. As you use it you can figure just how far from the cut to set it (blade to saw table dimension).
Can’t wait to see the progress, and remember- NO Pressure…
Hum, new layout out room and no heat? Think it is time to back up and regroup Crandell. [:-^]
Looking forward to seeing the layout done in a timely fashion, say next 2 weeks? [(-D]
I am really looking forward to seeing what you will come up with. Off all the great layout I have seen on this forum I would places yours in the top 5 %. Reason? Your old layout shows you don’t have to have 150 + square feet of bench work to have a great layout.
Ken