The Dungeon Overhaul

In my first post, I showed the Dungeon as it used to be, I've been real busy making the space a lot more usable, and improving the storage. I'm building a bunch of custom cabinets, nothing special, just plywood, but they will fit the space I have, hopefully making better use of it.

Some pics......

This is the basic lay of of the Dungeon before I started to make a mess down there. My biggest problem area was the lathe, it just does not "fit" into the space well, at the angle it is on, it wastes a LOT of space. The other tool concern was the two bandsaws, backed into that corner, it is just not very easy to get at or use the tools. Finally, the steel wire shelves I have are good shelves, but they do not keep any dust off of stuff. I NEED to build cabinets with doors on them!!




This is the basic evolution I've come up with, the end results will be something like this.
Moving the lathe to the West wall makes a lot better use of the space I have.




























OK, here is the spot I cleared out for the lathe to sit, should be MUCH better here.
The router table was in this spot, I moved it to the other side of the SCMS, where the two bandsaws used to be.

The lathe is a bit close to the wall here, it will be on casters, so I'll be able to move it out away from the wall a bit.
Next I needed to build a cabinet next to the lathe, to put all my lathe stuff.......



























Here it is! Now I have about another 7 or 8 cabinets to build, and in doing this, I'm upsetting the whole dungeon a lot. BOY is it a mess down there...........















It is kind of like playing one of them tile games we played as kids, you know, 15 spots and 14 tiles..........

Lots of work, but is WILL be much better when I'm done!