New Workshop Build

[carbonfibre farmer]

ok I admit it. I dont know what the pressure vessel is used for

Cure off components made out of carbon fibre.
Other versions of autoclaves can be used for sterilisation (medical equipment etc)

 

[tomlad]

Id thought diver de pressurisation

 

[Tom8400]

How have you sealed up against the cladding on the left side?

I was wondering exactly the same thing, Whenever I've contemplated doing something similar I have been put off the idea by the concern of creating a place for water to get in. Unless the portals were going to be the same height and share a gutter so to speak.

There is a small flashing that butts up to the wood the top gutter is fixed to, with a lip that goes into bottom gutter. There will be a lot of mastic and expanding foam used to seal up the shed as it will be heated to a degree.

Any chance of a picture of where its been sealed up?

 

[jamesy]

Roller from P and K Shutters, you just tell them how you are going to fix it and they will come back with a diagram, you have to be fairly accurate especially if you have concrete panels sitting half way across the steel you are fixing the roller to.Fitting is straightforward enough, although having a loadall and scissor lift makes it much easier. I’m on my fifth one so I’m a bit quicker now. The autoclave is not mine, I need to give the owner a nudge as I’d rather it disappeared before harvest.

They were excellent value for money when I bought one a few years ago. Is that still the case?

 

[Lazy Sod]

Autoclave, built in 1964

Why have you got it?

 

[B R C]

I was wondering exactly the same thing, Whenever I've contemplated doing something similar I have been put off the idea by the concern of creating a place for water to get in. Unless the portals were going to be the same height and share a gutter so to speak.




Any chance of a picture of where its been sealed up?

I’ll get a picture when I get a chance. @Tom8400

 

[B R C]

Got the shed just about secure and main lights and enough electricity in to start welding in there as I was getting fed up of cutting, storing and welding in different places.Still plenty to do, need to get mezzanine up before the rest of electrics go in, right hand side to clad, flashings to sort, toilet and sink, pallet racking, steel stock racking, roller feeds for saw to sort, it’s amazing how much time it all takes and I still have the day job to do as well…

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Pallet racking is ace for workshop got some for mine was brilliant

 

[B R C]

Faffing about putting flue up for unit next door, which we have also just converted. They are wood workers and are going to be making briquettes from their sawdust. I’m having a hot feed off it as well and will be contributing to install costs and also will guarantee a supply of logs if briquettes run out any time so no one will pay for any heat, hopefully a win for everyone. Also bodging a tin shack arround the boiler and buffer tank.

 

[B R C]

Getting to the interesting stuff now, swing crane gone in this morning

My welder knocked up a heavy duty stand for the bandsaw. Plan for this to take over most of the cutting instead of a cold saw, trying out cutting bundles of box which will make it a lot quicker, will tack the ends together so it all moves as one.

 

[B R C]

A bit more progress, got lucky and a friend was offered some really good pallet racking just had to go and take it down from a warehouse in Luton, so we took the scissor lift and half a day later all down and home. Also got some 40mm insulated cladding for free, only a few years old come from a very large retailers warehouse, will go between me and the woodworkers next door.
Sheet metal rack in, eldest daughter painted some metal racking we knocked up and got the plasma table in place, a bit tight with the loader had to drop the forks off and drag them out sideways, just need to learn how to use it, and gets the sparkles back to wire it and the air system in.

 

[chaffcutter]

@B R C this looks a serious production unit, what’s the product, or just general fabrication?

 

[B R C]

It is a separate fabrication business, mainly specialise in boat racking for racing rowing boats, do some general fabrication and will be doing more now and have a couple of sheds to build for myself. Here’s a new build boathouse we have just fitted out for a school.

 

[B R C]

Been working on the mezzanine in between paying jobs, stairs nearly finished, floor next week.