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Been absent for quite a while; mostly because I've been so damn busy with fishing. Got back to Washington from Kodiak on the 1st; getting ready to head back up for the Summer. Here's my shop in it's current incarnation... Got a healthy bonus check from the Bering Sea season - picked this up at the Grizzly Tent Sale last weekend. Retails for $2200, got it for $500 (slight dent in motor fan cover, and missing downfeed cylinder). Ho-lee-chit. I like it. Going to source a Bimba pneumatic cylinder for my downfeed, unfortunately, it's going to have to wait until the Fall when I'm done fishing. Decided that I wanted a larger table, yet still want the ability to condense it for when I store my truck in my shop, or when I buy a house - it'll be slightly "easier" to move. Got a score on an identical piece of 3/8" A36 (36" x 40"), $60. Not too shabby. Mostly just a bunch of photos.. Going to add some form of drop down legs, with leveling feet to the new table section. Although, at this point - I'm finding it's a bear to move this stuff around alone. Really have to plan the fabrication process. Been welding since High School - 2008, only recently started to develop a serious passion for it. My time is limited during the fishing seasons - although, I have a fledgling fabrication business that I hope to develop in the fall. Getting ready to leave for a few months (run a boat in Kodiak), going to try and theft-proof my shop as best I can before I head out. Friend of mine got hit by a burglar/car thief on Mother's Day. Series of 3 houses in a great neighborhood. Of all of the things the ******* took, he grabbed a HAM radio. Of course, the window got smashed to get at it.. Any suggestions? I've got great neighbors, and a well-lit driveway. I'm thinking of devising some system of multiple bolts/straps on my garage door, securing my machines to my cart with steel strapping/welding angle to my carts so they can't fit through the door.. De-energizing the shop so they can't power angle grinders. I know. If they're on enough Meth, they'll get my stuff. I just want to make it really, really difficult.Looking forward to being a (relative) regular around these parts again. - JakeDo you really know all of the work that goes into getting that fish onto your plate?
Reply:If your shop has a walkthru door put long shank locks in the garage door rails on each side. That's how my garage was locked when we bought the place. Shut the shop power off and install simple NC switch powered by a solar charged battery on the walkthru door so it closes when the door is opened and it will start a really loud 12v siren. You could find a secret spot to install a key switch to activate the setup. If no walk thru door buy the best steel framed steel door you can find and install it.                                                                    MikeOl' Stonebreaker  "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"Hobart G-213 portableMiller 175 migMiller thunderbolt ac/dc stick Victor O/A setupMakita chop saw
Reply:Get someone you trust as a house sitter,put your lighting on a random automatic pattern,all of the above suggestions by Mike.most of the burgleries around here occur during the day while people are at work,unfortunately. Jim
Reply:add a trail cam. They are weatherproof, temp proof and programmable. will take thousands of photos on 1 set of batteries. Just put it up where they cant get to it. And they also take night infrared.                                                                                                              ChuckTo ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. This was the ancient law of youth. Old times are past, old days are done, but the law runs true oh little son.Winpower 180 DCSA-200 redfaceXMT-304
Reply:Love your toyota creeperI live in the inner city and when I left town I would screw plywood on the inside of my bottom floor windows and 2x10" into door frames so they couldn't be kicked in.You could secure all but one door from the inside and fabricate a lock for one door.  Use the master lock level 10 truck lock, they are pretty robust and difficult to tamper with.  I've fabbed shed locks for neighbors with them.You could also rent your place while you are gone so someone is there more frequently and burglers are less likely to break into an occupied house.  If unoccupied for a long period they will take notice and hit it. Edit to add-  great deal on that bandsaw!Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
Reply:Thanks for the comments.. Yeah, I often step back and stare inside my shop wondering at all the tools I've acquired.. Time to buy a house.Anxious to start running the boat; really looking forward to expanding my fab business in the Fall. I hate that I have to think about people stealing my stuff, but I wasn't raised to be naive..
Reply:The best burglar proofing is nosy neighbors. It isn't unusual for one of my neighbors to call. "Theres a truck in your driveway. Should it be there? I love my neighbors. We're good to each other.
Reply:Got a healthy bonus check from the Bering Sea season - picked this up at the Grizzly Tent Sale last weekend. Retails for $2200, got it for $500 (slight dent in motor fan cover, and missing downfeed cylinder). Ho-lee-chit. I like it. Going to source a Bimba pneumatic cylinder for my downfeed, unfortunately, it's going to have to wait until the Fall when I'm done fishing. I HATE YOU!
Reply:Can't help you with the thieves, but I had a similar saw for a while and I took the front casters off and replaced them with swivel casters. Makes cutting angles much easier since you can just swing the saw rather than the material which you will find is much easier. The swinging head is one of the things that makes my Ellis saw so great.Yeah, I know, but it'll be ok!Lincoln Square wave 255Miller Vintage mig30a spoolgunThermal Dynamics Pacmaster 100xl plasmaSmith mc torchEllis 1600 band saw
Reply:Photograph and document everything in you place. Keep an up to date inventory with as much documentation as you can find. (i.e.-invoices for everything) and buy good insurance from a reputable broker. Not all the thieves break in though the back door.Some of them wear business suits and charge to insure stuff that without documentation they may not pay for. Otherwise make it as difficult as possible for them to get in and hope they will go elsewhere. You can set up wireless cameras IP cameras that will sent recorded data to a remote location via the internet for storage or to let you watch them trash your place while you are away in Alaska via your cell phone so you can be really enraged by the time you get home again. Good luck. I hope they bother someone else.---Meltedmetal
Reply:Awesome deals! I have a down feed cylinder that don't hold no more, you are welcomed to it if you want to rebuild it. Let me know and i'll mail it out.I hate being bi-polar it's awsomeMy Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Reply:Nice stuff
Reply:Originally Posted by weldermikeAwesome deals! I have a down feed cylinder that don't hold no more, you are welcomed to it if you want to rebuild it. Let me know and i'll mail it out.
Reply:Email sent bud.I hate being bi-polar it's awsomeMy Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys