Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

Good Morning Worlds.
It is bin day:
Pink - food and garden waste.
Blue - paper and cardboard.

I am going to meet Sue at work, and then we'll pop down to Chorlton with books for the Oxfam bookshop and to collect a repair cafe item that needs welding. I will do the welding as soon as we get back, so that it is done for this weekend.

With our planned move I will need to pack up my workshops. So, I can see there being an end to welding and furniture repairs for the repair cafes, long before we stop attending. That will make me feel sad.

#GoodMorningWorlds

Mar 18 at 7:55amWeb
Show threadMary StarbuckMar 18
@Maker_of_Things  💜
Show threadY⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarMar 18
@Maker_of_Things Pack the workshop up last. That way it'll be on top as you also need to unpack it first 😀
Show threadAlfred Chow - Maker of ThingsMar 18

@yngmar
It will probably get packed last because that is how long it will take me to figure out how to pack it.
🤣

Seriously, though. It will take a lot of thought as I want to rationalise all the hand/power tooling and sell or give away stuff I no longer need to have.
The remainder, I think, will be organised into moveable tool cases so that they can be transported more easily. Then there are the machine tools....

Sometimes I still wonder about a 7.5 ton truck and just fit out the box body as a mobile workshop instead. I can then sort and move it once, and still have it useable where ever it is (until it gets stolen).

Show threadY⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarMar 18

@Maker_of_Things Alfred's flying repairvan! 👍

When I fixed up our boat in Brighton, the rigger and stainless fabricator were sharing a cargo container workshop together. It was packed and they had to dance around each other, but it kinda worked. One side mostly taken up by a big lathe, the other with roller swaging press, workbench and shelves, but they made it work. Until some premises freed up that they eagerly moved into 😆

But for one, it would probably do.

Show threadAlfred Chow - Maker of ThingsMar 18

@yngmar
20+ years ago I had thought to use the money from selling my Harley Davidson to buy a fridge lorry, I saw on EBay, to set up a workshop in.
I figured the fridge unit (it was broken) could be replaced with a generator, and the insulated body would make a nice warm and sound proof workshop.

But I invested in putting the workshop in my house instead, and building a big box trailer for transporting finished work.