Building the Compressor shed off the shop. Protecting my equipment from the elements.

so last week i showed the new shoplift that i picked up recently that needs a set of batteries and i mentioned that i could potentially place replace the batteries that are in this with a set of car batteries and the comments told me that that was not a good idea several people said don't use car batteries they just won't hold up use deep cycle glass mat batteries like the unit was designed to have originally and you'll be happy with it otherwise car batteries just won't hold up for you so that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna pick up a new set of batteries for this thing and try to get that behind me they are a little pricey but you know you may have to buy a set of car batteries two or three times so it's probably going to be the buy once cry once you put the right batteries that it's designed for in it and instead of potentially having to replace a set of car batteries every every year or so which is my experience around here anyway so i've only had this thing for about a week and i found what little i've used it it's just extremely useful as long as i can keep it out of my way and the downtime that i'm not using it man there's very few downfalls down in one of these so there's my parts washer i want to be able to use this thing because they are so handy not that it's going to live in this spot and don't necessarily like it being next to the surface plate but that doesn't mean the surface plate's going to stay in this position either so everything's kind of still in limbo as far as it's uh the shop organization but i want to use this thing so let's fill it up because i've got the the solution for this and see if it works because i've never tried this it was a viewer gift and i got it maybe a year ago so there's a look inside most of these little parts washers are built very similar you got a soaking tray which is nice so your small parts in in this and then set it down in the solution for a while i'm going to be using the purple power the same degreaser that i used to clean the drill press and it really works pretty well it's not as good as uh it's not as good as mineral spirits but it's also not near as expensive either a little tray here to work on and then all your crud usually falls to the bottom and there's your pump and this is the brush that is fed by the pump so you get a constant flow of solution over that so pretty good so there's a look at the degreaser that i'm going to use it's made by zip concentrated industrial purple degreaser and cleaner says it makes up to 120 gallons this 5 gallon but that would be pretty dilute so we're going to use the majority of this in here and it works best pretty concentrated that's what i did on the drill press anyway you know probably 50 50 and it worked pretty well so let's get this in here please don't leak all over the place i should turn this over so that's probably plenty of degreaser i'll put some water in there as well and save some of this for use in a spray bottle so this thing's plugged in let's see if it actually works or not i need to put some water in here but we'll do that later um yeah i'm gonna have to put some water in there it's not enough let's see if this thing works well yeah it works so i just did a 50 50 mix 50 water basically by 5050. that's a powerful stream we'll let that run and mix it up a bit yeah i'm gonna put all this stuff in there so i figured i would take a few minutes and clean up the table on this new to me anyway strands duval wilton swedish made drill press that i got a couple weeks ago and i'm using a standard shop stone with some white gas just to knock all of the divots or the dings down to make it a nice flat surface now this table is not perfect a lot of people mentioned that it has an arc of shame on it or some apprentice holes some would call it and they asked me if i was going to fix those and the answer is yes and no i'm not going to fix any of them that aren't all the way through the table which means i'm going to repair two of them because that's how many through holes it has simply because i don't want the coolant to drip through those holes onto the foot onto the floor make a mess and i'm not going to do any welding to repair those we'll go over the process that i plan to use here in the near future but other than the appearance those few little holes don't hurt anything so i want to check the condition of the morse taper number three socket on the end of the spindle and see if it's in good shape or not so let me change the camera angle i'll show you how i'm going to do that how i'm going to get this chuck out and look up in that spindle and see if it's scored up or if it's in good shape i'm i'm curious to to find out so you can see there's a slot in the spindle there and we're going to rotate this so we can see all the way through and i can see the tang of the morse taper number three arbor that's shoved up in the spindle there and the way we're going to get that out because it's just a friction fit in there is with our i'm just going to wedges this in there this wedge is not this wedge is kind of beat up let me straighten this thing up before we before we do anything with it so this is kind of bent and in order to get that to straighten up i'm gonna put it on this piece of track and give it a smack here helped you have to actually bend it past straight again in order to not get it to spring back so that's why we got the washers there a little more there we go that's straight enough so just for reference you can see you have a rounded top up here well that's where the rounded part of your wedge goes you don't want to put it in like this put it in rounded to rounded i'm glad i took it out not in perfect shape but people kill me so actually it looks pretty good the the spindle is it's in perfectly good condition i would run a reamer up in there if i had one i don't i need to pick me up a morse taper number three finish reamer just to knock off a couple little high spots that i see there maybe in a line or so or something spun but not it's not in bad shape but this is in really bad shape let me let me show you why it's in bad shape you know somebody should not have ever stuffed that in there but you know if you don't know you don't know so let me let me show you and then if you didn't know you'll know so i'm glad i pulled that out of there wow this is in really bad shape you can see how all the beat beat marks on it somebody's tried to knock a chuck off of this arbor with a hammer when in reality they're supposed to be removed with a set of wedges but you know i guess you use the tools that you have but unfortunately they probably damaged the chuck they damaged the arbor and then they shoved this up in the spindle and could potentially damage it as well all to avoid getting a set of wedges so you know if you don't know you don't know and that's just the way it works with all this old machinery but that's why i check everything as well because you just never know what's been done to them so i mean we could probably stone some of that out but man it's pretty bad where they've hammered on it here and it's unlikely that this will stay up in that spindle so we've got a good one here we'll just use it it's in good shape it'll be fine for now it should hold we'll see how it feels so let's uh press that in there a little harder so i'm just gonna obviously the jaws are totally retracted on the on the chuck and i'm just gonna use the spindle tables all locked just to make sure that that arbor is pressed up in the spindle good and long as the run out's not bad you know when it holds it would probably be fine but i am going to get a reamer and run up in there because it does need it so the chuck that i pulled out of this drill and the one that i shoved back up in there are exactly the same model um both old american made jacobs 14n super super chucks ball bearing super chucks which are my favorite key drill chuck to be honest because of their size range is right in the ballpark of what we most of us use anywhere from pin drills up to 13 millimeter half inch these because of the ball bearings you can get them pretty tight and they don't slip as bad as some of the other chucks because there's less friction when you crank it down with a key but just a good design chuck really so i'm going to have to get a replacement for this because actually i used use this in the tailstock of my lathe with an adapter sleeve to take it up to full morse taper number four so good chuck nothing wrong with that but man they really uh they really shanked that arbor so i'm cleaning up a few parts in the parts washer that my buddy al had dropped off in a box of auction scores that he had got some time ago and in one of those boxes are really nice made in america you know ohio actually right up north from me wheel resurfacer a grinding wheel resurfacer for your bench grinder it needs a set of a set of ends or wheels for it but otherwise the is good it lasts 17 lifetimes just cleaning it up surprisingly nice under all of that grease and this zip purple degreaser works pretty good as long as you let your parts soak in it for a few minutes before you try to scrub them off so really happy with this parts washer and the coolant through brush is a must have in my opinion this will make life easier for me and less messy so i figured for now i'd put this uh arbor press up on the on the table here start getting some of my stuff off the floor finally man you can't have too much too much tabletop space this will be fine i'll scoot it to the back it'll be out of the way i'm not gonna be working that far back on the table anyway so feels good to start putting things together so every time i go to move this press it's a pain it's top heavy it's awkward i have to hook this cherry picker to it so i'm going to hook some casters to the feet of it which i've done before but they were too big the casters were and i've got some small ones and i'm going to drill through the angle iron feet here the legs and mount them that way i can move this thing around at least for now until i get the until it's in its final position then i'll take them off but let's hook these to it so i can move this thing around without having to struggle with this thing so the casters that i'm using on this thing are really too light of a duty caster to hold this thing you know indefinitely so what i'm going to do is put some threaded rod with some machine pads below the holes that you can see right beside the thing that i'm tapping or the hole that i'm tapping there that will actually take the weight when this presses in place and then i can just easily let it down to set it on the casters and move it where uh wherever i want it oh come on what are you doing girl hmm what are you doing i just broke a tap and i need to pet you and calm down what do you think about that yeah so that sheared right off um this stuff is really gummy man it feels like you're tapping chewing gum so i'm gonna try to get it out at least it broke off proud of the hull let me use this little bako swedish made adjustable wrench which are awesome adjustable wrenches the best i've ever ever encountered really they're extremely well made the problem is the screws backwards on them at least it's backwards to me from every other adjustable wrench that i've seen you know the the movement is backwards but it doesn't matter still extremely tight and good quality see if we can get it out of here huh yep come right out well let's talk too soon come on um i'm gonna have to get a pair of needle nose i think or a smaller pair of pliers there we go i think yeah well that worked out literally now let's see if we can do it again there we go that tap kind of felt a little a little dull so i think that didn't help anything so i believe the reason why that little tap broke is just i wasn't in line with the whole good especially hand tapping these smaller taps just if you're not perfectly in line they bind up and you put a little extra a little too much force on them a little off to the side and there they go snap but at least i got it out that's the main thing these are 10 24 threads there there's that there we go it's good for now so i'm making a hard push with what little time i have to work at the shop this week to get the roof up over my rotary phase converter and my air compressor those who watched last week's video would see me and al move the big compressor under the tarp out and put it on the concrete pad and it needs to be protected from the elements so i got to build a roof over top of the two now anybody who's watched this project for any amount of time knows that my ground is 99 rocks and one percent dirt so anything that involves digging also requires a jackhammer so this is just a post hole that will be filled with concrete and then my posts that will support the roof that i'm building over these two units will be attached to that um so we'll we'll get that down i don't know two three feet get it big as a dinner plate or something be plenty plenty enough yeah just grab it so that stuff out that should be plenty enough to anchor this in if we got three of those obviously be plenty so like i mentioned in last week's video a post here is problematic it's right in the path i mean it'd be about 91 inches from the wall so that's right there you know right in the in the way if i decide that i'm gonna go all the way over the door which i really would like to do so what i think that i'm gonna do is just skip the post here and then come off of the building with a with a 45 to support the end of the roof here that will support it from both snow load and from lift as long as it's attached properly you know to the wall and into the roof that's the idea anyway i think that'll work so let me give you a quick overview of the hardware that i'm using and why i'm using the things that i'm using to build this roof that's going over my rotary phase converter and my uh air compressor so i'm going to reuse the posts because i already have them that i that i bought for this temporary support wall now these are pressure treated four by fours and technically you should be able to bury this in the ground and it should last a pretty long time i see people bury them i see people put these down in concrete i don't like that method uh almost everyone i've ever seen over time they rot off it's just not for one this is not the best lumber ever number two you know putting it down in concrete is basically putting it in a cup that will be eventually full of water and we don't want that so this will be the way that i attach my post to the concrete so i'm going to pour that hole that i've dug back there full of concrete attach these brackets and attach my 4x4 to the brackets and everything that i'm using is rated for treated lumber so these are hot galvanized fasteners and they'll secure everything together these will be tap conned to the concrete so they shouldn't go anywhere this will be actually a three post roof in the back but only two that will be you know in contact with the ground the other one will be angled off the side of the building so the joist hangers that i'm using i'm not sure that i got the right ones but these will work this is just a mock-up of what i'm doing there's the angle i chose this angle because the length of the roof how far i wanted it to go out and just for ease of construction i just chose that's 20 degrees now it's 13 degrees sorry anyway this is the joist hanger this will hang off of the top of the header that i've got attached to the building so this will sit on top of that my joists will come down or my purlin whatever you want to call it i don't know the technical terms for all these i'm not a construction guy but anyway it'll sit in there like that and the reason i had to cut that groove out is so wow little bubba's having a hard time out down there had to cut this groove in there so this gets good contact on the bottom because of that angle of this bracket and so it doesn't stick up proud of the top of that header beam because my plywood's got to go back to the top of the roof and then my drip edge or whatever's got to go over top of that so i need this to not be proud so that's what i'm using all this is like i said attached with the with the hot dip galvanized screws so it doesn't rot off because that pressure treated stuff's corrosive [Music] so so so [Applause] good [Applause] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] perfect so there we go that shouldn't have any problems at all holding this post to the ground now the bracket will get mounted obviously here and then the post-it and then this will be covered in gravel so you really won't see this junction where the two come together you know and if a post does get rotten at the bottom it's a lot easier to change like this than if the post was set in the concrete these are just my opinions but my experience with posts in the ground has never been really good treated or not not long term anyway this concrete will be here from now on so i didn't show inside of these holes but what i did down towards the bottom is open them up similar to an upside down mushroom that way this concrete's pretty well locked in the ground not to mention all the rocks that are protruding out into the hole and stuff this should have no problem at all holding this section of roof down so in the future i may enclose the whole thing but for now i'm just going to make a all i'm worried about at the moment actually is just to keep it dry i can worry about sheltering it from the wind later so i'm having to modify these joist hangers just slightly i'm adding a couple extra fastener holes to them because i can't get to the two holes on the top of this joist hanger because of my drip edge that's i've already installed i'm putting a couple extra fastening holes in the front of it just to make me happier and probably would be perfectly fine as is you get the idea i can modify them so i do so oh so [Music] you hand me one of those please thank you [Music] [Music] okay can you give me another one please thank you thank you okay just go out towards between that ladder and that mixer okay i'll sit down for just a second remove this ladder a bit hold on to it there okay oh okay just push all right that's good that's good uh can you get that ladder and scoot it over here and push a little right on the back of it yeah i've got this held if it'll sit up there good don't fall okay thank you bob i get it we'll get another piece here in just a second it'll be easier once i get a couple of these up here that needs pushed over that way that's all right thank you hold on to that please yeah um it should have some but put to put a good handful in there in one of the smaller front pockets just throw them up just one at a time please throw it underhand throw it under hand you got it just just relax good job thank you no no oh sorry oh so what you're saying is i'm hitting the board i'm good i was like what i know i pulled my string off a little because i missed one at the top so i just adjusted [Music] do you still work camera i sure hope so can you push it harder there you go keep going yeah that's it okay i just gotta trim that edge a little yeah i gotta trim that it's real close there we go okay excellent can you bring that ladder over here you could but you don't want to right over here yeah that's fine right there no no not that far just right here where i can get down scoot it over here a little closer that's fine just hold on to it so off and on all week i've been using the little four and a half inch rockwell skill saw that was sent to me by chris claus last week and because of its weight and size i was a little skeptical on how well this thing would do but i was pleasantly surprised that you can easily bury the blade as deep as this thing will allow and it doesn't bog down it runs like a champ it's a great tool to have and i'm glad to add it to the collection it sure has come in handy for me the last week so that's looking pretty good as far as i'm going to get on this structure this week anyway three of the four sheets of plywood are up i've still got one section over the door that i'm that i need to do and i'm going to do it in its own little own little piece so everything is treated lumber on this except for the plywood it's going to be braced like you see here that's just temporary but this thing's pretty sturdy already all the fasteners between the posts and the structure are three-inch simpson strong ties that are rated for pressure treated lumber the posts are attached to the ground with the hot dip galvanized brackets eight simpson three inch strong ties and then the brackets are attached to the concrete with eight quarter inch tapcons so this is should be plenty good especially after it's braced up and and stuff and we don't get a lot of wind back here gonna have gutters on it as well because i don't want a trench cut in front here and then in the future you know we may box this in but for now i'm just interested in keeping this stuff dry but speaking of dry it looks like it's gonna rain so i need to get a tarp over this plywood before that happens because i don't have my membrane down yet still a lot to do on it but it's came along pretty well so the structure over the rotary phase converter and the air compressor is looking pretty good i'm actually surprised that i got as far along on it as i did considering i've only worked on it one full day and then a few afternoons after work so i'm thinking maybe two more days three more days and i'll have it complete there's still a lot to do still got to build the four bait section over the door and the post that supports it the membrane or the vapor barrier and then the shingles and the gutters because i don't want a trench cut right in front of it from all the rain that we get around here also want to put some lights under that thing because it's relatively dark under there we'll see used mostly lumber that was left over from this project and it's almost been a year to date i don't get into anniversaries and subscriber numbers and all that but or keep track of dates all that well but it has almost been a year today that i started on this project and i'm just blown away that i've made made it this far in this amount of time considering how much work it was to get this place back straight again and any new viewers look back in my videos about a year eight months and you'll see what this place actually looked like it really needed to push down it's coming together but it's still kind of rough but won't be long everything will be organized and clean and stowed away in its proper place and that will be nice to work in a shop that is actually not falling down so i think that's it this week pick up one of these little tools if you want a tool to add to your list this little four and a half inch circular saw man that thing is awesome and handy light easy to use if you notice behind me there is a tarp and under that tarp is something that i want to share with you but i don't have time to do it this week so hopefully next week it's exciting so that's it i think thanks to my viewers patreon subscribers anybody who supported me on this project anybody who continues to support me over time i appreciate it more than you know so that's it thanks for watching and i'll see you next time on to your dream oh i know you wanna scream [Music] since the day you're born you're just a flower on your own waiting for the sun

Channel: Steve Summers

Views: 52,055

Rating: 4.9608426 out of 5

Keywords: Machining, lathe, shaper, welding, awesome, funny, metal, threading, tools, repair, fix, diy, woodworking, construction, powertools

Id: 4rY7i7CnwPs

Length: 41min 19sec (2479 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021