Ok uz guyz.....

Here are some pics of the new shop and me after six months of NOT having to shave or cut my hair.



Here is the Shop.



And another angle of the building and lot.  The lot is 150 X 150 and one block off the main drag.  The shop building is 3600 square feet and has four main rooms.  You can see the 12 X 24 shed on the side.  That is for storing tires, core stock, and crap that I won't worry about getting really cold or really hot.



Here is a picture of the shop floor.  The main entrance is on the right side (back towards the hose) and there is a half wall that runs about two thirds of the way down to separate the shop from the other rooms.  One thing on the agenda is to improve the plumbing and get a tap on the opposite corner of the shop.  The spigot at the door is the only one in the entire building.



Still looking the same direction (what I consider the front of the shop) but from the opposite corner.  You can see the office with the light on and the room to the right of that (big window without light on) will be the retail room.



Starting at the back of the shop and working our way around clockwise, there is the Bay door, Hot Tank, and Jet Wash.  What you can't see because of the Jet Wash is the Clark Forklift that is against the wall.  Superman (the forklift) is old and leaks oil bad so I gotta throw some seals in the rams but other than that he works great.  I don't have a heater on the tank, just soak the stuff longer and keep it high on base side.  The Jet Wash heats up to about 180 degrees and really blasts the last of the crap off.  Then is my ole parts washer.  It kinda stays there but it is on wheels so I move it around to where I need it.  You will also notice the air chuck in the wall.  The entire building has in wall air lines (steel pipe) and chucks are about every three or four feet.  The only rooms that do NOT have air are the office and crapper.



Next is my old Atlas 10F lathe.  Good ole machine as long as ya give her TLC every once and awhile.  Then it is the Van Norman Power Hone.  Pretty much anything thirty thou or less I just run it through the hone.



To the right of the Hone is the Sister Boring Bar.  I can deck blocks or heads on this baby.  I have tooling to punch from 1 7/8 up to 6 inch bores.  To the right of that and behind is the mechanical area of the shop.  The building has full radiated floor heat (NICE!!!!).  and in front of that is the Seat Cutting machine.  This is a TCM-25 with floating air table and variable speed dial on the DRO.  Again notice the air chucks, outlets, and the banks of lights above everything.



To the right of the Seat Grinder is the Head station Bench and to the right of that the Kwick Way Valve grinder.  I have a full selection of stones under that cart for just doing a stone cut on seats or I can put them in the machine.  Behind the tool chest you can just make out the top of the tumbler and beside that is the deep sink.



Next up is the Rod Reconditioning Station.  Full Sunnen rod hone and more mandrels that I know what to do with, Rod Straighting jig, Rod and Piston heater, and finally a rod cap grinder.  My diamond wheel for sharpening the carbide bits is also on this table as is the Drill Doctor.



To the right or behind the rod station is the new MC Lift table.  Oh and that is me six months after not shaving or hair cut.  Kinda got furry huh?



This shot kinda wraps up the main shop floor.  You can see the corner of the lift at the bottom left.  My welding table is behind the lift.  That table is solid 1/4 inch everywhere.  Behind that you can see the door to the compressor/blasting/storage room.



That is my ole Mig under the table with the new Tig.  Haven't played with the Tig yet but soon.



This is the Compressor room.  I now have three media blast cabinets.  One has glass beads, one has the "baking soda" for aluminum auto heads, and the third will be getting walnut hulls or something like that for fine finishing.  



And of course a new shop REQUIRED a new shop Dog.  That is Thumper.  He is a true "Dubois Rodeo Dog"...meaning I got him at the rodeo.  He is young (six months) but smarter than hell.  He has staked a claim to the shelf under the Rod Station.  He can see the entire shop and only has to move about three feet to see who has come in the door.



And finally one last shot of my hairy state...lol.  And of course the big coffee pot.

So now ya'll know I ain't been gaffen ya off, just busier than hell getting this thing set up.

cool, Ding!  That's a heap of work you got done there.

Cracky

yepp thats one sweet lookin setup mayn   but them dont look like no harley head i ever seen

So much for retirement. You're gonna be alot of fun next summer. :>(

Nice shop. Lemme know when you're ready for business.

Open now!!!

Skooter, those are my "bread and butter" heads...lol.  They are Ford 460s off of natual gas compressors.  I have ten to get done right now.  If the company likes the work I could end up with a contract for the entire rocky mountain area.  That could be 10-20 heads a month.

Kenny, the Van Norman bar and hone really make life easy.  I talked to Ray, the guy I bought the shop from, and he was tellen me that he used to put a board or piece of plate with a small hole in the center under MC cylindars and let them fill up with oil to keep that heat problem down.  Think I'll try that before I build the base clamps.

aw fug brutha ding ats nuff ta make any mayun envious specially the ones that knowd how ta use it  now me i rekon itd be like a dream mayun yer own shop n knowledge n right where ya live to fuggan cool  ony thing i see scary in any pix is that scruffy lookin fuggan redneck wahahahaa great job dude n good luck in yer endevor n thanks fer the tour

Drool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Way ta go Ding!!!

Really nice Ding!

You Da Man !!!

you manin that whole operation by yerself???

no when it is off season santas elf's come in and help out . sorry had to say that man . didnt mean to be a smartazz . well yeah I did

For now Skoot....I will probably have to get another machinist in though....well I hope so anyway.

hey there dinger i hearid ya the 1st time brutha  i r slow but i aint deef see

oops....guess the grinch was in the system.  lol

ding if i lived closer id be overthere evaday buggin ya    hahaahaaa  

What ya think your to far???  Hell that is just another Wyoming road trip for us.  lol

looks great, lots a space too oughta turn out some nice stuff from there i kinda miss machinin now

Looks like yur about ready to make that fork brace for the FXR?  

Hummm....Lemme think on how to chuck it up and cut it Bob and I'll let ya know....not sure if I can do it with these machines or not but I hadn't thought to look at them that way yet.

No big thing Ding.  It'll be months before I get her back together.  It was just a thought.

Ding,

Does all that beard come with a santa suit this time o the year?

Congrats.

Kim said 'oh my god,\'\\\\\\ when she saw the neck warmer you wearin.

So, Ding, whens the 2nd annual Ding's get together next year... Denver again??

Robin

Get together..get together..get together

oh real quickly back there you should have seen the bathroom now nobody can call me a girly girl. (well except you daddy. )    -----------(---(----[0]             car chase

Hello my brutha's, didn't know if'n I still had a key to this place or not..Dingmayn, that is a super nice shop dude. I like the layout and like kenny, I like the van norman. I wish you more work than you and a crew can do..

jj

yea someone fugged up n left the door open dint they big jj i done slide right in unda yer shadow

JJ...Hey bro!!!  How is it going??  Ya need to pop in more often bro.

Ok my azz is draggen.  14 hours of driven.  From lill ole Dubois to Salt Lake City an back in one day.  Drinken beer now to kill the caffeine buzz sossen I kin get some shuteye tonight and cut steel tomarra.  

whatcha kutten steel fer dinger

Seats, Valves, Guides an a couple o'cylindars.

This is a pic thread.....soo here's a pic on Unkie Bob (rattlecan), me, and my wife

well awrighty wild one ats a good pic

coarse ya know i'm the best lQQkin'

well i r jist gonna sez ya sure look happy n yer a lucky mayun fum what i can see

happy ol fugger...ats me...................n wuts that pretty blonde doin wit ol fugger anyways....................(must be the shovel she gits to ride on)........er the moustache

er both huh brutha wahahahaha

I see he actually rode that pan...lol  Just ribben ya RC.

That in Sadona Swing?

I'll try an pull down some pics from this last New Year when my Bro and his bride were out here.  They will be the new "Clean" Ding.  lol  We took them for a sleigh ride.  Yeah no mess sleigh with horses and runner skies and everything.

well thats one schweeet lookin sled too

Ding................10-4 Sedona
'n unkie bobbers sure got a sweeeeet panhead

Dang, got busy around here while I was sleepin.
I rode that pan a few times last year and now it's in Cottonwood for sale.  Fugger kicked me back so hard, almost broke my leg, pissed me off.  lol

Finally got a shingle up.



Waddayathink?

Well, if i saw that, Id pull in IMMEDIATLEY and get some work done, whether it needed it or not!!
Robin

yeup congats there ding hope it all werks out great fer ya  sosin hos a cat git a t shirt nowa daze

HUH........did sumbuddy say teeshirt.........I want one too!!!

just send me a PM with the addy Pappy...I'll send ya da bill.

Finally gettin round to lookin at the older posts and pics. Gotta say that's a mighty fine shop ya built there Ding you betchya. Want ta wish ya good fortune on your new venture and congrats on finishin yer Marine service. Finishin' up my Navy time and headin back to Minnesota ta bug the cheeyat outta ol' Pappy soon. Maybe we all get a wild hair one of these summers and make the Ring-A-DING-Badda-Bing Ride and come out and see ya. Good Luck and Fair Winds Bro!!

thats a fine lookin sled ya got there rougher

ok i did mayun   hey wild one betta git one er two befo i do er ill be the ding billboard befo u  n az i awready said ruffer n me ats a noice bagger

TY rough.  And diddo on the nice bagger.  Where you stationed man?

Airframer(AM1) stationed at NAS Patuxent(PAX) River Maryland wallowin' in my shore duty. Bout 18 months to go then it's back to Minnesota to a lil' farm town of Fairmont. Not sure what I'll end up doing there but I'm ready. Thanks on the ol' bagger. Like me, she looks best from across the street...yuk yuk yuk. Gotta think about shooting some paint on the old girl once moved back. She's just wearin flat black poly right now keepin most of the rust at bay. Thinkin' bout that 70's era burnt orange metal flake like I used to see on them jet boats as a kid. She needs other TLC cosmetics as well but will need to wait until she can be garaged again. Right now her only protection is with an old F-14 canopy cover I got from my last squadron when we de-com'd the TomCats. Gotta love it mayun! A big squid "Ooh Rah!!" to my Jarhead buds.

Rough