Mini Machine Shop Tooling Tray Build (w/ xTool P2 CO2 Laser Cutter) 

Nice job Tim - you probably saved yourself 100 hours of searching for the elusive collet, wrench, end mill, etc. Every minute you spend getting organised probably pays itself back in operational efficiency by an order of magnitude. Well done.

I have done that for 6 years this inscape thing ... VERY effective pretty simple and free ... that is a good tip for people new to this

FYI, we've done something similar using HFT Anti-Fatigue Foam Floor Mat. Cuts easily with our laser. Nice frame build, its the little things that makes shop time a joy. Thanks TW.

4:10 you got the kart going!! 👍👍 I'll be watching for that one.

Blue painters tape works well to keep the material flat while you cut.

Love the storage salutations

Tim, just awesome work and channel.

Measure the diagonals to check for square. Nice video

Great idea, good job

I love the fab stuff, nice work!

Nice work mate!. I would appreciate you demonstrating the difference in how much splatter and BB's stick to cold rolled welding table vs hot rolled steel table top. And if anti-splatter stick spray is needed on either. Nitrided cold rolled vs cold rolled vs hot rolled. cheers mate

Hi Tim. Love your work mate 👍. I’d think about having a canvas sheet to drop over your tool tray. That will keep spatter and grind dust off your milling tools ( particularly the R8 collets and the other Toolholders). My welding table is close to my lathe, so I throw a cover over the lathe when I’m welding/grinding. Regards Robert

Nice!

Hi Tim, Frank from down under. which Ally Mig welding video do you recommend to assist me in rectifying the faults i am encountering? i am getting soot and blobs on most welds with the occasional perfect weld. struggling with determining whether its wire speed, speed of gun or heat. (volts,) or all of the above lol. keen to learn from your videos, just point me in the direction of the ones i need to watch. cheers, frank

I ❤ tim

Can you do a show and tell of the mill and lathe

DR650 👍💪

Hi Tim. My problem with storage is placement of the PVC filler rod tubes I have constructed. With steel, stainless, aluminum and some bronze rods of different diameters, the numbers add up quickly. I now have I think I am up to 14 tubes. That can take up valuable space in a small garage. Along the wall limits hanging power tools used most often, stand takes up floor space and in a small garage, both areas are a concern. Anyone have any ideas? On another topic, TIG welding steel, many instruction videos talk about the heat affected zone. They make it sound like a seriously bad thing without giving an explanation. I understand that from many videos about weld shrinkage and metal warping but many video lead you to believe there is a more sinister thing that will happen without explaining. My first thought is that it is a carry over from welding stainless or titanium where too much head will cause breakage. Will that happen to cold/hot rolled steel or DOM tubing? What about 4130? I know many people use heat to bend metal if they have no other means and to do so, the metal is cherry red in a large area. I am pointing this out so many will not feel afraid and that instructors tend to gloss over steel and too much heat and just want you making perfect welds from their instructions. The world is not perfect. The words "main reason" are not used. Keep the videos coming, I enjoy them and try to watch all as they come out.

When is your Fireball fixture table arriving? :)

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I have to tell you Tim, if you’re anything like me, and I truly hope you’re not, you’ll find that organization only lasts for so long. My wife tells people that I will buy a tool just in case a friend might want to borrow it. She’s not wrong! Organizing everything horizontally uses up a lot nor room. When you have a couple of hundred of mill bits as I’ve grown to have, that doesn’t work so well unless you have a large draw for your bits for steel, a bit for bits for aluminum, plus shelves and draws for slitting saws which are always mounted, face mills, etc. Then a few draws for metrology tools. Maybe a thousand drill bits for hard steel and titanium, for steel, for cast iron. For aluminum, for brass, bronze and copper. Short, long, HSS, cobalt, different types of carbide… Ok, that’s a start, maybe a quarter of it. Then there’s the lathe, the welder(s) and accessories. Plasma cutter, various metal saws, cabinet saw. Ugh! There a lot more. But that’s what happens after a few decades. If you don’t plan for having several times as much stuff as you have, because you WILL find that you will always need more for this job, and that job, when you begin your plans, you’ll run out of room in a couple of years, maybe less. People tell me no, but then they find out. Eventually you end up having every available inch of wall space filled with tool cabinets, and then you’re trying to figure out where to put more, and you’re wife says: “Not in here you don’t!” very emphatically. Good luck.