Tour of Ben's shop 2012--- make money online

hey everyone I got a couple requests for

a shop tour so I thought I'd show you

around this is my shop

it's a 22 by 40-foot structure it's a

detached garage in my back yard and

thankfully the previous owners of this

house who built this shop got permits

for it and it even has hundred amp

electrical service so the previous owner

was a car enthusiast and used this shop

mostly for car work I've never actually

parked a car in here but I have plenty

of my own tools and I thought I'd just

give you the kind of the quick the quick

tour and show you what kind of tools I

use this first rack has mostly

electronic projects that have come and

gone I've also got a fair bit of wire on

the bottom for my previous business I

built MRI compatible electronics or

electromechanical devices and went

through a fair bit of wire I eventually

got to buying it in thousand-foot spools

and I'm pretty sure I bought more than

one and a half miles of wire but I don't

think I broke two miles

most of the wire is shielded

multi-conductor

this stuff is actually a low capacitance

wire which turned out not to be what I

wanted it was a it's a very fat wire

that just has a lot of insulation to get

the capacitance down so I ended up using

that for maybe one or two projects but

most of the useful wire is just standard

10 conductor shielded and stuff I picked

up this nice high voltage probe from a

very generous benefactor that's been

handy I've got the super capacitors

they're still waiting for a project I

also really like these colored bins

they're stackable and it makes it really

easy to put all the stuff in one bin and

then take it over to the bench so if you

keep all you know tilt switches or

whatever in one bin then you can take it

over to the bench and start working on

it

someone gave me that Tesla coil which

I've removed the tube from it's a

tube-based Tesla coil and it worked

pretty well it made maybe three or

four-inch sparks but honestly the

components might end up being slightly

more useful than the finished Tesla coil

so I've taken it apart and plan to use

the components in other projects here's

my main electronics area you can see the

colored bins there on the bottom for

holding stuff and that's pretty much all

the wire I like to use I like to use

keine or wire wrap wire for really fine

work and I've got stranded in solid core

for larger things and that's pretty much

my entire components selection at the

top there I find for most projects I end

up having to order components anyway so

trying to stock everything is kind of a

pain because it's just too expensive and

takes up too much space and with

overnight shipping it's really easy to

put together a project order and just

have everything you need as far as test

equipment goes I've got a million meter

on the bottom there which occasionally

comes in handy

that's an AC current AC current milli

ohm meter so you can even measure

battery internal resistance with that my

main oscilloscope is this Lucroy 9350 am

and I really like this oscilloscope by

the front panel response is really quick

much much better than entry-level modern

tech and Lucroy scopes you can twist the

knob and it almost feels like an analog

scope and it also has for the time

really good memory I think it has 16

megabytes of memory or something for the

time was pretty good I also have an

analog scope Tektronix 2246

which is also handy as you can tell I

really value front panel response and

most modern entry-level scopes and even

like mid range scopes are pretty lousy

in that respect long boot times poor

panel response very annoying to use

machines and so they'll boast all these

complicated features but the main thing

is it's just annoying to use because the

response is so bad I've got a wave tech

signal generator there most of the work

I do is not high frequency and so that's

a

generators is plenty fine it goes up to

10 megahertz or something like that I

should also add that that frequency

generator goes down to quite a very low

frequency I'm not exactly sure what it

is but I think it has a Mille Hertz

range on it so it's good for very low

frequency stuff as well my Jaco 936 iron

definitely a nice piece of equipment I

use Jaco is at work too I think they're

great this cheap power supply here also

has been pretty good it's true the five

nth of the 5 volt fixed supply broke on

it and I had to go in there and fix a

cold solder joint but I really liked

those scopes because it has two

adjustable outputs and they can be put

in parallel or series so it will do 10

amps at 30 volts or 5 amps at 60 volts

which is a pretty pretty generous range

you can do quite a lot with here's my

stock of screws and hardware for the MRI

compatible business I went through a lot

of plastic hardware nylon screws and

things and so the large cabinet on the

right is entirely nylon and plastic

hardware okay I keep some of the lab

stuff and chemicals and cleaning

supplies and things over here so I've

got the gleb glassware and all the

chemicals I've got a small oven up here

too which is a used for curing glue so

especially in the winter if it's 50

degrees out here F if you want to cure

epoxy it's really better to do it at 80

or 90 F so that I use that oven just to

warm things up very slightly here's the

largest piece of equipment in the whole

shop this is a Bridgeport R - III

milling machine it's a CNC milling

machine built in the early 80s and it's

entirely stock it has the original

controllers drives ball screws

everything and I drive it with the

ancient program that was originally

built to do DNC to it from das

on the back here there's a phase

converter so it's a three phase machine

that will run on two twenty three phase

so the shop has 220 volt service but not

three-phase so I have to use that rotary

phase converter and I've got a delta 14

inch bandsaw nothing too special there

it's a nice saw here's some more stock

again for the MRI things I used lots of

plastic so I've got a whole shelf of

acrylic a whole shelf of abs and Delrin

various acrylic tubes and there's some

aluminum and other bits of metal in

there too

I also have a whole shelf of foam also

I've got the four by six petal bandsaw

this thing's pretty pretty junky but

again for cutting if you've got like a

half inch stainless steel shaft there's

not really too many decent ways to cut

that and so this saw is really good at

getting that done and you can see all

the you know shaft and rod and stuff

that I've got in stock here this is a

twelve inch plate shear which is quite

handy it's especially good for cutting

PC boards and you can't use a band saw

to cut PC boards because the fiberglass

will ruin your blade instantly but this

shear will cut it at quite cleanly - got

a Grizzly air compressor under there

that's a 220 volt model fill the tank in

under 60 seconds which is nice that

toolbox is full of lathe tooling and

here's the lathe it's a grizzly four

thousand three G the G means gunsmith

which I don't know what that really

means it has a nicer spindle and a

slightly better Chuck than the regular

4003 lathe I've been pretty happy with

this I also have a full video review on

that one

I've also got a 15 inch planer this is a

Leyden nkow which is almost the same as

Grizzly Dewalt compound miter saw

honestly I don't use this as much as I

thought I would for cutting plastic

sometimes the plastic comes up and

causes the blade to bind and that which

is dangerous and annoying and so I you

know you it's really good for like

chopping up two by fours and four by

fours but it's not really good for

precision plastic work I've also got a

jointer and this is a Craftsman jointer

that I got for a real deal I paid like

the closeout price for a used model like

at the store but I ended up getting a

new machine the blades on it have been

Dell for a long time you can see one of

the blades laying there which leads me

to my next machine this sharpener here I

bought so that I could sharpen mostly

planer and jointer blades but it's also

good for other kinds of tools too on

oscillating spindle sander this is

really handy it's for doing inside

curves on things this is really the best

machine and this one is quite nice I've

never had a problem with it I've got a

rail B belt sander I've never used the

disc sander on that just the belt it's

good one of these little one by 30 belt

Sanders pretty good it's a cheap machine

but for doing uh I take the backing off

so that the belt is flexible and so then

you can put contours in there and smooth

em off of course a standard grinder in

the back there there's a rotary

vibratory polishing machine so that's

full of walnut shells right now and a

sandblasting cabinet you can also put

walnut shells in one of these and use

that for polishing but I typically just

leave aluminum or a Lumina mock side in

there

I've got a hand tapping machine this

thing's pretty handy for tapping holes

straight every time I'm not very good at

holding the tap steady or straight and

so this machine is quite helpful for

that

there's the scanning electron microscope

and it's sitting inside this makeshift

photo booth so I've got a lot of vellum

paper hanging from the ceiling and I

don't have the lights turned on right

now but there's lights behind all that

vellum to evenly illuminate the object

that I'm photographing and in the back

there there's a roll of butcher paper

hanging off the wall for a white

background there is my coffee table I

don't think I ever did a really formal

video for this on YouTube unfortunately

on the way to Maker Faire 2011 the other

half of the table blew off in the wind

was in the back of a truck and it wasn't

strapped down well enough so I have half

the table here and I've always been

meaning to fix it it's been on the list

of things to fix since 2011

unfortunately but if you haven't seen it

it's it's a table full of Reyes Copic

fluid so the the fluid in there shows

the motion the turbulent motion inside

the fluid and it's used to live in my

living room but like I say it's um it's

a in for repairs

I've got a chocolate tempering machine

that's for sale for a friend so if

you're interested in buying this please

let me know the only downside is you

have to do about a pound or two of

chocolate at a time it just can't melt

smaller quantities it's pretty neat it's

got a temperature probe that's inside

like it's it's held at suspended in the

chocolate to get a very accurate

measurement of what the chocolate

temperature is the whole trick with

tempering chocolate is that you have to

control the temperature to a very fine

degree here's a high vacuum rig that's

coming along I need a base plate and

annabelle jar but I've got the diffusion

pump and a gauge here there's my water

chiller I also bought a shaper I haven't

done a whole lot with this but my

favorite bit to use is a round over bit

so I don't even really need the the

fence here the round over bit has a a

follow bearing and it's really handy for

smoothing off stuff as a standard Delta

table saw fairly cheap but does the job

here's my welding cart also a fairly

cheap machine it's a 200 amp tube welder

that also has a 50 amp plasma cutter

feature and I've done some videos with

this it's true the machine needed

repairs but I've gotten a fair number of

good projects out of it I've also got a

nice oxy-acetylene rig back there

there's a couple of past projects the

trashcan is actually an art clamp you

can search my videos for the thousand

watt xenon arc lamp project the modded

water cooler co2 tank and a vacuum pump

there's a shelf full of mostly junk

there this shelf is full of mostly parts

that I used for the MRI business so

keyboards and game controllers plastic

springs pneumatics tubing all that sort

of stuff at the top there you can see

the web web controlled watering can and

over here is the web controlled water

vortex tube these are two art projects

that I made for San Jose City Hall and I

think I have at least one or two videos

talking about those now that is a

packing peanut dispenser also for my MRI

business I ended up packing quite a few

boxes and this thing saves a lot of time

and hassle and dealing with packing

peanuts there's more of these colored

bins these things are pretty nice in

here we've got some interesting old

projects this is mostly on this shelf

it's mostly the liquid nitrogen

generator project so you can see a tank

there and some filters and the cryo

cooler itself is actually way back in

there obviously it's not functional at

the moment haven't had a need for liquid

nitrogen in a little while this guy over

here is a custom-built power supply for

the arc lamp that's a 20 volt at 50 amp

power supply

here's a stainless-steel beer

fermentation vessel that I built a while

back this sub I was mostly interested in

learning stainless steel welding and so

I put together all these fittings and

welded the tank together with the valves

and everything and it's also quite good

for quite effective at brewing beer the

stainless steel is much better than a

plastic container because it isn't

permeable to oxygen or light okay well I

hope you found that interesting let me

know if you have any questions or want

to know what I do with some of these

tools okay

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