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Perhaps not the best practice but I was kind of curious to see if it could be done without chaging my shorts. That's why I felt compelled to post; it worked despite my doubtful expectations.

The former. The banjo locked solid and the tool rest rotated within the banjo. I was using a scraping cut at about 4:00 (left handed) So there was not just downward force on the rest, but a backward force near the end of the rest. I do not own a curved rest and the geometry would not allow me to get the rest into the hollow, so there was a fair amount of cantelever.

No, I've seen enough advice against that.

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Steve

Hello Mac,

Sounds like you made the best choice... Congrats on your new shop floor! You might want to consider adding epoxy floor paint to your new floor when it has cured. I did this to my studio floor and it was the best money I ever spent. Not only is it easier to clean than bare concrete, but spills just wipe up, engine oil will not stain it either. :-)

It's not that hard to do it yourself if you're interested. I purchased the epoxy paint for about $50.00 per gallon, with a few gallons of epoxy thinner. After power washing the floor, I applied a dilute acid (wearing a special respirator) to acid etch the floor surface for better adhesion of the epoxy. After that fully dried (I waited two days, with fans blowing across it), I applied a sealer coat of epoxy. This is the regular epoxy cut

Once that cured (a day or so), I applied a base coat of epoxy (regular epoxy paint cut 80/20 epoxy to thinner) and let that cure for two days. Two more coats of the base epoxy paint, a few days apart, followed by a final coat cut 10%. It was not much work, but it took about two weeks to fully complete. Most of the time was just spent waiting for the epoxy to cure.

My studio is 30' x 30' and I used light grey epoxy. It was well worth the effort. I have even burned rubber with a car (don't ask) on the cured floor and the epoxy has never lifted. In fact, you can just wipe the rubber away. :-) The best time to coat your floor is when it's new (must be cured first though) as once you start putting everything inside, you will probably never get around to it again.

There is also some silica available that you can add to the epoxy to make it less slippery. I did not add this when I did my floor as I thought this would make it harder to clean. The only time the floor is slippery is when it's wet, but that's not too often. I give it a good moping with straight bleach (wearing a respirator) about once every two years and it looks brand new again. Amazing stuff... Take care and best wishes to you as you build your new shop! Take care.

Some good ideas, Steve, but I'll settle for just the cement surface for now..

They wanted to make it really smooth.. they're fanatics about that here, but I actually had them rough it up a bit..

It's outside and basically for the flatwork tools, which I don't use much..

The lathes, work bench, band saw and hand tools are all inside in the shop..

It just got to be too much of a hassle rolling tools around on the "packed red dirt"... the surface loosened up and holes started forming... It's really ads excitement to using the CMS when a wheel falls into a hole during a cut...

Useless background info:

When we bought our lots in Baja, we paid a bit more to be in the "multi-use" area... Translation is that you can keep an RV there, where most of the area has a 30 day limit for them.. the CC&R's used to say that if you keep an RV, it has to be under cover in a structure matching the house, so when we were designing the house we included an RV carport.. They gave us 3 options for the carport floor, red dirt, gravel and cement... Cement being the most expensive, at $5,000... No way was I going to pay that much to park a little 28' trailer on, so we went with red dirt.. Then, we found out that the CC&R's had changed to "and a 2nd RV, if covered", which meant that our trailer didn't HAVE to be in the carport... Parking it on the other side of the RV hookup gave us a 15 x 40' covered patio with a 12' roof.. perfect place to put all the "messy" tools, since the shop is in the house..

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Hello Mac,

I feel your pain on the CC&R's... Around here, you have to get permission to breathe. :-o Everything is closely regulated and to do almost anything, you have to fill out forms, get committee approval and then permits, etc...

If they don't like something, you get the whole package back and you get to start all over again. It can take weeks, or months to get some things approved. Sounds like you've got everything covered. Best wishes to you in all of your woodturning and woodworking endeavours!

It never ceases to amaze me that people will pay several hundred thousand dollars to have someone else tell them how to live. Maybe this is an out dated idea but, my parents taught me how to take care of myself.

Thanks, Steve...

I hated CC&R's in the states, but appreciate them here... In the older areas, there are every kind of "homes" imaginable.. 1 story, 2 story, trailers, trailers with ramada and Baja room, etc....

We're in the "newer" area and have both sea and mountain views, and unlike the older areas, have a 15' height and 5,000 sq ft restriction to maintain everyone's view.. I'd be really pissed if someone built a 2 or 3 story mega house between the sea and my shop windows..

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I used to feel that way until I moved to Mexico... there are lots of areas here where folks can builds whatever they want, and that's cool... But we chose this place partly because we knew that buildings and traffic would be controlled and that we could do our RV and shop thing without being hassled..

I took pretty much all we had to buy two 30,000 lots and build a $150,000 house, (no financing here, all cash), and I'd hate someone with lots of bucks building a huge duplex or something next door... Folks go crazy here because of cheap building costs... there are several home near the sea that are 10,000 sf or more.. like anyone needs that much space..lol

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Hello Mac,

I know what you mean. I grumble occasionally about the red tape and paperwork, but I'm glad I live where I do... It's strict here, but that keeps the character of the area intact. I live in a master planned community and it's been a wonderful place to live for the last 13 years.

While it might be nice to live in an area where you can do and build whatever you want (as the other poster mentioned), I prefer to live in an area that protects the look and style of the area over time. Besides, if you're in a "do as you wish" area, someone might move in next to you and open a pig farm... :-o I think I'll stay where I am. :-) Take care and happy turning!

Plastic.

I live in a master planned community

If you say so, Comrad.

That's what zoning laws are for. Not good enough for the truly paranoid though.

Do I smell a troll? And a redneck one at that :-).

I guess that's why they make paint in more than one color... Bigots have lives too, I guess.....

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