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I can't raise the table height or I'll lose my overhead storage space. I just need to sit up straight and pick up my model up to eye level instead of crouching down like a Predator waiting to pounce. I do it when I'm reading too , and now while typing on the ipad I just need to take etiquette classes where they tie your head to the back of a tall chair to teach you to sit up right.

What I used to do was have a small table on the workbench. Granted the tablelegs were 3" high, but it was enough that I wasn't hunched over when I worked. You could try something like that.

That is actually a very disturbing picture.

Well I stopped by lowes on my way to work. No compressor, but menards had these shelves for sale at the new location near me.
http://www.menards.com/main/mobile/shelving-visualizer/garage-basement/wire-shelving-14-x-36-x-54-four-shelf-black/p-2193676-c-13051.htm
I have two of them right now, and at $24.99 when lowes, depot and target normally sell them for $60.00 I was like "yes please"

But here's the dealio, why get it for that price when I can go to lowes or depot and get them to match it plus 10%. That's right $180.00 worth of shelving from lowes for $72 ish dollars. They can be assembled half height or together to make a long wall of shelving, or like I have planned I'm going to make a table base out of the three sets and some shelves. The table base will wind up 27" tall, 70"long and 39" wide if I have it figured correctly. Or I could make it easier and go 36" wide by 64" still 27" tall. That second load out will make the shelves more accessible. After which I think a new top of 3'x6' mdf will be screwed down to it, then my KOW table top can be laid on top for bigger games but the 3x6 is just fine for necromunda and other games.

Got to work an hour and a half early, going to start earning some money to help pay off more purchases.

Anybody got any experience with the "silent" airbrush compressors, I was thinking if one of those instead of a larger one to replace my busted one.

Love the new work space, especially that magnetic bar for the tools, great idea

 Theophony wrote:
I just need to take etiquette classes where they tie your head to the back of a tall chair to teach you to sit up right.
*Picture of an electric chair*

I don't think that they are trying to teach that man good posture... You may want to shop around before approaching them...

@hk1x1, I think dsteingass was where I say it being used first, all credit should go to him.
@dr. H, seriously??? Here I thought the current made you shoot straight up and the straps were there to help you to learn where to stop. I think your wrong, next you'll be telling me the guys wearing sheets aren't promoting a bedding sale

4hours into my day, and I have repaired 8 vacuums. Hopeful this will save the hospital some money as they are all hepa filter vacuums that retail for around $300.00 each. Now if I can just teach everyone that they are not wet/dry vacuums I think they will last a long time. Also fixed one of our commercial walk behind vacuums. It's 2' wide battery powered and self propelled. I'm not a mechanic, but knowing I can unplug it before taking it apart makes me feel so much better about attempting repairs.

Oldest kid is home today, she's had a nagging cough since Christmas, three doctors visits, different medicine each time, hopefully third times the charm. Wife clogged up the kitchen sink last night while I was at work, just spent an hour digging broccoli out of the drain line, now I smell of old broccoli, and not in the carnival worker way.

So now onto the gaming table.
Say goodbye to the old table


The new table is the shelves in the boxes leaning against them, they look like less cluttered versions of this when assembled.


Hopefully progress before I go to work, no overtime today since kid 1 is home sick. Unless I stay overnight, wonder when the overnight differential kicks in . That might be interesting to get overtime with overnight differential thrown into the mix for added $$$$

Wow slow day , or I have just annoyed everyone away .

I left for work yesterday and kid1 was at home with my wife waiting for the other 2to get home. Couple hours into my shift I checked my phone(always on silent and I can't feel it vibrate) to see 2 missed calls and 4messages from my wife in 2 hours. "Oh " never good with that much attempted contact in such a short time. My daughter got worse with her cough(had it since Christmas in various levels of hacking), and my wife called the nurse ho said take her to the children's hospital emergency room "NOW!" Needless to say I left work, about threw my phone out the window because it was being stupid and couldn't pull up the phone number for that hospital and my wife was not answering(no signal inside the e.r.). They got my daughter straightened out on new medicine (fourth times the charm), and did chest x-rays to check the lungs which are perfectly fine. After an hour she was to be getting discharged so the wife sent me home with the twins so they could get a good night sleep. On my way home kid1 had a Reaction to the medicine she was given, but was stabilized within a minute by the staff. Just too much medicine and too many breathing treatments in too short of a time yesterday. She's staying home today with my wife (first time my wife has taken a sick day in I think 8-9years except when she had emergency gallbladder taken out, everything else has fallen n her spring breaks or Christmas vacations). So here's hoping we find a happy solution to Sarah's coughing which they said should be better by this weekend (Saturday is her 11th birthday).

On to fun stuff now for your viewing pleasure(hopefully)
The new racks got assembled yesterday. Here's what I had planned, although som changes were made because the rack legs were different than the old set that I had. The old set had he legs separate at 27", the new racks have 36" and 18". So instead of the table being 27" off the ground it's 36" up, which is a nice height for me standing, and mark is pretty tall as well so I think it will work out better.

The top shelves are right here the table top is so nothing will sit on them, I might change that though. But this gives lots of underneath shelving space to store stuff. I have two more shelves, but have a cunning plan for them if all works out correctly. One of the two was bent though, so I have to take it back before I can see for sure.

Here's the table with top added on, I think it looks great. Now to find some nice storage boxed/bins for underneath on the racks.

Left over parts? Well half of those will be used with the other two shelves, so no worries there and I didn't like the look of the spacers so they didn't get put on the shelves.

Got two more bar magnets for he other side of the desk. They have a 9+pound pull(4kg) so the hammer I held tightly. I should have gotten another bar magnet to go on the wall next to my table to hold gaming tape measures as they always get lost in the terrain .

Well time to get the twins up for school, talk at you guys later.

Freakin' kids, always getting ill or something. Hope she's properly mended for the weekend. Good to see hobby project is going well too. Sitting here in my cupboard, I am ridiculously jealous!

Damn, I hope your daughter will get better for real soon! That is quite a long time in half illness...that alone is enough to worry about...have they done some blood checkups with her? Might not be the lungs but something is weird here...ill cross my fingers for her.
I was today in q weird sense of the word funny also at the e.r. with my oldest Felix. They called me from my work at school because a pair of scissors ruined his left index finger...all on the mend. Plus a day off from school for the two of us is nothing to sneeze at

And my youngest is now on a four day trip. His first home away time at all...I am on my toes...argh...


The table setup looks great. Storage looks plentiful to say the least. Lots of space for cool terrain to replace and choose...and...for even thinking multi storay terrain...
My only issue would be, do you play standing upright or sitting? If the latter, where to put your feet? But the height I think makes it possible for to play at standing...especially for a tall guy like you. We've raised our kitchen furniture to cope our heights (my wife and me are both well over 1.80m...) And it is no joy to work in the kitchen that gas been built for smaller peeps...

@graven, smelly kids always ruining the day , it better pay off in the end when I'm old and gray and they have to take care of me
@Vik, poor Felix, but better a finger gets the scissors than an eye.

Well the twins are off to school. Sarah has had here medicine for the morning and no jitters, so I have headed to the basement for some modeling. First off I grabbed the unused/un bent shelf and some of the short sections of legs and built a small bench for under my work table. The benches were planned from the get go, but the change in height was unexpected, but actually has worked out for the better . The bench leaves about 8" above it to rest trays of stuff on top and still have space underneath them (18" high, 14" deep and 36" long for totes and such. They can be pulled out to rest larger things on as well.

One will be used to keep things like my chopper2, duplicutter2, and straight edge cutter on and within easy grasp of the workbench. Currently all those are sitting on top of the shelf above the workbench, and are kind of precariously stacked.

Hopefully I can get some things primed this morning as there is no rain happening currently. Then maybe, just maybe I can get back into the groove. Although my modeling shelves are calling for some love and maintenance.

Shelving looks good! finally organized I see.
Kid sick, not so good. Hope this does not turn into chronic asthma. Fingers crossed.

Well the doctors say "we don't declare asthma anymore " because that causes problems with unscrupulous insurance companies and pre existing condition clauses. They just call it "an event" and prescribe the same medicines and give you the same "don't go near harsh chemicals, Bon fires, stay away from pets stop smoking or hanging around smokers and avoid outside activity a this time of year du to high allergens."

Went to lunch with the wife and kid1, hey are both taking tomorrow off school and going to see a lung specialist to ensure its nothing else. I'm going to prime some figs, shower and head into work.

Thanks everyone for the well wishes .

your wife and you are not coughing too, aren't you? could be fungi in your house (this is a far away idea...saw that and what I caused in peeps...) so no stepping on your toes here...

and I think the breaking point of your legal system and your health system has to be soon... sheesh... you live in a nightmare...

Best wishes and hope everyone getting better soon. Stressful day, effects us badly too doesn't it. She will be fine for the weekend, or I will swim over and sort you all oooot!

Table loking good, and great idea, storage is the key to a happy life me thinks.

Hope you have a good shift.

Good storage solutions you have going on Theo.

Hope all the kids get better soon, be it random coughs or chopped fingers and anything in between.

Undertable storage is always nice. You may want to add some reinforcement to the OSB top though, say a frame of 1x4's or something similar.

Have you considered one of the HEPA air filters for your child's room? A decent one, like this http://www.homedepot.com/p/Winix-True-HEPA-Air-Cleaner-with-PlasmaWave-Technology-5300/100656018 I have one, and it works very well. Rugs are nasty sources of irritants too.

Thanks everyone for the well wishes . I'm sure she'll be fine and running crazy this weekend. She's the only one with the cough, we just have our allergy headaches and I keep an eye out for mold in the house so it's not that. The girls have hardwood flooring in their bedrooms and in the dining area. We have tile in all bathrooms and kitchen only the family room, hallways and our bedrooms have carpet. The plan is to rip the carpet out of the family room next year and redo all the hardwood floors with tax money next year. We use the better quality filters in the air conditioner so it's not that either.

Primed the orcs that I had I. My knights orks and goons drawer before I left for work. The cavalry guys got a brown primer which is almost good enough to call the pigs done, the foot guys got a white primer though I think they might get brown on the next batch. No pics as just primer and I want to paint up a couple to get feedback from you lot before I decide on army colors.

It's hard to catch up to this thread!....

1. Whatever you do DO NOT get the Menards Red magnetic strips. the magnets suck, and heavier tools can fall off. I need to replace mine, as even two will barely hold my jeweler's saw with the big wooden handle. If you have one that can hold a framing hammer, it'll hold any other hobby tool.

2. YES ...while not totaly SILENT, The compressor I got for my airbrush is very very quiet. you DO NOT want an air compressor designed for high pressure nailers and other jobsite tools. A proper airbrush compressor gives you finer control of your pressure, which is the point. you will quickly become frustrated at your jobsite grade compressor's ability to jump 10 PSI for every little bit you nudge the regulator dial. Trust me, THIS is worth the money. There is a BIG difference between 15PSI and 20PSI when airbrushing. And it helps that it won't wake the wife, kids, and pets every time it kicks on. You want one with a tank, not the little diaphragm compressors that cause a pulse every time it kicks on.

http://www.amazon.com/Badger-Air-Brush-Co-TC910-Compressor/dp/B005UH7CVI

3. Asthma and allergies are NOT the same thing, yet every form doctors give you have a check box for Asthma/Hay fever. Stupid!

THanks dave , I will do som price shopping as thats more than I'd like to shell out right now. I did find the same model here though.
http://www.chicagoairbrushsupply.com/batcasproco.html

Editrdered , free shipping, no tax and was the best price I found currently.

Hell yeah! Great Deal man! Just remember, the regulator is a push-turn thing. Don't be like me the first time and unscrew the whole regulator- the spring is tricky to get back in

Wait there's knobs and stuff to deal with

Wife just called, daughter has been seen by specialist, she has trained her body to cough instead of swallow , so she's perfectly fine, Thank God, just nutty as a fruitbat. Instead of coughing she needs to take a drink of water to retrain herself. It's a common habit developed after a cold with kids her age. I guess I was right telling her to get a drink of water and try that instead of the hacking before, but why listen to daddy .

Starting work now, thanks everyone for the prayers and well wishes, I'm sure they helped .

Good news. Have a good one.

I recently had myself the same thing...after a certain amount of time with a cold the coughing gets self sustaining...I got rid of it after almost two months with menthol sweets , and lots of drinking...and mind you, grown ups are as "dumb" as kids in that regard...

Nah.....us 'grown-ups' are usually dumber than the kids

Glad all's well at Chez Theo....

 Theophony wrote:
THanks dave , I will do som price shopping as thats more than I'd like to shell out right now. I did find the same model here though.
http://www.chicagoairbrushsupply.com/batcasproco.html

Editrdered , free shipping, no tax and was the best price I found currently.

Theophony, that is the same compressor I have and I like it a lot!

However, I have a simple suggestion- remove the outer aluminum carry case, as it does nothing and makes the on/off switch Very hard to access. I also would recommend putting a fan to blow on it to keep it cool (Ouze suggested this to me, and it works great). Finally, I put a piece of cloth through the key ring that is on the side. This generates an amazing amount of "ringing" noise if it is allowed to rattle loose... just a little cloth stuck through the key ring muffles it / keeps it from pinging, and really helps keep the volume level manageable.

With those tweaks, I've been extremely pleased! I did have the switch stop working but Badger promptly replaced the part for free and got me airbrushing again

Your desk also looks fabulous, well done! Now to get to modelling work using it

Or....put it on an old rubber car floormat like I do

UPS update, this will arrive today , guess I might get to try it out later tonight or at least n the morning.

Thanks for the advice on the noise reduction guys . The screwdriver is within reach to pop the top off of it and I will look into something to pad the feet(anyone know somebody with tons of foam just sitting around .

On stupid note, one if my lovely kids left the door to our upright freezer open yesterday. I'll be painting with the door to the basement open. Lots of stuff got thrown out late last night. Also caught up on missing hours from leaving work on Monday. Thought about grabbing overtime tonight and tomorrow, but the compressor might just chance that plan.

Edit:Holy Gak Batman.....it's here less than 23hours after ordering it


Straight out of the box

And thanks to RITides suggestions I ripped the skirt right off of her ...... I mean......never mind .
And what better way to appease the painting gods than to sacrifice a few plastic mantic orcs.


I mixed the paint wrong , still not used to thinning paint, but I will have practice later. First I must do homework and study for exam tonight. Later I can practice and study compressor and airbrush.

I might take the suction up feet off the compressor, drill some holes and mount it directly to the desk, not sure though. It is much quieter than I thought an my kids will be able to sleep through me using it. On a side note this just made me forget about going in for overtime tonight .

I'm not sure why you'd want to take the casing off, mine doesn't run very often at all, and when it does, only for a short time.


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Do you just take it off to get to the switch? My switch has been on since I got mine. You said something about heat? Mine is on the floor below my painting bench. I also have the 10 foot hose.

Theo got an airbrush!