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Dayton Diode - Dirty Area Layout (excludes drama-entangled CNC mill on the right) |
Our makerspace can
be broadly divided into two areas: “dirty” and “clean.” The
dirty area is where you do things that make dust, chaff, fumes or
sparks. It's where you paint stuff. It's where you saw, grind,
drill, weld and sand. The clean area is where you don't make or want
that sort of contamination. 3-D printing, electronics
assembly/disassembly and soldering are the types of activities you'd
conduct in the clean area.
As any recent
visitor will attest, the layout that resulted after our move was not
thought out. We were more concerned with getting our stuff unloaded
and confined within our area. The result was less than optimal, to
say the least. For example, our two 4' x 4' work tables were shoved
into a corner. It was next to impossible to make full use of them.
We had stuff taking up space that needed to be moved upstairs to the
mini-Mendelson's area. And we have some minor electrical wiring to be performed.
So last week I
moved the big items upstairs. And I spent the past week-and-a-half
working on a layout that makes better use of the square footage we
have, focusing primarily on the dirty area.
A wide open area
within our boundary is a luxury we cannot afford, nor do we need to.
At the Milburn building we had an area roughly 30' x 30' for about
2/3rds of our tools and machines. Here we have to fit all of our
metal and wood working equipment into a space roughly 2/3rds smaller.
But we can utilize the common open areas within the K-12 shop space
to work on projects, so we don't need a wide-open area within ours.
The picture shows
the new dirty area layout.
Starting the
re-arranging of the fixtures and equipment during a Saturday Makerday
with the BONDS kids buzzing about might seem like a bad idea.
Actually, it went well. [Details in the next post.]
This Monday through
Thursday I'll finish moving all the equipment and fixtures to their
places and tidy things up. I should be able to get 220 VAC service
set up for the welding station during this time. Providing 120 VAC
service to the west side of the dirty area will require a bit more
work which I'll tackle after next Saturday.
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