I would actually be hugely in favor of laser continuing do so, a lot of the pieces I make for my tables (from legs down to tiny draw habdles) are very unique and conceptual ideas so I rely heavily on making templates of every piece to see if it’ll work both practically and physically so my stuff is dependent on templates and the laser scraps work amazing as such. So I’m in favor of laser left overs big and small especially plywood
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Are you still on for today if so what time are you starting?
I’m shooting to be up there by 10
More changes…
You might notice that the old clamp/ scrap cart is missing… it’s currently over in the new shop waiting to be broken down. Feel free to take materials, but don’t leave anything new, it’s being decommissioned.
In its old spot a new panel saw will soon be coming into service.
If you use a clamp or tool from this area, please return it and hang it back up!
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File this under: This is why we can’t have nice things.
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Special thanks to:
@dougbcave who spent 8 hours today helping
@pjolone1 who spent 5 hours today
@got_tools who spent 4 hours yesterday
@collinrh who spent 2 hours today
@alyssalee who spent 3 hours yesterday
And several others who stopped by throughout the work sessions and helped. Couldn’t have gotten this far without your input.
A few more work days and I think we will have this completely cleaned up.
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Because people use other people left overs to create pieces of furniture?
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No… Because that area was always a complete and utter shitpile of useless crap that people were too lazy to walk 50 feet to the dumpster.
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I personally like scrap storage- not only am I a packrat, I agree that it’s nice to be able to make templates.
Unfortunately, As it stands, someone has to clean out the cart once or twice a month and it’s mostly trash, so that’s not ok.
If we’re going to have scrap storage we need to do better about educating people on what is scrap and what isn’t.
I’m open to ideas on how to better implement a scrap area, but right now it’s demanding too much volunteer labor to manage properly.
If anyone wants to put a proposal together on how to manage scrap, educate, and where to put it, I’m all ears. Let me know.
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How do you plan to mitigate the sawdust on the panel saw so that it doesn’t get into the lasers?
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It will have a vacuum attached to it that automatically turns on when the saw is engaged.
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That’s what they do at Lowes Depot…their panel saw areas are usually pretty dust-free, or just minor amounts at the bottom. Of course, they are run by actual, trained employees, so there’s that.
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Hang a sign over the dumpster that reads “scrap here” 
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See when I see that while yes most of it is very much so trash that left side piece and the big square at the top would be what I consider very nice pieces for templates, it’s a good quality material and I do agree 85% of it is trash, I’ll happily take that whole big thing chop off the usable and trash the rest for whoever left it, to be able to get to use that 15% free of charge(which is what I always do when getting pieces for templates, I always take the whole piece and trash what’s unusable I never just pick a chose and leave the trash)
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Those are fine pieces and if people cut those off and left them for others then that would be a super nice thing for them to do. But they don’t and the while thing fills up with a pile of crap someone might or might not want, and which usually has to be taken to the dumpster by someone other than the laser user, you, or me (except a couple of times). Work-making for others isn’t very excellent.
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Big thanks to @rlisbona and his helpers who welded up a stand for the panel saw today, hope to have it in service soon.
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I do agree with you, trimming would be a good practice and it does get used as a trash can for people who don’t want to throw their stuff away which is rude and lazy, but I don’t want there to be an all out chastising of people leaving leftovers, causing people to just throw away big pieces of usable material, 1 it’s wasteful and stupid to have it just end up in a landfill and 2 people myself included can actually make use of it, all though in my case it’s just as equally not eco friendly cause it still ends up in a landfill
I mean if there is fine ok, I’ll just buy my own plywood no big deal, but I always found the freebie shelf personally a good way to have use made out of scraps I produce, made me feel not so wasteful in throwing out what is sometimes good sized sections of usable material that tons of people at the space could actually utilize and I imagine others felt the same I do when I have large sections of nice material to toss
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What level of volunteer work is needed to run the scrap shelf? Clean up once a week? Bi-weekly?
This reminds me a lot of the discussion over the giveaway Shelf. And I have the same problem of collect letting a lot of junk what it took their wash some folks don’t like using it to take the initiative to keep it cleaned off with some regularity if I saw something that was just trash that took the trouble of putting it to the trash Beth Beth is just did a wonderful job of keeping up with this I’m sorry to say that I but it takes someone who thieves Thief utility in utility and some of the and maybe you can say that you earn your fancy piece of wood by doing some work.
It gets cleaned at least once a week.
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