Date Started   : 06 June 2008
Date Completed : 30 June 2008
Effort         : 40 hours
Fitout Cost    : $3400.00
(Includes $2200.00 for tools and machinery)

Spent much of my free weekends in June tidying up my garage and making room for the bench to build the KR on. This included taking down an old set of shelves, buying a couple of cupboards to store the stuff from the shelves, removing a small stub wall that was next to the shelves and putting in a new longer beam to replace the short one which used to rest on the stub wall. Also built a small workbench on casters for my drill press, disc sander and drop saw. Final task was to put up a tool board and sort out and hang my handtools. Here is the result which I am quite pleased with and should do the job.

I have put up copies of the plans on the workshop walls today to have them readily accessible while I am building. This has already proved to be very useful when I quickly need to check dimensions. Its a lot easier than having to unfold the original plans.

If you look closely at this photo you will see the storage rack I had to build for my aircraft ply. The ply came in 5' x 5' sheets which did not fit under my bench so I knocked together this rack to hang from the ceiling. It is built from the packing materials the ply came in plus some 50mm x 75mm framing timber I had lying round. The ply is certainly a lot heavier than I expected.

24 April 2011
Today I did a major re-arrange of the workshop. I need to set the boat up so I can work around it more readily. As such I have shortened and moved the workbench to the side area of the garage to free up the main area for setting out the boat. I moved the boat storage rack and portable bench into the side area of the garage and moved the cupboards that used to sit along the wall into the main area of the garage. The photo is a composite of two photos to show the new layout. The fuselage boat looks a bit weird because of the change in perspective between the two joined photos.