One of the nicest things about using Asmbly tools instead of tools in your garage or your own workshop is that most of the maintenance is shared among other members and Asmbly staff. There is so much to keep up with and with the holiday season coming, we could use some help tuning things back up.
Saturday, October 25th will be a full woodshop wide workday! From 9am to 5pm the woodshop will be closed for normal activities so we can address some much needed maintenance tasks.
Volunteers came out this morning and absolutely crushed it on this work day in the wood shop!
Some things we accomplished:
Swapping the big dust collector filter.
Making sure the dust collector flappers are flapping.
Cleaned all of the blast Gates.
Opened up the CNC dust collector and de-gunked the filter.
Changed all the HVAC filters. This will likely need to happen again in a weekend anyways.
Change the filters on the downdraft table
Fix the big band saw.
Cleaned blades on the bandsaws and table saws.
Adjusted the fences on the table saws.
Deep cleaned a bunch of the machines.
All of this happened before lunch arrived around noon. I’m in awe of the Stellar group of volunteers that came out to help tune this place back up.
Without your assistance and the assistance of every volunteer effort that happens outside of work days, we don’t have a workshop. Thank you for taking care of this place as if it were your own. Because this is your workshop!
After the important cleanup and maintenance tasks were done, we were able to give a fair amount of ad hoc lessons and classes on the big machines and what the guts look like. Folks were also busy, generally sweeping under machines, in the cracks, on the pipes. It just looks and feels cleaner in here today.
Last but not least, we played Tetris with some of the work tables and I think you all will enjoy the new configuration!
Keep an eye out for the next big work day, it will likely be in a few months time. Until then, there are plenty of smaller workshop work days that anyone can help out with as they come up!
