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Interesting comments above. Clearly going off-topic, but in a productive way. My skin in the game: I've been a member for the past year @ £20/mth, but not found time to get up from SEL except to get my oyster card logged on the system. Only figured out the email digest in the last month. Will give it another year, and see how it goes. Would like to etch some PCBs, and like to use the bench router (appalled that it didn't have extraction when I last looked at it) would like access to the metal-melting thing too. The world is big enough for fractal knitting machines too.
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We need to start discussing the logistics of:
- How we fit out the new space
- How we move
- How we publicise and raise funds for the move.
This is brilliant news! Thankyou
We should also discuss music hack space there were loads of people down at troypanic (it was rammed ) at Christmas that are probably not members . Whilst I am not a fan of building a sound studio in the space it will attract a lot of new members if hack meetings are facilitated properly
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Having a welcoming environment coexist on the same floor as these processes is tricky, but I think it can be done if we compartmentalise off around the rear door. Say leave enough reserved space to get a small vehicle or rear portion of a van into the workshop (because someone will want to do car repairs now they can, or unload out of rain). Say 3-4 meters? Then have a partition wall with courtesy windows for the curious. Grinder noise is the only issue. I doubt proper soundproofing will be economical, but some curtains over the wall may suffice for any night-work. Simply opening the doors during day-work will decrease sound internally. Grinding does seem to be done in sessions, so isn't a *continual* noise issue.So have a reserved work area large enough for a SMALL vehicle with the metalworking tool stations along one side and the bathroom the other. Perhaps even a short "porch" for it, for hanging coats/boilersuits and further limit cross-contamination by dirt/sound/scent.
With metalworking cordoned off, the majority of the rest of the upstairs gets to be social (making use of countertop area and mini-kitchen).
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David, thanks for your response. Re your extraction comments:With the super fine dust from the router and the sander poor extraction is worse than no extraction as it'll disperse fine particles into the air, unless we have extraction that has the fine particulate filters that won't clog or has filtration outside of the main part of the building (which isn't possible in the current space).