On 11/24/2010 02:58 PM, Phred wrote:

This was a Garden Shed, but I think it will do better as a shop now
that I have a machine. My basement is too low and confined, plus I
really dinna want the smell of coolant and swarf wafting into the
living room.
If you have grade-level access to the basement, I would STRONGLY advise
putting it in the house. Only on the VERY rarest of occasions have I
had ANY complaint about smell from the mill. I use a water-based
cutting fluid mostly, and even if I brush on some cutting oil and it
smokes, it doesn't really get more than 20 feet.

We do get some chips tracked into the house, but I have shop shoes and a
floor mat to rub them off on. You can get a step-pulley version of a
Bridgeport to fit under a pretty low ceiling, but the varispeed version
is quite a bit taller.

Well, the REAL reasoning behind this is it is SO MUCH nicer to work in a
relatively warm basement than a freezing uninsulated shop that you are
trying (but failing) to keep warm.

Jon