Thankyou to everyone who came along for the working bee today! Big success.
Big thankyou to Jess, Eris, Murray, Ryan, Jarrod, Duncan, Chris, Zac, Broseo, Jacques.
We made some big achievements:
- Emptied out the 40’ container so its ready to be modified with roller doors and internal walls.
- All the material that was stored in containers has been organised, culled etc.
- The long material racks are in their home! Eris and Jess painted half of them red to indicate ‘boneyard’ materials, and the blue racks are for members/space storage.
- Cold storage was setup, and we moved all the items in there that made sense to do so, which has cleared up space in the green room.
- Broseo sorted out all the roof tiles from the pallet and salvaged what we could, and skipped the rest. Huge help.
- Chris modified some of the racks in a really smart way (thanks duncan) to make them all fit correctly.
- Jacques and Jarred disassembled all the halfcut rack uprights, and Chris and Ryan reassembled a few into full uprights.
- So much more. Just a big sort through and reorganise thats badly needed.
Whats next
- I need to get cbre to give us access to the new container, its padlocked.
- We need more rack uprights reassembled, they are in the cold storage area. Duncan and Jarred who have offered to do some more during the week, this would help a bunch. We have what we need to put racking in the containers, but need uprights to do members storage under the dome, which will be at least 4 uprights. Another 2 would let us put the second cold storage rack in. Trying to not have to spend money on more racking.
- Need to figure out what steel we need to be able to do the doors on the 40’, and organise a few of us to do that job.
- Once the under-dome members storage is available, the motorbikes and projects on pallets that are in a container atm will go there, freeing that space.
- We need to design sheet material storage for the containers. Theres some ideas being discussed between @Ryan2 and myself so hit us up if you have ideas.
Order of operations:
Stream 1:
- Under dome members storage racks done
- Boneyard container emptied and items moved to under dome storage
2.5. Sheet goods storage installed in boneyard container - Racks in and materials from forge storage moved to boneyard container
- Forge area is free, move all forge items to there.
Stream 2:
- Get access to members storage container
- Put in racks
2.5. Put in sheet storage - Make available for use.
Stream 3:
- Plan roller door locations
- Get budget for steel and wall framing
- and order steel
- Cut holes, weld in steel, mount roller doors.
4.5. Use excess material to close holes made previously in container. - Frame in some internal walls.
Other stuff
I have to follow up on the builder getting us some of the paint for the containers so we can patch em up.
I’m still chasing the power plan stuff. its complicated by the fact we are at the limit of supply. Once its resolved up stream, we will run some subboards off the 2 50a sockets and this will supply the area with power. In the meantime, if someone wants to organise getting the lights up in the dome etc, that would be good.
Once we have power sorted, we can move things like kilns etc.
Longer term
We need someone to look at setting up a paint area.
Automotives area is dependent on automotive continuing to exist as a team, which is indeterminate at this point. So this may get repurposed.