The new space has some amazing windows up front. street level. We’ve been discussing ideas for what to put up in them, and how to secure them.
Here’s a picture of the front of the space.
I’m currently thinking of welding up some frames that fit the windows, and getting the help of our wonderful local welders and fabricators to fill in the frames with a nice (but secure) design! I’d like to leave a bit of room, and maybe even have space for projects to be displayed in front of the bars.
So my lovely wife, colab member, welder and sculptor, has volunteered to take this on. Her main stipulation is meatspace discussions only (its almost like she used to be a director of a hackspace).
There will be a work party this coming Sunday at co-lab, mostly chopping bars to length and lots of welding, max four volunteers, some metal fab experience preferred, also colab has a $10 drop in non member fee (there may be discussion around the fee at VHS and colab, but plan on it costing 10 bucks to volunteer).
Timeline for the project:
Dec 30 - Sunday - Site tour, measure all the windows check for mounting points, tour neighbourhood for what is the local style - done
Dec 31 - Monday - Drafting and Budgeting
Jan 2 - Wednesday - Get materials
Jan 3 - Thursday - Assemble foundation frame and mount points at colab
Jan 4 - Friday - Check fit of foundation frames at new space
Jan 6 - Sunday - Work party to build out frames at colab
I’ve seen a few female welders that will take any guy to task. Particularly in TIG for some reason. Great work everyone, Looking forward to seeing the results!
This is all the windows in order around the building from the side window on the left to the easternmost front window on the right. Solid black sections are plasma cut steel plate, the rest is 3/4 x 1/8" flat bar.
The steel plate is to prevent smash and unlock attacks on the doors and allow us to put in normal door locks/handles that you can open in an emergency.
Material cost as of now is $650, we bought extra though, so Janet figures around $600 should be the final cost.
I can’t find anything about rules for changing the placard already in the two-sided sign. Making it LED fancy gets complex - blinking is out, for instance.