Community DIY Workshop

[bugn8r]

Hey guys,

For a uni paper I'm doing we have to plan a business. Anyway I'm pretty much copying the idea of the Kustom Kommune over in Melbourne which is Community DIY Workshop.


It's a communal space where all tools are provided. Also quite a social area with fridges/bbq's etc, perfect for meets.


Anyway for any of you that live in the city I was hoping you could help me out and give me an idea of how many people would be interested in this idea and at what cost you would pay for a monthly/yearly membership?

The more information I collect the better so even if you don't need the space just imagine having to live in the centre of town without a garage, think how shit it could be haha.

Cheers guys

[haydes55]

$10/ week annual membership would be good. Short term use could be like $50 for 1 week. Extra $20/week storage fees if I was to be leaving a project in a storage garage as well.

I'd think you'd get bigger membership if you kept rates low, and made your bread charging extras like having an onsite mechanic available to offer a hand for a fee, charge for storage, have a licensed bar, courtesy ute/truck (charge to tow/haul broken cars/bikes too and from the workshop, then drop off drunken patrons).

[Big Dog]

Not something i would typically indulge in but if I lived in one of the battery housing units in town I guess I'd be keen.
Annual membership plus storage fees would be the best model.
$10 a week would be pretty reasonable if you did all your servicing there. Even if you added a $10 booking fee to guarantee an available berth on the day of your choice.

Oh it's really broken need to leave the bike there for 12 weeks for a part from Japan? Most wouldn't complain at $10 a day or $25 for the week. Our double it for secure storage. ie locked door to your bay so you can leave the bike / car partially disassembled.


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[nodrog:Me]

What if there's a line 20 tards deep waiting to use the sellotape?

Sounds far easier to move house.

[Tazz]

Price completely depends on how well it is kitted out.

Is the drill a hand drill from 1864 that spits swarf into your eye, even when you're not drilling, or are there 10 high powered cordless electrics on hand. Do I have to spoon fight 3 other people for the one screw driver only to find it's a flat head, that's been sharpened into a shiv, or are there screw drivers as far as the eye can see, with little children throwing them at each other as a manly version of ball tag.

[iYRe]

there is something like this set up for bicycles in Auckland:

http://www.tumekecyclespace.org.nz/

[rambaldi]

there is something like this set up for bicycles in Auckland:

http://www.tumekecyclespace.org.nz/

Ah, thats the place I was thinking about when I first read this. Tumkeke Cycle Space is co-located within Tangleball. Tangleball I think oversee/share/what ever it is they want to call it, the shared space although I am not sure how much support they would be able to give for projects as envisioned by this suggestion.

[Motu]

There used to be car workshops like that in Auckland - it was a long time ago so they didn't have hoists, but all the other gear was there, you rented the space and gear, did your work and drove out. Long gone, so that's the success rate.

[Tazz]

there is something like this set up for bicycles in Auckland:

http://www.tumekecyclespace.org.nz/

menzshed is a similar, but less specific concept. There's one in Picton but admittedly I've never taken a peek.

[baffa]

I like the idea, but the set up costs would be prohibitive, especially if you ramped up the fees to compensate. I'd want good hand tools and power tools, and stands for all manner of bikes including single sided swing arm bikes. A place to collect waste oil and secure storage for bikes/parts also.


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[jellywrestler]

What if there's a line 20 tards deep waiting to use the sellotape?

Sounds far easier to move house.

scissor paper rock , thought you'd suss that out!

[sidecar bob]

The concept has been done to death. Tauranga had a UFix workshop 20 years ago or more. They go bust in short order.
Another thing I can tell you for a fact, & this is from someone that has repaired vehicles for the best part of 30 years. Fixing cars & drinking piss don't mix. I like to do both very much, but never at the same time.

[jim.cox]

It's a communal space where all tools are provided.

The tools will have vanished before the end of week one...

[Akzle]

There used to be car workshops like that in Auckland - it was a long time ago so they didn't have hoists, but all the other gear was there, you rented the space and gear, did your work and drove out. Long gone, so that's the success rate.

this is the closest as i'd see it.

not so much a communal "hangout" space, morelike one of those self-store places, but with garages lined up nekk to each other. maybe a smoko room.

a set of tools (we're looking at 40k a go here. for the basics) per garage/ rfid tag em so the get noticed if they go out of the garage/ compound, people can rent per day/ week/ month/ year for everything in a garage.

plus manned stores for specialty tools and someone to tickoff all the tools when people leave.

I like the idea, but the set up costs would be prohibitive, especially if you ramped up the fees to compensate. I'd want good hand tools and power tools, and stands for all manner of bikes including single sided swing arm bikes. A place to collect waste oil and secure storage for bikes/parts also.


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this too.

Another thing I can tell you for a fact, & this is from someone that has repaired vehicles for the best part of 30 years. Fixing cars & drinking piss don't mix.

pussy.

[sidecar bob]

Also, what happens when someone fucks themselves up big time & work safe come in & give the owner a serious rogering because someone did something stupid?