u/RounderKatt

Since Imgur died a long time ago, heres an archive link to the original. Not my work, i just posted it almost a decade ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190607011143/https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

https://web.archive.org/web/20190607011143/https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

https://web.archive.org/web/20190607011143/https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

https://web.archive.org/web/20190607011143/https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

https://web.archive.org/web/20190607011143/https://imgur.com/a/TwY6q

This is what Im leaning towards

The partitioned area will be a jewelry studio within the larger shop area

Are you talking about the back wall thats not under the lateral joist? Or the side wall that is only connected to the joists via sistered in half jack studs?

Would have been better if I'd gotten footage of all the wtf-ery we found in the partition walls behind the drywall. So far: one full piss bottle, half a fried chicken, a mummified sparrow, randomly (as in only three bays) placed rv Styrofoam insulation, and a really decent chisel.

The drywall was also all half inch interior drywall, not fire rated.

It was definitely a selling point in buying this house. It has a full 3 car garage attached to the front of the house with this 900sq ft detached shop behind.

The overall shop was done properly and to code. The partition was apparently done later for an 8 ball. Things found in the partition walls (so far): Dead sparrow, very full pee bottle, half a fried chicken, a very usable chisel, randomly placed Styrofoam insulation that seems to be designed for an rv.

Why load stack when screws faster? 

Weirdly I suspect the "cutoff" jack studs were added later to support the joists from below. I have it on good authority the creator of this masterpiece of carpentry was a meth addicted scene carpenter that worked in Hollywood pictures.

Also the 24 tapcons weren't actually long enough to make it into the concrete. I didn't know they made 1.5 inch tapcons 

I'll post an update once we fix it. My favorite parts are the random lengths of 2x4 sistered in for no apparent reason. Also wait till you see the "stairs" that were held up with load bearing 1/2 inch drywall. 

Me exactly 4 nanosecond after the start of the first scrap bonfire for the year: "Gee I really need a 3 inch triangle of dimensional wood"

Cool story, you spent 40 years gluing your jewelry together eh? You'll forgive me if stick with solder instead of glue. But hey, good luck with your glue.

Because that's not the correct answer, and your reasoning as to why you thought soldering wont work was also incorrect.

Epoxy will fail, as seen here. The correct answer it to solder the chain into the barrel. And the only caution is you don't want to overheat the spring in the link you gave is if it has one (this example does not so theres no reason to glue), has nothing to do with oxidation. The answer for overheating the spring is suspend the spring half in water, leaving the barrel exposed. As for oxidation, use a reducing flame with liquid flux and pickle after.

A soldering iron for electronics isn't how jewelery is soldered

Pickle has entered the chat

Self oxidizers exist.

Vacuum casting supplies. He's already got a printer and knows how to use it. Casting is the next step from turning plastic trinkets into actual metal

Melt it down and make something not cast in Pakistan, probably.