Got some workspace...

[60dgrzbelow0]

Captain... In your posted image, I just spied your air delivery PVC piping set-up and need a water bleed unit just like the one shown over your second work space bench...I cannot find anything that small where I am located right now, so if you get a minute...would you let me know what that item is and where you got it? I need one for my home Made EFI Cleaning Unit to bleed off the build up of h2O in the service line b4 it can contaminate the EFI Cleaning Fluid... Thanks in Advance!

(John...Please forgive this minor thread-jack)

--==Bob==--

[SappySE107]

Got some cabinets up, and 1 floor cabinet. Flowbench will go on top of the base cabinets once I get things organized and setup out here

[pocket-rocket]

Man, your space is tidy for everything that's in there!

Thanks! But, that was then... I dare not venture out there with a camera right now I've actually got plans on going out there tomorrow to clean and organize since I have a good deal of time to wait for Phil (onefastv6) to get home before Ben and I head out to his place for an engine. I can't stand working in crowded areas... It tends to drive me up a wall and I tend to start getting mad and shoving stuff/throwing things, lol. It's probably the German and Irish in me I really want to finish the insulation and drywall, and paint the drywall gray since white would show grease too easy, and dark colors would absorb my light making it harder to see.

[ForcedFirebird]

John...so many naked walls ...I'm going to have to send you some of my larger oil-on-cavas work to help out...


...or maybe just few Girly-Cake Shot Calendars?

Just paint the walls themselves

These pics are at least a year outdated now... Since I have put a corner mica countertop in the corner where my speakers are, the engine hoist now sits between the counter top and the black jack and jack stands, my parts washer (the big blue thing beside my piece of junk toolbox) has moved to the other side of the compressor, on the opposite side of the bench beside the parts washer (beside where the front of the Jog is) now sits a 12 ton hydraulic press, and the gas bottles for my heat wrench have moved behind the trash can beside the press. I've also gotten a much larger collection of tools hanging on the wall and have started running out of room on the peg board :/

Man, your space is tidy for everything that's in there!

[pocket-rocket]

My sad hole :/















These pics are at least a year outdated now... Since I have put a corner mica countertop in the corner where my speakers are, the engine hoist now sits between the counter top and the black jack and jack stands, my parts washer (the big blue thing beside my piece of junk toolbox) has moved to the other side of the compressor, on the opposite side of the bench beside the parts washer (beside where the front of the Jog is) now sits a 12 ton hydraulic press, and the gas bottles for my heat wrench have moved behind the trash can beside the press. I've also gotten a much larger collection of tools hanging on the wall and have started running out of room on the peg board :/

[60dgrzbelow0]

John...so many naked walls ...I'm going to have to send you some of my larger oil-on-cavas work to help out...


...or maybe just few Girly-Cake Shot Calendars?

[pocket-rocket]

Yall suck with your nice spaces to work on stuff. I've got an oversized 1 bay and someone only insulated half of it (haven't gotten around to finishing it). I epoxied the floor and added 8 4' shop lights in it wired in pairs, but the floor was poured in 1954 and it's obvious they used a 2x4 to "smooth" the floor ftl. I have just enough room to pull an engine with my hoist, but most of the time I play it safe and let it go up between rafters. Maybe I will dig out some pics of my junk...

[ForcedFirebird]

Nice! My house has a single 16' door for the 2 car garage and is only 19'x22'. I am glad to have my garage back, and one I get the few last things out, might start parking the Bimmer in there

I measured the shop this weekend and it is 45'x16' in the bay and the office is 12'x16', office has an 8' dropped ceiling with acoustic panels and the bay is 16' to the bottom of the metal trusses. So, it is actually slightly less than 1000 sf.

[sprucegagt]

I guess I can toss up some of my garage pics. Just got finished insulating it last week. R-13 all around.







Dimensions: 28' x 35' w/ 11' ceiling. Updates for next weekend:


OSB paneling


5/4 deck boards which will be cut to fit on top of the cinder blocks.

When I'm done all the joints will be sealed then all the walls and ceiling will be painted white.

[pocket-rocket]

i kinda plan on putting the compressor on the other side of the wall to cut down on the noise.

One house we were looking at years ago had a small enclosure around the air compressor and ended up lining the interior of it with that egg crate bed foam to cut down on the noise. I thought about it for mine, but it's really not that loud for a 60 gallon. I mean, I can talk over it. I have to speak louder, but I don't have to come close to shouting.

[geldartb]

i got the compressor from a guy at work for $250. it was sitting in his garage and he wasnt using it anymore. he already had another one a little more powerful.
i kinda plan on putting the compressor on the other side of the wall to cut down on the noise.

it looks like this.


id love a lift. always wanted one and will have one someday. my uncle next door has a lift so if i really need to do something that requires it i can use that.

the nice and tall comes with a small price though when the lights burn out. took a 12ft ladder to change the bulbs and that was a challenge. the 8ft bulbs like to bend a little.

they use to use it for a school bus company. could fit a couple of the smaller school buses in there. like these


got most of my stuff down there now. its nice having everything in one spot and a spot to keep the car inside and out of the elements.
just gets a little cold in the winter no insulation really except on the roof. got a little 85,000btu propane heater last year that helps out and makes it bearable but it chews through a 20lb tank is 12-15hrs.

that cool what you do for business. sounds like you doing pretty good. your right gotta expand the people you service, the BBC and SBC crowd should bring some pretty good numbers.

[ForcedFirebird]

I spy twin hair dryers.

workspace is cool. looks like you got a nice setup there.

i was happy when i got the setup i have now. big enough so i can pull 2 cars in and more than enough room to move the cherry picker around with ease.

just need to get the 60 gallon air compressor down there where i can use it instead of at my house.

heres mine shitty picture but you get the idea.

Nice and tall!

I have a 6hp 33gal and 2 25 gallon tanks for extra capacity, but that's only temporary (the big white thing is a blasting cabinet ). I am buying a twin cylinder compressor head and 5hp belt-drive setup and the tanks will go over the bathroom or office. That direct drive is WAY too noisy lol.



Since my last post I have driven all over creation looking at junk lifts and everyone wants $800-$1000 for them So after some searching, found out there is a warehouse for Tiger Lifts 3.5hrs away and they have new lifts for $1375 if I pick it up - little over my budget but think it might be the best way to go.

Also ordered the flow bench equipment, so I can test from 17 to over 700 CFM There are lot's of SBC and BBC guys around here, then the usual imports - can't keep working on 60* only if I want this to grow as a business.

[geldartb]

workspace is cool. looks like you got a nice setup there.

i was happy when i got the setup i have now. big enough so i can pull 2 cars in and more than enough room to move the cherry picker around with ease.

just need to get the 60 gallon air compressor down there where i can use it instead of at my house.

heres mine shitty picture but you get the idea.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h5/95blackz26/Beretta%20garage/100_0501.jpg

[sprucegagt]

I spy twin hair dryers.

[ForcedFirebird]

EDIT: Looking at a local used lift tomorrow!!!! w00t