Help Me Plan Out the New & Improved Shop

There are plenty of companies that are or have gone under, check your local auction houses to see what they have coming up. At work we just picked up about 80' of pallet racking 12' high for less than $100. There were also some nice work benches that went for low prices as well. Also, for your electrical, do the quad outlets but have 2 circuits in each box and if you know the layout before you pipe it, run dedicated outlets for each piece of equipment whether it needs it or not. The motors will last longer if they are not competing against each other. Another thing that would be worth looking into would be to contact your local power utility to see if they are offering any energy efficiency incentives. You may be able to get them to subsidize the the cost of the nice 4 lamp flourescents that were previously mentioned. A fan at each end of the building, one pulling and one pushing will help alot as well.