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Skate And Destroy
So I recently sold off my project cars and my garage is now empty. While I am actively looking for another car, my immediate priority is to at least try and get my garage into a good place so when the new car comes, I will be able to work on it.
So far, its been sheetrocked and painted. I put in new windows. When we upgraded our electric panel for 200 amp service, I had the electricians wire up some strip lights. So now I need to get it organized and set up so I can actually use it.
I have the one little crappy Craftsman roll box. I have a couple steel tables, one I made myself, one I bought from a printing place that went out of business and one is just a table top.
I do have a compressor, a smaller C-Man that I need to fix. Works OK for air tools and for short bursts but does not keep up for things like painting and sanders. Not sure if I am going to get a bigger one. There's one at Home Depot for around $440 that I've had my eye on for a while. It takes 110 too. Would love to have a good air system with water separators and a pull down hose reel like we have at work.
I need some shelving bad. The one plastic one I have does not really cut it. I have a larger gray metal unit up at my dad's house but I need to transport it somehow. I also have a giant home made sand blast cabinet, a cheapo workbench with a particle board top and a combo C man toolbox work table that I need to get. Kind of a project in itself...
I two small metal cabinets from my basement I plan to hang up as well.
The floor is trashed unfortunately. There are cracks running the length of the structure and it slopes all kind of different ways. There isn't a right angle in the whole place, its bad.. Probably not worth doing anything fancy like epoxy. I will likely just paint and call it a day.
I am looking for ideas/suggestions/pointers on how to set up the space as efficiently as possible. There will eventually be a car in there so I need to make the work area easy to get to. I would love for all the crap on the floor to be out of the way. Would also Like to hear suggestions on how to put a wooden bench in the corner between the door and window and incorporate the other tables into it.
Looking forward to hearing what you guys think.
Here are some pics from today.
So far, its been sheetrocked and painted. I put in new windows. When we upgraded our electric panel for 200 amp service, I had the electricians wire up some strip lights. So now I need to get it organized and set up so I can actually use it.
I have the one little crappy Craftsman roll box. I have a couple steel tables, one I made myself, one I bought from a printing place that went out of business and one is just a table top.
I do have a compressor, a smaller C-Man that I need to fix. Works OK for air tools and for short bursts but does not keep up for things like painting and sanders. Not sure if I am going to get a bigger one. There's one at Home Depot for around $440 that I've had my eye on for a while. It takes 110 too. Would love to have a good air system with water separators and a pull down hose reel like we have at work.
I need some shelving bad. The one plastic one I have does not really cut it. I have a larger gray metal unit up at my dad's house but I need to transport it somehow. I also have a giant home made sand blast cabinet, a cheapo workbench with a particle board top and a combo C man toolbox work table that I need to get. Kind of a project in itself...
I two small metal cabinets from my basement I plan to hang up as well.
The floor is trashed unfortunately. There are cracks running the length of the structure and it slopes all kind of different ways. There isn't a right angle in the whole place, its bad.. Probably not worth doing anything fancy like epoxy. I will likely just paint and call it a day.
I am looking for ideas/suggestions/pointers on how to set up the space as efficiently as possible. There will eventually be a car in there so I need to make the work area easy to get to. I would love for all the crap on the floor to be out of the way. Would also Like to hear suggestions on how to put a wooden bench in the corner between the door and window and incorporate the other tables into it.
Looking forward to hearing what you guys think.
Here are some pics from today.