Some of you may have seen my garage thread here. I'm kinda proud of my storage solution, so I thought I'd post it here.
One 2 bay garage with an extra 1.5m on the side, 2 daily cars, 1 kit car GT40 half-built, a pile of tools, GT40 parts, a home brew fridge, a workbench and camping gear. How am I gonna make it all fit?
Step 1: Put GT40 on go-jacks.
Step 2: I picked up some old pallet racking from a warehouse that was downsizing. Set it up to allow the 40" GT40 to slide underneath
I'd love one of those. One of my favorite car designs.
My heavy duty tools have started to take up a lot of space with each one on it's own stand and my vises taking up a huge part of my benchtop.
One of the previous posters inspired me to mount one of these ($26 from Amazon) to the bottom front of my bench:
Then get one of these from Harbor Freight for $23:
When it's all done I should be able to simply bolt my grinder, vise, etc. to the hitch adapter and slide it into my hitch receiver bolted to the bottom of my bench. The bench is obviously much more stable than the small stands I've been using up until now and my tools can be easily stored under a shelf and out of the way when not in use without having to re-arrange everything on my bench.
With the vise, it should also give me more access to the piece I'm working on since it will extend about 8"-10" past the front of my bench. Pictures will come when it's all put together!
^^^ I like your idea. For my bench extension I am building, I will be using tee-nuts to be able to bolt/unbolt various machines like my miter saw, grinder, etc.
I'd get them in 1/4-20 or something and drill the bench top. The tee-nuts would be installed underneath so when you bolt from the top, it will tighten nicely. McMaster Carr has various collar widths for larger equipment.
I'd use some thumb screw to fasten the machines to the tee-nuts
I was going to get some sort of Dangerious Chemical sign to post on the outside. Here is is from the front of the garage, it is not as obvious. I just moved in so I am still trying to get shelving to get things put away.
Not really on the wall, but directly in front of it.
In scouring Craigslist I found an ad for 2 material carts for $75. I bought both of them for $50. Nice carts too. 26" wide x 6' long w/ removable side rails. They are made of 2x3x3/16" angle. Each cart weighs in around 75 lbs. I cut one of them down to 18" wide to fit in the nook beside the garage door in my smallish 14x20 attached garage. Then I welded tabs on the bottom of the cart to mount some drawer slides (scavenged from old office desks a couple years ago). Mounted these sheet metal drawers I pulled from a service truck at the local scrap yard to the slides (paid $2 a piece for them 5 years ago).
No more plywood falling on me while I try to get the sheet in the back. There is no more back of the wood pile! As an added bonus the drawers have slats in them perfect for separating my smaller scrap metal. I painted the whole thing blue with the same gallon of blue I painted the work bench and the vidmars.
i havent pulled it down from the shelf yet, but ive got a piece of 1 1/2 square tube im going to use inside the actual receiver hitch itself. put it in the chop saw and cut off the ball portion and square it up. weld a flat plate to the 1 1/2 tubing similar to the hf picture above for my vise and grinder. ill use a farm pin for now to hold it all together. might weld a nut and use a set bolt. not sure yet. ive got to get some time to actually get out there and do it. but this way is cheap for me, and cheaper if you can score some tubing. old hitch was just laying here.
Yes, that is correct...
Hey Jim, nice '64 you have there!!!!
Very nice!! I saw that in your avatar, and thought, I bet that is an ex-fire truck, I see I was correct.
Wow! Great use of that space!This is not exactly ON my walls, since I was running a little short, here's how I turned Air into Storage!
As with most of what I do, this project employ's the "use what you got" philosophy. I had two commercial magazine racks that were just sitting around. After realizing that plastic parts bins hang perfectly on each divider, I thought: why not build a "fastener" cabinet around them? It's a monstrosity on wheels (huge and very heavy). And, since I seem to be addicted to lime green at the moment, that is the color I painted it. I think I'm gonna start calling my shop the Lime Green Garage. I made the doors out of 2x6's so I can add more bins there in the future, if necessary. For stability, I anchored the top of the racks to the top of the cabinet using roller bearings.
Hi
Im a newbie to the forum and would like to share some of my ideas. As I do a bit of everything I need to make my workshop as versatile as possible but still keep as much space as possible. Here is a panoramic picture of my 6m x 9m garage/workshop
So firstly I picked up the table for the equivalent of US$5. Then I proceeded to make my cutoff saw fold away.
This meant however that I lost some much needed work space so on to plan B. I decided to use the space between the doors. I made a rotating table to house my cutoff saw and my drill press.
Flipped
I am not sure where my tools will suffer for this so any advise will be appreciated.
Cheers from Cape Town South Africa.
Alwie
