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Hey everybody here's my garage progress. It still ended up pretty cluttered, but the only solution to that is a BIGGER GARAGE!




After having some awesome friends come and help out with the drywall I had this to work with.



Spent a lot of time trying to figure out what color to choose. I really liked the red and white colors but I dont think it would've ended up being too practical as I want to use this house as a rental in the future.





Let me just say I have a respect for people who install copper airlines. I spent so many hours going back and fixing leaks that I almost went crazy. The hardest part was getting the stupid pipe soldered to the brass drain valves.




After some reorganizing:

 
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Vertically Mounting ShopSmith!

I had some great news come my way about a new addition I was able to get to my garage. However my 20x20 was already packed as much as it could be. Seeing that I have a Shopsmith that I only have ever really used as a drill press, I decided to make some room.


This is the space I decided on to place the Shopsmith on the wall.




Then began the disassembly.




Found a cool surprise while breaking the whole thing down. :eyecrazy:



Make sure you completely inspect your used equipment when you buy it! I had this mess sitting in my garage and was breathing it for 2 years. The tube was full of mouse ****.



After doing some research I couldn't find anybody that had done something similar to this. But I ended up deciding on something that could be easily removable for the next owner and would mount to the wall by pinning the Shopsmith to the wall rather than hanging on something. I was able to do this by mounting it to 2x4's screwed across two studs.






I added two pipe flanges on the top support as a 'just in case'. These are added to catch the Shopsmith just in case some worst case scenario happened which caused all the pipe restraints to fail. They lock the Shopsmith in between the outside and inside flange.

 
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Great idea on the shop smith.

Can we get some insight to the rack holding all the straps? Also where's the rest of the strap?

Edit: I see, the clamping part of strap is on top and other part is rolled up hang below. Was the rack your practice piece for sweating copper pipe?
 
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shortykorte said:
Great idea on the shop smith.

Can we get some insight to the rack holding all the straps? Also where's the rest of the strap?

Edit: I see, the clamping part of strap is on top and other part is rolled up hang below. Was the rack your practice piece for sweating copper pipe?
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Hah, you got me. I wanted to mess around with some extra copper pipe I had left over and also needed to organize my ratchets. Decided to kill two birds with one stone. The ratchets go on the top row with the straps directly under on the next one.
 
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Also finally dealing with a failed compressor too. Can't really say I'm too happy with Kobalt products and this just adds to the negative experience I've had so far.





 
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shortykorte said:
Hey, that compressor has a Harley motor. :lol_hitti
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Hah, don't let the diehards read that!

Decided to make something to organize my cans that I have in the garage. I had a problem where I needed to pull my air hose wheel down across the shelf that held all my cans/cleaners. It was always roullete as to whether I'd end up knocking any over. This stopped that from happening and helps organize!

Grand total ~$16

 
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What are the details behind your can holders? PVC pipe glued to shelf? It is hard to tell from the photo, but I do like the idea! :)
 
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Cool ideas here.

What video game was in there?
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It used to be Golden Axe: Revenge of the Death Adder, but Sega had this great idea for Copyright protection on their machines that killed it. A lot of machines had a 'timebomb' that if not serviced according to the regular maintenance schedule would kill the machine off, it's called a suicide battery. So long story short it stopped working and is now a MAME arcade. I have about 30 different games on it now.

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What are the details behind your can holders? PVC pipe glued to shelf? It is hard to tell from the photo, but I do like the idea! :)
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Yep the shelf has 3" PVC cut at 2 3/4" widths to hold the individual cans. They are attached to the wood using a hot glue gun, which works great with those two materials. I left a 7" portion on the right side to allow me to put misc containers there, currently engine oil and my paint sprayer.
 
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Also going to be running an airline out to my bead blaster using this. Made it out of 1/2" black pipe with 1/2" to 3/4" and 1/2" to 1/4" adapters to get it to fit to my quick connects and the plate pass through.

 
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Didn't get to installing the air hose pass through, BUT did get to almost finish my Mercury 4 1/2 vise.



Took me about two days to clean this thing to the point where I could paint it. While I was sandblasting it, I actually found the original color but as you can guess the rattle can I bought wasn't exactly it.

It should be a darker teal color, but this was the closest I could get at Lowes. I'm going to try to track down a better color match and respray it with better attention to detail on the exposed metal. Once I saw what the color was going to be I really didn't care too much about how it was going to look.





Sealed the exposed metal with Johnsons Paste Wax, hopefully that will keep it protected. First picture is after sanding the base with 100 grit going to 320:



Second is after sealing it with the wax, you can kind of see a difference (humor me):

 
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Also, on a side note, anyone need some drawer slides or wood stains? The box you can see in those pictures contains about 10 different cans of stain that I'm trying to get rid of along with the drawer slides. Which are Blum, forget the model number but it's the base version (I have about 40 of them).
 
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Another project I finished was building something to help me get rid of a bunch of old magazines I was able to purchase. Theres a lot of great information in these but they just take up too much space so the only solution I could come up with to remedy this problem is DIGITIZE THEM!

I got a lot of inspiration doing research online into the different ways to make a book scanner, but it seemed a lot of them averaged around $300 US. These setups involved two cameras and a really great perspective angle along with lighting and ease of use. BUT, I didn't want to spend anything and they seemed really tied to large books which I wont be scanning. Seeing how I wanted to stick pretty much to magazine formats and only had one camera I came up with my own design.




Really simple design, just uses a keyboard slide on the back of the vertical 2x4 and some plywood cut to fit the acrylic sheet to press down on the pages for a better shot! Below you can see a sample of what I've been able to pull so far with it.



The reason for having the neon green paint is to make the automated scanning tools job easier when it recognizes the border of the pages. Neon green is really the only color you never see in print magazines.
 
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