Recent content by BenK454

Gene, The small "roll-around" is just something I built a few years ago to fit under my old work bench. I used it to keep scrap wood and other small junk stored. The old work bench was inherited from my grandfather, and had 2 large drawers that I stored my drills, dremel, saws, and router...

-April- We have family coming for Easter weekend, so it was GO TIME to get things 90% done, move everything back into the garage, and get as much stuff "put away" as possible. Here is where the garage stands as of midnight on April 4th.

-Mid March- Painted the ceiling semi-gloss white and painted the walls satin Antique Venetian Blue. Then I built my overhead storage unit (frame and plywood bottom only, doors to come later). Once the overhead storage shelf was built, it had to be load-tested. As you can see, the overhead...

-January- First, The Plan: I drew up some general plans to make sure everything would fit. Then I added two more outlets to the ONE that came in the garage (aside from the one on the ceiling for the garage door opener). This was done in January throughout our extremely mild winter. -March-...

Jack, I'll try to be concise, as I could talk cars all day... The S2000: Drives as easy as a Civic around town. Absolutely screams from 6000 to 9000 RPM. Shift feel is incredible. The early ones, mine was an '02, had the tendency to snap-oversteer (not as bad as my MR2 Turbo, and certainly not...

Jim, I have thoroughly enjoyed following "The Slow Build" as I have been lurking on this site for over a year. And yes, that is an S2000. I got "bored" and wanted something that would be a minor "project" but still my DD, so I sold it and bought the E36 M3. The M3 has been a great car, but I...

I had a 2"x6" lag-bolted to the wall, and some two-pronged heavy duty tool hooks lag-bolted to the 2"x6".

I was pretty happy with the garage as it was (see above post) for a couple years. Then I stumbled upon Garage Journal and Jack Olson's garage. I was blown away....and inspired! In the coming days I will post pictures of my garage renovation. I look forward to your comments and input.

After our year abroad, I invested in some Gladiator cabinets and a fold-down work station. The quality of the Gladiator stuff is decent. I bought all of it on-sale at Lowe's or Amazon. The shelves hold snowboards and sports equipment. The large floor cabinets hold camping equipment and golf...

I will try to be brief with the introduction and background, here we go: The house: A nice starter-home in a housing tract in Central KY. I bought it right out of college (in 2007). At that time the plan was to live here for 5-6 years and then build a new house and my dream garage. In early...

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