Recent content by dorkpunch

Slather a little paint on there- No, I'm not worried about overspray... The entire garage is going to be white eventually. and why not. Racing stripes! Added a few stickers I salvaged from my brothers mother in laws old service station... Wish I could restore THAT place! Makes the...

Yeah, it comes in handy but its an added burden- gotta pay "rent" on the storage too. Few more pics and you'll be up to speed on my progress so far. I've got 3 sets of these shelves: And yes, I know fertilizer and gas are a bad mix... temporarily moving things around. Anyways, I wanted to...

Yes, its heavy. Few more pics of the Toy Box, my storage unit. The carport was added later, and whoever put it on there put a post right in front of the second door. Makes it pretty darn awkward to get a car in that side... Just a bunch of JUNK.

While I was working on my garage, a friend was "retiring" from the small engine repair business after about 20 years. He asked me to come help him clean out his shop- I obliged. Scored this cool engine shelf: Ought to make things a little more organized. I got one more just like it but a...

Moving on. Part of what is making all of this possible- I got a "toy box". We live on a dead end road. At the end of the road is an old house converted to a duplex. There is an old "barn" off to the side that renters have occasionally used for storage. The owner is always having me fix his...

Few more paint pics. Still the North wall. South wall, entrance to garage from house. Workbench sorted, tool box and other bits put back where they go. You can actually see the benchtop! A place to work!

Few more pics. Old workbench. Yanked it out, Did some painting, And stuffed the new workbench in.

Same thing that was sitting on top the shelves in the orriginal pictures. Its an 8 1/2 foot long piece of 1/4 inch steel bent up to be a "counter top". Scavenged from a dumpster. Probably one of the nicest pieces of equipment I have. :wtf:

Jim- You've seen it all already... :thumbup: Nick- You can never have enough gas tanks. :) First order of business was to get the shelves out from under the workbench and set up, and build a new workbench. Wood. May seem like a funky design, it is. I was re-using some...

As you can see- clutter and disarray. Time to change that. I'm a full time teacher and in the summers I fix things... This helps me afford to be a teacher. I was tired of tripping over things and searching for stuff, and I was ESPECIALLY tired of the DINGY PINK WALLS. Now, this aint going...

Been workin on sprucing my workspace up a bit and making it a little more user friendly and presentable. I've posted pictures of it in the past, but here's how it looked about a month ago. North Wall. East Wall. South Wall. and the West side- mostly just garage door. Why...

Here's my current project: a '67 Yamaha YL2C. Started out looking like this: Actually, it started out looking a lot worse... This was my first ever motorcycle. Found it in an old farm shed and the owner gave it to me. Theres a long story to go with it, but I eventually ended up with it...

:D One of the benefits of working at university was I got to go dumpster diving whenever we dropped of dead lawnmowers at the metal dumpster... Every now and then you'd find some great stuff. None of my signs are stolen. :thumbup:

Whups, guess I missunderstood you... The only Yamaha in the shop is the one on the lift- its a '67 YL2C, which is only 100cc. Great little bike though. It was my first ever motorycle- a friend and I found it in a shed while we were ice fishing, talked to the owner and he gave it to us. I've...

Yeah, its a great grinder. I cant believe how quite and smooth it is. Does a great job too!