Recent content by dubcanuck1

OK. So, after painting a car in my garage and dealing with the ridiculousness of clear coat, I decided it was time for some proper shop air cleaning. My garage is almost always dusty and I hate being a subscriber to the black booger club. So, with a furnace blower that a friend got me a few...

Yeah. I have 5-6 VR6's that I've collected over the years. I was going to do "batch work" on them, so built the benches to hold tons of weight as I didn't know how long I'd be in a rental situation. The next time I move (hopefully this summer), it'll make a nice and skookum workspace that...

Yeah. I've seen a few people who made jigs for heavy stuff like 10 gauge. I'm more inclined to reinforce the swing-arm on my Kraftex (Grizzly) 48" brake to prevent deflection. I've got some 3/8/" square tubing I might cut up to brace it or just get some heavy gauge angle iron to replace the...

Miscellaneous: Made some under-shelf storage using some OSB and 2x4s I had lying around Repurposed a big upright parts sorter into some under-shelf cubby storage: Liked the cubby idea so much, I modified my other wall to be similar. Tired of spending 30 mins looking in drawers for tools...

Under-stairs big drawer: This one was my first foray into sheet metal bending. I learned a lot; like don't expect 16-gauge sheet metal to be easy to bend. Inserts: recycled server rack sides and rails The pan: recycled bed-frame angle iron assembly Test fitting: My brake only does 3"...

Shop lighting: I finally got around to putting up some LEDs and built some beams out of some recycled 2x6 that my neighbor didn't need any longer.

Big workbenches (built to work on stuff in the rental). I repurposed some industrial shelving supports and mounted some lighting and power bars. They're technically portable, but dismantling them is the best way to move them without a flatbed.

So, the house didn't sell. And I needed to do work in the garage until I try again to sell the house in the summer. So, here's a few posts of the stuff I've been up to: Corner workbench (repurposed futon frame and gas pipe leftover from compressor build)

OK, it's been a while, but here are a few I made up. Corner Bench. I'm going to make a fold-down "return" on the left side of it for collapsible workspace. The "big" benches. I tried to sell my house over the last year, but it didn't happen. In my rental, I needed "portable" benches, so...

Well, it happened. Had to sell the house, so I grabbed some video of the stuff in the garage before its gone forever. There's still a few things I'm goimg to finish off (on principal) so I'll probably snap a bunch of pics and some video of that as well.

Re: Paul_VR6's Cramped Double "and" Big Single Shop Thread Space confined. Tell me about it If your garage has a taller ceiling, maybe consider something like what I built. It frees up the ground level for overhead storage

Apologies for the lack of progress. Change of llans in life. Couldn't refinance the house due to the divorce, so after some scrambling around this and that financial hurdle, I'll be finishing up a few projects like the table and the compressor, then will be building a home on an acreage...

So, having to do work on car stuff forced my hand a little bit on the compressor project. So, here's the progress there. I didn't know how well this would work out, but I had some old VW VR6 valve springs kicking around and this idea in my head for an isolator stand. I used some 2x4 as well. If...

LOL. Thanks. It was borne out of frustration. I've built a few welding "paraphernalia" of late: The link for the full blah-blah is here: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=327622

So, I had to use the garage for something other than making stuff (like fixing a car), so I had to put the top on the table last night so it would be out of the way. Here's a closer idea of what it'll look like all done. Just image 5/8" holes in the top and drawers in the middle.