Recent content by frijolee

If I tried to seal this up all the way I'd run a dehumidifier. I'm definitely thinking about that as the shop probably trend between 70-80% humidity most of the time. A sunny day can drop to 60%, a misty evening creeps north of 90%... For now, we're breezy enough that there seems to be an...

Hi y’all, Been quite a while but I was just doing some write ups on car projects and realized I hadn’t checked in over at the garage journal in way too long. A lot of the time since I last posted has been about figuring out the rhythms of life and maintenance in Hawaii. There’s a lot of less...

Good resources thanks. The situation is somewhat complicated in that I don't know what my solvent is... Probably easier to put a ground ******** myself than to source conductive shoes out this way. Assuming I do that then the anti-fatigue mats don't matter one way or the other...

Still thinking about the lift, but given it took torque properly, I’m probably going to try some math based on pullout specs for the anchors and see how much factor of safety is built in. In the meantime, another point of debate for the crew. I have this nice unoccupied corner of my shop that...

Now some debate... The lift purchase and trans-po went down pretty fast and variation of choice ***** in Hawaii so I didn't want to wait to order the "Wej-It" branded anchors that Mohawk recommends. The Wej-It anchors recommended come at 5". I cut my Hilti anchors down from 5.5" to 4 3/4"...

While all the wiring was going down (took several weeks) I was sourcing other stuff to setup the space. The big splurge was on a used 2 post lift. It’s a Mohawk system 1A, late 90s vintage. Mohawk is an interesting company in that they approach lift design quite a bit differently that most...

One piece I tried to screw up (wiring too late at night) was daisy chaining power for the lift to the ceiling outlets for a cord reel. Black to black, white to white, green to green, with some extra wire grounding the box right? Whoops. The lift is 220v the cord is 110v. If I was going to do...

Lighting Results Before: After: It was a PITA but I'm glad I fought for the staggering of lights... And having the extreme lights in the corners... And the low profile fixtures. Having some down the aisles works really well for fighting shadows and 4k color is rad in a shop. In a...

Light Install Notes The lights themselves were already setup as two circuits with three way switches on both the side door and main roll up door. I’m keeping that, so my plan was to redoing lights from the first junction box off the panel outward with 8 lights a piece. The two circuits let...

Thanks for the chatter gents. I got a good laugh with that damn "no chance of a recession any time soon". I already figured we were overdue. This pandemic wasn't a trigger event I could have predicted but yeah... The last figure I saw had Hawaii at 37% unemployment for working age adults...

Electrical The handful of contractor friends I’ve made in a year and half on island are all general contractors. Apparently industrial conduit is a bit of a specific task that most home and resort construction doesn’t require so none of my friends owned conduit benders. I tried my...

Thanks, been working on setup, but not posting a ton. I think some isolation is helping all of us with projects kick *** and take names. Tell me more... What's the intent? I'm a bit worried about the clothe getting moldy. I don't know if the mig wire might rust (hadn't thought of that) but...

Sidebar, but woah, living on the “green side” of town has been eye opening. Stuff rusts fast, I started oiling tools within about a week of the move. Every now and then I open a box or drawer to some unhappy surprises. Weird things. Mold growing on tools/parts… Safety glasses that...

Back to current events... Hope y’all are doing okay in the midst of all the COVID lockdowns and pandemic ish. Figured I should post some more of my shop setup efforts as that’s been most of my free time for the past couple months. The prior owner of my home stripped out all but one 220v...

Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage I'm actually a little shy on proper glamour "after" shots since everything went straight into use... Here was the final coat with fresh application in the garage though. Note, paint still wet so you can see brush marks in the above. They...