Recent content by taylorchristie

I should let everyone know how terrible I am at mounting doors on cabinets. Any pointers?

Havent had much time at all lately, but have started cutting doors and mounting them

You should most certainly go ahead with that. And post pictures! On another note does anyone have any mr.heater installation tips??

I'm planning on building another shelf unit on the left of the work bench and a shelf above the bench itself. Then I'll have some doors cut to finish it all off and make it look complete. From there I'm building another work bench on the other side for my future mill and for my atlas lathe I...

I apologize, I don't know how to make the pictures smaller?

haven't posted in a while, just got started building cabinets and got a gas line for my heater. installing the heater this weekend!

It's looking very good. Just spent an hour getting caught up from the beginning. Looking good and giving me hope that my garage will get done. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to the next updates!

That's a good tip to avoid damage. As for the large cranks as far as I remember we rotated the crank on the stand and read .002 TIR indicating that it had permanent sag of .001

opps I apologize for the blurry picture, it didn't look blurry on my iphone. ill be quickly developing a floorplan for the workbench im going to build

been slow, but finally got around to starting the priming

I'm not going to take that bet I don't buy other men dinner :) Personally I haven't seen a smaller one bent from sitting on a shelf. I have however seen larger cranks (8-10 foot cat cranks) show sag on a dial when not properly supported. Wheel bearing grease is far past overkill in my opinion...

I respectfully disagree to an extent. While they can be stored horizontal as they sit in an engine remember they are supported by numerous main bearings that minimize (not eliminate) sag. Working on large cat engines aswell as large turbines you would be amazed the sag you will get just from...

This is kind of what I had in mind http://abs-products.com/specialty-tools/crankshaft-racks.shtml

Hello all As my garage is ready for primer and paint I'm designing a work bench/storage center for all my stuff complete with closing doors on everything. Currently I'm trying to figure out the best way to integrate a camshaft/ crankshaft storage center. Lets see what everyone else has. Thanks

Thanks all I'm looking forward to finishing it. Currently I am working in morning the heater. It's a mr heater 40,000 btu ceiling mount unit that I have had sitting around waiting to be mounted. Too bad I didn't do it sooner as we had a weekend of weather around 8 degrees C so needless to say...