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Nice - great use of space! Digging and moving all that rock is back breaking work for sure.

First up was to put brush seals on the roll-up doors. I couldn't find any pictures but I will say, I wish I'd bought sectional doors. My plan is to keep this space conditioned (<= 40% relative humidity for one) and these roll-up doors are hard to seal. I have a few ideas, but nothing done yet...

Here's the shop as of the beginning of 2023... quite a mess but I feel very fortunate to have had a place to put everything while we were in transition...

Erecting the building was pretty fast - took them about 3 weeks, part of that being delayed by weather. The did a great job - no surprises. It was completed a the end of November, 2022. Even though the house wasn't ready to occupy (as it turns out, it took until June 2023) we listed our...

For so many years, I've dreamed of having a dedicated (meaning, not also a garage) shop. Finally, that dream is coming true. My wife and I bought a 5 acre parcel in the Seirra foothills a few years ago. We're hoping to retire in a couple years so with any luck, this is our last property. We...

That is extremely cool. My bother is a metalurgist and was excited to see it, too. It's really interesting how you can see the importance of good chip formation and what happens to the underlying surface when a good chip isn't made. You can also see how much the TiN coated tooling helps. It...

I'm in the same place - finally started working ON things. Nice, isn't it? You've got a great place. On another note, do you know who made your compressor pump?

Here's mine

Sell your existing lift and buy new at your destination city. I moved from Northern Illinois to California in December 2010. I had a 2 post lift in my garage, along with a metal lathe, vertical mill, sheet metal brake/shear/slip roll, 80 gallon air compressor, band saw, welders and other...

I'm totally with you on wanting ceramic tile... I seriously considered it for my 1,000 sq ft garage... just too much cost. Epoxy over VCT seems like a decent option if you're not going to have heavy use (I opted for expoxy). Seems like the clear epoxy yellowing wouldn't be any more of an issue...

A 2nd layer of drywall (preferably 5/8") will help - especially if you offset the seams from the bottom layer and caulk all the edges with acoustic caulk. It won't be as effective as the isolation channel but it'll make a difference. Still, it's almost as much work to hang a 2nd layer of...

You can do it, but it's a lot of work. Soundproofing is a well defined science - the folks that build recording studios have it all figured out. I was designing a home studio for my previous house so I did a bunch of research and read a couple books. I'm far from an expert but I did learn a...

I've fixed hundreds of them in a small equipment repair shop. They're nearly industructible as long as you do basic maintenance and don't run fuel without oil. I' had customers bring in 20 year old models (this was in the mid 80s) that only needed minor repairs. They have needle bearings on...

I've had 2 different 2 post lifts, one in a 750 sq ft 3 car garage and one in my current 1050 ft 4 car. They are sort of in the way from time to time but the value outweighs that by far. However, there is another thing to consider - they take up a lot of parking space. Basically, they take...

For sale: 8 ft HO fluorescent fixture Liftmaster is sold: 1/3 HP Liftmaster Professoinal opener - about 3 years old. I removed it and installed a Liftmaster 3800 because I needed the overhead clearance for a lift. The 8' fixture is a $69 Lowes HO 8' T12 fixture. 2 8' lamps included. It's...

Certainly not the only way to do it but I opted to evenly space the lights for even distribution. I started with the amount of light I wanted, then calculated the number of light fixtures needed to get there. More info here...

I believe all those cut-off blades are made from abrasive (aluminum oxide or silicon carbide), resin and fiberglass. I can't imagine that the burnt resin and fiberglass is much good for you

That guy spent some time on that thing! I first expected the whole thing to move like the professional flight simulators. Then I got to thinking, "I bet somebody has already done this at home". Of course, they have: http://www.youtube.com/user/tronicgr?blend=2&ob=video-mustangbase There...

Believe me, it only gets worse. As soon as you buy a kit and get started, you'll be surfing FFR specific forums and finding a whole bunch of things that you didn't know existed but can't live without! :)

Good question. I'm going to wait until I start actually working on things to see how well the overhead lights work. I did put a receptacle at the top of each side of the bench wall with the intent of putting up lights directly over the bench and grinder area if needed. IMHO, you can never...