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(hit the picture limit in the last post) Oh, and I got carpeting installed upstairs! It completely changed the feel of the whole place. Now it feels like an actual work/hang area instead of a construction zone…best upgrade yet. At my first rooftop party back in May, my friend Dom (who goes...

Whoops -- another couple months have gone by with no updates. A *lot* has happened. I mounted the bumper, and it really brings the car together. It looked incomplete without a front bumper (because, well, it was incomplete), and now with it installed it looks like a proper car again. I now have...

i’ve never had a patreon until today, but the amount of enjoyment and education i’ve gotten out of this (and your other) threads made it just about the easiest decision ever for me to make one. it’s the very least i, and all of us who’ve followed the journey of this house, could do. incredibly...

This is more of a 4Runner update than a garage update. I’d never done brakes before, so the Tundra brake upgrade was a bit of an adventure. I leaned on all the excellent information on toyota-4runner.org (especially this thread) to figure out what parts I needed, how the install process worked...

Not sure exactly where the boundary between mild and more than mild offroading is, but I'm not planning to go crawling in it. Once I'm finished building it, I want to keep it in CO (where I moved to NYC from), because it was a perfect vehicle there. (I have a long term goal of buying some land...

Thank you! I'm lucky enough to have some really great friends, for sure. The one and only reason I live in NYC is because of all the awesome people I get to be around here. Thank you! They said the motor got out of sync with the position of the door, or something like that? They also said the...

We are getting oh so close to this space feeling like a space to work in instead of a space to work on, and I am really, really stoked about it. But first, it’s storytime. A couple weeks ago I had my 4Runner parked outside the building for a few hours, and left the garage door open the whole...

I’m just looking at this as a big learning experience. If nothing ever comes of it, well, I’ll be way better prepared for the next project…and if it goes as well as I think it might, it’ll become a community gathering place for all sorts of interesting people who want to make things. To give...

I know, I know, it’s been QUITE a while. I didn’t get much done in early May, but I’m back in the swing of things again! My friend Dan, who was going to finish the back room, seems to have gotten lung issues from all the mold and dust we kicked up while we were clearing the place out. Can’t...

Yeah, I've often thought that the fun scale needs a couple more numbers in it: one for what you said above, and one for when something is fun during but not after (like Type -2 fun).

Whoa, first post -- I'm honored! And hah, yeah...nightmare/dream is kinda my MO. Previous undertakings include buying a trashed (although I didn't realize it initially) '79 Honda CX500 having never worked on a motorcycle or car and riding it across the country twice on a shoestring budget...

The bad: the front of the building still completely leaks. Both my landlord and myself are utterly baffled as to where the water is getting in. He’s hiring some contractor who hopefully will be able to figure it out. There’s also a leak that I just discovered coming down one wall…that wall is...

One thing I really need to figure out is lighting. The simplest solution would be to get some of the lights from this thread (https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/the-best-light-fixture-ever.278420), but because this will be used as shop space and event space, I think that bright white...

I wrote a little script to save GJ threads -- you can download yours as a zip at https://jesseevers.com/downloads/mid-century-moto-mecca-makeover.zip. When you unzip it, you'll have one folder (called midcentury-moto-mecca-makeover) with a few other folders inside it. One of those inner folders...

Unfortunately not -- that would be awesome. There's a roof access hatch I can open, but that's about it. The building faces west, so right now it's real cold until about 3pm and then it gets warm all of a sudden. That said, the concrete slab seems to do a pretty good job keeping the downstairs...

Thanks guys :) glad you're enjoying the ride! Yeah, this is an issue that a friend brought up a couple days ago that I hadn't thought about. You're totally right -- it's going to get really, really hot in here. There are 3 minisplits that do both heating and AC, so I'm hoping they'll be able...

Finally made some really visible progress this weekend. Feels awesome. My friend Dan came down from MA to help me clean the place out for a couple days. I rented a 20yd dumpster, thinking it was going to be wayyy too big but knowing that it was cheaper to overestimate than underestimate...

I wanted to start to actually use part of the space, so I focused on getting the upstairs space cleaned up. I spent a LOT of time sweeping and vacuuming (holy hell, sawdust is really good at getting on every available surface), and got the loft from this… To this! Aaand then I realized...

I was reading it when you posted... https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/890-bdr-build-the-perfect-adventure-bike.1515074/ I just finished re-reading this entire thread (first discovered it during early covid), because I'm in the process of building out my first workshop, and was even more...

Thank you! Hah, small world. I think I might take a leaf out of your brother's book and add a shower at some point...that sounds like a major improvement. I looked all over (including Ridgewood and Maspeth) when I was looking for this place, but just got super lucky and found somewhere that was...