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i've got an IKEA birch butcher block counter top on one workbench that's held up fine to 2 years of complete abuse. once it looks too bad i'll flip it over onto the other side and get some more time out of it. i've got a transmission sitting on it at the moment, leaking fluid all over the damn...

my 2 year old daughter often says "WORK IN GARAGE!"... she loves hanging out there with me. i've given her a set of tools (a few of which were my first tools, given to me when i was 2 by my grandpa). real tools, albeit dulled with decades of use. she knows the difference between phillips and...

^ it's a NO here too, for garages.... unless the building is grandfathered in and not attached to any living space. if so, the floors can be permitted/replaced with wood, no problem. my carriage house has a concrete "slab" (2" thick and broken all over the place). i've often thought of a...

surprised nobody has asked this yet: what type of welding? i've welded quite a bit in wooden floored barns, but generally oxy/ace or TIG. MIG... man, them ************* bouncing all over the wood floor scares me :)

the POS garage is still hanging in there... although after a few months of Portland rain, poorly draining soil, and a neighbor's encroaching "building"... the little carriage house, i fear, is on it's last legs. still a fun place to work and unwind... i also have a horribly bad (new) habit of...

that's what i use... they hold up very well to tons of abuse... and are priced right!

dig the compressor shack, outside... hate that damned racket inside the shop! is than a model A frame leaning against the door in the far left of the picture? got so used to looking for stuff like that (30s car parts) when i'm driving or walking around, that it starts to be the first things i...

a mid-century modern house i worked on a few years back had recessed lights in every floor of the house... including the 3 car garage. the lights were around the perimeter of each room. i actually thought it was a bit odd, but created some bitchin' mood lighting effects as they were all on...

yeah... his garage/shop is pretty nice... and clean... but he's got around 400 square feet. i'm workin' with 178 square feet of total space inside the building. damn, that's almost pathetic :bounce:. never thought i'd be jealous of 400... my last shop was 1490 square feet, divided into 4...

the shop is proving to be too damned small. i have to rotate stuff from my basement to the carriage house, back to the basement. the floor is so crooked, that every time i setup the frame jig, i spend an hour leveling it. i've got more time into setting up and breaking down, than i do into...

even though it's an NEC violation, inspectors here often overlook it because of how many homes locally have been grandfathered... seems like half the houses i see have cabinetry in front of their panel. getting it written off upon isn't much of an issue here, unless the inspector is...

heh... old thread. i was at a garage sale one time... the usual stuff; bunch of ****. long story short, i see bits of a chopper i knew had been stolen from a guy i knew. call him up, he calls the cops... about a week later i get a call from the cops... want me to come down to the station and...

damn.... the downsides are part of what makes 'em sound appealing to me :lol_hitti

the garage will do nicely... many a great car has been built in the typical 2 car garage... and i do love seein' a Packard in progress! I sold a '55 Clipper Constellation in pretty poor shape to a guy out your way (in Norco), about 7 or 8 years ago. pulled it out of a barn in Indiana, where...

the debate between efficient heat sources NEEDS to include the fuel/energy cost in your area... people have said that a gas furnace is cheaper to run than an air source heat pump: maybe where you are, but not here. natural gas is f'ing EXPENSIVE in Portland, compared to our reasonably...

as stated above, stick with the the big three: Lincoln, Miller or Hobart... and inert gas. forget about flux core for anything on light gauge metal... I've got a few welders in my shop... an 8 year old Astro Mig, which i love... one of the Italian made models, 130amp, 110v or 220v, runs clean...

i've found that a sweater and an extra helping or two at dinner is pretty efficient at keeping me warm... i was working in the shop last night... 41f inside... didn't even feel chilly. as far as efficient and cost-effective heating, we're goin' with solar hydronic. solar heat collectors...

yeah, i did a job for Anheuser Busch.. the odor of the hops and fermentation process would overpower anything from the welding... all day every day for 2 months. couldn't stand beer for a few years, after that. the smell would make me a bit queasy. i got over it, though :) btw- the...

Franz: your answers are awesome! thanks! just ran out to the shop, where a gallon of muriatic acid just happens to be sitting (i use it for etching concrete)... i put a crusty cast elbow and the air valve from the radiator in a ~20% solution... i'll let it sit for a while, and look at it...

thanks for the replies... some good information in the links provided... and i actually hadn't thought of the scale removal... when we used to repair radiators, they'd be sent out and hot dipped to remove all the paint before we'd touch 'em. come to think of it, that'd likely remove the scale...