timdp
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Hello boys and girls! (Are there any women on his forum?)
Been lurking for a while and checking out a few of the threads and all the great ideas people have come up with, but the time has finally come to put up or shut up. The slightly enlarged 2 car garage had gotten to the point of a.) only a small path through all the disorganized stuff and b.) the main workbench was piled high with layers and drifts of tools from the last 10 projects. I could not find anything, so the personal and honey do projects ground to a complete stop. Time to do something!
Started about a month and a half ago with building a storage rack out of the recovered remains of the 800 square foot redwood deck that we recently replaced. LOTS of painted-one-side redwood 2x6. Some of it is really beautiful wood under the paint and 40 years aging, but almost all of it has double nail holes every two feet, so there was no way to salvage any nice long lumber out of it.
Will start with a tour of the garage as it stood about a week ago. As with the famous 12-Gauge garage, there are a lot of job specific workstations as well as general use areas.
Let's start with the stairway leading into the house. Nothing terribly interesting here. Threw up some shelves and a coat/apron/filter mask rack soon after we moved in. Chopped the corners of of some of the shelves and used shorter brackets to provide a bit more clearance.
Station 1: Staging
This bench is the staging area for ongoing projects, hobby trips (WWII reenacting) and camping trips. Its currently buried under stuff moved from other parts of the garage during the current reorganization.
Station 2: Resin casting
Laminate counter top on bench, with vacuum machine to the left. Recent add-ons are the shelves. After seeing some of the ceiling ladder storage ideas here I think the 6 and 8 foot stepladders will be going up on the ceiling to free up a bunch of wall space. Recently moved the extension ladder under the deck to make room for the 6 footer.
Station 3: New storage rack
Five feet long and 30" wide with four shelves all constructed of 2x6 decking. I do love my nail gun! Put up a bunch of Harbor Freight magnetic tools holders to hold a bunch of tools, but this may get revised in light of the tool crib builds. The rack is mostly stuffed with reenacting gear like ammo cans, but some household and auto stuff has snuck in there as well. Will be resorting it as I get further along in the project.
Station 4: Sink and counter
Behind the rack is the sink with counter (laminated top on old base cabinet from the family room) and a liquids storage cabinet also from the family room. Shelves above the sink are new (more 2x6s). Above the sink is one of three new long material racks.
Stations 5 and 6: Grinding, chop saw and parts washer
The rest of the back wall has two workbenches with bench grinder, 4" grinder, chop saw, vises, parts washer and compressor on the floor. Parts washer will be going somewhere else.
Station 7: The tool crib
This started out as a new built standing height workbench built with 2x6s and a solid core door covered with vinyl flooring (still need to do some trimming!). The stoke of brilliance came when I decided to build a second workbench and stack it on top of the first one and then add shelves and additional horizontal boards to hang tools from. Shelves between the right legs hold drills, sanders and jig saws. On the left, hooks hold the big grinder, sawsall and the nail gun. Back wall holds hammers and air tools, although the air tools will be getting their own dedicated holder. Wire brushes, hand brooms, dust pan, level and flagging tape roll adorn the front of the legs. Lightweight storage goes on top of the top door. I was quite happy when all the tools got hung up. BTW, the piles of **** on the workbench are all of the random fastener containers piled in one place for sorting. In to what I am not exactly sure, although I have bought some parts containers from Harbor Freight.
Station 8 Future tool crib 2 and press
This steel drafting table (less the drafting surface top) will be the base for tool crib #2. the 20 ton press will swap places with the tool chest to make the tool chest more accessible. There are two table saws behind the press that will be dealt with when the main project is done.
Continued next post...
Been lurking for a while and checking out a few of the threads and all the great ideas people have come up with, but the time has finally come to put up or shut up. The slightly enlarged 2 car garage had gotten to the point of a.) only a small path through all the disorganized stuff and b.) the main workbench was piled high with layers and drifts of tools from the last 10 projects. I could not find anything, so the personal and honey do projects ground to a complete stop. Time to do something!
Started about a month and a half ago with building a storage rack out of the recovered remains of the 800 square foot redwood deck that we recently replaced. LOTS of painted-one-side redwood 2x6. Some of it is really beautiful wood under the paint and 40 years aging, but almost all of it has double nail holes every two feet, so there was no way to salvage any nice long lumber out of it.
Will start with a tour of the garage as it stood about a week ago. As with the famous 12-Gauge garage, there are a lot of job specific workstations as well as general use areas.
Let's start with the stairway leading into the house. Nothing terribly interesting here. Threw up some shelves and a coat/apron/filter mask rack soon after we moved in. Chopped the corners of of some of the shelves and used shorter brackets to provide a bit more clearance.
Station 1: Staging
This bench is the staging area for ongoing projects, hobby trips (WWII reenacting) and camping trips. Its currently buried under stuff moved from other parts of the garage during the current reorganization.
Station 2: Resin casting
Laminate counter top on bench, with vacuum machine to the left. Recent add-ons are the shelves. After seeing some of the ceiling ladder storage ideas here I think the 6 and 8 foot stepladders will be going up on the ceiling to free up a bunch of wall space. Recently moved the extension ladder under the deck to make room for the 6 footer.
Station 3: New storage rack
Five feet long and 30" wide with four shelves all constructed of 2x6 decking. I do love my nail gun! Put up a bunch of Harbor Freight magnetic tools holders to hold a bunch of tools, but this may get revised in light of the tool crib builds. The rack is mostly stuffed with reenacting gear like ammo cans, but some household and auto stuff has snuck in there as well. Will be resorting it as I get further along in the project.
Station 4: Sink and counter
Behind the rack is the sink with counter (laminated top on old base cabinet from the family room) and a liquids storage cabinet also from the family room. Shelves above the sink are new (more 2x6s). Above the sink is one of three new long material racks.
Stations 5 and 6: Grinding, chop saw and parts washer
The rest of the back wall has two workbenches with bench grinder, 4" grinder, chop saw, vises, parts washer and compressor on the floor. Parts washer will be going somewhere else.
Station 7: The tool crib
This started out as a new built standing height workbench built with 2x6s and a solid core door covered with vinyl flooring (still need to do some trimming!). The stoke of brilliance came when I decided to build a second workbench and stack it on top of the first one and then add shelves and additional horizontal boards to hang tools from. Shelves between the right legs hold drills, sanders and jig saws. On the left, hooks hold the big grinder, sawsall and the nail gun. Back wall holds hammers and air tools, although the air tools will be getting their own dedicated holder. Wire brushes, hand brooms, dust pan, level and flagging tape roll adorn the front of the legs. Lightweight storage goes on top of the top door. I was quite happy when all the tools got hung up. BTW, the piles of **** on the workbench are all of the random fastener containers piled in one place for sorting. In to what I am not exactly sure, although I have bought some parts containers from Harbor Freight.
Station 8 Future tool crib 2 and press
This steel drafting table (less the drafting surface top) will be the base for tool crib #2. the 20 ton press will swap places with the tool chest to make the tool chest more accessible. There are two table saws behind the press that will be dealt with when the main project is done.
Continued next post...
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