JustinS
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Damn!
Damn!
Above 1200 Sq/FT Casa de Frijolee - SoCal to Hawaii - gear head style
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Wokspaces above 1200 squarefeet.
xtremek
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
I can't believe I'm the first to say,.........."YOU ****". What a sweet score.
I can't believe I'm the first to say,.........."YOU ****". What a sweet score.
racestatus
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
those planters came out awesome!
those planters came out awesome!
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
So what happens when you bite off more than you can chew?
**** it up? Gag? Spit it back? I say you just gnaw on that that ******* until it’s a more manageable size. Here’s my step by step approach that will help YOU TOO on that most strange but glorious day when you find a mountain of scrap metal on your driveway.
Step 1: call in the big guns.
This is my buddy Mike. Owner of said big guns. You can take that just about any way you like and it’s still probably true. In this case the big guns I needed were some bad *** tools and a bad *** individual to spend some time gnawing on my sh-t. Wait, no… That came out wrong. Sorry brotha, I love you, man.
Seriously though. The porta-band ripped through this like it was nothing. Not necessarily that straight of cuts but whatever. It’s got ‘er done. This heavy racking combined with that heavy frame/casters was my idea for a way to hold all the sheet metal while all the tube would go on the cart I’d bought.
However, if you need to chop up a ton of metal, what you really want is a high torque 14” chop saw with a carbide blade. This one is “The Slugger” which Mike apparently ran across on Finnegan’s garage (see YouTube if you don’t know it). I’ve borrowed a few abrasive style chop saws and I was always been kinda “m’eh” about them. Wide cuts, too loud, too slow, burning hot results like you just welded on the end… I can do better with an angle grinder most of the time.
This thing though: Sweet tea on Sunday morning with a slice of pie before church! WOW!!
How about a more practical example? I brought home this stupid chunk of unknown something (guessing 4130 based on what else it was with).
Measuring in as an honest 2” x 3” solid; I brought this home intending to let my band saw nibble away for an hour or so and thereby have killer press blocks.
Instead…
Light pressure, maybe a couple heavy fingers worth (I know enough to not overdue it) and 43 seconds later--yes I timed it, hey I was curious!
To quote the always quotable movie Friday… “DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!”
I used this thing to rip up all my 20’ tubing into more manageable 10’ sticks (all except the SS hardlines, those went on my garage wall rack to keep ‘em long).
I even managed to jerry rig a way to square off the corners of my cart pieces.
For the record: You know it’s a bad *** tool when you’re like… “I can tiddy up these ends. I’ll just lop of the last hair of a 6” steel channel with 1/4" webbing and 3/8” flanges! Won’t take but a moment…” And IT DOESN’T!
Step 2: Realize you’re screwed and your HOA hates you. Maybe your neighbors too (less sure on that front, but definitely the HOA). Call in the wife to prep metal too.
She’s willing, she’s able. She’s not necessarily having THE MOST fun but she IS generally willing, at least to a point, because she loves you. It’s basically the same logic as when you’re feeling frisky/adventurous and she’s feeling some good ol’ quality missionary lovin’… but I digress (seriously don’t show this to my wife. I do love the woman.)
Step 3: More big guns. Borrow a 220 V mig running 0.035” wire.
I’d never welded with 0.035 before. The sizzle of the MIG bacon sizzling sounds wrong on the big wire. Instead of a nice high pitch crackle, the frequency is lower. It’s like comparing the sound of a v12 to a v8. Both are right, just takes some getting used to and took me a good while to get dialed in. A good thing too, because I had about a forever of welding to do.
Step 4: Weld forever.
Then you end up with this:
That’s good until you realize the cart needs to live outside since you still only have a 2 car garage. Which means you need to….
Step 5: Clean forever.
Yep that was almost a full roll of paper towels. This rack was covered in OLD grease. You know the stuff that’s kinda gotten hard and picked up up who knows what from where during in its existence since when it was built sometime back in medieval times? Yeah, that stuff. Might have been fine without paint now that I think about it… Nah, gotta keep it tidy. That’s my MOJO. I just live with mess when I can’t help it. Good thing I inherited about 6 (might have been 7?) partial gallon jugs of denatured alcohol.
Step 6: Paint forever.
Seriously, I finished this in the dark under lights so I didn’t grab any pictures. I just went in stages from the inside out so I wouldn’t be reaching through wet paint. It got touched up in the morning on the couple spots I missed.
Step 7: Load metal.
Hahahahaha, no just kidding… Step 7 is PREP metal. All my tubing got hosed down in fogging oil (I’d make another *** joke but I’m tired and that one’s just too easy). All my plate got excess bits trimmed using the plasma so it’d be a bit more manageable. I burned up my compressor I ran it so hard and so long with the plasma. *Sigh* well sounds like I better wire up the big ******* instead of the portable guy.
Step 8: Load metal…
Silly boy. Nope, Step 8 is clear space in the 8-12’ width that is the slab at the side of your house since you’d already filled that with randomness and the carts don’t quite fit yet. Convince yourself it’s OK to sell the junk tires and mustang wheels you thought you might go drifting on--but probably won’t--since you made your car too nice. (psssst…. Hey mista… wanna buy some mustang RIMS yo yo!! I got RIMS baby! I’ll hook you up!)
Step 9: Load metal?
Yeah ok, now it’s time. Recruit one more buddy who’s pic you don’t take because you’re so in awe that he managed to take his new driver’s license picture wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. Not that I love Trump but it was trolling on a whole 'nother level (true story I won’t name the perpetrator). Apparently they had to call the state capital to verify if "Make America Great Again" could be claimed as a religion.
Assuming you haven’t shot yourself in the head with all the big guns floating around this place, you tell yourself. “Self, that’s $12k in metal, be thankful you don’t have a job and could spend a week on this! The good Lord knows what he’s doing and smiles on his idiot children”
At some point you actually do load all the metal and you end up here:
Then it makes you giggle and smile every time you walk by. And once again all is well with the world.
By the way, my OCD loved (!!!!) sorting the goods. The tubing is pretty self explanatory. It’s sorted by material first, then shape, then size. The metal rack goes stainless, then steel, then aluminum (lighter when you need to reach deeper), then wood since I don’t much care about the plywood. There’s a bunch of plastic skid plate material tucked in wherever it fits since I’m not OCD enough to give it a dedicated space…. I still need to build a cover for both racks and I’m toying with ideas on how to build that into the rack since hey, they should be plenty strong enough. I think that racking material was 3/8” wall tube. Even with Mike, Anthony AND me (not technically a slouch, I mostly joke around), these things were barely moveable when they were full length with 13 of those legs sticking out.
So that’s the party and step by step plan for what to do when you inherit something north of 5,000 lbs of free metal (and bite off more than you can chew).
Love and humptiness to all.
-Joel
PS It’s late and I’m mostly entertaining myself (feel free to NOT take that any way you see fit.) I’ll upload pics and get this posted tomorrow. Which is now, now. Funny how that works.
So what happens when you bite off more than you can chew?
**** it up? Gag? Spit it back? I say you just gnaw on that that ******* until it’s a more manageable size. Here’s my step by step approach that will help YOU TOO on that most strange but glorious day when you find a mountain of scrap metal on your driveway.
Step 1: call in the big guns.
This is my buddy Mike. Owner of said big guns. You can take that just about any way you like and it’s still probably true. In this case the big guns I needed were some bad *** tools and a bad *** individual to spend some time gnawing on my sh-t. Wait, no… That came out wrong. Sorry brotha, I love you, man.
Seriously though. The porta-band ripped through this like it was nothing. Not necessarily that straight of cuts but whatever. It’s got ‘er done. This heavy racking combined with that heavy frame/casters was my idea for a way to hold all the sheet metal while all the tube would go on the cart I’d bought.
However, if you need to chop up a ton of metal, what you really want is a high torque 14” chop saw with a carbide blade. This one is “The Slugger” which Mike apparently ran across on Finnegan’s garage (see YouTube if you don’t know it). I’ve borrowed a few abrasive style chop saws and I was always been kinda “m’eh” about them. Wide cuts, too loud, too slow, burning hot results like you just welded on the end… I can do better with an angle grinder most of the time.
This thing though: Sweet tea on Sunday morning with a slice of pie before church! WOW!!
How about a more practical example? I brought home this stupid chunk of unknown something (guessing 4130 based on what else it was with).
Measuring in as an honest 2” x 3” solid; I brought this home intending to let my band saw nibble away for an hour or so and thereby have killer press blocks.
Instead…
Light pressure, maybe a couple heavy fingers worth (I know enough to not overdue it) and 43 seconds later--yes I timed it, hey I was curious!
To quote the always quotable movie Friday… “DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!”
I used this thing to rip up all my 20’ tubing into more manageable 10’ sticks (all except the SS hardlines, those went on my garage wall rack to keep ‘em long).
I even managed to jerry rig a way to square off the corners of my cart pieces.
For the record: You know it’s a bad *** tool when you’re like… “I can tiddy up these ends. I’ll just lop of the last hair of a 6” steel channel with 1/4" webbing and 3/8” flanges! Won’t take but a moment…” And IT DOESN’T!
Step 2: Realize you’re screwed and your HOA hates you. Maybe your neighbors too (less sure on that front, but definitely the HOA). Call in the wife to prep metal too.
She’s willing, she’s able. She’s not necessarily having THE MOST fun but she IS generally willing, at least to a point, because she loves you. It’s basically the same logic as when you’re feeling frisky/adventurous and she’s feeling some good ol’ quality missionary lovin’…
but I digress (seriously don’t show this to my wife. I do love the woman.)Step 3: More big guns. Borrow a 220 V mig running 0.035” wire.
I’d never welded with 0.035 before. The sizzle of the MIG bacon sizzling sounds wrong on the big wire. Instead of a nice high pitch crackle, the frequency is lower. It’s like comparing the sound of a v12 to a v8. Both are right, just takes some getting used to and took me a good while to get dialed in. A good thing too, because I had about a forever of welding to do.
Step 4: Weld forever.
Then you end up with this:
That’s good until you realize the cart needs to live outside since you still only have a 2 car garage. Which means you need to….
Step 5: Clean forever.
Yep that was almost a full roll of paper towels. This rack was covered in OLD grease. You know the stuff that’s kinda gotten hard and picked up up who knows what from where during in its existence since when it was built sometime back in medieval times? Yeah, that stuff. Might have been fine without paint now that I think about it… Nah, gotta keep it tidy. That’s my MOJO. I just live with mess when I can’t help it. Good thing I inherited about 6 (might have been 7?) partial gallon jugs of denatured alcohol.
Step 6: Paint forever.
Seriously, I finished this in the dark under lights so I didn’t grab any pictures. I just went in stages from the inside out so I wouldn’t be reaching through wet paint. It got touched up in the morning on the couple spots I missed.
Step 7: Load metal.
Hahahahaha, no just kidding… Step 7 is PREP metal. All my tubing got hosed down in fogging oil (I’d make another *** joke but I’m tired and that one’s just too easy). All my plate got excess bits trimmed using the plasma so it’d be a bit more manageable. I burned up my compressor I ran it so hard and so long with the plasma. *Sigh* well sounds like I better wire up the big ******* instead of the portable guy.
Step 8: Load metal…
Silly boy. Nope, Step 8 is clear space in the 8-12’ width that is the slab at the side of your house since you’d already filled that with randomness and the carts don’t quite fit yet. Convince yourself it’s OK to sell the junk tires and mustang wheels you thought you might go drifting on--but probably won’t--since you made your car too nice. (psssst…. Hey mista… wanna buy some mustang RIMS yo yo!! I got RIMS baby! I’ll hook you up!)
Step 9: Load metal?
Yeah ok, now it’s time. Recruit one more buddy who’s pic you don’t take because you’re so in awe that he managed to take his new driver’s license picture wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. Not that I love Trump but it was trolling on a whole 'nother level (true story I won’t name the perpetrator). Apparently they had to call the state capital to verify if "Make America Great Again" could be claimed as a religion.
Assuming you haven’t shot yourself in the head with all the big guns floating around this place, you tell yourself. “Self, that’s $12k in metal, be thankful you don’t have a job and could spend a week on this! The good Lord knows what he’s doing and smiles on his idiot children”
At some point you actually do load all the metal and you end up here:
Then it makes you giggle and smile every time you walk by. And once again all is well with the world.
By the way, my OCD loved (!!!!) sorting the goods. The tubing is pretty self explanatory. It’s sorted by material first, then shape, then size. The metal rack goes stainless, then steel, then aluminum (lighter when you need to reach deeper), then wood since I don’t much care about the plywood. There’s a bunch of plastic skid plate material tucked in wherever it fits since I’m not OCD enough to give it a dedicated space…. I still need to build a cover for both racks and I’m toying with ideas on how to build that into the rack since hey, they should be plenty strong enough. I think that racking material was 3/8” wall tube. Even with Mike, Anthony AND me (not technically a slouch, I mostly joke around), these things were barely moveable when they were full length with 13 of those legs sticking out.
So that’s the party and step by step plan for what to do when you inherit something north of 5,000 lbs of free metal (and bite off more than you can chew).
Love and humptiness to all.
-Joel
PS It’s late and I’m mostly entertaining myself (feel free to NOT take that any way you see fit.) I’ll upload pics and get this posted tomorrow. Which is now, now. Funny how that works.
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rattle_snake
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
That's quite a stash of goods there. Nice work (aka you ****). Would be better if you were my neighbor so I had access to whatever when needed.
That's quite a stash of goods there. Nice work (aka you ****). Would be better if you were my neighbor so I had access to whatever when needed.
zmotorsports
ALLIANCE MEMBER
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
WOW!! And I thought I had a pretty good selection of metal.
Nice job, and oh yeah, you ****.
Mike
WOW!! And I thought I had a pretty good selection of metal.
Nice job, and oh yeah, you ****.
Mike
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Since there are various folks noting jealousy... I should probably remind folks that the circumstances of this hook-up are far from ideal. Most notably I am still unemployed so it ain't all roses.
It also took an metric ton of work in blazing heat to make happen. If I came home with 5k lbs of metal I probably moved 15k lbs in sorting in that parking lot.
To my way of thinking this is more of a silver lining in a stormy sky kinda story.
Since there are various folks noting jealousy... I should probably remind folks that the circumstances of this hook-up are far from ideal. Most notably I am still unemployed so it ain't all roses.
It also took an metric ton of work in blazing heat to make happen. If I came home with 5k lbs of metal I probably moved 15k lbs in sorting in that parking lot.
To my way of thinking this is more of a silver lining in a stormy sky kinda story.
xtremek
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
We are aware that it probably took a 5h1t ton of work to get this all home, let alone organized. In our politically INcorrect way, we are expressing our happiness for you. Yes we are jealous, but you still had to work your **** off to get this, we understand it, and we truly are happy for you. And, as one who has been unemployed many times in his life, this really good fortune in no way mitigates your current job status. Not even close. We're happy for you, you still **** , and we all hope and pray you find employment soon.
We are aware that it probably took a 5h1t ton of work to get this all home, let alone organized. In our politically INcorrect way, we are expressing our happiness for you. Yes we are jealous, but you still had to work your **** off to get this, we understand it, and we truly are happy for you. And, as one who has been unemployed many times in his life, this really good fortune in no way mitigates your current job status. Not even close. We're happy for you, you still ****
, and we all hope and pray you find employment soon.
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slik560
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Agreed. Unemployment ***** at any and all levels...but with that inventory, you could become a metals dealer of sorts. "Parts fabricated while u wait" or something. Tools+know-how+zero-cost inventory= serious profit margin. Good luck in finding something in the interim.
Agreed. Unemployment ***** at any and all levels...but with that inventory, you could become a metals dealer of sorts. "Parts fabricated while u wait" or something. Tools+know-how+zero-cost inventory= serious profit margin.
Good luck in finding something in the interim.racestatus
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
what an amazing amount of metal. but im sure youd rather have the job then that.
dewalt also makes a 14" saw that is a bit better priced that pretty much the same badassery. we just bought one and I will never use a abrasive saw again
what an amazing amount of metal. but im sure youd rather have the job then that.
dewalt also makes a 14" saw that is a bit better priced that pretty much the same badassery. we just bought one and I will never use a abrasive saw again
cash68
Keeper Of Rotor Hill
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
You know how to tell if someone is an engineer?
You know how to tell if someone is an engineer?
Bunk
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
frijolee, I just stumbled across your thread. Great work on your garage, keep at it. Love the XJ and FJ. I'm a former XJ owner myself.
frijolee, I just stumbled across your thread. Great work on your garage, keep at it. Love the XJ and FJ. I'm a former XJ owner myself.
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
So I'm almost done organizing that insane haul. Quick one as I start to catch up...
Had several helmets that didn't have good homes and were eating up shelf space. I'm not presently riding and some are intended for kids/wife. After I needed the shelf space they moved up to the attic where were eating up space on a different shelf.
Then I had a ton of leftover shorty pieces of 2x6 from my deck project so I got creative.
Back edges have been carved and smoothed to a nice radius on my belt sander. They don't seem to dig into the helmets and they've all been up there for a couple months now.
And one set of random bulky items stored nicely.
So I'm almost done organizing that insane haul. Quick one as I start to catch up...
Had several helmets that didn't have good homes and were eating up shelf space. I'm not presently riding and some are intended for kids/wife. After I needed the shelf space they moved up to the attic where were eating up space on a different shelf.
Then I had a ton of leftover shorty pieces of 2x6 from my deck project so I got creative.
Back edges have been carved and smoothed to a nice radius on my belt sander. They don't seem to dig into the helmets and they've all been up there for a couple months now.
And one set of random bulky items stored nicely.
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slik560
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
The GJ Credo: find an open space and FILL IT. Well done
The GJ Credo: find an open space and FILL IT.
Well donextremek
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Nice way to repurpose the the leftovers. I hope you've found some employment. If not, hang in there and we'll keep you in our thoughts and prayers.
Nice way to repurpose the the leftovers. I hope you've found some employment. If not, hang in there and we'll keep you in our thoughts and prayers.
shelteredV
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Wow, my eyes are tired! Binge reading will do that though. Good work man.
Wow, my eyes are tired! Binge reading will do that though. Good work man.
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Ha! So damn true. When you have a little garage you start eyeballing any of the empty spaces (above the washer dryer) etc etc. Perfect example of that coming up next.
Thanks for checking on me. It ended up being just shy of a 4 month lul (and thanking my severance package covered a healthy bit of that). I'm coming up on two months since I started a project engineering spot with Bal Seal Engineering in Foothill Ranch CA. Bal Seal does high end plastic seals for interesting applications. I'm getting pegged to be the automotive guy which is fine by me.
Never heard of it...
OK, yeah I'm guilty too, especially when you find one that resonates. Glad you found it worthy. I really do like the commentary on my mayhem.
The GJ Credo: find an open space and FILL IT.
Ha! So damn true. When you have a little garage you start eyeballing any of the empty spaces (above the washer dryer) etc etc. Perfect example of that coming up next.
Thanks for checking on me. It ended up being just shy of a 4 month lul (and thanking my severance package covered a healthy bit of that). I'm coming up on two months since I started a project engineering spot with Bal Seal Engineering in Foothill Ranch CA. Bal Seal does high end plastic seals for interesting applications. I'm getting pegged to be the automotive guy which is fine by me.
Never heard of it...
OK, yeah I'm guilty too, especially when you find one that resonates. Glad you found it worthy. I really do like the commentary on my mayhem.Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
I wanted to try to get more shelves in the garage but floor space is running dry. Slik560 nailed my strategy though. In thinking it through I figured I might be able to get something slung from the rafters or otherwise spanning the top of my tool box.
I had a few shelves to choose from (yet another case of MillenWorks shutdown).
Brought one home and chopped it up a bit (bottom section ended up going to 65imp).
This was all 1/16" wall so I reinforced my bolt points (figured this wasn't quite worthy of full up crush sleeves)
Opposite side has some big through holes since it's grabbing the inside wall only.
Why the weird design? Well I didn't really trust my measurements since the attic joists aren't perfect. Plus I was trying to clear a pair of surfboards that already had a nice home on the other side. That meant I was going to slip this up between joists and that meant I need to build in provisions for spacers on one end. Ended up that my measurements were pretty good after all so I could use some more square tube with out getting too crazy.
Fit check.
Spacer strategy worked out fine.
Overall assembly. Nice to get a few things into homes.
I wanted to try to get more shelves in the garage but floor space is running dry. Slik560 nailed my strategy though. In thinking it through I figured I might be able to get something slung from the rafters or otherwise spanning the top of my tool box.
I had a few shelves to choose from (yet another case of MillenWorks shutdown).
Brought one home and chopped it up a bit (bottom section ended up going to 65imp).
This was all 1/16" wall so I reinforced my bolt points (figured this wasn't quite worthy of full up crush sleeves)
Opposite side has some big through holes since it's grabbing the inside wall only.
Why the weird design? Well I didn't really trust my measurements since the attic joists aren't perfect. Plus I was trying to clear a pair of surfboards that already had a nice home on the other side. That meant I was going to slip this up between joists and that meant I need to build in provisions for spacers on one end. Ended up that my measurements were pretty good after all so I could use some more square tube with out getting too crazy.
Fit check.
Spacer strategy worked out fine.
Overall assembly. Nice to get a few things into homes.
Bib Overalls
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Excellent solutions to problems I also have. Recently I scored about 1,500 pounds of aluminum, stainless steel, and a bit of regular steel. Added to the half ton I already I've got an organization and storage crises in my shop. Some of that stuff needs to go outdoors. So thanks for blazing the trail.
Excellent solutions to problems I also have. Recently I scored about 1,500 pounds of aluminum, stainless steel, and a bit of regular steel. Added to the half ton I already I've got an organization and storage crises in my shop. Some of that stuff needs to go outdoors. So thanks for blazing the trail.
JustinS
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Damn, that is a serious haul of materials.
Damn, that is a serious haul of materials.
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Needed some garage overflow to handle a variety of bins and storage. Had kind of a funny space on the side of my house so I decided to scratch build a shed to cover giant cart I'd dragged home prior. Probably a mistake in hindsight. I think I had 100 hours into this thing by the time it was done. Anyways... here's the process.
Cut up some giant framework from a tradeshow booth from my former company.
Had to shim my sawhorses to keep it all square.
Some weird angles at a 6 degree downslope for a jog around the Air Conditioning conduit on the side of my house. Got to use Trig for the first time in forever.
Doors roughed out.
Back framework.
Big *** stainless piano hinges, I had to shim these up so they'd sit flat.
Weld through primer in the inside joints. No kill like overkill.
Some inconsistent gaps... That may drive me nuts at some point.
Pleasantly surprised how well my little mig welded stainless to mild.
Needed some garage overflow to handle a variety of bins and storage. Had kind of a funny space on the side of my house so I decided to scratch build a shed to cover giant cart I'd dragged home prior. Probably a mistake in hindsight. I think I had 100 hours into this thing by the time it was done. Anyways... here's the process.
Cut up some giant framework from a tradeshow booth from my former company.
Had to shim my sawhorses to keep it all square.
Some weird angles at a 6 degree downslope for a jog around the Air Conditioning conduit on the side of my house. Got to use Trig for the first time in forever.
Doors roughed out.
Back framework.
Big *** stainless piano hinges, I had to shim these up so they'd sit flat.
Weld through primer in the inside joints. No kill like overkill.
Some inconsistent gaps... That may drive me nuts at some point.
Pleasantly surprised how well my little mig welded stainless to mild.
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Finally found a fast means of removing rust and mill scale that won't dig into the parent metal. Stripper discs rock. Thanks to whomever suggested those a while back.
Start of some cane bolt provisions.
Latches.
Yay for stripper discs.
Handles are stainless fuel lines, because hey, free right? I also spent more time than I care to admit welding tiger strips on certain faces to use weld deformation to bring things in line where I wanted.
All structural surfaces got painted with rusty metal primer and hammered finish brown...
Panels were partially fitted from the trade show booth but I still had to cut a great many down. Borrowed a nibbler from 65imp.
Leftovers giving an idea what this looked like to begin with...
Finally found a fast means of removing rust and mill scale that won't dig into the parent metal. Stripper discs rock. Thanks to whomever suggested those a while back.
Start of some cane bolt provisions.
Latches.
Yay for stripper discs.
Handles are stainless fuel lines, because hey, free right? I also spent more time than I care to admit welding tiger strips on certain faces to use weld deformation to bring things in line where I wanted.
All structural surfaces got painted with rusty metal primer and hammered finish brown...
Panels were partially fitted from the trade show booth but I still had to cut a great many down. Borrowed a nibbler from 65imp.
Leftovers giving an idea what this looked like to begin with...
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Aforementioned AC conduit.
Tabs for paneling. Various of the extra of these are ended up on my FJ40 already.
Made some door stops to avoid undue stress on the doors when closed. Plastic slides.
Finished cane bolts (also free).
Overall shed...
The jog on one end is for all the other AC goodies that have to duck behind this.
So glad this one is done. Debating adding seam sealer on all the edges but it still can be disassembled the way I have it now.
-Joel
Aforementioned AC conduit.
Tabs for paneling. Various of the extra of these are ended up on my FJ40 already.
Made some door stops to avoid undue stress on the doors when closed. Plastic slides.
Finished cane bolts (also free).
Overall shed...
The jog on one end is for all the other AC goodies that have to duck behind this.
So glad this one is done. Debating adding seam sealer on all the edges but it still can be disassembled the way I have it now.
-Joel
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Man, I really did have some catching up to do on the writeups front. Still I always like seeing the nutty ish you guys come up so I figured you might like seeing mine.
Material storage update:
CA had its rainy season which really meant about 6-7 wet days over winter. Still, I spend so much effort getting materials home that I certainly didn’t want to sacrifice them to the elements. I had been debating making awnings over the top of my racks but after thinking about it for a while, decided the racks had enough structure built in that I might as well use the rack to support an awning instead.
Ironically, after all the material I brought home I still didn’t have enough square tube or corregated steel for the roof. Ended up spending a couple hundred in steel.
Structure going together.
A few funny angles and shims welded in to be sure the roof would land well.
The roof of the sheet metal rack is hinged so I can lift big panels up and out if needed.
Tarps are strapped to the perimeter and it seems to be working pretty well.
Man, I really did have some catching up to do on the writeups front. Still I always like seeing the nutty ish you guys come up so I figured you might like seeing mine.
Material storage update:
CA had its rainy season which really meant about 6-7 wet days over winter. Still, I spend so much effort getting materials home that I certainly didn’t want to sacrifice them to the elements. I had been debating making awnings over the top of my racks but after thinking about it for a while, decided the racks had enough structure built in that I might as well use the rack to support an awning instead.
Ironically, after all the material I brought home I still didn’t have enough square tube or corregated steel for the roof. Ended up spending a couple hundred in steel.
Structure going together.
A few funny angles and shims welded in to be sure the roof would land well.
The roof of the sheet metal rack is hinged so I can lift big panels up and out if needed.
Tarps are strapped to the perimeter and it seems to be working pretty well.
1/2 Cup
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
frijolee , thank you for the update.
Luv your shed build, I need to do similar.
frijolee , thank you for the update.
Luv your shed build, I need to do similar.
xtremek
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Looks really nice. Glad you're back. And yes, I love seeing what you're doing.
Looks really nice. Glad you're back. And yes, I love seeing what you're doing.
zmotorsports
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Looks very nice, great update.
Any updates on the FJ40?
Looks very nice, great update.
Any updates on the FJ40?
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Thanks for the kind words gents. In hindsight, I'd never build a custom shed unless that's REALLY what you need to fit the space. It's bitchin', but man is it a lot of work!
FJ40. Pretty much finished all the tube work and structure. I'm into a deep dive on systems, but had a momentary distraction to deal with first.
I’ve had a couple surfboards on the wall. I like surfing. I live in CA 15 minutes from the beach. I don’t go enough to consider myself a “surfer” but whatever, I paddle out occasionally.
In surfing, the better you are, the shorter the board you can ride and still catch waves (shorter boards being harder match the speed required.) The last time I went, I got schooled because I'm really not good enough for the short board I was trying to ride. To be honest, I should have been riding my mid size fun board. It also doesn't help that I have a shoulder that’s not great from a motorcycle down a decade back.
All that said, when I spotted a mint 9’ long board, brand new at the Salvation Army for $50, I had to have it. It’s probably a $900 board. I'm guessing it was crazy cheap because it was hanging on a teacher’s wall at some point (it’s covered in children footprints). I don’t care, it’s new, and it'll be rad for me.
Problem is I don’t have a place to put the thing. It lived on top of my Land Cruiser for a while but I was constantly moving it and scared I was going to trash my smoking deal before I even get to ride it. So rather than pushing the Land Cruiser forward I decide to get the new board some storage.
FJ40 stack. I’ll be my own hero if I ever drive this rig through Baja with these on top.
I almost slung it up in the rafters. Even got a far as mounting some felt covered boards. That said, getting it up and down would be a pain and if/when I do start surfing more, this is the board I should be riding the most, yet it was about to have the worst access.
I finally caved and did it the “right way” and reworked the whole wall where the other two lived.
No problem. Except this required moving the laundry shelf down by 2”, the black rack up by a couple (shortening all 4 hanging legs), reworking the four surfboard brackets I made before and building two new ones. B’ah. Perfectionism burning me… but hey, it’s my space, I want to be happy with it.
So now it’s good. Set me back about two week’s worth of project time, but it’s good. And maybe I’ll go surfing after the Land Cruiser drives.
Thanks for the kind words gents. In hindsight, I'd never build a custom shed unless that's REALLY what you need to fit the space. It's bitchin', but man is it a lot of work!
FJ40. Pretty much finished all the tube work and structure. I'm into a deep dive on systems, but had a momentary distraction to deal with first.
I’ve had a couple surfboards on the wall. I like surfing. I live in CA 15 minutes from the beach. I don’t go enough to consider myself a “surfer” but whatever, I paddle out occasionally.
In surfing, the better you are, the shorter the board you can ride and still catch waves (shorter boards being harder match the speed required.) The last time I went, I got schooled because I'm really not good enough for the short board I was trying to ride. To be honest, I should have been riding my mid size fun board. It also doesn't help that I have a shoulder that’s not great from a motorcycle down a decade back.
All that said, when I spotted a mint 9’ long board, brand new at the Salvation Army for $50, I had to have it. It’s probably a $900 board. I'm guessing it was crazy cheap because it was hanging on a teacher’s wall at some point (it’s covered in children footprints). I don’t care, it’s new, and it'll be rad for me.
Problem is I don’t have a place to put the thing. It lived on top of my Land Cruiser for a while but I was constantly moving it and scared I was going to trash my smoking deal before I even get to ride it. So rather than pushing the Land Cruiser forward I decide to get the new board some storage.
FJ40 stack. I’ll be my own hero if I ever drive this rig through Baja with these on top.
I almost slung it up in the rafters. Even got a far as mounting some felt covered boards. That said, getting it up and down would be a pain and if/when I do start surfing more, this is the board I should be riding the most, yet it was about to have the worst access.
I finally caved and did it the “right way” and reworked the whole wall where the other two lived.
No problem. Except this required moving the laundry shelf down by 2”, the black rack up by a couple (shortening all 4 hanging legs), reworking the four surfboard brackets I made before and building two new ones. B’ah. Perfectionism burning me… but hey, it’s my space, I want to be happy with it.
So now it’s good. Set me back about two week’s worth of project time, but it’s good. And maybe I’ll go surfing after the Land Cruiser drives.
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Well I'm dramatically overdue for some posting progress posting over here so I'm gonna try to catch up.
There were some big changes that went down personally so I kinda I need to bring this thread to some closure and talk about the new things to come...
About a year ago I accepted a new job that had my family moving from Southern CA to the Big Island, Hawaii.
https://www.norotors.com/index.php?topic=26654.0
It was a gnarly process and I we're been mostly settled in for a few month now (just in a time to move again, but that story comes later).
So what’s involved in moving to an island? Basically a **** ton of logistics. The Keck Observatory gave me a bucket of money based on a set formula (X people, Y distance) and I got to figure it out from there. Some folks take the money burn/sell/give away everything and just show up with suitcases. That doesn’t work so well when you have tools and one non running FJ40, so we ended up renting the biggest shipping container available. More on that in second.
What do you do first? Well, first you purge, then purge some more. We were trying to sell our house in SoCal and every realtor we spoke to told us the same story. Great place, you need half the stuff to stage this well… Three weeks later we had about half the stuff (inside anyways). Sold a ton of stuff on eBay. I think there were 15 runs to the Salvation Army.
Then you list your house for sale with your chosen realtor. We went with the version that had the most bells whistles, (3D fly around, landscaping etc). On the plus side the listing looked rad and I was stoked that they used my engine block coffee table in the staging.
Listing is here if anyone caresÂ…
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Tustin/14931-Bridgeport-Rd-92780/home/4616710
One single open house later and we sold the home (really nice young family that was stoked on the deck and some of the backyard work I’d done).
While escrow was going down I was working like a dog packing. I quit my job Oct 18 with the new one scheduled to start Nov 5. The challenge: A standard shipping container is 40’ x 8’ x 8’6” tall. If you rent a 45’ high cube, it comes in at 45’ x 8’ x 9’6”.
It also normally is delivered to your house on a chassis on wheels. You don’t get a ramp… How the F do you get a non running Land Cruiser 4’ in the air? How about a 1000 lb welding table or giant steel cabinets, or any of my other myriad of heavy stuff? Answer: you have to hire heavy equipment movers. You can either have them load or be like me and have them set the entire container on the ground (after verifying that they can pick it back up loaded of course)
Give away some more stuff. That solid carbon fiber truck bed I had went to a friend of a friend and unfortunately probably burned down in the Paradise fire up in NorCal.
I also did a CAD layout of all my bits and pieces to help ensure I’d played tetris as best I could (with relatively evenly distributed loads).
I borrowed race car scales from my friend Ash (thanks amigo!). Turns out my FJ40 currently weighs 4639 lbs with almost all of its parts inside (few extras a few missing).
I can also say I hauled home 13,000 lbs of metal back when.
To be continued…
Well I'm dramatically overdue for some posting progress posting over here so I'm gonna try to catch up.
There were some big changes that went down personally so I kinda I need to bring this thread to some closure and talk about the new things to come...
About a year ago I accepted a new job that had my family moving from Southern CA to the Big Island, Hawaii.
https://www.norotors.com/index.php?topic=26654.0
It was a gnarly process and I we're been mostly settled in for a few month now (just in a time to move again, but that story comes later).
So what’s involved in moving to an island? Basically a **** ton of logistics. The Keck Observatory gave me a bucket of money based on a set formula (X people, Y distance) and I got to figure it out from there. Some folks take the money burn/sell/give away everything and just show up with suitcases. That doesn’t work so well when you have tools and one non running FJ40, so we ended up renting the biggest shipping container available. More on that in second.
What do you do first? Well, first you purge, then purge some more. We were trying to sell our house in SoCal and every realtor we spoke to told us the same story. Great place, you need half the stuff to stage this well… Three weeks later we had about half the stuff (inside anyways). Sold a ton of stuff on eBay. I think there were 15 runs to the Salvation Army.
Then you list your house for sale with your chosen realtor. We went with the version that had the most bells whistles, (3D fly around, landscaping etc). On the plus side the listing looked rad and I was stoked that they used my engine block coffee table in the staging.
Listing is here if anyone caresÂ…
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Tustin/14931-Bridgeport-Rd-92780/home/4616710
One single open house later and we sold the home (really nice young family that was stoked on the deck and some of the backyard work I’d done).
While escrow was going down I was working like a dog packing. I quit my job Oct 18 with the new one scheduled to start Nov 5. The challenge: A standard shipping container is 40’ x 8’ x 8’6” tall. If you rent a 45’ high cube, it comes in at 45’ x 8’ x 9’6”.
It also normally is delivered to your house on a chassis on wheels. You don’t get a ramp… How the F do you get a non running Land Cruiser 4’ in the air? How about a 1000 lb welding table or giant steel cabinets, or any of my other myriad of heavy stuff? Answer: you have to hire heavy equipment movers. You can either have them load or be like me and have them set the entire container on the ground (after verifying that they can pick it back up loaded of course)
Give away some more stuff. That solid carbon fiber truck bed I had went to a friend of a friend and unfortunately probably burned down in the Paradise fire up in NorCal.
I also did a CAD layout of all my bits and pieces to help ensure I’d played tetris as best I could (with relatively evenly distributed loads).
I borrowed race car scales from my friend Ash (thanks amigo!). Turns out my FJ40 currently weighs 4639 lbs with almost all of its parts inside (few extras a few missing).
I can also say I hauled home 13,000 lbs of metal back when.
To be continued…
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My Land Cruiser got at least mostly shot in primer since I was moving somewhere wetter… Preview of my tailgate too. I’m sealing between stitch welds for future rust avoidance.
And it was the first thing loaded since it was about the last thing I’d need access to. Looks lonely back there.
I ended up building 3x raised decks inside the container so I could put things on top of things (covered hood etc).
One of my best and oldest friends came down from NorCal, so between he and the 6 day laborers I hired from in front of Home Depot, we moved the heaviest stuff: metal carts, weld table, compressor, and stronghold cabinets. That got us here:
Then the wife and I left on a 5 day cruise we’d won in a raffle the year before and had pre-booked 6 months back before we knew any of this was going down. We’ve got time, right?
My Land Cruiser got at least mostly shot in primer since I was moving somewhere wetter… Preview of my tailgate too. I’m sealing between stitch welds for future rust avoidance.
And it was the first thing loaded since it was about the last thing I’d need access to. Looks lonely back there.
I ended up building 3x raised decks inside the container so I could put things on top of things (covered hood etc).
One of my best and oldest friends came down from NorCal, so between he and the 6 day laborers I hired from in front of Home Depot, we moved the heaviest stuff: metal carts, weld table, compressor, and stronghold cabinets. That got us here:
Then the wife and I left on a 5 day cruise we’d won in a raffle the year before and had pre-booked 6 months back before we knew any of this was going down. We’ve got time, right?
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Got back from the cruise well rested so we hit it hard again. I’m gonna let the pics do most of the talking in this post.
By the way, the aisle in the above is so I could lie down in the gap and bench press a king sized mattress toward the rear 6 inches at a time.
The mattress ended up on the roof of the cruiser (followed by bikes and surf boards), then a second level of crates went in, followed by plastic tarps.
Fun fact, humidity differences inside a container can make it rain inside nightly. There was only about 4 inches clear to the roof by the time we were done.
Buddy doing the pull-up is another of my best and oldest friends who also drove way too damn far to help me (and yes that’s the engine block coffee table behind him, it came too). Ralph was the one who joined me on the road trip to pick up the Cruiser up in Washington originally.
Kids got in on the monkey bar action.
Getting there:
Managed to carve some pumpkins on the appropriate day (island for the win), otherwise did nothing but hard physical labor for a solid week.
We closed the doors at 5:30 in the morning the night before the heavy equipment movers showed up. The last slog was something like 23 hours straight. I couldn’t believe my father in law was still standing to take this pic. What a rockstar…
Getting closer to wrapping up this tale.
Regards all,
-Joel
Got back from the cruise well rested so we hit it hard again. I’m gonna let the pics do most of the talking in this post.
By the way, the aisle in the above is so I could lie down in the gap and bench press a king sized mattress toward the rear 6 inches at a time.
The mattress ended up on the roof of the cruiser (followed by bikes and surf boards), then a second level of crates went in, followed by plastic tarps.
Fun fact, humidity differences inside a container can make it rain inside nightly. There was only about 4 inches clear to the roof by the time we were done.
Buddy doing the pull-up is another of my best and oldest friends who also drove way too damn far to help me (and yes that’s the engine block coffee table behind him, it came too). Ralph was the one who joined me on the road trip to pick up the Cruiser up in Washington originally.
Kids got in on the monkey bar action.
Getting there:
Managed to carve some pumpkins on the appropriate day (island for the win), otherwise did nothing but hard physical labor for a solid week.
We closed the doors at 5:30 in the morning the night before the heavy equipment movers showed up. The last slog was something like 23 hours straight. I couldn’t believe my father in law was still standing to take this pic. What a rockstar…
Getting closer to wrapping up this tale.
Regards all,
-Joel
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Friend on another forum pointed out that we probably should have bought bulk desiccant. https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-14045/Desiccants/Container-Dri-II-Desiccants-Cargo-Bag?pricode=WB0787&gadtype=pla&id=S-14045&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjePd3qrj4QIVdiCtBh38yQHJEAQYAyABEgIl7fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
We ended up OK (maybe partly because we didn't have much free air at the roof) but it just goes to show as much research as you can put into something like this there were always ways to improve.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
So the 50,000 lb forklift shows up to pick up the container. It goes for lift…
And promptly pops a nose wheelie. They have to bring a separate forklift with a massive counterweight to increase the capacity.
At this point I’m kinda freaking out at how heavy the container is... Although the container is rated at 67,000 lbs gross, DOT regulations in CA you’re only allowed to haul 44,000 lbs on the highway. If this gets flagged we’re screwed. I’m beat up... Running on no sleep and my head is exploding with all the ways this could go wrong.
Well, with the added counterweight, Dunkel Bros (the heavy equipment guys) get it picked up and hauled back to their yard. We had 3 semi trucks/trailers in our little culdesac…
However, when they put it on their uncertified scales and it comes in at 52,000 lbs. ****!!! But then the driver from Matson sea freight lines shows up to drive it to the port, doesn’t ask questions and just grabs and goes. Turns out, since the container hadn’t been “officially” weighed yet, he wasn’t “officially” restricted in driving it.
The port accepts shipment and we’re off to the races.
Friend on another forum pointed out that we probably should have bought bulk desiccant. https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-14045/Desiccants/Container-Dri-II-Desiccants-Cargo-Bag?pricode=WB0787&gadtype=pla&id=S-14045&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjePd3qrj4QIVdiCtBh38yQHJEAQYAyABEgIl7fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
We ended up OK (maybe partly because we didn't have much free air at the roof) but it just goes to show as much research as you can put into something like this there were always ways to improve.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
So the 50,000 lb forklift shows up to pick up the container. It goes for lift…
And promptly pops a nose wheelie. They have to bring a separate forklift with a massive counterweight to increase the capacity.
At this point I’m kinda freaking out at how heavy the container is... Although the container is rated at 67,000 lbs gross, DOT regulations in CA you’re only allowed to haul 44,000 lbs on the highway. If this gets flagged we’re screwed. I’m beat up... Running on no sleep and my head is exploding with all the ways this could go wrong.
Well, with the added counterweight, Dunkel Bros (the heavy equipment guys) get it picked up and hauled back to their yard. We had 3 semi trucks/trailers in our little culdesac…
However, when they put it on their uncertified scales and it comes in at 52,000 lbs. ****!!! But then the driver from Matson sea freight lines shows up to drive it to the port, doesn’t ask questions and just grabs and goes. Turns out, since the container hadn’t been “officially” weighed yet, he wasn’t “officially” restricted in driving it.
The port accepts shipment and we’re off to the races.
Boosted1
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
That is some dense packing.
That is some dense packing.
jbmatth
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
Holly cow, I've often thought about how tough it would be for me to move all of my stuff from place to place but to move to Hawaii...WOW, glad it all worked out for you at least.
Holly cow, I've often thought about how tough it would be for me to move all of my stuff from place to place but to move to Hawaii...WOW, glad it all worked out for you at least.
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
With the container away and nothing left but suitcases, it was time to say goodbye to our home. Pretty tough on the kids.
Hell, I choked up big time while taking this next shot and comparing how much their little hands had grown since we poured this concrete.
Hopefully I can pull off a bigger better garage someday, but this one was pretty sweet.
I had even managed to finish closing out all the gaps around the edges with stained boards sometime the month or so prior.
Man there was a lot of work into that attic…
Lil throwback to slinging 21' long 2x10's back when... Same daughter in the blue shirt above. Man, it goes fast...
With the container away and nothing left but suitcases, it was time to say goodbye to our home. Pretty tough on the kids.
Hell, I choked up big time while taking this next shot and comparing how much their little hands had grown since we poured this concrete.
Hopefully I can pull off a bigger better garage someday, but this one was pretty sweet.
I had even managed to finish closing out all the gaps around the edges with stained boards sometime the month or so prior.
Man there was a lot of work into that attic…
Lil throwback to slinging 21' long 2x10's back when... Same daughter in the blue shirt above. Man, it goes fast...
QwikKotaTx
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
All of your projects are really well done, good attention to detail.
Your wife is a Saint. Mine travels to UKIRT observatory (I think that is near where you work) from time to time and we are heading to Maui next month for the AMOS conference. She is in the Orbital Debris field.
All of your projects are really well done, good attention to detail.
Your wife is a Saint. Mine travels to UKIRT observatory (I think that is near where you work) from time to time and we are heading to Maui next month for the AMOS conference. She is in the Orbital Debris field.
Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
-Thanks.
-I couldn't agree more. Tamara grew up in a car guy family so she gets it even if it's not her thing directly. We just celebrated our 15 year anniversary.
-UKIRT, yep also on the Mauna Kea Summit... Right now it's a crazy time to be in astronomy since we have a whole bunch of native Hawaiian protesters blocking the road up. They are upset about a new telescope scheduled to be built (after 10 years of legal challenge all permits are in place, but the activists don't like the result: the mountain is considered sacred to some). The new scope is not affiliated with any of the existing observatories but it still feels like being called a "desecrator." We were off sky for a month (never happened in all the time there's be telescopes up there) and only now most have access back to the summit.
-Thanks.
-I couldn't agree more. Tamara grew up in a car guy family so she gets it even if it's not her thing directly. We just celebrated our 15 year anniversary.
-UKIRT, yep also on the Mauna Kea Summit... Right now it's a crazy time to be in astronomy since we have a whole bunch of native Hawaiian protesters blocking the road up. They are upset about a new telescope scheduled to be built (after 10 years of legal challenge all permits are in place, but the activists don't like the result: the mountain is considered sacred to some). The new scope is not affiliated with any of the existing observatories but it still feels like being called a "desecrator." We were off sky for a month (never happened in all the time there's be telescopes up there) and only now most have access back to the summit.
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Continuing the tale...
SoCal gave us a killer sunset on the way to the airport.
We actually spent the night at the LAX Hilton to be sure we were able to land in daylight so the girls could get their first view of an island.
When you plan to live out of suitcases for 3 weeks in an otherwise unfinished rental home, you end up traveling a little heavy.
But then this view greets you:
And a buddy is waiting at the airport for you to help shuttle the bags and presents you with leis.
And you get to start work on a maintain top.
And life is good.
Continuing the tale...
SoCal gave us a killer sunset on the way to the airport.
We actually spent the night at the LAX Hilton to be sure we were able to land in daylight so the girls could get their first view of an island.
When you plan to live out of suitcases for 3 weeks in an otherwise unfinished rental home, you end up traveling a little heavy.
But then this view greets you:
And a buddy is waiting at the airport for you to help shuttle the bags and presents you with leis.
And you get to start work on a maintain top.
And life is good.
QwikKotaTx
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Re: Casa de Frijolee - a Gear Head's 2-car garage
I had heard something about protests but wasn't sure where. Hopefully that issue clears up quickly.
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Lucky you. Mine wants me inside. Not all that hard to do with the heat and humidity we have but when it cools off I hate being in the house. I grew up across from the beach in St. Thomas.
I had heard something about protests but wasn't sure where. Hopefully that issue clears up quickly.
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Deezler
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Wow!
Thanks for sharing. What an exhausting ordeal (packing/moving) and emotional tale of leaving all that behind. A truly exciting adventure ahead though! Hope the protests settle down soon for all you 'stronomers.
Wow!
Thanks for sharing. What an exhausting ordeal (packing/moving) and emotional tale of leaving all that behind. A truly exciting adventure ahead though! Hope the protests settle down soon for all you 'stronomers.