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It all starts about 3 years ago. We had completely outgrown our old house which our family of 4 had lived in for the last 11 years. So we put it up for sale and started the journey to finding a new one. The real estate market in California was starting to boom again and there was no inventory. Anything that went on the market was sold within a week and usually went into a bidding war. There were a few important things that we had to have in a new house. At least 4 bedrooms, a 3 car garage, a pool and a decent sized yard. We missed out on a couple of opportunities, but weren't overly disappointed. In my mind that meant we hadn't actually found the right one yet. Then a couple weeks later, a house popped up. It was perfect. We went and saw it within hours of it going on the market. An offer was made (which required some very tricky negotiating). And within two weeks we had closed escrow and the house was ours. The first few posts will be more history of the last three years until now.

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First line of business was tearing out a room that the previous owner built in the 3rd car side of the garage. Complete waste of space if you ask me. So, literally the second we got done unpacking the inside of the house I tore that thing out of the garage.

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The garage was still an absolute mess with no real direction
 
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So with the room in the third car area of the garage finally removed, I needed to start making some storage and getting stuff up off the ground. I was tired of leapfrogging "things" on the floor to get to one thing or the other. My garage has 10 foot ceilings, so I have quite a bit of overhead. I started with some free hanging shelves around the perimeter. I used one of the side walls to hang the kayaks and then had a place to store some of my 2 wheel obsessions.

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The next thing I wanted to do was build some sort of rack/hoist system so I could take the shell off my truck whenever I wanted by myself. I thought about using a winch and pulleys and all kinds of other stuff went through my head. I decided a way more simpler approach would work. I use tie downs instead. Not the ratcheting type. I have 2 2x4's with eyebolts in each end. I attach the straps to some eyebolts in the ceiling and raise it off the truck that way. Once in position I secure it with chains for safety. Works perfectly.

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That back yard looks great! The garage as well.
Put some paint on the walls!
Your avatar made me think you live in Bussom, California.
 
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turbowoodworker said:
Nice progress. Keep the pictures coming.
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Thanks, Still have lots to update to get to the current state.

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That back yard looks great! The garage as well.
Put some paint on the walls!
Your avatar made me think you live in Bussom, California.
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Thank you. My avatar always gets lots of comments:thumbup: It is actually my wife. I'm sure she'll show up in this thread sometime.
 
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Did some more work on more overhead storage. I now have a very heavy duty area for storing my motorcycle and scooter projects that are in various states of restoration. In this first picture you can see my other 2 wheeled obsession, motorcycles and vintage Italian scooters. All of the bikes shown in this picture are now gone and off to new owners. I do typically keep a few around for my personal use, but when we bought this house I had to sell all the toys. These were the first few that I acquired after moving in. I typically look for bikes that need some work and get them for cheap. Do the required work, maybe ride them for a little while and then I flip them for profit.

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After selling off the bikes in the above picture I picked up some more which will be kept for my personal use as they are more in line with what I like to ride. As time goes on I will pick up other projects and flip them for money.
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It doesn't get too cold here in this area of Northern California. Maybe a few weeks a year in the 40's or 30's but that was enough to prompt me to look for some type of heater for the garage. Somehow I wandered onto this Aladdin Blue Flame Heater. It's from the late 50's I think and is in really good condition. Maybe not the perfect solution, but the cool factor is there for sure.

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Now what I really need is a workbench. I've been working on the floor or a card table ever since we moved in. It's driving me nuts. We plan to live in this house for a long, long time, so something nice is required. I also, need more tool storage space. I have two Craftsman roll-aways, that are both close to full. I decided to design a work bench that integrates some more tool storage. Using Solidworks I modeled my solution. This is what I came up with.

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I ordered up all the materials I needed and got everything cut to length after work one day. I ended up having to take it to my friends mini shop to weld it as we had no extra time after work to get it done.

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I dropped the welded frame off at the powder coaters and had a few weeks to get my benchtop in order. I decided to use butcher block but wanted it to be cheap enough so that if it got destroyed it would be easily replaceable. Ikea actually had just what I needed. I had to buy two, trim the length a little and then join them together with biscuits and drawbolts.

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Once I had the two pieces trimmed up I decided to apply a few coats of Tung oil to the butcher blocks.

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Once I got the bench frame home from the powdercoaters the real fun began. I went with a hammered grey and it turned out really nice. Although it is a little hard to photograph.

First step was to install the mounting feet so I could get the frame out of my truck and onto the ground.

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Then we taped off all the sharp edges and lowered the empty Craftsman boxes into the frame.
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Then the drawers were installed and the butcher block was attached.

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And the finished product in place. This thing is really well built and very heavy.
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That's a great looking bench. If I were permanently in my current 2-car, I'd have to trim the depth a bit, as I'm sure you would to get two daily drivers into the two stalls, but having that third... More jealousy from the great plains...

And as far as heating the garage, thats funny. I sometime build bicycle wheels in my unheated (attached, insulated) garage when it isn't riding weather. Everyone's perspective is different, based on experience and priorities. That is a really neat looking heater, though.
 
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kjdhawkhill said:
That's a great looking bench. If I were permanently in my current 2-car, I'd have to trim the depth a bit, as I'm sure you would to get two daily drivers into the two stalls, but having that third... More jealousy from the great plains...

And as far as heating the garage, thats funny. I sometime build bicycle wheels in my unheated (attached, insulated) garage when it isn't riding weather. Everyone's perspective is different, based on experience and priorities. That is a really neat looking heater, though.
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One of the problems I had with finding the top for the bench was due to the depth. It's at 30". But, due to some of the things I work on I really wanted it to be that deep. There will be more on that later when I introduce one of my projects. With that said, I do not park any of the cars in the garage as I have too many bicycles and motorcycles.

On another note, I picked up this single speed from a friend. I've always wanted to try one and the price was right. I'm really enjoying it.

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Now that I actually have space to work and do things, I checked and adjusted the valves on my KTM 990 Adventure. 1 valve was slightly out of spec. So much nicer to have a bench to lay everything out and to have the laptop out there for quick reference. It's still a mess though...

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So, I was looking for a TV for the garage. Something not too big, but big enough that I could have "the game" on or watch some moto videos or something while hanging out in the garage with friends while drinking beer. My neighbor was over checking out the bench and I was telling him about this idea and he says, "hey, we just got a new TV, I'll sell you our old one for $100 if you're interested." It ended up being a 50" that was only a couple years old. SOLD!

I got that thing mounted up on the wall, and got my Direct TV hooked up to it. Oh, and "the game" in my house is soccer. My kids play and I still do as well.

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Now I'm looking at the TV and the wall and that crappy plywood and 2x4 shelf I built when I first moved in and the wheels were turning. I knew where this was heading. How can I have a nice TV like that on that ugly wall. I got out some boxes and started packing up all the stuff on the shelf, I then removed said shelf.

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Yeah, that wall is going to need a little work. TV came down too. Time to get busy.

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That's an awesome deal on that TV... I had one lined up in a similar situation. The lady was going to sell me her 50" LG for $150... but when it came time to get it, she said she'd rather "bless it" to someone instead.

Oh well... I can't blame her, but now I'm in search of another TV to put out on my patio. I'm replacing my living room TV with a new one, and that one is going into the garage.
 
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OK, back to it. The TV was removed and the wall was prepared for texture. This wall needed some serious work to get it flat. It had been patched multiple times by the previous owner because his dog had chewed holes in it.

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And then taped everything off.

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And after all that I sprayed the texture on. It literally took 4 times as long to prep everything.

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I had a plan for this wall. And I wanted to get working on it because I now have all this stuff from the old shelf in boxes all over my garage. I wanted to get it done and get this stuff put away. So I painted a portion of the walls. I will finish the rest later.

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Ultimately I wanted to put up some sort of storage cabinets. I looked at a lot of different options. When it came down to it, my better half wasn't thrilled about spending that type of money on the garage. I understand that. Slightly defeated, I started to look at other options. I had been at my local Ikea not to long ago and had an idea. Why not use their line of kitchen cabinets for garage cabinets. This could work. I went back and really looked at them. I actually was able to get into them and bounce around a little. They felt really solid. This was promising and the cost for these was way easier to get the wife to buy off on. I used their online tool to layout what I wanted to do in the space I had. I'm a mechanical designer by trade so I would typically use my CAD program, but the online tool created a shopping list as well so why not.

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Back to Ikea I went. And with my shopping list in hand I got everything I needed to get this thing going.

I assembled the first few units and while it was sturdy I felt I could do more to make it a little better.

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I ended up gluing everything as part of the assembly process and this made these cabinets bulletproof.

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Here are the 4 cabinets assembled but not installed yet. Just doing a rough check to make sure everything fits.

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These cabinets mount very securely on a suspension rail. So they actually hang off the wall. Once everything was mounted and level I had to trim each mounting foot. They are adjustable but I have a pretty steep slope from the back wall forward so trimming was necessary. As soon as possible I started to put things in the open cabinets. Trying to get some space back.

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Next, I put up my TV mount and got the outlet and cable pass through installed.

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I got the tv mounted up on the wall and started hooking up my home theater-in-a-box. Everything was falling into place.

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Once I made sure all the connections were working I put the cabinet doors on and hid all the wiring. Then I installed the butcher block top. The finished product, I'm pleased with the outcome.

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I also looked long and hard at Ikea for the garage. I used them in my kitchen and was very impressed. Gluing is the right approach. Once they are glued, then fastened together and anchored to the wall, you can park on them. My only worry was getting them wet.

You move quickly. Keep at it!
 
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Thanks everyone. I'm definitely impressed with how sturdy the cabinets are once they are glued.

So, not much to update, but hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get some more painting done. Maybe I'll post up some pictures of one of the last motorcycles I refreshed.
 
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So, as stated earlier, I'll do a little write up on one of my hobbies. I've been doing vintage Italian scooter and motorcycle restoration for the better part of 15 years now. Recently, I've had a few opportunities (real good deals) to be able to buy a motorcycle that was in poor cosmetic shape but ran pretty well. I was able to buy and flip for profit on a couple of them. That leads us up to this one. This is about a 2005 KTM 450exc that I picked up this time last year. Now all of this occurred last year so this is really old news, but it's the best documented case I have for sharing. So.....

PREFACE:

I admit it... I have a problem. It's pretty well known among my friends. I'm self admittedly OCD. OCD as f$%k actually. Not like I have to open and close the door 14 times to go through, but other weird things. Like chewing equally on each side of my mouth. I could go on, but it would just be giving bait to you all so you can mess with me. Like, don't ever give me 3 M&M's. You'll either be giving me another one or I'm throwing one back at you. Because even numbers.

This carries over into my work (which is actually very beneficial in my job). But it also carries over into one of my true passions which is motorcycles. And clean motorcycles. And cleaning motorcycles. My dad taught me at a very young age that before you start working on something you should clean it. It's easier to work on and, duh, it looks better.

So, awhile back a deal of a lifetime came along (those who know me, know I stumble upon these pretty often) and I couldn't pass it up. A friend was selling his 2005 KTM 450exc and offered it to me at a deal that was beyond good. I had to jump on it. So I asked if he had time to wait for me to sell off my XR400. He said sure, take your time, I'm in no hurry. The XR was sold within a week and for what I was going to pay for the 450exc. Score! I made the drive down to Livermore and picked up the 450. It was rough. A little rougher than I imagined. But I gave it a very thorough test ride and feel that mechanically it was sound. Actually it runs like a raped ape. But it's very, very dirty and in need of some love. This is where I begin...

Test subject # 1.
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This is a condensed version and will be more of an overview. I have a more detailed thread on another board that has more info.

So here's some pictures of what I'm dealing with.
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The engine in general is very dirty and there is RTV all over a lot of the fasteners... which looks like ****.
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And a massive pile of old junked plastics.
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I'm interested in the longer version as I have a 2005 525 EXC. Can you post a link to the other forum?
 
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While I like things clean as well, it is a dirt bike after all. Further up north like Oregon/Washington, that would be considered very clean. One morning in the clay mud and it would be mess again. But I appreciate your desire to make things as good as they can be.
 
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chrisBTSC said:
On another note, I picked up this single speed from a friend. I've always wanted to try one and the price was right. I'm really enjoying it.
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That's a fun looking single speed - everything I own has gears so far, but if/when I move someplace with a little more storage room I'll probably end up with a CX single speed bike, maybe single/fat too.
 
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