1935 Gas Station Resurrection

[HD FLHX]

Working on getting the final overhead door installed in the building. Started out by getting the old 9x7 door removed.




Once I removed the plywood that finished out the inside of the opening and the door tracks, not much else was holding the inner framing to the building.



As you can probably tell this opening is not original to the building



Started out by reframing the opening with 2x10s. It'll give better support to the lintel, especially on the right side. The 2x10 under the lintel is screwed into the lintel. A 2x6 was added to the inside of the wall for a surface to attach the door track to.




Another 2x10 was added above the intel to give a solid surface to mount the torsion spring assembly to for the door. After that was installed I installed the 2x4s to mount the wall studs to and then covered the inner door opening with 3/4 inch plywood.





Ready for the new door to be installed later today

 

[FadedGray]

Very nice build so far.

 

[rmalkow2]

Thanks for the pictures of the air line system in your other shop. I also watched the Northern Tool video on their website. From that and your install it does look like a very easy and affordable system especially for garages and home shops. I think I'll add that to my wish list.

 

[SkywalkerCR]

Joe,

You are going to love that Hot Dawg heater. I know one guy who heats a 30 x 30 airplane hangar with one. It does a great job!

I love all of the Sinclair petrolina items.....and yes the Trico add ons too.

What is that jar to the left of the Prestone can? I am not sure I ever seen one of those.

Great Job as always man!

 

[HD FLHX]

Joe,

You are going to love that Hot Dawg heater. I know one guy who heats a 30 x 30 airplane hangar with one. It does a great job!

I love all of the Sinclair petrolina items.....and yes the Trico add ons too.

What is that jar to the left of the Prestone can? I am not sure I ever seen one of those.

Great Job as always man!

Yes those Hot Dawg heaters do a nice job. Those pics are from my Morton building at home. I've been running it for a little over 5 years now. The jar is an Ampco lubricator. Not really sure how old it is. It was mixed in with some other items I was after at an auction. From my understanding it introduces an oil to the air/fuel mixture to lubricate the valvetrain. Theory is new gas blends don't have lubrication properties that old blends had and this compensates for it.

 

[HD FLHX]

The 5th and final door went in yesterday

 

[BUGTHUG]

So are you enclosing the ceiling with something? The doors look nice.
The Ampco box is in decent condition as well.

 

[38 Dodge Coupe]

You have a small fortune just in the overhead doors which look great by the way.

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

Great work, cant wait to see you working on your truck in it!

 

[Vernmotor]

I just found this and read it all. awesome place you got there. and you are a hard worker. 6 months since you started this thread. A lot of work ! Going to Be really cool when you are done ! Ok you wore me out. Going to go to bed now LOL

 

[rmalkow2]

Major accomplishments so far. It must feel really good to have those doors completed and so much interior work done.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Congrats on the last door!!

 

[shortykorte]

Ditto on last door install. With spring around the corner, you can really let the light and fresh air in.

 

[hewey]

Really great progress! Coming along nicely.

 

[C_F]

Looking really good in there! Are you sick of hanging overhead doors yet?

 

[HD FLHX]

A few baby steps this week, the day job got in the way again Finished hanging the last of the OSB on the east wall of the south bay.



When you need to pickup up 12 foot metal panels, but don't want to pull the sides off the trailer...



Prepping the south bay to start installing the metal pro-rib ceiling.



A few pieces went up last night before I called it quits.

 

[BUGTHUG]

well you make it look easy enough!

 

[txvwnut]

No fair using a panel jack. You gotta be balancing on a ladder with three or four screws in your mouth and the panel and a screw gun in your hands to make it a real project.

Place is looking good. There's an old gas station around the corner from me that's come up for lease and I'm fighting the urge to see how much it is.

 

[Loose Ctrl]

Some guys have all the toys. I'm doing my ceiling in 7/16 OSB and I am using a jig I made to hold the panels close to the bottom of the trusses, while I screw them in.

 

[green7racer]

Like many others I'm loving this thread.
Your skills make me feel inadequate but it's great to know there are people out there that can do what we wish we could.
I'm just going to stand in the corner for a little while now and try to think where I went wrong.
Cheers!

 

[HD FLHX]

A few pics of the finished ceiling in the south bay.






Enjoying a 70 degree day in February

 

[54earl]

Nice, probably feels good to park inside.

 

[Chateau Slate 66]

Enjoying a 70 degree day in February

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It must have felt good to reach this milestone. It looks RIGHT!

 

[txvwnut]

The Galaxy looks right at home in there.

Lookin good, the car and the shop.

 

[1949 caddyman]

Nice 63 Ford!

 

[hubbell]

just read whole thing, very inspiring!

 

[C_F]

The Galaxy looks right at home in there.

I'll second that!

The new ceiling & walls look great! I assume you will leave the heating ducts exposed as they are?

 

[Homebody]

No fair using a panel jack. You gotta be balancing on a ladder with three or four screws in your mouth and the panel and a screw gun in your hands to make it a real project.

lmao Were you watching me yesterday?!
Just did my ceiling using that exact method!

 

[HD FLHX]

Drywall lifts are pretty inexpensive...$125 shipped off of Ebay. This is actually the 3rd one I've owned. After I'm done with it I'll put it up on craigslist for $150 bucks and somebody will come along and offer $125. I'll say sold

A few pics I forgot to post the other night.

In the front area I'm going to use as an office and storage. I bought a rubber matt for the floor. Kinda like an area rug I guess.



Picked up an old tanker desk off of craigslist for 25 bucks.




Lighting for the shop area. 16 8ft T8 4 bulb and 7 4ft 2 bulb fixtures.



Camera system for the building inside and out.



Don't think I've posted an outside pic with all the overhead doors in. The 4 doors in the rear 60ft addition still have trim work that needs finished.

 

[Finallygotit]

I'm anxious to see what you do to those two entrance doors.

Carry on............

 

[sids04]

Wow ! I really love the Ford..

 

[JC23]

Looking good!

The area between the two gables would be a great place for a sign.

 

[HD FLHX]

A panoramic view from a top the building looking north and east.

 

[C_F]

Nice photo, it really looks like a nice peaceful little town. Reminds me of how a couple southern Utah towns looked like during my childhood. Unfortunately, urban sprawl has completely changed the look & feel of those towns today.

 

[bluestripe67]

Really looks good.

 

[utahdog2003]

Roof-top Deck!

 

[HD FLHX]

The new ceiling & walls look great! I assume you will leave the heating ducts exposed as they are?

I forgot to answer the ducting question. Yes it will be left exposed.


Hung the ceiling in the middle bay yesterday. Since this bay has higher than 11 foot ceiling I had to buy an extension for the lift. With this extension the lift can reach up to 15ft.







Stocking up for an oil change special during the grand opening



Video surveillance is now functional on the building

 

[lostmind]

Really enjoying following this. You are multi talented.
The furnace bothers me , gasoline fumes usually hang around the floor , most furnaces are mounted near the ceiling in repair garages.
Do you have plans to raise it?
seems like you thought every thing else out.
Great job so far.

 

[HD FLHX]

The furnace bothers me , gasoline fumes usually hang around the floor , most furnaces are mounted near the ceiling in repair garages.
Do you have plans to raise it?

No plans at this point, maybe when this one dies in the future I may do something different.

 

[HD FLHX]

My Saturday afternoon project was to work on finishing out the opening between the middle bay and south bays.



First thing was to come up with something to protect the incoming water line. I picked up a piece of 1/4" flat bar 9" wide and 6 feet long and a piece of 1/4" 2x2 angle.





The opening was sagging in the center and needed a column installed. First thing I done was frame the opening with 2x8s.





Bottle jack set in place ready to start jacking the center back up.



Before jacking anything I filled the cracks in with a concrete mortar repair. You can see how much squished out as I jacked the center back up to where it was suppose to be.



Opening leveled and column installed. I will weld the bottom of the column to
the steel plate when I get my mig welder moved to the building.





Capped the brick wall with 2x6s on the sides





Placed another column near the wall to give the end some support since an hvac installer decided to bust a hole through the wall for ducting in one of the worst spots ever. I'm actually surprised the opening held together as well as it did.