Rennkafer
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So my wife and I bought a house this past July, and now I finally have some space to set up to work in. It's a 1600sq ft rambler with an unfinished daylight basement/shop (also ~1600sq ft). We bought the house from the guy who had it built in 2003, but he never finished the basement into the shop he'd intended it to be. It came with a separate 200amp panel/meter and an 8' garage door already in place.
Plans are to put in two walls, one for a machine tool room (I have a Logan lathe and a Bridgeport Mill), and the other for a storage area for parts. I'll divide the rest into an area to work on cars (in front of the garage door), a fabrication area (I also have Miller TIG and Lincoln MIG welders), a benchwork area, and the rest general work space. So far I have the concrete walls primed and partially painted (white), 10 lights (4 bulb T8 - probably will need to buy about 8 more), all the insulation, some of the wiring, and enough Armorclad gray epoxy to do all the floor.
Some pics of what I started with:
Back (West) side of the house showing the shop from outside
From the garage door, looking South
From the same spot looking SE
Looking East, you can see the space wasting 1200gal cistern for the well behind my track car.
Looking North
Some pics of the wall paint. It was a real pain since they'd never knocked off the snap-ties so those all had to be cut off and ground flush. Then the concrete boogers had to get knocked off. I stopped short of grinding the wall smooth, though it pained me to do it.
Given the amount of projects I have lined up (5 at the moment), I'm hoping to have this done by next summer so I can get busy on them rather than working on the infrastructure. Projects include: Complete restoration on a 1928 McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor and my 1967 International Travelall, finishing the turbo and cage install on my '97 Miata track car, a bunch of work I need to do on my '93 Audi S4, and putting my Bridgeport back together (bought it as a "kit" on pallets).
More pics:
My and my wifes S4's (at our old house)
My track car, 1997 Miata
The '67 Travelall
And finally, the 1928 McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor. Saw this on Craigslist and just knew it was going to go to scrap and I couldn't let that happen. Talked the guy down to about 1/3 of what he was asking and dragged it home. This is about the lowest tech restoration I've done (last one I worked on was a '67 Ferrari 330GTS), and I'm realy looking forward to it.
Plans are to put in two walls, one for a machine tool room (I have a Logan lathe and a Bridgeport Mill), and the other for a storage area for parts. I'll divide the rest into an area to work on cars (in front of the garage door), a fabrication area (I also have Miller TIG and Lincoln MIG welders), a benchwork area, and the rest general work space. So far I have the concrete walls primed and partially painted (white), 10 lights (4 bulb T8 - probably will need to buy about 8 more), all the insulation, some of the wiring, and enough Armorclad gray epoxy to do all the floor.
Some pics of what I started with:
Back (West) side of the house showing the shop from outside
From the garage door, looking South
From the same spot looking SE
Looking East, you can see the space wasting 1200gal cistern for the well behind my track car.
Looking North
Some pics of the wall paint. It was a real pain since they'd never knocked off the snap-ties so those all had to be cut off and ground flush. Then the concrete boogers had to get knocked off. I stopped short of grinding the wall smooth, though it pained me to do it.
Given the amount of projects I have lined up (5 at the moment), I'm hoping to have this done by next summer so I can get busy on them rather than working on the infrastructure. Projects include: Complete restoration on a 1928 McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor and my 1967 International Travelall, finishing the turbo and cage install on my '97 Miata track car, a bunch of work I need to do on my '93 Audi S4, and putting my Bridgeport back together (bought it as a "kit" on pallets).
More pics:
My and my wifes S4's (at our old house)
My track car, 1997 Miata
The '67 Travelall
And finally, the 1928 McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor. Saw this on Craigslist and just knew it was going to go to scrap and I couldn't let that happen. Talked the guy down to about 1/3 of what he was asking and dragged it home. This is about the lowest tech restoration I've done (last one I worked on was a '67 Ferrari 330GTS), and I'm realy looking forward to it.
