Falcon's next shop - build thread

[don long]

Man running air lines out of iron pipe looks like a lot of work.
You did a nice job on your build.

Was that drawing in the beginning created with 3d home architect ?
I love that program I designed body shops with it for years then lost
my computer and with it went the program.

As hot as it gets in texas I think a bigger fridge is in order!!
thanks for posting.
Don

 

[Falcon67]

The iron isn't too bad. Since it all came out of the old shop, I have to take the sections apart first, so it's kinda double work. I used a lot of odd length pieces, elbows, unions and joints to make it work in the old place so I have LOTS of pieces for the new jigsaw puzzle. I could plumb a bath like the 3 Stooges real easy. I use 5-7 wraps of teflon tape on the threads and coat that with high pressure teflon sealer. This works well enough with the chinese fittings. I put the sections together on the floor and then just lay them up on the wall. Since I have lots of unions, so it can come apart fairly easy for repairs or "changed my mind".

The drawings are from Visio 2007. Pretty easy to work with and I have a license for the full blown MS Office since I work in IT at a university.

Good stuff, Chris. If I'd seen the Gulf sign it might have ended up in my truck.

I'm adding security screws right away...

 

[Falcon67]

Finished up the air line runs, so all that's left is to build the rest of the closet. Sometime LOL. Have to think about how I want to set it up for access to the compressor and gate valve without having to move everything that will get jam packed around it.

The run to the far end stopped a little short of plan. I was shooting for another 4' of run. I had more pipe, but ran out of unions of all things. I would have had the union, but didn't have the 18" of drop pipe I needed. So I called "good 'nuff". After all the layout work and using all the existing pieces, I ended needing one more gate valve because I used one of the remaining pair for a shut off on the long run. It won't get used much, so why store air in there. Just bought the gate valve well before I ran out of unions.

We treat the place like our covered patio and sit out there relaxing on many evening, so I added some patio lights.

 

[onething]

If you get tired of sitting on the patio, you can come work on my shop.

Looks good!

 

[mrgm]

What you do about the mosquitos?

 

[Falcon67]

What you do about the mosquitos?

There have been very few. It's been real dry here. I also keep the lot sprayed. We had a 50% chance of rain last weekend, cloudy, hopeful...went around us and flooded Fort Worth. Everything else was south of I-20. We got zip out of the whole weekend.

 

[mrgm]

we live in abilene so we have seen all the lightning just go north of us. kinda ***** but one day, someday

 

[Scottishross]

Looking great mate

 

[Falcon67]

I finally got around to boxing in the compressor this last weekend. I used a sheet of sound board - it's like fluffy OSB and makes one hell of a mess when you rip it with a circular saw. I still need to put hinges on it, but it's light weight so it only takes 4 screws to hold the big panel in place. I had big plans for air circulation - vents, duct fan, relay, etc. Well, after getting the system up and using it the compressor doesn't run long enough for it to be an issue. The bottom panel with the lower vent will be removable so if I get into some heavy air work, I can just sit a box fan at the bottom to blow air into the space.

It's still fairly noisy but the panel cut the sound by at least 50%. I chased a small leak in one hose and now the system seems to hold pressure pretty well. I had to T in a gage since I boxed in the one on the compressor.

LOL - I reclaimed a whole bench top by putting all the 1/2" iron parts in a box and putting them in the attic.

I forgot to shoot a pic of the floor - I'll update and show you how I added some color to the work area.

 

[Falcon67]

My 2 yr old grandson approves

Adds flair

 

[buzz4041]

Looks good Chris. You have come a long way. I saw a nice restored 60's Frostie soda machine on craigslist in your area that would go nicely with your clock.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Looking good Chris. Do you ever think you'll paint the wall ? FYI, when you do, it's going to **** taking all that stuff off the walls to paint.


I notice a few tall intakes under the work bench, whatcha got down there ?

 

[Wingnut65]

Nice work on the air lines.

I've never heard of fluffy OSB-type sound board. Can ya shoot a close-up of it or get a brand name? Could be useful for separator panels instead of plywood.

 

[Falcon67]

Thanks very much for the comments!

No, I already blew off painting the walls. After I started getting the wood up, I remembered how I like the warm color of it. So - it's good. We might paint the ceiling, and my wife had the suggestion that it'd be a better ceiling and easier to paint if we went over it with 1/2 sheet rock. It's be easy to hang on that OSB for sure. And it would help seal off the attic.

I called it "fluffy OSB" because I can't remember what was for breakfast. The real name is QuietBrace. Neat stuff.
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...eyword=sound+board&storeId=10051#.UEDVGZb-LTo

The back of the compressor closet is QuietBrace, about 1 1/2" packed with scraps of fiberglass insulation and OSB on the work room side. Almost kills all the compressor noise on that side. On the other side, it sounds like the noise is bouncing off the ceiling of the closet, so I'm going to tack a piece of insulation up there and see if that cuts some of it out.

Intakes: Mostly 351C stuff - one tunnel ram and the other is a 4V Funnelweb from Australia. The Funnelweb is off my old 4V engine. The heads are under there too.

I was thinking this -

but will probably put those pieces on the Mustang so the wife can go faster. Those parts should put that car in the 7.0x~7.2 at 95+ in the 1/8 mile.

The T-ram is an eBay score, NOS on the shelf for 20 years. That thought looks like -

Old school

 

[cgall]

Lotsa stuff to have fun with, Falcon.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Parker Funnelweb, don't see those much anymore, especially for a Cleveland. . . .no wonder it looked so big.

 

[Falcon67]

Parker Funnelweb, don't see those much anymore, especially for a Cleveland. . . .no wonder it looked so big.

I think Terry gave up making them. He worked really hard at it, then the Chinese got hold of one and cut the price by 1/3. He's a good guy and the intake is killer. It's real, $550 for the intake and shipping to get it here. The heads have the matching port tongues. A 10.5:1 355 CID with a 238/248 solid cam, home ported heads, Funnelweb and a 750DP made nearly 500 HP. 3250 lbs running 7.20s @ 95. The Mustang runs a 2V Funnelweb.

 

[jonahbones]

wikipedia funnelweb spider - dry humour it is a national habit

 

[Falcon67]

wikipedia funnelweb spider - dry humour it is a national habit

And that's good. The intake is deadly - won two championships with it and about 20x what it cost in round money. The motor fell out from under it.

 

[Wes Tex]

The shop looks great. You have a lot of good ideas. And speaking of racing, we missed you Saturday night at TXR. Sambo, Robert, and I were all there. I bet you could have done well.

 

[Falcon67]

Thanks Joe! Dang it, we missed the family reunion. We'll hook up soon. Sambo runnered up at Crandall a couple of weeks ago. Lost to ***** in the final, would have loved to see that ticket.

 

[quick60]

Nice shop Chris!!!! Im getting ideas for mine and have a question. Your shop is 24' deep but it looks like you have plenty of room in front of the cars. Do you feel 28' or even 30' would be better? I pretty much had decided to go 30' deep with mine but after looking at yours Im thinking 28' would be good and I will add that two feet to the width. Right now I am 30x36 but might just go 28x38.

Thanks

 

[Falcon67]

>Do you feel 28' or even 30' would be better?
I would not turn down another 4'. I have a pickup that I need to work on and 24' will be a bit tight on that. I stayed 10' off the back fence and the setback is only 3', so I left room for future modifications.

While we're here - lets update!
We got us a couple of Dish Hoppers now. So I ran a little conduit, pulled some RG6 and the shop got a Joey. I'm watching, I ain't goin' joggin'.

I finally upgraded the 2x3 piece of Hardi laying on the ground in front of the man door -

The dogs love it and tend to argue over who gets to lay there on these warm afternoons. I sweep it off and by the time we get home from work it's covered with dog prints.

Since I made a real porch, it needed a porch light. eBay fixed that need after a few weeks of watching barn light auctions. Got this one for $45.

Some leftover 1/2' galvanized pipe and a flange makes a mount:

I wired in a motion sensor for it, pulled power from the breaker panel and wired in a control switch. Glad I used OSB since I had top pull off several panels to get to all those spaces. That made for an ugly square above the door, so I covered it with a sign. Will find that pic later today I guess.

Turned out pretty good I think.

Motion sensor is under the motion lights on the right side of the pic. Come out the door and there's light to lock up and walk to the house. Nice.

 

[hoopsnut]

Great looking build Chris, plenty of air. I went with the rapid air system, with 3 outlets, but my work doesn't require a lot of PSI and volume.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Those are a couple of good additions to the garage Chris. I think you may need to add onto the pad to have room for both dogs.

 

[Vernmotor]

Great job on the light !

 

[RaysnCayne]

Sweet light!

The shade, wiring and hardware all look downright pristine. Had it been rewired/freshened by the ebay seller before you got it?

Nice use of leftover galvanized too.

 

[Falcon67]

No refresh, the light came as-is. Description said it was original and as-is. Looked pretty good, seller had decent pictures. It had a ragged 2 wire cord on it, like it had been hanging from the cord in some previous life. It's got a small mark inside the shade and a little bit of rust and chipping on the bottom edge, but in all it's a real nice piece. Looks like it spent it's life indoors. It came up one evening on my search and I jumped on it quick. Made an offer, got an accept overnight and paid first thing next morning. Haven't been able to track down the vintage yet.

I rewired the socket with 14-2. To ground the shade, I looped the copper around so it would be pinched between the socket and the cast aluminum mount by tightening the two mounting screws. No provision for a ground wire on a vintage ceramic socket. Hard part was fishing 14-2 through that 90 on the pipe.

As for the dogs, I'm hunting the home centers and garden places for some left over St Augestine or Bermuda to put around the porch. I seeded it, but they tracked most of that off somewhere. One of the Lowes had some dead grass squares for $5 - I said "really" and passed. The board it to step over the watering area.

Warning! NEC violation - hidden junction box! The sign hides the box cover completely.

 

[SiGmA_X]

Its against NEC to cover a junction box with a wall covering? My folks have pictures over some of the jboxes in random places in their living room. The previous owners/builders did things interestingly from the count of jboxes all over... Annoying, but hideable.

 

[Falcon67]

>Its against NEC to cover a junction box with a wall covering?
I say, I say - that's a joke, son.

Yea, lots of j-boxes is a real red flag for sure. I have one "unscheduled" box up in the attic at about the EXIT sign location. Pulled the run for the well pump, fed it into the panel, ripped the insulation then peeled it back and cut it off. Started to wire it up - well, !@#$#@ there's the white wire laying on the ground. Oops.

 

[Falcon67]

It's "Back to the Future" in my shop as of last night. We found a Realistic STA-785 receiver, circa 1988, in a closet we cleaned. I didn't have the heart to toss it because it looked brand new. I dug up the box with 4 small Radio Shack heavy duty speakers that I bought at a Tandy yard sale probably about that time. (no, I don't throw much out) Took the mess to the shop and haywired this thing up with a couple of speakers. Rooting around in the "AV Box" (big box of cables, baluns and misc **** sorta related to AV stuff) produced a small TV antenna (for FM) and a mini-DIN to RCA stereo cord. So now the iHome box is the charger and I can cable the iPhone into the CD/AUX ports. Wow - the sound is really good. Hit the bass boost and it's groovy. The receiver handles 2 sets of speakers, so I can have a set in the work area and a pair in the main shop. It also has TV/AUX inputs for the Dish setup. And it has tape in/tape out for us experienced types that remember things like "tape". Score me an old Akai reel-to-reel deck and I'm totally retro.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I think you might need a reverberator to be total groovy man.

 

[onething]

Lots of progress since my last visit. Throw a welcome mat on that new slab and I might have to plan a trip your way.
Looking good.

 

[MPOWERD]

Fantastic build! I read your entire thread and was very impressed! I share the Texas heat with you and I cant honestly say I would have completed your daily work schedule... Hats off to you for a hell of a good job!

 

[Falcon67]

Thanks very much! We're sharing the Texas cold right now. I just bought 21 gallons of propane, so maybe that will trigger a heat wave.

 

[mrgm]

hows the heat treating you in there

 

[Press_Corpse]

This place turned out great! I remember lurking before I signed up for the forum and this one being one of my first I looked at.

I'm glad I didnt have to deal with that heat. I've got some heat and plenty of cold here in Illinois.

 

[Wayfastwhitie440]

Love the porch light.

 

[JonnyC]

Nice lathe. 9x20?

 

[Falcon67]

Yes it is a HF 9x20. Since I'm here and you asked, I recently built this

To land this

Had to rearrange the tool room to park the new tool.