Extra ductwork is in the shed although I will admit to drive slides and cleats being hidden all over the place in here the funny thing to drives and cleates is they love to fall over or slide down onto the floor on a regular basis . . I am in the process of rearanging everything for the third time since I started this plus cleaning soot off the walls and ceiling as I go so I have everything more or less moved to the center of the garage while I clean and rearange . Hopefully I get the arangement right this time . . Second pic is the direction I am heading in and the last pic is the new seating/chill zone . Mind you the melted mini blinds are on the oposit side of the garage from the basement stairwell so yes it did get a little warm up here even though the fire was in the basement .Well its been a LONG 2 years I guess its time to bring the garage back out of the moth balls
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.The fridge I want is a mid 50's Philco V handle ( one of the kewlest old fridges out there ) . I will find one someday that I can afford
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.Plus Philco was made by Ford a big plus in a Ford inspired garage
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thus the unibody name . They were built from 1961-1963 .They were built on the same frame as the other trucks but the body itself was one piece . Ford made 3 differant body styles from 61-63 the unibody , the flareside ( stepside ) and what we refer to as the wrongbed styleside which had a seperate bed that looked like the bed that was on the 57-60 trucks . I actually have 2 of them but the 63 longbed is slated to give its life to the 62 shortbed. .Yes I still intend to cover the counters with galvanised at some point . I still have some cabinets to paint as you can see the single drawer unit isnt painted yet and since I added it I need to paint the side of the cabinets on either side of it .
Those cabinets will last a few more lifetimes.. the fire was centered in the laundry room downstairs which is below the kitchen and dining room . I had to gut both rooms from the floor joist to the ceiling and replace all of it including the floor joists . I also gutted the bathroom next to the dining room and rebuilt it from the floor joists up . The basement had 3 bedrooms in it and is now just one big open room at the moment as we now only have 2 out of 5 kids still living at home 3 out of 5 grew up and moved out . I was actually happy to find the purple power did such a good job on the soot in the garage although I think if I had chosen anything other than gloss and semi gloss finishes out here the cleanup would have been much worse . The fire was actually February a year ago so I rebuilt the inside of the house first with a couple of freinds helping when they could and now its the garages turn . The sitting/TV area is needed since SWMBO and I both smoke and neither of us smoke in the house . and we have yet to address the loft above the stairs " its skeery " . .
. I picked up an older craftsman oxy/acet rig this summer with small tanks ( B sized acetalene ) with 2 extra B size acet tanks and one extra oxygen for $200.00 all together and have them listed for $300.00 now . Then I managed to find a newer Harris setup with MONSTER bottles for $100.00 so when done the Harris set should be free if I get full asking for the Craftsman set .Well one more wall pretty well done other than painting some cabinets .
Also found an old vise that was given to me that will most likely require a nice soaking in an electrolitical bath .
I still have quite a bit in the middle of the garage to stick somewhere
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. . I got mine free just by asking for them in the wanted section of craigslist . All I did was sand them with an electric DA sander and shoot some paint on them not hard at all and I am happy with them . I will be building cabinets for the loft as I want to get the max storage I can up there . I guess I could get some pics of the loft up here tonight although as I have said " its skeery " up there .This update is mostly for Red Leader . Going to look at a late 50's Craftsman 15" floor model drill press tomorrow and yes I have already been over to OWWM and have pics of what it should look like
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. I keep looking but no luck yet. Don't worry, Kentucky is a bit far away for me. I still have the JET bench dp that I got when my ....Funny Dave AKA Red Leader had the same reaction to the lights
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Can you tell me about them? I own an HVAC company called Airmedic Mechanical. I used a used ambulance years ago for a service truck and all the supply house guys thought it was funny to call me the " airmedic " . The name stuck and I still use it . You should take a look at Red Leaders garage it will bring back memories for you as well .He is the king of " art deco tools " around here .
