Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Kevkx125's garage in progress

[harley jim]

Kev
Are you going to drywall the outside walls or do you have something else in mind. That is a nice shop.

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[captain14]

Everything buttoned down for the rain coming through on Thursday? Talking 1-2” south of your location where I’m at outside Washington DC.

 

[Kevkx125]

Hey jim yea I plan on finishing out with drywall, I like the look of finished drywall. Might be a while yet I plan on doing the ceiling first.
Thanks for checking jim

 

[Kevkx125]

captain14 yea the outside is pretty well cleaned up. Hoping the carport frame holds up over the next couple of days so I can finish putting it together this weekend.

 

[Kevkx125]

Well finished putting the carport together. We will see how well the roof holds up, if nothing else I will have 4 post's to work off of.

 

[harley jim]

Looking good Kev

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[Kevkx125]

Looking good Kev

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Thanks for checking in JIM hope you had a good day.

 

[Kevkx125]

Put a shorter kickstand on the street bike to go with the lowering links, also put together my manual tire changer. Going to have to look at the motorcycle wheel adapter. also played with my new compact shop blower.

 

[Kevkx125]

Added 20 more bins to my nut & bolt assortment.

 

[harley jim]

I'm going to check on some of those HD bins. I am going to move my shelving from the main shop to the storage stall once my bil gets his garage repaired and takes his car home. I think that half of your idea would work as an endcap on the shelves

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[Kevkx125]

Thanks for stopping in JIM. Yea the bin's are pretty handy, they come with a mounting system or you can stack them on their own.

 

[kkamuca]

Finally, got here! checked everything form the start. Lookin' good, Kev!

 

[Kevkx125]

Finally, got here! checked everything form the start. Lookin' good, Kev!

Hey sis. thanks for stopping in, Enjoy, miss you talk to you soon.

 

[Kevkx125]

Put in some cross brace's today. Seems much better now

 

[Kevkx125]

Some new to me tools for the garage 1/2" extension's for the metric box and a gear wrench for the sae box yea man!!!

 

[captain14]

You never have enough extensions sometimes.

Flea market finds or even better found in the road and followed you home?

 

[don long]

Hi Kev
Just found your thread today and read through it
Never got hooked on street bikes but spent the entire family life raising 8 kids in the desert riding dirt toys.
Nice sized garage enjoy it

Don

 

[Kevkx125]

You never have enough extensions sometimes.

Flea market finds or even better found in the road and followed you home?

Hi Kev
Just found your thread today and read through it
Never got hooked on street bikes but spent the entire family life raising 8 kids in the desert riding dirt toys.
Nice sized garage enjoy it

Don

Thanks for stopping in captain14, got them off ebay so spent a little $ not bad though and they are snap on!

Thanks for stopping in don long, Yea Don ever since I got a license I always liked having a bike for the economy and the thrills of course. Cool to see you and your family rode together, that was one of my favorite things about off roading was seeing family's riding together . I used to ride with a husband and wife and their son it was a blast. Thanks again for stopping in.

 

[rixtrix1]

Really like all your bikes and other garage toys! I bought a 1974 YZ125 back in the day, thinking a smaller bike would be easier to learn MX on, lol! After spending twice what it cost modifying it before I even rode it, got to ride a friend's 400 Maico. Went 5 sec faster a lap than on my 125 and only had to shift 7-8 times instead of 200!!

 

[Kevkx125]

Really like all your bikes and other garage toys! I bought a 1974 YZ125 back in the day, thinking a smaller bike would be easier to learn MX on, lol! After spending twice what it cost modifying it before I even rode it, got to ride a friend's 400 Maico. Went 5 sec faster a lap than on my 125 and only had to shift 7-8 times instead of 200!!

rixtix1 Thanks for stopping in, yea a friend on the other side of the neighborhood had a 74 yz125 when I was a 11 year old beating on a 73 xr75, watching him ride that bike made me want a 2 stroke. Had a friend in high school that rode ope class MAICO'S Said he loved the power.

 

[Kevkx125]

added 2 new gearwrench's to my metric box yea man!!

 

[Kevkx125]

Started to organize my zip-tie storage. Just need to mount them to some thing.

 

[Kevkx125]

Mounted them at the back of the bench for now. Thinking of some idea's to mount them on the nut & bolt bin rack.

 

[harley jim]

Looks good kev

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[Kevkx125]

Looks good kev

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Thanks for checking in jim.

 

[rixtrix1]

Mounted them at the back of the bench for now. Thinking of some idea's to mount them on the nut & bolt bin rack.

Neat idea, I have tons I need to organize somehow, but I'm short on space for this. My telecom client throws so many of these away.

 

[Kevkx125]

Neat idea, I have tons I need to organize somehow, but I'm short on space for this. My telecom client throws so many of these away.

Thanks for stopping in. Yes it is nice having them organized in stead of cluttering on the end of the bench. Not perfect or permanent but better.

 

[Kevkx125]

Worked on my trailer project today. Stained one side of the decking.

 

[jon72vega]

Kevkx125,
I went thru your thread over the last couple of days.
You do good work!
Is that a 4 eyed Mustang I see in the background?

Any more pictures of it?

 

[Kevkx125]

jon04 thanks for stopping in and thanks for the nice comments. Yes that is a 86 gt, I do not have a lot of pics of it yet. She is a bit rough but I have some parts for it, so maybe this summer I can get some work done to it and make it more presentable.

 

[Kevkx125]

Gave it some thought and decided that adding my zip-tie holders to my nut&bolt storage made sense. turned out ok I think.

 

[don long]

Hey Kev
You are forcing me to rethink my tie wraps. They are in bundles lying on a shelf in a cabinet. Every time I want one I end up pulling 3 or 4 out of the bundle and it's hard to put them back into the bundle so the trash can gets them most of the time. Thanks for the clever way to solve that problem.

 

[a_thiel24]

What's the plan for the carport?

 

[Kevkx125]

Hey Kev
You are forcing me to rethink my tie wraps. They are in bundles lying on a shelf in a cabinet. Every time I want one I end up pulling 3 or 4 out of the bundle and it's hard to put them back into the bundle so the trash can gets them most of the time. Thanks for the clever way to solve that problem.

DON

Thanks for stopping, and glad I could help out.

 

[Kevkx125]

What's the plan for the carport?

For right now I am going to park which ever vehicle is not in the garage under it,

 

[Kevkx125]

Put some front to back braces on the car port and finished staining the other side of the trailer decking.

 

[andyaus]

hahaha don't we all love a project, I restored a cargo trailer recently too Look forward to the updates on yours

 

[Kevkx125]

andyaus-Thanks for stopping in!! The trailer was given to me back in 2009 for free. Its been sitting next to the garage collecting dust. Its time to make it useful, so hopefully by end of weekend I will have some decking on it.

 

[Kevkx125]

Almost finished with the trailer. Just need to make some filler boards and tidy up the wiring some and put some tie down hooks on.

 

[andyaus]

Nice work, I had a flatbed trailer I used it to transport the main shop which was very useful but after that I made it disappear What will you be using your's for?