kamesama980
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This summer My wife and I bought a house and have finally, permanently both left parents houses for good (as opposed to rental apts in or just after school where most of your stuff is still at home). Not perfect but pretty good (especially for the money) and a decent amount of room for the little one to run around. house is 1800 sqft, almost half of which is more or less open kitchen/dining/living/family room. Lot is just under 1.5 acres, and the important part is the garage is about the size of our previous rental. 24x40 pole barn on a slab of concrete.
I work for Cummins R&D running engines on the dyno but up till starting here all my experience and education has been auto repair preceeded by tech theatre (good shop experience). I still do most of my own wrenching and enjoy an occasional bit of woodwork too. So the desire for a big garage oughta be obvious (other than just having 4 cars, 3 motorcycles, and enough parts to cobble together another vehicle of indeterminate type)
When we moved in it had a 220v sub panel with a few 120v circuits for lights and outlets, not very well laid out though. So far I put an opener on the big door, added about 1550w of flourescants, started putting up basic shelving, and have it half-full.
Plans include (in no particular order):
-New 4 wire feeder (2h+n+g)
-New panel with main breaker
-Redo existing lighting and outlets to be more useful.
-Add 220v circuits for compresser and/or welders and/or lift
-2 post lift (alas, 10 ft ceilings
)
-Insulation and paneling: 4x6 uprights so lots of it.
upon arrival:
Last night (No I haven't cleaned up much):
Other side:
Compresser:
Plate on the motor says it's a Kellogg. 1/2hp motor, single cylinder small compresser, 30 gallon tank(?). It's slow and on/off is 80/100 psi but can't complain too much, it was FREE with a bandsaw from a garage sale earlier this summer.
We had our first official breakage of the house, since we moved in in May, last night... I woke up about 4:30am because it was 80+f (I'm from up north, the AC goes down to 69 at bed time). Luckily it ends up just being the starting capaciter for the fan and compresser. then drive all over trying to find one at 6-7am (wouldn't bother then except our daughters not quite 8 months and it's supposed to be 90+ today). I did finally and here's the old one:
The domed top should be flat and about 1/8" lower than the edges like a soup can.
I work for Cummins R&D running engines on the dyno but up till starting here all my experience and education has been auto repair preceeded by tech theatre (good shop experience). I still do most of my own wrenching and enjoy an occasional bit of woodwork too. So the desire for a big garage oughta be obvious (other than just having 4 cars, 3 motorcycles, and enough parts to cobble together another vehicle of indeterminate type)
When we moved in it had a 220v sub panel with a few 120v circuits for lights and outlets, not very well laid out though. So far I put an opener on the big door, added about 1550w of flourescants, started putting up basic shelving, and have it half-full.
Plans include (in no particular order):
-New 4 wire feeder (2h+n+g)
-New panel with main breaker
-Redo existing lighting and outlets to be more useful.
-Add 220v circuits for compresser and/or welders and/or lift
-2 post lift (alas, 10 ft ceilings
)-Insulation and paneling: 4x6 uprights so lots of it.
upon arrival:
Last night (No I haven't cleaned up much):
Other side:
Compresser:
Plate on the motor says it's a Kellogg. 1/2hp motor, single cylinder small compresser, 30 gallon tank(?). It's slow and on/off is 80/100 psi but can't complain too much, it was FREE with a bandsaw from a garage sale earlier this summer.
We had our first official breakage of the house, since we moved in in May, last night... I woke up about 4:30am because it was 80+f (I'm from up north, the AC goes down to 69 at bed time). Luckily it ends up just being the starting capaciter for the fan and compresser. then drive all over trying to find one at 6-7am (wouldn't bother then except our daughters not quite 8 months and it's supposed to be 90+ today). I did finally and here's the old one:
The domed top should be flat and about 1/8" lower than the edges like a soup can.