My Re-Organization Experiment

[Submarine_Sailor]

Hi all, great forum here. I am pretty new, signed up like 4 days ago. I am in the navy and live in SC. I have a standard 2 car garage, and for the longest time have used it as a man cave/ workplace. Recently I bought a shuffleboard table and had a thread about what to do with it. After some brainstorming(last night), I've decided to re-organize. It's hard right now because it's winter and I don't have anywhere to put my **** other than the garage, so I am shuffling things from one place to the other as I go. That said, please excuse the mess. I have pictures from the other day of what it started as, and then after I cleared my area last night, and then what I accomplished today. So, I will attach them as I go. I am trying to keep pictures of the whole process like these guys do when they build one, only I'm re-arranging and doing some building. First thing I decided to do is build a workbench, to replace my sorry plywood table, and put it in a place where I can access it easily and regularly. Until I get some brave volunteers to help I can't move the shuffleboard table because it weighs about 450 pounds. So, that said here are my before pictures.

 

[LaMaR-]

Navy here as well, Located in Jacksonville.. Welcome to the forums

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

Ok, so this is when I got done moving **** around last night and realized I had no lumber or hardware to build a workbench...... I had already had a couple beers and decided it could wait until after work tonight. I never realized how much junk I have until I moved half of it.

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

Ok, so my progress as of right now. Just got too cold out there for me. I mounted some board that went all the way into the studs so that I would have a good attachment point. Then I put in the top crossbeams, followed by some 2X6's that will be my outer edge. Tomorrow I plan to put in my base supports, and maybe run electrical for my outlets. That won't be very exciting since most of it has to be in the attic to run the new circuit. But I will post pics as I go.

 

[banzaitoyota]

Welcome to the board. I spent most of my career homeported out of Charleston (When it still had a sub base) What boat are you on?

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

I work at the nuclear power training unit here as an instructor. Prior to that I was on USS Jacksonville (SSN-699).

 

[banzaitoyota]

I work at the nuclear power training unit here as an instructor. Prior to that I was on USS Jacksonville (SSN-699).

I was at Squadron 4 when we cut one of the float-a-types in half, was down in the drydock when we did it.

You a knuckle dragger or a twidget??

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

knuckle dragger. Twidgets would never find this place.

 

[welder4956]

You a knuckle dragger or a twidget??

I haven't heard of these "titles" before. MM vs. ET?

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

You got it!

 

[banzaitoyota]

I was a Nuke MM on the 625 and 633 as well as SMMS PMT. Aaah good times.
Actually one of my best friends and motorhead extraordinare was a NAV ET! Guy had some awesome Mopars, a Jet Powered S10, and currently rides a prepped Ducatti

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

I know a couple of ET's that have good mechanical skills actually, just thought I would take my chance to pick on them some. I actually knew a guy that worked in a machine shop before he joined the Navy and then got assigned as an ET. SO, it's not uncommon I guess.

 

[welder4956]

I was a nuc welder on the AS-19 and AS-37 from 1977 to 1982. Worked on 598 class boomers, fast attacks and a few diesel boats. Not to mention a few other small RV's for the sat divers.

 

[banzaitoyota]

I was a nuc welder on the AS-19 and AS-37 from 1977 to 1982. Worked on 598 class boomers, fast attacks and a few diesel boats. Not to mention a few other small RV's for the sat divers.

My hat is off to you! I used to prep the test pipes for the Ships Emergency Nuke Welder; I was the ships machinist.

Did you ever get the pleasure to do a LiBR Waterbox repair?

 

[MikeYC]

Not bad for a Bubblehead!!!!


Just Kidding Looks good and keep us posted...


P.S. I am still working on mine. The wife calls it a "Disaster in Progress"


Retired CEC(SCW)

 

[welder4956]

My hat is off to you! I used to prep the test pipes for the Ships Emergency Nuke Welder; I was the ships machinist.

Did you ever get the pleasure to do a LiBR Waterbox repair?

Don't recall ever doing one of those, but expect it would be difficult. Did quite a few HPD manifolds, CHV-19 and 21, dp cells in Rx compartment, air valves in torpedo room, and even fixed a dented rudder on one boat (must have been hit by a shopping cart).

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

Ok, I know it's been a few days, but it has been one problem after another. I feel like clark griswold. Ok, SO first I finished framing it up. Then we ran the wires for the outlet. We is me and my 3 year old son. You can see him in some of the pictures. He cracked me up because he wanted to help so much. So I let him. So this was my first hiccup. I had (notice past tense) a stud finder. I would've sworn there would be a cross beam in every wall, It appeared that way. My stud finder swore there wasn't. So, I cut the hole in the drywall and drilled the whole in the stud in the top of the wall and started feeding wire. Come to find out, there was indeed a cross beam. Using the good old fashioned, knock the wall method I located. Then out of curiosity, stuck the stud finder on it. It still said that there was no stud there. Needless to say in my frustration, I ensured that stud finder will never lie to anyone again. So, to prevent having to cut drywall and patch it after the fact in order to drill through the cross stud, I used some conduit and ran it down. It's barely visible.

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

Then I hit snag #2. Drilling through the stud over the breaker box to add my new circuit for the workbench, I hit the wire that runs to the dryer. So I fried a 240V wire, and the wife couldn't do laundry. That was quickly made priority #1 because she was quite unhappy. So I lost nearly a day of work undoing a mistake. But I got the circuit finished off and the dryer fixed, no worries. Then I put the top on. Today I am going to move everything into it and then hopefully finish re-organizing and you guys can see the before/after. It is already looking tons better.

 

[banzaitoyota]

Did you float test the stud finder?

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

It is in about 40 pieces in the other corner of the garage where it ricocheted off the wall and into the floor at high velocity.

 

[k5ryannc]

keep up the good work! i love to see little helpers on these projects. i've got 3 with another helper on the way. my brother was a nuke for 6 years. thanks for the service guys. if i were closer i'd help move that mammoth table.

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

Ok, I am done! At least until we get tax returns..... Then I'm sure I will find a way to invest it. Anyways, I am going to try to attach pictures from before with the same view of after so you guys can see what I started and ended with. I havent figured out how to put the pictures in the post itself so its all big, if someone can tell me how, I'll do it that way. I'll also post photos of the 240V wire I drilled into.

 

[Submarine_Sailor]

Thought I would put up pics of some of my signs since I have pictures of them.