Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT One car garage/minishop

[AndrewBigA]

i love the tiles on the floor & the walls. i would love to polish a car in there lol.
small spaces make you become more creative with where to put things.
everything has its place but it will find its place on its own based on how you use that small space that was given to you.
id like more pics please & thanks to you i want a piece of flan. =)

 

[T VETTE]

Tile is very COOL.

My step son has a Sears tool box like that and it is amazing how many tools are in there!!

 

[viking01]

That welding cart is FANTASTIC! I am planning for something similar and will most likely "borrow" some of your design.

You have a very nice piece of workplace there, keep it going!

~yo

 

[4StarCstms]

I like the welding cart too - don't forget a place to wrap up the Cords, as well as the Ground clamp and the welding torch -

 

[Tony B]

Great looking shop and great looking welding projects !!! You said you work for a seat manufacturer in Mexico, wouldn't be Lear would it ? I work for Lear in Alabama, but used to work for Lear Mexican Operations. If you do too then maybe we know the same people or even each other ! Small world right ! Later !

 

[Krokodil]

I like the welding cart!

 

[jktruck150]

Sweet place! Me gusta! Lo siento, hablo mucho bad espanol! LOL I probably can't spell it worth a flip either. But you garage is great! The tile on the walls was definitely the right choice! Nice job on the welding. How easy is it to get supplies (building, welding, etc) down in Mexico? You seem to have been able to aquire everything you need and then some!

 

[BLUBAYOU]

nice work!

 

[emeraldcoupe]

nice work. i REALLY like the benches. i saw the price on your tool kit and thought DAMN, then remembered you were in Mexico, lol.

 

[Cheeky81]

i love the tiles on the floor & the walls. i would love to polish a car in there lol.
small spaces make you become more creative with where to put things.
everything has its place but it will find its place on its own based on how you use that small space that was given to you.
id like more pics please & thanks to you i want a piece of flan. =)

Thanks and more pics are coming as soon as I get something new done.

Tile is very COOL.

My step son has a Sears tool box like that and it is amazing how many tools are in there!!

I really can't wait to start using them on the Camaro. Like the feel of rachets and bits... but I'm already infected with GJ virus... need more tools.

That welding cart is FANTASTIC! I am planning for something similar and will most likely "borrow" some of your design.

You have a very nice piece of workplace there, keep it going!

~yo

Thanks. Feel free to borrow any design. I don't even consider it mine. Probably saw something similar at one point in time and adopted it in my mind for my use and now the idea came up and went into realization.

I like the welding cart too - don't forget a place to wrap up the Cords, as well as the Ground clamp and the welding torch -

Well the original design was only to hold welders and the gas tank. Then later came the idea about fire extinguisher, after that angle grinder etc... so now I have one idea over another. Place for the cables is next that I need to organize.

Great looking shop and great looking welding projects !!! You said you work for a seat manufacturer in Mexico, wouldn't be Lear would it ? I work for Lear in Alabama, but used to work for Lear Mexican Operations. If you do too then maybe we know the same people or even each other ! Small world right ! Later !

Thanks. No, I don't work in Lear, but in a French seat/car component factory F******A.

Sweet place! Me gusta! Lo siento, hablo mucho bad espanol! LOL I probably can't spell it worth a flip either. But you garage is great! The tile on the walls was definitely the right choice! Nice job on the welding. How easy is it to get supplies (building, welding, etc) down in Mexico? You seem to have been able to aquire everything you need and then some!

Your Spanish sounds like mine did about two years ago
The supplies are no problem to get if you have money. There are a lot small stores that sell construction material, even have free delivery. For the steel there are some larger warehouses that have almost anything you want. The only problem is that they don't sell smaller pieces. Almost everything they have is 20ft. There are also specialized stores that sell welding equipment (PraxAir), that sell imported stuff and others that sell domestic (Infra). There are also stores like Home Depot, Sears, Grainger, etc...
A street close to my house is called Avenida Industrias and there you can find literally everything you want.

nice work. i REALLY like the benches. i saw the price on your tool kit and thought DAMN, then remembered you were in Mexico, lol.

Well I still have problems sometimes shopping on the internet because sign for pesos and dollars get mixed up pretty fast.

 

[Cheeky81]

A small update this weekend

On the first sight it doesn't look any different than before, apart from the cleaned up mess under the workbench.

But a closer look reveals a tool drawer 36"x24"x3" under the first bench.

Between the benches there was 3 inches of unused space. Nothing special to see from the front...

Pulled out, it reveals vertical drawer form the clamps.

New place to store some unused sheet metal and 4 more drawers.

First three drawers are 24"x24"x2.5" and the fourth is 24"x24"x5". There are still two more places for two drawers 24x24x7.5" but I simply ran out of sheet metal and out of time this weekend.

 

[tig]

This is a really impressive garage! I love the look & feel of it and am in awe of your fabrication skills. Those drawers are GREAT!.

From your wheel rack post:

if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

No doubt, no doubt.

 

[Cheeky81]

This is a really impressive garage! I love the look & feel of it and am in awe of your fabrication skills. Those drawers are GREAT!.

Thanks.
The drawers were actually my first try to do something with sheet metal and also my first try with the mig welder and they came out pretty well.

Matt

 

[OBNXIOUS]

Pretty cool garage... Your work bench and drawers are awesome.. What gauge of sheet metal did you use?

 

[Cheeky81]

Pretty cool garage... Your work bench and drawers are awesome.. What gauge of sheet metal did you use?

Thanks. I'm glad you like it. The drawers are all 16 gauge sheet metal. All the sides are first bent 90 degrees from bottom and then 180 degrees down to make a thicker edge on the top so nobody gets accidentally cut on the top edge.

 

[wagonmaster]

Good work!

 

[metalhead212121]

bumping an old thread.. Pretty good read! I think you're our only member from Mexico.

I like the C-clamp storage setup.. in my mind thats a "Jack Olsen" idea.

Dan

 

[Cheeky81]

It has been quite a while since I posted any update in this thread. For the last few months I've been quite busy at work, working over 75 hours per week so my time in the shop is pretty limited, but I try to do my best to improve it.

Here are some pictures from this weekend.

The following picture deserves a bit of explication...

There was a "Vehicles entering and exiting" sign near the place I work and every morning that I passed I admired the shape of the car on the sign (looked like my Camaro). Then suddenly one day the sign was gone... Probably a truck or a bus that was passing, hit it and it fell who knows where...
Then after a week or so after, going out to lunch I spotted it laying in a trench nearby...
Long story short... I restored it and put it on a wall in the shop.



Also the hoist is ready to pull the engine out of the Camaro... can't wait...

Organized a little bit my pegboard

Added more storage cabinets on top of pegboard cabinet

More cabinets added. Love the one in the corner. It looks small, but it holds a circular saw, a router, cylinder compression test kit, full face respirator, a drill, paint gun, Dremel kit etc...
Have to find time to finish the speaker so it matches the right one.

Had to modify the workbench a little bit to fit the air compressor. I also added two drawers and doors on the bottom.

Covered all the drawers with non-slip foam/rubber lining.

Added matching front panels for drawers.

More storage next to the computer.

Organised the drawers a bit... way better than have everything just piled up on the bench.

Metric drawer...

Standard drawer

Misc. drawer

Another misc. drawer organised with Akro-mills boxes

Also the toolboxes got a bit of the OCD
Need to find some time to paint the small toolbox to match it to the tall one.

This is it for now. Hope you like it.

Beside finishing and painting the left speaker box I also need to finish the amplifier so I can play music from the computer on the big speakers.

Another thing to do is to put in place a hard copper line for compressed air with water/oil separator, regulator and some filters to get the air quality up for painting.

Matt

 

[michakaveli]

It has been quite a while since I posted any update in this thread. For the last few months I've been quite busy at work, working over 75 hours per week so my time in the shop is pretty limited, but I try to do my best to improve it.

Here are some pictures from this weekend.

The following picture deserves a bit of explication...

There was a "Vehicles entering and exiting" sign near the place I work and every morning that I passed I admired the shape of the car on the sign (looked like my Camaro). Then suddenly one day the sign was gone... Probably a truck or a bus that was passing, hit it and it fell who knows where...
Then after a week or so after, going out to lunch I spotted it laying in a trench nearby...
Long story short... I restored it and put it on a wall in the shop.



Also the hoist is ready to pull the engine out of the Camaro... can't wait...

Organized a little bit my pegboard

Added more storage cabinets on top of pegboard cabinet

More cabinets added. Love the one in the corner. It looks small, but it holds a circular saw, a router, cylinder compression test kit, full face respirator, a drill, paint gun, Dremel kit etc...
Have to find time to finish the speaker so it matches the right one.

Had to modify the workbench a little bit to fit the air compressor. I also added two drawers and doors on the bottom.

Covered all the drawers with non-slip foam/rubber lining.

Added matching front panels for drawers.

More storage next to the computer.

Organised the drawers a bit... way better than have everything just piled up on the bench.

Metric drawer...

Standard drawer

Misc. drawer

Another misc. drawer organised with Akro-mills boxes

Also the toolboxes got a bit of the OCD
Need to find some time to paint the small toolbox to match it to the tall one.

This is it for now. Hope you like it.

Beside finishing and painting the left speaker box I also need to finish the amplifier so I can play music from the computer on the big speakers.

Another thing to do is to put in place a hard copper line for compressed air with water/oil separator, regulator and some filters to get the air quality up for painting.

Matt

Nice layout! Me gusta

 

[TJ351W]

Very good job "paisano"!!! Greetings from Tijuana!... BTW... long time reader and recent member... this site is addictive!!!!!

 

[HSpencer]

All I can say is everything looks great! You have put a lot into it and you should be very proud!! Congratulations on a job well done!!

Best Regards
Herb Spencer

 

[timbitca]

I'm glad you bumped up your thread, your garage looks great! Really making the most of what space you have.

Someone suggested earlier in the thread that you were creating the 12-gauge garage of Mexico and it holds true with your latest pictures. Really great work you are doing!

 

[Vernmotor]

I really like what you have done ! Very nice

 

[tig]

nice!

You clearly have CDO.

 

[Cheeky81]

Thanks guys for the comments

A bit of update what was done this week.

I asked about my air setup Here. Well the answers were not so encouraging, but since I already had the copper tubes, I did it anyway.

Here is the theoretical setup

I did this for various reasons
1. I want to have cleanest and driest air possible so in the future I can do some quality painting.
2. The air hose I had before was always in the way, because mostly it was just thrown on the floor.

Grainger had put a lot of things on clearance sale so I scored a hose reel (50ft, 10mm internal diameter) for a little under 100$.
The rest of the things I had laying around the garage.
Here is how it looks now:

A regulator with 3 filters:

Buffer tank/water separator fixed far behind to a bench leg.

And most important... retractable hose reel:

The copper tubing is running behind and on the side of the bench (L shape - sorry, forgot to take pcture). It was another small space that I took advantage of.

I can't say yet how it works concerning separation of humidity from air, but I'll report back after some painting.
My biggest concern was that the whole system won't be airtight - I was right. Fortunately I found the leaks fairly quickly - one was on the elbow after the shutoff valve on the compressor. The elbow was just hand tighten. And the other one was faulty ball valve to drain buffer tank. I managed to fix both quickly and I can report that it holds the pressure just fine - In 4 hours pressurized to 130 PSI the pressure didn't drop at all.

Matt

 

[4t64rd]

Just found this, I'm limited to 18'x18' because of zoning and because the house already has an addition, your ideas are fantastic.

 

[efncrx]

The pullout c-clamp storage is ingenious! Such a great use of "dead" space! The small footprint garage builds are always inspiring since space saving ideas really come out! Keep up the great work!

 

[Greeny]

I was looking for small space ideas since I'm very limited on space and can't expand due to lot size. Found this thread. Love the ingenious use of normally lost small spaces. I'm especially interested in your drawer construction. If you are able to show more detail on your rails and their fastening to the drawers, and the drawer fabrication, I would appreciate that. Thanks for documenting your garage!

 

[Denwood]

Nice use of your space! I have the same space challenges. I just finished moving my dual compressor setup out of the workspace, and into a shed..very much worth the effort. One thing I noticed with the compressor cut in/out valve is that with the cover off, the arc when the compressor fires up is substantial...so be careful if the paint fumes get thick in there. I've painted a few vehicles in my 16x24 so I understand what a PITA it is.

I went with a similar setup to yours, but added a desiccant tank as well as a "utitility" air output that bypasses the dry air setup. Below is the setup before moving it from the shop:

and after with some precious floor space reclaimed:

 

[shortykorte]

Just did a quick preview "muy bein!" Great use of space and very nice built cabinets and drawers. Another GJ Garage to inspire to be like.

 

[djones1a]

Nice shop! Did you ever get started on your camaro?