silentpoet
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Not the most organized person in the world. But here I go working on a big garage redo. It has lots of potential, and a few limitations. Electric is not the best, it is reliable, but the circuit is not very big. Walls are concrete, so I need furring strips to mount stuff. The basic garage part is about 15*28, with a little wider than 15 in places. I do most of my welding out on the garage apron unless I am welding on the caddy. I want to convert one of my work benches to a welding table and have it where I can roll it out.
To this point I have just thrown stuff where it can fit and not really put much planning into organizing. I have to improve in this area. I measured it all out last night to help with the planning and also bought some graph paper.
My plans are to pull the caddy out a bit on the apron and pull the motor when i get my cherry picker off layaway. Once I do that I am going to pull the caddy all the way out so I can clean and organize the garage. I am thinking of painting the concrete white like the rest of the basement to make it a bit lighter. Eventually I want to upgrade the electrical service, there are some spots on the breaker box I can use for this. I also have a garage door opener but the circuit won't take it now. I want to organize so I can have a more effective workspace. But what you see is what I have now. What it will be in say six months won't be the same.
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The peg board is just stuck behind the shelves for right now. I did pick up some furring strips recently so i can get it put up sometime soon.
Drill press, work bench with Cole Vise, and disorganized chaos.
Not very neat at all
Stuff pulled out so I can do some work. Need to fix one wheel on welding cart. The need to get real power hacksaw blades is alleviated a bit because I just bough a chop saw.
Rear seats from caddy and misc junk, some needs thrown out. I have some scrap pieces I can make a little corner shelf with.
These drawers are going to go under my work bench when I get some angle iron. The compressor sets off the surge protector after just a minute or two so I need a dedicated circuit, would love a 220 but not sure that is in the cards.
Misc basement storage kind of falls into the work area, need to fix that too. This is my other work bench and you can see the fixed jaw of the Prentiss vice I am restoring. It is probably going to go on this bench.
More disorganized storage. But I can pretty much know where to look when I am needing a spray can or other stuff on it.
Old housepaint and newspapers for masking stuff on the car. Also behind the shelf is a big cardboard box I use to lay down when I am spray painting something like wheels so I don't incur wrath.
Another shot of my wonderful scheme of organized chaos, well chaos anyway.
To this point I have just thrown stuff where it can fit and not really put much planning into organizing. I have to improve in this area. I measured it all out last night to help with the planning and also bought some graph paper.
My plans are to pull the caddy out a bit on the apron and pull the motor when i get my cherry picker off layaway. Once I do that I am going to pull the caddy all the way out so I can clean and organize the garage. I am thinking of painting the concrete white like the rest of the basement to make it a bit lighter. Eventually I want to upgrade the electrical service, there are some spots on the breaker box I can use for this. I also have a garage door opener but the circuit won't take it now. I want to organize so I can have a more effective workspace. But what you see is what I have now. What it will be in say six months won't be the same.
Untitled
The peg board is just stuck behind the shelves for right now. I did pick up some furring strips recently so i can get it put up sometime soon.
Drill press, work bench with Cole Vise, and disorganized chaos.
Not very neat at allStuff pulled out so I can do some work. Need to fix one wheel on welding cart. The need to get real power hacksaw blades is alleviated a bit because I just bough a chop saw.
Rear seats from caddy and misc junk, some needs thrown out. I have some scrap pieces I can make a little corner shelf with.
These drawers are going to go under my work bench when I get some angle iron. The compressor sets off the surge protector after just a minute or two so I need a dedicated circuit, would love a 220 but not sure that is in the cards.
Misc basement storage kind of falls into the work area, need to fix that too. This is my other work bench and you can see the fixed jaw of the Prentiss vice I am restoring. It is probably going to go on this bench.
More disorganized storage. But I can pretty much know where to look when I am needing a spray can or other stuff on it.
Old housepaint and newspapers for masking stuff on the car. Also behind the shelf is a big cardboard box I use to lay down when I am spray painting something like wheels so I don't incur wrath.
Another shot of my wonderful scheme of organized chaos, well chaos anyway.
