What did you do to your shop today?

[motorheadmike]

I took Friday off and spent the entire day at the storage, cleaning, organizing, re-arranging. Between the trans swap in the truck, repairing the damage when the truck got wrecked and restoring the Roadmaster, the storage had gotten pretty furry. The Grand Prix had pretty much been shoved in the back corner and there were a lot of parts and boxes underneath and alongside it. No more.

By 4:30 PM Friday,I'd made a ton of progress but was out of gas. I'd hauled stuff to the scrap yard, hauled cores to the auto parts, properly disposed of waste oil and was getting close to having it all cleaned up.

I had gotten so dirty, I had to have my brother bring me a change of clothes so I could pull the Roadmaster in and drive my truck home.

The storage has something like 16' ceilings. It has two four foot florescent light fixtures hanging on the roof structure. I've had a bad bulb for more than a year. Sean and I went back this morning to finish up my project. We started with replacing all four florescent bulbs. Thankfully, my 12' A-frame ladder was just barely enough ladder to get it done. We had to pull the GP all the way to the front of the storage so we could get the ladder underneath the lights.....

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In that picture you can see a pile of empty boxes and the last of the stuff to sort through. Here are some final pics....

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Some room behind the GP so we can get to these parts....

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Tight getting the Roadmaster in but I have the floor marked and a block to stop me.....

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Here is my revamped supply center. Big wow, I know but I spent a fair amount of time on this so here's a picture....

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I have a few small projects to go and then some good things will start to happen.

Cathartic, eh?

 

[Northernregal]

I took Friday off and spent the entire day at the storage, cleaning, organizing, re-arranging. Between the trans swap in the truck, repairing the damage when the truck got wrecked and restoring the Roadmaster, the storage had gotten pretty furry. The Grand Prix had pretty much been shoved in the back corner and there were a lot of parts and boxes underneath and alongside it. No more.

By 4:30 PM Friday,I'd made a ton of progress but was out of gas. I'd hauled stuff to the scrap yard, hauled cores to the auto parts, properly disposed of waste oil and was getting close to having it all cleaned up.

I had gotten so dirty, I had to have my brother bring me a change of clothes so I could pull the Roadmaster in and drive my truck home.

The storage has something like 16' ceilings. It has two four foot florescent light fixtures hanging on the roof structure. I've had a bad bulb for more than a year. Sean and I went back this morning to finish up my project. We started with replacing all four florescent bulbs. Thankfully, my 12' A-frame ladder was just barely enough ladder to get it done. We had to pull the GP all the way to the front of the storage so we could get the ladder underneath the lights.....

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In that picture you can see a pile of empty boxes and the last of the stuff to sort through. Here are some final pics....

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Some room behind the GP so we can get to these parts....

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Tight getting the Roadmaster in but I have the floor marked and a block to stop me.....

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Here is my revamped supply center. Big wow, I know but I spent a fair amount of time on this so here's a picture....

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I have a few small projects to go and then some good things will start to happen.

That ol Pontiac for sale or are you gonna fix it up some day? 🤣

 

[airboatgreg]

Applied for loan, got building permit

 

[Texas82GP]

That ol Pontiac for sale or are you gonna fix it up some day? 🤣

I'm going to fix it up someday. Hey, at least I'm not saying that while it's sitting outside rotting.

 

[Texas82GP]

Cathartic, eh?

Absolutely! I went by there this morning because I had left my sunglasses in the Roadmaster. It was great rolling up the door and seeing the shop in such great shape!

 

[Crazy4elkys]

Finally soled the lathe that been in my way, am I the only one that gets impulse to buy stuff we don't need?
Started organizing my equipment and cleaned.

 

[airboatgreg]

Site for barn. Very excited. Going to do an office in there along with a lean to with an outdoor kitchen.

 

[81cutlass]

Well my buddy went to pick up his new lathe he bought sign unseen this weekend and thus evict my lathe from his shop and I take possession of my lathe at my house. Well he picked it up and it turned out to be way bigger than advertised. 6000lbs+ and 16ft long. So he's going to resell it, keep some tooling, and good news bad news my lathe stays at his house. Kinda sad my lathe stays at his place but happy also since his garage is way better set up for a lathe and it's a better home.

To be continued.

 

[airboatgreg]

Big assed for sure

 

[Northernregal]

Well my buddy went to pick up his new lathe he bought sign unseen this weekend and thus evict my lathe from his shop and I take possession of my lathe at my house. Well he picked it up and it turned out to be way bigger than advertised. 6000lbs+ and 16ft long. So he's going to resell it, keep some tooling, and good news bad news my lathe stays at his house. Kinda sad my lathe stays at his place but happy also since his garage is way better set up for a lathe and it's a better home.

To be continued.

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Thats a big lathe!