Setting up my Geerage!
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busterrm
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I did some more work on my garage, I got it closed in finally. I got tired of the whole neighborhood knowing what I have in my garage.I still have some stuff to do, get my O2, Acetylene, and Argon bottles leased again, and get the breaker box wired for the 220 plug for my welder and I think I will be in business. I do plan on getting a window unit to cool the garage down the road a piece, and eventually get a couple lights to hang on the Nova side. I still have to fix the center support beam, and get it supported better, that is next on the list to do.
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Id strongly suggest you coat every internal and external surface of those compressed particle board garage doors with several thick coats of fiberglass resin thinned with acetone so in penetrates , before you paint them or your sure to have weather related durability issues over the next few years, and adding an alarm, lighting and good locks sure would not hurt either
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busterrm
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I agree Grumpy, will look at that when I go to get the supplies to strengthen the center support of the garage.grumpyvette said:Id strongly suggest you coat every internal and external surface of those compressed particle board garage doors with several thick coats of fiberglass resin thinned with acetone so in penetrates , before you paint them or your sure to have weather related durability issues over the next few years, and adding an alarm, lighting and good locks sure would not hurt either
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what kind of support are you using on the doors?
grumpyvette said:
I don't get great photos on this pos laptop, but isn't the doors constructed of OSB or Oriented Strand Board? That stuff is good as long as you carefully treat any non-factory made cuts - like you said Grumpy, with Acetone and resin. Otherwise the new cut edges will swell and therefore be ruined. I can't tell from what I see if the work-top is particle board or MDF? It's got to be one or the other, hopefully it's MDF as being a little better and treat that stuff the same. I've got a trick to make up for using soft engineered wood (or harden surface) if you're interested.
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87vette81big
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Keep an Eye on Craiglist Bob in your area.
For a used Garage Door.
What you built works for now.
$ is tight for most today I know.
For a used Garage Door.
What you built works for now.
$ is tight for most today I know.
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Working in Secrecy is actually smart.busterrm said:
A shiny Brand New Garage Attracts a lot of attention to thieves.
I think the best theft deterrent is a Big Ole' Watchdog.
Mean, Ugly, A Tast for Human Bad Dude Blood.
A loaded Shotgun with Steel Bird Shot is Good too.
At close range of 15-20 Feet, Arms & Legs will easily Seperate from the Human Bofy.
Texas......Illinois style.
where possible having a fence with a gate that you can lock when your home or away that controls access to the area near the shop or garage or in some cases the home also, still remains a good way to add an additional and effective security barrier, especially if you install really bright motion detection activated lighting, a fenced yard especially if you have a few noisy and what at least appear to be potential vicious dogs won,t hurt security much either
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busterrm
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Got the welder power hooked up today, I tried it out also. Works great, so I have welder now! Bought a 50 ft 6/3 welder extension cord and wired a plug on the breaker box and I will put a weather cover on it this weekend. Going to put a cover over it with a compressible gasket around it so I won't get any water in it. I set it up on a 60 amp breaker and it seems to be just fine.
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busterrm
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Painted my engine block yesterday morning and worked on garage center support joyce. If you remember earlier in the thread, someone took out half of the joyce and the rafters were sagging. So what I did was, I added that 2x10 back to it and added a 4x4 post close to the south wall and moved center post to the location where the two 2x10 meet and also raised the joyce about 1 inch to take out some of the bow that was in the section without support. Pictures are below. I moved the Nova outside and moved the shop around some also.
As you can see it opened up the shop quite well i have more room to work on a lot of different stuff now.
As you can see it opened up the shop quite well i have more room to work on a lot of different stuff now.
