Archive for the ‘Shop’ Category
Friday, August 15th, 2008
In earlier posts I had talked about getting the "Bench Horse" from Blum Tool Co. I also considered the "X-Bench" from Skil as suggested by my Dad. While both would have served my purpose in the apartment, I decided to build my own. I have to say, ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Today I started on my new home away from home workshop. The new shop will be in my bedroom of the apartment that I will be staying in for the next year or so. The reason the new shop is in my bedroom is because I will be ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Haven't posted in what seems like an eternity. I have been caught up in the new job, finding a place to live, moving into that place, figuring out all of the stuff that I forgot to bring with from home and then making multiple trips to the store to get ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
With my recent job change I have been forced out of my new workshop (or new workshop in progress) due to relocating. That really bummed me out a bit as it was getting close to completion, or at least usable, and I was really looking forward to getting some ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
While my shop has been in a total chaos state during the upgrade process I have been trying to decide on a storage system. My initial plan was to make a set of cabinets myself. The reason for this is: to get some experience making cabinets before making the kitchen ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Today the temp outside reached 93 deg. Normally the garage would be a couple of degrees higher due to being closed up all day. When I got home from work today, I was pleasantly surprised to find the temp of the garage to be only 77 deg. This is without ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Today a very important milestone was achieved in the many shop upgrades that are in the works. Earlier in the week I installed an air conditioner. I bought the biggest window unit that I could find, a 25k btu unit. I have never had an air conditioned garage/shop before so ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Things are really taking shape now! I was getting depressed about the whole garage upgrade thing. Mostly because my shop has been a total mess. Anytime I try to do anything I have to spend about an hour rearranging stuff before I can get started. Also, I have never done ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I have installed insulation in the garage (in the walls anyway) and now I am waiting for some help from my family to install the drywall. I was trying to think of some ways to hang this stuff myself by making some supports out of 2x4's but I haven't ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
I know in my last post I said that it was going to be a few days before I could finish up on the wiring but, it was driving me crazy not having it finished. So, I took an unscheduled day off from work (sorry Dom, I know you missed ...
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