Garage shop

8/25/19, 1:49 AM #1

Mike L
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Garage shop

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Well all the Pods are unloaded into my garage and some parts of the house. We are going to take it slow and easy setting up the new place. We will empty a few boxes at a time and put the contents where they will live.

So no hurry setting up my shop area just yet. I do have a few questions I would like to ask of those that use the garage as a shop and a garage.

I do a lot of automotive work. I am restoring a 68 Mustang Coupe currently. The body is over there and over there and some over there. The engine and tranny are the same way. I am doing the body work welding using torch and Mig. I also want to park in my garage. I have a GT500 that I don't want to leave outside days on end.

I figure almost all my WW tools are on casters so I can move them in and out of the way as needed.

The garage is around 1100 SQFT so I have a lot of room to play around.

So with grinding metal saw dust and just about anything else going on in the garage how should I protect my WW tools. Canvas tarps? Cloth Tarps?

Storing the small stuff will be in cabinets the previous owner left me, so that should be safe.

The auto welding etc tools I figure are safe uncovered. Yes No?

Mike

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8/25/19, 3:25 AM #2

Bruce, a MN Galoot
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Usually, the metal working guys who separate their metalworking tools from the wood dust, it’s corrosive and abrasive. I would cover lathes and mills with something. I work in a garage but am not blessed with metal working machines, much to my loss.

I have, however, rebuilt motorcycle engines on my woodworking bench. I probably should ask for forgiveness for that.

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8/25/19, 5:11 AM #3

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My shop is welding/metal and woodworking too. When Harbor Freight has 25% off coupons I've gotten large welding tarps. they have grommets around the edges. Using some 1/8" aircraft cable I made a gridwork of lines below the rafters. Some steel welding rod was bent into eye and J-hook hangers. Depending on the size of the project I can set up a welding blanket to keep the hot stuff away from the woody stuff. The hooks are sized so that the tarps blouse out at the floor. I use some spring clamps where one tarp tees into another to 'seal' the corner.

When I'm done the tarps come down and get folded for shelf storage.

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8/25/19, 10:57 AM #4

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1100 sq.ft divided in half gives you two decent sized spaces.

Sparks and wood dust don't mix well.

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8/25/19, 4:24 PM #5

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During the nasty period of high humidity earlier this month in Cincinnati, dry wood dust on my cast iron table saw trapped and held enough humidity to lightly roughen the surface. If the garage is unheated, temperature swings may encourage condensation. I would be hesitant to cover metal surfaces with fabric even overnight

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8/25/19, 4:40 PM #6

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Motorcycle engines are to be rebuilt on dining room tables, on coffee tables, or on kitchen tables.

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8/25/19, 7:08 PM #7

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Friend of mine rebuilt his Taylorcraft engine on his pool table. His wife probably wouldn't let him use the dining room table.

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8/27/19, 1:51 PM #8

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My grandfather delivered babies on kitchen tables

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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