About 6 months ago my dad began redesigning his garage so he may build the 914/6 Porsche, so i was left garage less until my grandma stepped in,
In January 2007, my grandfather passed away at the age of 88, and after that my grandma never touched his shop, and simply left it intact. My grandpa taught me 90% of my mechanical and electrical design knowledge in this shop, so I discussed taking it over for my automotive projects, which was a simple yes.
It has taken us quite a while to set the place up for fabrication, however we have finally reached a point where we have just about everything we need.
In a few years I plan on buying this house, which has a large open section of land that I can build a 2000+ SQ foot shop.
Until then, this is what we got.
Corner of the shop
Table Lathe for bushings/etc (still shopping for a vertical drive mill
Metal topped bench, which I'm currently using for differential work
Parts sink, air compressor, press, and on the left is an electric hacksaw my grandpa built in the 60's
Toolbox, M10 boat anchor, and shelving carrying about 20% of the parts we have in our collection
Today we installed 4 more florescent lights, including another lighting circuit to run the darn things. We can finally see just about everything as we have lights at all angles.
Full shop computer with its own dedicated cable modem and wireless ap, cable tv, as well as a 40H timelapse VCR which records everything we do in the shop for later high speed build viewing. This is also used for electrical fabrication
Full back of the shop showing John looking like an idiot
Anyway, this is the new shop, show us what yah got!
In January 2007, my grandfather passed away at the age of 88, and after that my grandma never touched his shop, and simply left it intact. My grandpa taught me 90% of my mechanical and electrical design knowledge in this shop, so I discussed taking it over for my automotive projects, which was a simple yes.
It has taken us quite a while to set the place up for fabrication, however we have finally reached a point where we have just about everything we need.
In a few years I plan on buying this house, which has a large open section of land that I can build a 2000+ SQ foot shop.
Until then, this is what we got.
Corner of the shop
Table Lathe for bushings/etc (still shopping for a vertical drive mill
Metal topped bench, which I'm currently using for differential work
Parts sink, air compressor, press, and on the left is an electric hacksaw my grandpa built in the 60's
Toolbox, M10 boat anchor, and shelving carrying about 20% of the parts we have in our collection
Today we installed 4 more florescent lights, including another lighting circuit to run the darn things. We can finally see just about everything as we have lights at all angles.
Full shop computer with its own dedicated cable modem and wireless ap, cable tv, as well as a 40H timelapse VCR which records everything we do in the shop for later high speed build viewing. This is also used for electrical fabrication
Full back of the shop showing John looking like an idiot
Anyway, this is the new shop, show us what yah got!
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