My garage is finally coming together. One of the things that has always slowed me down is my garage space. Always had a two car and atleast one full time car in there and a bike or two. Well I lost that excuse 10 years ago. got my first 3 car garage. Camaro is in bay3. daily driver jeep in bay 1. bay 2 is work area and bikes in middle. Well I went through a couple life events that make you really think what is on the list I just cannot get done. #1 is camaro. life long delay since I was 20. So now I am putting this first. I got a shed made in backyard to help get alot out of garage and to store parts. 120' shed so hold decent amount and mower, dirt bikes, etc. bought a new 4 post car lift. not built yet. Was hell getting that home. had to rent a uhaul that was 27' long and bring like 5 friends. its in pieces on garage floor now waiting. got heater installed in ceiling. Got swamp cooler(colorado they work great) in wall in back. got garage door lifted. As in the rails needed lifted to ceiling so car can go to top and garage door can still open. also got a jackshaft opener for the single bay with lift. that was 1200 alone. I got a huge 80 gallon compressor in there taking up space and a shop press. a large roll around tool box takes up last space. Last week I got a crane installed. Should help with getting lift in. its a 1ton gantry crane. got a jet 1t electric trolly and a dayton 1ton hoist. and a 1 ton digital scale to go on the hoist to show what I am lifting. Finalizing all of this now. like the hoist I got cheap, its old. but its 3 phase. So I had to get a VFD for it to take 120v SP to 230v 3P. thats on the way. Also I got two control pads. One for trolly and one for hoist. Got to work on combining those and make it clean. plan on running a 14/3 cable to 120v for all of it on a 20" cable. I can move it all over the garage than on one cable. I got 30A feeds spread out decent now so no worries, 20A spool for pull out lines. Compressor is run all over too. Got 160lbs pressure in tank and a reg taking it to 100ish for floor drops and spools. enough to work on drive way cars from garage or run out to flush sprinklers. got all led lighting in but not hung yet. bench is a solid core door with drill press and such on it. got radio hooked up with some nice B&W's mounted to walls. I now got alot of parts stored but camaro is engine less making installing the lift really hard. I am having buddies come over and build it in bay 2 but that is rough cause than the garage door is now down till done. meaning I am parking in driveway with a expensive audio system in jeep. OR pushing out the camaro for a week to build lift and get it leveled etc. than move camaro manually onto it weekend after that. no good options there. Think I am going to build it in the bay2 and just deal with it. pull sub boxes out of jeep and risk it. got like 3K in audio in that jeep but I do have cameras in and outside that garage on HD recording to NVR with 2 months of motion recording so should not be worried about it. I will attach pics tonight but it is really messy right now just warning. lets of boxes from all the recent installs.
Shawns Garage
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MotionClone
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Never heard of hitting ENTER once in a while?
I only read the first 3 lines and became so stressed I went to the store and bought a 12 pack
I only read the first 3 lines and became so stressed I went to the store and bought a 12 pack
Happy_Dan
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This thread is useless without pictures.
I work on a global engineering team. not sure why but I do that alot. The team calls them the shawn books. have to format better. Also agree garage post without pics is just wrong. here they are. Warned my garage is trashed. Everything had to come off the floor to get stuff moving around so it all went on bench. which is useless for last month or more. Anyways Pics....Attachments
Guys I spent a ton of time working in garage past couple weekends to get it ready for camaro buildout. I will send in more pics but I had to change up some stuff. For one thing the hoist. Man what a pain. So one update tonight will be on this gantry system and how it came out. Lots of time in that. I had to return the one in pics above which was fun. it was really heavy. got a new hoist that actually worked right. The old one was 3phase so I bought a good 1p 220V to 3p 250v I think it was. Hooked it all up. Saw in directions that it was recommending a filter on input. Now I know why. I am a electronics tech, never saw so much noise from a device. It was so bad when I tried to move the lift it rebooted my garage door opener on same cir. Never do that again. Returned both of those items.
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So I got it all setup and bought a fastoon system. Its perfect now. I got the jet to intergrate with the hoist through some waterproof connectors. Problem was the handheld 4 button handheld was missing one wire I needed(the power feed for relay on hoist). So I used a pass through wire in hoist normally used for variable drives. all worked and its now on one 4 button pendant. Clean as can be. love it.
Got the car lift built out too. Used the hoist. Soo much more options with a cherry picker, floor jacks and the gantry lift. The car lift is awesome! I got the camaro up there. Took off the gas tank and cut off the exhaust. Found a water damaged build sheet on top of gas tank. Cannot read it. Good thing the one from under seat was good shape cause this one is trashed. Pics and details to come tonight.
Couple lessons I learned working under lift. I am normally a driveway guy so this is new to me.
1. Wear safety glasses all times. does not matter if you are just messing around looking at stuff. soon as you touch something dust or rust particles will fall in your eye. I usually put them on when working. now I wear them all the time under lift.
2. Light. Once car is lifted to ceiling you cannot see anything under car. nothing. There is a youtube movie out there for this. led light strip addon is going to have to happen.
3. This one obvious. you got to have the addon rolling bridge jack with the 4 post lifts or its just storage or kludged jacks on something. RBJ rules! Mines on the way now should be here next teus. Exp though. 1100 bucks for that thing and I just got 1.
(a return just for you guys
So I got it all setup and bought a fastoon system. Its perfect now. I got the jet to intergrate with the hoist through some waterproof connectors. Problem was the handheld 4 button handheld was missing one wire I needed(the power feed for relay on hoist). So I used a pass through wire in hoist normally used for variable drives. all worked and its now on one 4 button pendant. Clean as can be. love it.
Got the car lift built out too. Used the hoist. Soo much more options with a cherry picker, floor jacks and the gantry lift. The car lift is awesome! I got the camaro up there. Took off the gas tank and cut off the exhaust. Found a water damaged build sheet on top of gas tank. Cannot read it. Good thing the one from under seat was good shape cause this one is trashed. Pics and details to come tonight.
Couple lessons I learned working under lift. I am normally a driveway guy so this is new to me.
1. Wear safety glasses all times. does not matter if you are just messing around looking at stuff. soon as you touch something dust or rust particles will fall in your eye. I usually put them on when working. now I wear them all the time under lift.
2. Light. Once car is lifted to ceiling you cannot see anything under car. nothing. There is a youtube movie out there for this. led light strip addon is going to have to happen.
3. This one obvious. you got to have the addon rolling bridge jack with the 4 post lifts or its just storage or kludged jacks on something. RBJ rules! Mines on the way now should be here next teus. Exp though. 1100 bucks for that thing and I just got 1.
Pictures are more interesting. More clean but not close to done. Tank pulled like I said, fitting new DSE tank. Way narrower. oil tray on that pick. Got the close up of the connectors I got for hoist. Blue is control. Only fits itself. other two are 230v power. feed through but if you hooked up the hoist direct and bypassed the trolley it would work. trolly would not be on obviously but hoist would work. so it cannot be hooked up wrong. Changed the power from 110v to 220v cable. I am IT so I got l630 patch cables off ebay. like those and they are good for 30 a. I got three of those outlets in garage now. So I can move the gantry setup all over. Putting the lift together was so much easier with that thing. Pick up a end and just trolley it over to where you want it. other end held by cherry picker or floor jack. Gave my nephew my old xbox one for helping two weekends in a row. He was pretty happy and I needed a reason to get a X.
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Looks good, maybe a few shelving units , then you can stack vertically !! HAA HA ,
Thanks! I was thinking same thing. Need to get that huge compressor out of garage and into backyard. I am going to pay the nephews to dig a 7 foot deep hole that is 4'x4' right behind third stall of garage. Then put compressor in the hole. Going to weld up a aluminum insert for the hole for the compressor to site in. That way it will not rust and totally water proof. Got a ton of 1/8" alum sheets that are 4x6 from another project. put a roof on that till I build a 2nd shed over top of it later. Just use Gantry to lower it into hole. Give me a ton of space back. My brother was like you want to bury it? the whole thing? its 750+lbs. Hoist will make short work of that. Have to be careful of electrical run. Just a cable run but still, thats the only iffy part of it. you do not mess with 50A runs. they got to be manageable run lengths and running it through a outside wall will no doubt be a no-no so thats why its not started yet.
Hoist will make short work of that. Have to be careful of electrical run. Just a cable run but still, thats the only iffy part of it. you do not mess with 50A runs. they got to be manageable run lengths and running it through a outside wall will no doubt be a no-no so thats why its not started yet.You would need to put a disconnect on the outside, then run the cable to the compressor , also don't forget that you will want to get to the water drain on the air tank, or setup a solenoid on a timer, to discharge the water drain
