Those of you who saw my post on getting my garage space going (http://www.vmaxforum.net/showthread.php?t=41374&highlight=garage) could be interested in what's next. I dropped off a bunch of raw steel w/my fabricator today, trying to get my tool finished to help me store things and to work and to move heavy stuff.
Here's a shot from the steel supplier, I had them cut the stuff as-close to size as I could get it. This will help me get my project done more-quickly by my friend the machinist/welder. He's the guy who does the widened 17" & 18" VMax wheels for me.
And because every project takes time, and I don't expect to get this back for a few weeks, I worked-up an appetite, and stopped at one of the local spots in Ft. Lauderdale FL which serves Vienna Hots, a Chicago IL product. All-dressed, and ready to enter my alimentary canal, yeah, I ate it.
I also stopped by the local Habitat for Humanity and got a Craftsman combo belt/disc drive sander, for cheap, and a 32" 12-LED lightbar fixture to hang above my workbench. Much-brighter than my halogen puck-light array I have there now. They had a 14" pair of metal shears, a 1/2" male pipe thread die and twin-opposed arm handle, and a cool French-curve shaped case carpentry snap line chalk box I bought, just because I liked the style of the case, it looks 1930's Art Moderne style. I don't need it, I'm going to stick it in a display case I have of old interesting tools. I still use my snap line I bought new 43 years-ago, all it needs occasionally is a fill w/colored chalk. I prefer red to blue.
I wish the garage project I turned-over to the welder today could go a bit quicker, but I understand good work takes time, and it's a small job compared to the $$$$ stuff he does to keep the doors open. When it's done, I'm going to be able to move things and to store them much more-easily.
Here's a shot from the steel supplier, I had them cut the stuff as-close to size as I could get it. This will help me get my project done more-quickly by my friend the machinist/welder. He's the guy who does the widened 17" & 18" VMax wheels for me.
And because every project takes time, and I don't expect to get this back for a few weeks, I worked-up an appetite, and stopped at one of the local spots in Ft. Lauderdale FL which serves Vienna Hots, a Chicago IL product. All-dressed, and ready to enter my alimentary canal, yeah, I ate it.
I also stopped by the local Habitat for Humanity and got a Craftsman combo belt/disc drive sander, for cheap, and a 32" 12-LED lightbar fixture to hang above my workbench. Much-brighter than my halogen puck-light array I have there now. They had a 14" pair of metal shears, a 1/2" male pipe thread die and twin-opposed arm handle, and a cool French-curve shaped case carpentry snap line chalk box I bought, just because I liked the style of the case, it looks 1930's Art Moderne style. I don't need it, I'm going to stick it in a display case I have of old interesting tools. I still use my snap line I bought new 43 years-ago, all it needs occasionally is a fill w/colored chalk. I prefer red to blue.
I wish the garage project I turned-over to the welder today could go a bit quicker, but I understand good work takes time, and it's a small job compared to the $$$$ stuff he does to keep the doors open. When it's done, I'm going to be able to move things and to store them much more-easily.
