mmgemini Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Mikey That band saw came free without a blade. Yes I do find it very handy for those small bits of alli that I need to cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daan Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Someone send me a link from a garage website; a bit over the top methinks, but an interesting read for the weekend! http://12-gaugegarage.com/photos/index.html Daan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffR Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Someone send me a link from a garage website; a bit over the top methinks, but an interesting read for the weekend! http://12-gaugegarage.com/photos/index.html Daan With 4 kids, 4 cats, 2 budgies, 3 rats, 3 land rovers , 1 mini, 40 years worth of fishing tackle and assorted stuff and me (only partially domesticated), his bloody garage is tidier than my house..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballcock Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Serious garage envy! I would have thought he had a Land Rover with all those hammers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW8IZR Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 None of the stuff he works on is dirty and oily..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Yanks love those in-ground scissor lifts, I've never worked on anything so unstable. I'd rather risk bricks as axle stands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrRob Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Tidy=safe. Oil industry job teaches you that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blanco Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 Tidy=safe. Oil industry job teaches you that! Yep, you are right..... and I felt guilty as hell, .... as an ex Safety Officer!..... so I started the thread to buck me out of it. So far I have spent the interim period (not quite full time) chucking stuff out the door, I am about two weeks away from the before and after pic' but its on the way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UdderlyOffroad Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Someone send me a link from a garage website; a bit over the top methinks, but an interesting read for the weekend! http://12-gaugegarage.com/photos/index.html Daan Wow. Just lost an hour on that and the garage journal website. I think the conclusion to draw is: The British do take the tiddle out of the Yanks on a regular basis, but the one thing they do have is space. And money. Definitely money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Olsen Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Thanks for the mention, Daan. I won't deny that I got a little carried away -- it got started when my industry went on strike in 1977 for 100 days. By the end of that, the project had some momentum. With 4 kids, 4 cats, 2 budgies, 3 rats, 3 land rovers , 1 mini, 40 years worth of fishing tackle and assorted stuff and me (only partially domesticated), his bloody garage is tidier than my house..... It's cleaner than my house, too. But most of the time it's got something going on in it. Serious garage envy! I would have thought he had a Land Rover with all those hammers. I don't know if an old Jeep counts, but this thing hauled in just about everything you see in the garage. Yanks love those in-ground scissor lifts, I've never worked on anything so unstable. I'd rather risk bricks as axle stands What I have isn't a typical scissors lift. In fact, it's not an automotive lift at all. It's an industrial lift table, which I've adapted to the task of lifting the car. It's built to a higher standard than most automotive lifts -- it's got a very robust duty cycle for the motor and hydraulics, and is basically exoected to be taking hits from forklift trucks all day. I don't think I'd recommend it for most owners or most cars, but I got it pretty inexpensively second-hand and I've been very happy with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reggie Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 This thread has made me feel much better about my garage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 That 12G garage has actually really pushed me now! I read how small his space is and in reality how little money he has invested in it, and it is a great place to work on a project. Looking around that garage kind of made me realize how much junk I have but also how disorganized my garage is. Looking through the thread linked has shown how easy it is to build it but it also demonstrates the need for high levels of self disciplin to keep it tidy and also to make places for things, storage is key looking at his place, if nothing has a place then you have nowhere to work. Gonna have an almighty clear out this weekend I think, anything not used within the last 2yrs gets binned, think we all hoard too much junk for the "one day that will be useful" fund, and it costs us more in the long run in time hunting for other stuff or just not having the clear space to work easily. Now off to fill the skip up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballcock Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Many thanks Jack for taking the time to join our forum and enlighten us more, Your garage is a credit to yourself it makes mine look more like a trash can than a usable workshop. I have no problem with the CJ Jeeps without their grand father we may never have had our Land Rovers. Any petrol head is always welcome to make sensible informative comments. and may you have many happy years ahead enjoying your past time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffR Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Cracking job Jack! You are making me very envious, but get rid of the Jeep and buy a Landrover (said with tongue very firmly in cheek, got a wee bit of a soft spot for CJ's). Do like the Porsche tho,mmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Bloody hell ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Roberts Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 The 12 Gauge garage is legendary, as is Mr Olsen. I love the way that a) it's used every day and b) the way that Jack can take something second hand and make it look better than if he had brought it off the shelf! And it's a lot more practical than many of the other garages on garagejournal.com that just seem to be a living room for the cars and beer fridge! Got to hand it to him.....cracking job..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o_teunico Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Certainly the 12 gauge garage is also tidier than my home! In the past weeks I have started the build of a propper garage at the in laws farm. This project will take me some months and the end result will not be anything near that 12 gauge one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Olsen Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Thank you very much! I just re-read my post and see that I said I started the garage in 1977. I'm not sure how I managed to type that -- it was 2007. The Garage just got some coverage in a German magazine, Auto Bild. Judging by the pictures, I'd say I'm ready for my second career as a tool catalog model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmgemini Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Jack Please one small point How do you manage to keep it so clean especially after using the chop saw. My chop saw sends bits to all arts and parts of the place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Brock Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Jack, Glad to see you found your way here from the Garage Journal. Superb Garage you have there. Once the Defender build is finished, the pre-fab might be down and a new one built, I need more space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingsid Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Before I got married I had one garage which had tools, shelves, 86" LR, Z1000 Kawasaki and two mountain bikes it. Now I am married the garage is full of her stuff and I need two other garages for two LR products. Oh well at least I can get away to the other garages for a break! Marc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blanco Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 Jack, .............. we all need motivation at some point and let me say that your efforts are very good motivation, ... I am not yet quite ready to post the 'after' pic to go with the 'before' that started this thread, but the sort out is well under way... I won't be painting the walls either (you may by now have learnt that 'Green and Cream' is a classic post war MOD colour scheme over here?) but your thoughts on tiling the floor are interesting, and I love the bins in the door type cupboards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Olsen Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Jack Please one small point How do you manage to keep it so clean especially after using the chop saw. My chop saw sends bits to all arts and parts of the place Well, that's not an abrasive cut-off saw. It's a toothed blade, they call it a dry-cut saw over here. It makes metal shavings that are a little like sawdust -- not the fine powder that you'd get from an abrasive blade. The thing about the garage that might be its biggest accomplishment is how quickly it can clean up. I've done a LOT of projects in it (most recently, this back-yard deck, and it's never more than an hour away from being clean. I'm not sure why I took it, but here's a picture taken of the center bench when I was working ont he deck and also a rear suspension change on my track car. Again, though. No more than an hour to get it all back to zero. As for dust, after I put everything away I use a leaf blower to blow it out. Jack, .............. we all need motivation at some point and let me say that your efforts are very good motivation, ... I am not yet quite ready to post the 'after' pic to go with the 'before' that started this thread, but the sort out is well under way... I won't be painting the walls either (you may by now have learnt that 'Green and Cream' is a classic post war MOD colour scheme over here?) but your thoughts on tiling the floor are interesting, and I love the bins in the door type cupboards. I didn't know that about it being an established color scheme. In my head, I was going for the look and feel of a machine shop my father worked in back in the 1970s. Good luck with your resolution. The hang-up with this kind of thing is always that it seems odd to work on the garage when there are jobs inside the garage that are waiting for available time. I was lucky to get a long stretch where my track car wasn't breaking or broken. Now, work I do on the car goes much more quickly because the shop itself is better set up for work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmgemini Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Yep mine's a dry cut saw. an Evolution. The cuts of aluminium are a are a pain to clear up as they fly all over. I haven't used mine on steel yet. I'm about to this week. I see the rose joints, is that a bearing shell on the spirit level ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtyninety Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 My workshop is well over due a tidy up!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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