New Garage has morphed into New House :)

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This topic could get big. :)

[Gary Lewis]

When there is no topic the scope is infinity.

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When there is no topic the scope is infinity.

After Church this morning followed by my first-ever Yoga class (for my back, it was marvelous) the afternoon project was to pull all the 220 cables for the sub-panel, which really didn't take long at all. :)

[Gary Lewis]

After Church this morning followed by my first-ever Yoga class (for my back, it was marvelous) the afternoon project was to pull all the 220 cables for the sub-panel, which really didn't take long at all. :)

So, there is progress. And, as Jim says, progress is good!

More importantly, I'm glad you went to church.

[ctubutis]

I'm still here, Gary! Been busy finding/getting a new job; I'll be a contractor for the federal government, doing computer security stuff for the Bureau of Reclamation up at the Denver Federal Center. I was fingerprinted & photographed just today, but they tell me 1-3 weeks for THAT to be completed.

I need to get a Public Trust security clearance, turned in the paperwork for that just last night but this is something else that can take a long time.

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Anyhow, I try to stop by here at least once a day but I haven't seen much that I'd be able to help people with; all of my factory documentation is packed into plastic tubs + my primary computer died over the summer (I'm using my mom's Win10 laptop now) and I haven't done anything to replace it or try to pull the data from it. And most of the pictures I had posted online over the years are now gone for one reason or another (e.g. PhotoBucket).

So, I've been pretty quiet on all the forums I'm a member of.

And I've been keeping myself busy with the garage-rebuilding project, I just recently (over the past few weeks) finished the painting, then installed all the electrical devices in the boxes (which took ~3 days by itself, over 50 boxes to deal with). Still need to get the gas lines I ran for the new heater inspected, then get a separate permit to install the actual garage heater.

I purchased a bunch of Craftsman tool storage stuff last June, the local Sears store has been storing it for me until I'm ready for it. I'm quite honestly almost there but am delaying until I figure out if I want to do some sort of garage-floor coating. My understanding is the professionally-applied products are superior, but that'd cost me about $1k and I don't want to spend that money until after I have an income (that isn't from my retirement funds). I figured out over time that I don't want a speckled floor, locating dropped items can be hard. And some of those coatings can be really slippery when wet so I don't know if I even want such a coating.

When I have the garage back together and usable again, my first project is gonna have to be finishing my brother's blown-up Taurus SHO.

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I read through your EFI thread, OK, now the Arduino makes sense.

I try to read just about everything on both here & FTE but it's hard to make sense of threads on here because I can't automatically go to the first unread post in a thread, I need to start at the most recent post and work backwards. That gets annoying and my mind loses focus as to what the discussion was originally about and how it got to where it's at at when I return to it and read backwards. If you have an "in" with those Nabble guys, tell them that one feature or capability would be worth gold.

[ctubutis]

I'm still here, Gary! Been busy finding/getting a new job; I'll be a contractor for the federal government, doing computer security stuff for the Bureau of Reclamation up at the Denver Federal Center. I was fingerprinted & photographed just today, but they tell me 1-3 weeks for THAT to be completed.

I need to get a Public Trust security clearance, turned in the paperwork for that just last night but this is something else that can take a long time.

~~

Anyhow, I try to stop by here at least once a day but I haven't seen much that I'd be able to help people with; all of my factory documentation is packed into plastic tubs + my primary computer died over the summer (I'm using my mom's Win10 laptop now) and I haven't done anything to replace it or try to pull the data from it. And most of the pictures I had posted online over the years are now gone for one reason or another (e.g. PhotoBucket).

So, I've been pretty quiet on all the forums I'm a member of.

And I've been keeping myself busy with the garage-rebuilding project, I just recently (over the past few weeks) finished the painting, then installed all the electrical devices in the boxes (which took ~3 days by itself, over 50 boxes to deal with). Still need to get the gas lines I ran for the new heater inspected, then get a separate permit to install the actual garage heater.

I purchased a bunch of Craftsman tool storage stuff last June, the local Sears store has been storing it for me until I'm ready for it. I'm quite honestly almost there but am delaying until I figure out if I want to do some sort of garage-floor coating. My understanding is the professionally-applied products are superior, but that'd cost me about $1k and I don't want to spend that money until after I have an income (that isn't from my retirement funds). I figured out over time that I don't want a speckled floor, locating dropped items can be hard. And some of those coatings can be really slippery when wet so I don't know if I even want such a coating.

When I have the garage back together and usable again, my first project is gonna have to be finishing my brother's blown-up Taurus SHO.

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I read through your EFI thread, OK, now the Arduino makes sense.

I try to read just about everything on both here & FTE but it's hard to make sense of threads on here because I can't automatically go to the first unread post in a thread, I need to start at the most recent post and work backwards. That gets annoying and my mind loses focus as to what the discussion was originally about and how it got to where it's at at when I return to it and read backwards. If you have an "in" with those Nabble guys, tell them that one feature or capability would be worth gold.

Thanks again for moving this post, Gary!

My last update on this site is when I installed the 220V cabling in the walls.

Since then, I installed the actual electrical boxes, the piping for the gas heater & in-wall compressed air, and insulation in the walls :

I then got a new garage floor! No pictures of that per se, it's a concrete slab and everybody knows what they look like, but I have some shots of the old one's removal:

The depression in the floor is where the receiver hitch will be:

Someplace on FTE I had asked about what to use as an embedded support for a floor-mounted winch. I got lots of good ideas and decided to go with 1) an embedded receiver hitch, and 2) Qty (4) sunken anchors into which I can insert bolts.

This is how I learned to do the sunken anchors:

And here are the anchors I actually installed; the gold-colored components are what is exposed up top:

Here is the receiver hitch with a steel strengthening rod through it (so it can't be pulled up out of the floor):

And here is how the finished installation looks before concrete smoothing:

I am thinking of fabbing up some sort of steel I-beam-type of winch mount and attaching that to something that can be inserted into the receiver hitch, or maybe it can be bolted to the floor directly. Or both, or either, I really don't know yet.

I then had the drywall installed, I'm leaving the I-beam exposed with the intention of it being a trolley for some sort of overheard winch:

Then, the new garage door opener given to me by my friend Tom:

Then, came paint:

Followed by a retro-decorative-yet-functional-type of accessory kinda like the oscilloscope in your shop - a 1970s, rotary-dial, wall-mount telephone with an add-on Caller ID box from Radio Shack:

The sign on the wall above is an authentic AT&T/Bell System sign I picked up at an antique store during my road trip with ND Bill last summer:

And this is basically how it sits until

1) I decide if I want to do some sort of floor coating, and

2) I figure out what to do for lighting (my original plan had me doing recessed fluorescents but I was convinced to not do that; I now have lots of half-switched-half-constant outlets in the ceiling for whatever surface-mount LED things eventually go up there).

I still have lots of clean-up to do, the compressed-air outlets get hit with paint kinda badly:

I will FINALLY be able to use an arc welder I got about 10 years ago from my father's uncle (never had the electricity for it before):

And, can't forget the security camera hooked to the DVR :

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks again for moving this post, Gary!

My last update on this site is when I installed the 220V cabling in the walls.

Since then, I installed the actual electrical boxes, the piping for the gas heater & in-wall compressed air, and insulation in the walls :

I then got a new garage floor! No pictures of that per se, it's a concrete slab and everybody knows what they look like, but I have some shots of the old one's removal:

The depression in the floor is where the receiver hitch will be:

Someplace on FTE I had asked about what to use as an embedded support for a floor-mounted winch. I got lots of good ideas and decided to go with 1) an embedded receiver hitch, and 2) Qty (4) sunken anchors into which I can insert bolts.

This is how I learned to do the sunken anchors:

And here are the anchors I actually installed; the gold-colored components are what is exposed up top:

Here is the receiver hitch with a steel strengthening rod through it (so it can't be pulled up out of the floor):

And here is how the finished installation looks before concrete smoothing:

I am thinking of fabbing up some sort of steel I-beam-type of winch mount and attaching that to something that can be inserted into the receiver hitch, or maybe it can be bolted to the floor directly. Or both, or either, I really don't know yet.

I then had the drywall installed, I'm leaving the I-beam exposed with the intention of it being a trolley for some sort of overheard winch:

Then, the new garage door opener given to me by my friend Tom:

Then, came paint:

Followed by a retro-decorative-yet-functional-type of accessory kinda like the oscilloscope in your shop - a 1970s, rotary-dial, wall-mount telephone with an add-on Caller ID box from Radio Shack:

The sign on the wall above is an authentic AT&T/Bell System sign I picked up at an antique store during my road trip with ND Bill last summer:

And this is basically how it sits until

1) I decide if I want to do some sort of floor coating, and

2) I figure out what to do for lighting (my original plan had me doing recessed fluorescents but I was convinced to not do that; I now have lots of half-switched-half-constant outlets in the ceiling for whatever surface-mount LED things eventually go up there).

I still have lots of clean-up to do, the compressed-air outlets get hit with paint kinda badly:

I will FINALLY be able to use an arc welder I got about 10 years ago from my father's uncle (never had the electricity for it before):

And, can't forget the security camera hooked to the DVR :

Chris - It is all coming together! Looking good.

On the winch mount, I would set up a plate with holes for the 4 bolts and weld a cut-off draw bar to the bottom. The bolts keep the plate from coming up off the floor, and the draw bar, which is set in the 4" or more of concrete, won't allow the plate to move laterally.

We talked about lighting, but to remind you, look for lighting with a high Color Rendering Index - CRI. Something with at least a .8 or 80% rating.

And, place some lights near the wall on the ceiling so it'll reflect off the wall and then off the floor to go under a vehicle. Plus, those lights set to the side will also not be blocked by someone working in an engine compartment, so light gets to the engine.

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Chris - It is all coming together! Looking good.

On the winch mount, I would set up a plate with holes for the 4 bolts and weld a cut-off draw bar to the bottom. The bolts keep the plate from coming up off the floor, and the draw bar, which is set in the 4" or more of concrete, won't allow the plate to move laterally.

We talked about lighting, but to remind you, look for lighting with a high Color Rendering Index - CRI. Something with at least a .8 or 80% rating.

And, place some lights near the wall on the ceiling so it'll reflect off the wall and then off the floor to go under a vehicle. Plus, those lights set to the side will also not be blocked by someone working in an engine compartment, so light gets to the engine.

Thanks, Gary! :)

Draw bar welded to plate steel... yeah, something like that that will be 1) held down (won't come up), and 2) can't move laterally. Maybe I can weld a steel I-beam onto the plate steel device we're talking about, something onto which I can attach a winch.

Those anchor bolt locations aren't exactly what I was wanting, I was originally thinking of something like:

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But I had to go through 3 levels of translators to get the concrete installer guys to even do THAT! Their first configuration had the things sticking up off the surface about 2 inches. So I figured what they ultimately gave me is good enough and will just have to work.

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Lights on the ceiling near the wall... I've already been thinking about that! I figured out with my previous lighting (2ft x 4ft recessed fluorescent fixtures from an office building that I mounted between the overhead 2x4 rafters/joists/whatever) that I really want light where the ceiling meets the walls (particularly in the corners), and now with your input of it reflecting off the walls, I'm now thinking of installing long, skinny strips the entire fore/aft length of the garage where the walls meet the ceiling.

I have a separate electrical circuit for lights located directly above an open garage door, I'll be able to turn them on separately when I'm working in the garage with the door closed.

As for the remainder of the lighting, not sure yet. It's a garage so I don't need anything exceedingly decorative but I'd kinda like something a bit nicer than the utilitarian fluorescent shop lighting I'm used to (so long as it doesn't cost a whole bunch).

Man, my local home center/hardware stores don't have anything like I want in stock, everything is gonna have to be ordered online.

The building inspectors come tomorrow to check the gas line with a gauge & the 240V electricity, hopefully this will be the last time for THIS permit! (Although I have to get another one to install the heater.)

 

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Thanks, Gary! :)

Draw bar welded to plate steel... yeah, something like that that will be 1) held down (won't come up), and 2) can't move laterally. Maybe I can weld a steel I-beam onto the plate steel device we're talking about, something onto which I can attach a winch.

Those anchor bolt locations aren't exactly what I was wanting, I was originally thinking of something like:

o o

[]

O O

But I had to go through 3 levels of translators to get the concrete installer guys to even do THAT! Their first configuration had the things sticking up off the surface about 2 inches. So I figured what they ultimately gave me is good enough and will just have to work.

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Lights on the ceiling near the wall... I've already been thinking about that! I figured out with my previous lighting (2ft x 4ft recessed fluorescent fixtures from an office building that I mounted between the overhead 2x4 rafters/joists/whatever) that I really want light where the ceiling meets the walls (particularly in the corners), and now with your input of it reflecting off the walls, I'm now thinking of installing long, skinny strips the entire fore/aft length of the garage where the walls meet the ceiling.

I have a separate electrical circuit for lights located directly above an open garage door, I'll be able to turn them on separately when I'm working in the garage with the door closed.

As for the remainder of the lighting, not sure yet. It's a garage so I don't need anything exceedingly decorative but I'd kinda like something a bit nicer than the utilitarian fluorescent shop lighting I'm used to (so long as it doesn't cost a whole bunch).

Man, my local home center/hardware stores don't have anything like I want in stock, everything is gonna have to be ordered online.

The building inspectors come tomorrow to check the gas line with a gauge & the 240V electricity, hopefully this will be the last time for THIS permit! (Although I have to get another one to install the heater.)

Chris, I will try to look at the left over sealer Mary's cousin put on my floor tomorrow. It's not slippery and cleans up pretty well.

[1986F150Six]

Chris, I will try to look at the left over sealer Mary's cousin put on my floor tomorrow. It's not slippery and cleans up pretty well.

Chris, I like the patriotic paint theme!