Gate & "Shop"

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Early ‘90’s.  Still on borrowed tools.  Gate 2x2x14ga steel tube with 11ga hinge jamb.  Spring loaded hinges to a 1.5x2x3/16 angle bolted to building corner; and the same size angle as a latch jamb to the masonry pilaster.Gate infill top and bottom was a very cool "square corrugated" 24ga “PBD” panel, see page 4 in this pdf link: http://www.mbci.com/catalogs/comm.pdfThe panels are screwed top and bottom, in each rib, to a 1/8x3/4” strap welded to the steel tube, with 1/8” fillets ½” long 4”oc.  Bondo’d the fillet and sanded smooth to prevent open joint gap rusting.  Drilled for standard Kwikset deadbolt.  Sandblasted, shot with Frazee 661 Metalprime, then white industrial enamel.My favorite part is the little squares.  Cut an 6” wide strip of 1/8” white plexiglas 4’ long and mounted it behind the 4" squares on the back of the gate.  Found some plastic roof tab brackets for Christmas tree lights and screwed one behind each corner of the square.  Snapped a string of 50 white xmas tree lites into the brackets and plugged them into a cheap timer plugged into an electric outlet mounted 4’ high behind the hinge jamb.  They came on automatically every night – reset for changing sunset times – and off at 11pm.  A great night light for the carport – about 100 watts – and interesting to look at from the street or the kitchen window.  My work area was the 22’ square carport on this side of the gate.  The "post" with the scrolls is part of the carport.  Pulled the cars out and had a great space to work, could even use the 20’x30’ concrete driveway in front.  The wood shop was 12’x16’ and behind that wall on the right.  The neighbor’s house was 14’ away with the side setback to the property line wall being 7’.  Had that 12’ section of the back wall built higher and put metal building fiberglas R-panel skylights over top.  Page 16 of the pdf in that link above.  Got em for free, probably cost $35 [?] each now.  1” emt conduit at each joint – 3’ apart to keep panels from sagging.  Supported the end fascia and two panels with a little frame made out of ¾ & 1.5x16ga tube.  Same finish as gate.That little roofed area allowed me to store tools and materials out of the rain. 7’x17’ = 120 sq ft.  Welder, drop saw, material rack, benches, etc.    Easy to pull stuff out into carport.  Thx for lookin … am almost done with "antique" projects!  Time for some new ones? Attached Images
Reply:That looks real nice and original as well.