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Im moving out of my appartment in the next few weeks. Get to have a shop to work in now well it is just a two stall grage, but it will do better than what i had. (that was nothing)  Was looking for some pics and ideas for saving some space but still haven a place to work. Got to make shur the wife can park her car.
Reply:You can fit a lot in a two-car garage.  I have my garage set up so one car (my track car) can park in it, with benches on the other side.  I also have two benches that fold-down on the parking side.It's all cleaned up for the picture, but I get a lot of work done in it.  There are spatter burns spread throughout the place.Here's a video that shows how the tables come down.  Goofy that I have it, but there you go.  Another view:Yes, it gets messy:The first welding project I did in it was a wrought-iron style fence for the front yard.Last edited by Jack Olsen; 05-19-2011 at 09:43 PM.Jack OlsenMy garage website
Reply:that is a way to clean shop.........very nice........nice to see people think out things before they just build..........nice car too..............If you see me running for no apparent reason, try to keep up:"Reality" What a concept!Miller Big 40 {1972} vintage, with 150 ft. of 000 leads, old Alaskan pipline welder.
Reply:And he has a lift in it under the Porsche. If only it was a Karmann Ghia, then I would be shamelessly jealous.............I would post a pic of my shop , but , vulgarity is frowned upon.Mike
Reply:Nice garage, way too clean, I mean that place dose away with the 2 second rule for food on the floor and bumps it to at least 5! LOL
Reply:Jack, youre killin us slobs.  My shop will never look that good even if I ran a dozer through and started over,  Dog gone I wish I was as organized as you, it would save me so much time hunting for tools and clamps...  Great effort!!!BobI'm spending my Kids inheritance, I dont like him that much anyway!!!!!!Enuff tools to do the job, enough sense to use em.Anybody got a spare set of kidneys?  Trade?
Reply:Thanks.  But if you look past the fact that it's clean, I think there are some worthwhile ideas in there for getting the most space out of a 20x22 two-car.  The fold-down tables are part of it.  Putting longer-term storage up along the ceiling keeps stuff off the floor.  There's also storage up above the garage door.  Then the cabinets down below keep things like chop saws and power tools handy without them easting up bench space.  Trailer hitch mounts for the bench grinder, a vise and even an anvil mean you can move those tools to where you're working.It also doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg.  The biggest expense for me was the cabinets.  But they're all second hand (except the tool box).  I've got Strong Holds, Lyon and Vidmars, but only paid about $1,000 for the cabinets.  The floor tile was under $500, and the lighting, bench tops, lumber, paint and steel for three welding benches was maybe another $1,000.  The lift was $455, second hand.  Concrete, tool rental and tile pushed that total up to $670.  All told, there's about $3,300 in it, not counting the contents.  Painting it makes all the mismatched stuff look more 'of a piece.'  But just about everything in there is home-made, second-hand or repurposed.Jack OlsenMy garage website
Reply:www.garagejournal.com  will have lots of space saving ideas and tips.
Reply:Doesn't the tile get slippery?I just know if I had tile in my garage I would end up crippled. Also, I'd be scared to park my 13,000 lb work truck on it.Miller Challenger 172Miller Thunderbolt AC/DC 225/150Miller Maxstar 150 STLVictor 100CVictor JourneymanOxweld OAHarris O/ASmith O/A little torchNo, that's not my car.
Reply:I does not get slippery.  I think people imagine it will be like the tiles in their bathrooms.  This is commercial grade -- up to code for outdoor malls.  Its compressive strength is greater than the concrete it sits on.  It's not indestructible, but you could park a tank on it and be fine.Jack OlsenMy garage website
Reply:WOW! awsome garage,,i may need another lifetime before i can build one like that...that's a dream garage...i like the car lifter in particular and the overall color is unique.thanks for sharing.
Reply:Originally Posted by walkerfarms3406Im moving out of my appartment in the next few weeks. Get to have a shop to work in now well it is just a two stall grage, but it will do better than what i had. (that was nothing)  Was looking for some pics and ideas for saving some space but still haven a place to work. Got to make shur the wife can park her car.
Reply:here's my lowly working area/ i disassemble a bagless vacuum cleaner and hang it in the cieling for easy access when i make some mess/  also in the picture is a retractable electrical cord(also from a non working vacuum cleaner i found in a curb for free.,i manage to remove the retractable mechanism and attache a female inlet on the other end)and also pic of my 250cc,fuel injected, liquid cooled futuristic scooter.---------->     http://imageshack.us/g/717/dsc06339o.jpg/
Reply:Just saw Jack's garage in this month's edition of Popular Mechanics!  Who knew we had such celebrities on WeldingWeb.  It's truly a garage worthy of envy.  Here's a link to the online article:  http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars...caves#fbIndex1
Reply:Thanks, Larry.  It's been fun (and kind of strange) to be able to pick up the magazine at the newsstand and see my garage staring back at me.  Why's it there?  I think my garage is small enough that a magazine editor probably sees it as within the reach of most ordinary homeowners.  Something they can relate to.The only part that provoked a kind of 'huh?' from me was that they used an old photograph for the main page of the print version.  It's a pretty picture, and I think it's the one the editor had initially found when he was looking for garages for the article.  But it's really more of a 'before' picture -- the features the text mentions are mostly absent from the picture that is supposedly illustrating it.The cake-pan lights, uniform-height benches and steel cabinets are visible in the picture they used on the contents page, though.And I'm just OCD enough to take a scan of the thing and drop in a more-current picture so the words and the photograph actually correspond:I've been trying to remind my wife that I'm now officially a 'competent man' based on the headline.  But she's having none of it.  Jack OlsenMy garage website