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I've been trying to stay away from the lumber yard but, had to buy some PT lumber to build an outdoor sign. Wasn't too much so that didn't hurt too bad. Meanwhile, I've finally gotten around to building a mezzanine in the shop. Fortunately, I had purchased the materials back in 2019, before the inflation hit.
I heard on the news that lumber prices just took a 40% nosedive but, a quick search on Lowes website sure doesn't reflect that. Hopefully they'll get around to marking it down so I can finish the project.
This section is 50' long x 13.5' wide. The next section I hope to build will be 31' x 16.5'. This will add about 1200 ft floorspace I can use to store substrates and tools I don't use that often. I can access it with an old spiral stair I bought second hand and take bigger stuff aloft with my old forklift.
I'll be installing pegboard for hanging small stuff, making some new shelved and what not. Possibly will be building a couple more CNC machines later. I'm pretty excited about the extra breathing room. I used 2x6's for the outer load bearing walls. adding blocking greatly increases stability, rigidity and strength as well as providing a nail surface for the sheathing. This is a view of the doorway to the paint shop. It will be separated from the rest of the shop by a roll door. lifting one of the beams in place I chose a spiral stair because of the smaller footprint already moving junk up there
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Great addition! Sure looks like a place that might get too hot to handle. Doesn't electronics like CNC machines need a cool space? Ever thought about making an elevator?
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Thanks guys! Yes Rick, It gets sweltering hot here. The humidity makes it feel like a sauna. But I have no choice; it would cost a fortune to A/C this place.. The old Shopbot seems to handle the heat ok but it's tough on computers.
I thought about building an elevator using some I-beam, some steel pulleys/wheels and an electric truck winch. But since I got the forklift, I put that on the back burner. And If I need the space I can just move the forklift outside. Still a thought though.
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Wayne, many years back we traded in a new Chrysler product piece of junk wanting to buy something sturdy and dependable. We bought a 65 Dart. I remember a rainy morning and the phone rang with my wife telling me she went to start the car to bring the baby to a doctors appointment and heard a strange clunking sound and stopped, opened the hood and said there was a problem with the engine mounts and it fell over. I went to the machine shop next door do my shop and told old Bill and he grabbed a tool box and we jumped in his old Ranchero driving ten miles back into the forrest to my place. It had been raining for a week and was lightly raining at the time. We arrived and both jumped out and without saying a word, Bill laid in the mud and slid under while I opened the hood. We were looking at each other and both started laughing loud as we saw this slant six looking just as it's supposed to...leaning over. I went inside and started it and he slid out. We then went into the house and enjoyed a cup of joe and continued chuckles and Megan went on to the doctor.
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About 1969 or 1970, when I was driving my Dad's 61 Ford Econoline van out in the country of Northern Virginia, there was a loud bump and the engine quit. I was in the middle of the road and used the starter motor to bring it out of the way.
I brought a friend to help me fix it. We took the doghouse off and he looked at the engine and asked me, "Does Ford make a slant six?"
On that engine, the motor mounts were bolts that went straight into the side of the engine. One had failed and the engine was laying on its side. We jacked it up and put a screwdriver into the bolt hole to hold it in place. After replacing the distributor which got crushed under the engine and repairing bent carb and clutch linkage, it cranked right up. Of course, we also replaced the screwdriver with the correct motor mount bolt.
I'll never forget "Does Ford make a slant six?"
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