Garage workshop
Jul. 1st, 2002 03:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikJust so those who're reading can get an idea of how all this garage-fixup garbage looks, I've tossed in a few photos.
Here you can see the garage from a driveway POV. The left side has my two bikes (the GL1800 and R1150-GS-ADV) in a line. Whatever I'm currently commuting on is in back, and the one in front is hooked to a battery tender, which is cabled to the outlet-reel dropping from the ceiling. You can see the red-capped white flourescent worklight dangling from the 2nd reel aside it. That's the shop-light I can drag all around the area as needed; it's pretty nifty.
On the left wall is the metal rack-of-stuff. The bottom two rungs are full of the paint we have to throw out, and my motorcycle oils. The top two hold helmets and bikeparts, as well as my jackets which hang off the corners. The white cabinet ahead of it is the landlord's and is full of his tile-repair junk that I hope he throws away someday. Washer/dryer are infront of the two motorcycles on the inner wall, beside the brown heater and under the laundry cabinets. The mountainbikes hang overhead, surprisingly well out of the way (though they don't look it in this shot).
The right wall has the toolbox layouts and things shown in the pictures below. The big open floorspace is the new 'workshop' I'm working to build out, in front of that zebra rug. Currently in that area is![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reality_fox's old unloved Kawasaki 250 ninja, being brought back into a state of readiness to prepare it for sale. In front of the garage is octantis's misfortunate truck. If he decides to keep it and fix it, hopefully he'll let me help him. If not, I'm going to help him swap its place with my van, so I can plug the van back into the charging outlet.
This is a better detail of the workshop wall. The pegboard is one the landlord left in the place, and it's now finally usable. From back to front is the white chest-freezer, the computer work-area (office chair with monitor/keyboard/KVM switch), the bolted-to-the-floor computer rack that houses FM and all our webcomics servers (including one errant box temporarily at its side; that's the ancient krufty NT box that houses FreeFall until it gets moved to its new home). Sandwiched between the rack and the workench is the wheely-cart that holds the soldering and electrical test gear, then the workbench itself with the metal surface. The red deely between the workbench and toolboxen is the motorcycle jack I mentioned.
Same wall, from an inside angle. You can see the pegboard and soldering cart (with the Hakko station on it) better, as well as the long outlet strip I mounted below the white tilt-bins. On the far left is the wall-mounted power strip and orange extention cord I use for hooking up the van's built in battery tender, so the van can survive multiple months of being neglected without its batteries dying (it's one of those custom vans with all kinds of electronics junk in it, so the battery drains in as little as 2-3 weeks if untended from all the constant-on sources such as memory backup for the nav comp). The shopvac and standup battery charger live there as well, barely visible behind the red Kawasaki, plus various bags of shop-towels and hung paper towels. The bins on the walls hold service manuals for the bikes and related literature.
For the curious, the "Parking" sign was a (whistles innocently) souvenier from when my buddy Frang took me to the private cast-party/world premier of the Lion King, before it opened; he was working for Disney Feature at the time. That sign was at the entry of the lot where we had to leave our cars before being bussed to the Astoria Estate for the big cast party. Old, fun memories.
Things left to do are quite obvious: Remount the shop lights so they don't look so nasty and don't have dangling cords. Also, do something about pegboard organization. Right now the RC-car stuff (soon to be given away and/or sold) is just there for show; eventually I'll put up all the little hangers (which live in the tiny orange bins above the white tilt-bins) to hang up all the tools that don't fit in the toolbox, such as the levels you see on the left side. I also need to find a better place for the motorcycle jack, as even folded up like that it sticks out enought o be an ankle-hazard. The dremel kits are the two boxes in the workbench's top shelf, and the hobby toolboxes full of RC-car parts and crafts tools live below.
I don't have a good picture of the left side of the garage for y'all; I don't have a wide enough lens to get both bikes and the racks on that side with any decent visibility, and as it's a late night on the start of a workweek I wasn't motivated enough to stitch together a bunch of smaller-angle shots with one of those panorama tools. Besides, it's just a damn garage. :)
And that's all I have to say about that.
Here you can see the garage from a driveway POV. The left side has my two bikes (the GL1800 and R1150-GS-ADV) in a line. Whatever I'm currently commuting on is in back, and the one in front is hooked to a battery tender, which is cabled to the outlet-reel dropping from the ceiling. You can see the red-capped white flourescent worklight dangling from the 2nd reel aside it. That's the shop-light I can drag all around the area as needed; it's pretty nifty.
On the left wall is the metal rack-of-stuff. The bottom two rungs are full of the paint we have to throw out, and my motorcycle oils. The top two hold helmets and bikeparts, as well as my jackets which hang off the corners. The white cabinet ahead of it is the landlord's and is full of his tile-repair junk that I hope he throws away someday. Washer/dryer are infront of the two motorcycles on the inner wall, beside the brown heater and under the laundry cabinets. The mountainbikes hang overhead, surprisingly well out of the way (though they don't look it in this shot).
The right wall has the toolbox layouts and things shown in the pictures below. The big open floorspace is the new 'workshop' I'm working to build out, in front of that zebra rug. Currently in that area is
reality_fox's old unloved Kawasaki 250 ninja, being brought back into a state of readiness to prepare it for sale. In front of the garage is octantis's misfortunate truck. If he decides to keep it and fix it, hopefully he'll let me help him. If not, I'm going to help him swap its place with my van, so I can plug the van back into the charging outlet.This is a better detail of the workshop wall. The pegboard is one the landlord left in the place, and it's now finally usable. From back to front is the white chest-freezer, the computer work-area (office chair with monitor/keyboard/KVM switch), the bolted-to-the-floor computer rack that houses FM and all our webcomics servers (including one errant box temporarily at its side; that's the ancient krufty NT box that houses FreeFall until it gets moved to its new home). Sandwiched between the rack and the workench is the wheely-cart that holds the soldering and electrical test gear, then the workbench itself with the metal surface. The red deely between the workbench and toolboxen is the motorcycle jack I mentioned.
Same wall, from an inside angle. You can see the pegboard and soldering cart (with the Hakko station on it) better, as well as the long outlet strip I mounted below the white tilt-bins. On the far left is the wall-mounted power strip and orange extention cord I use for hooking up the van's built in battery tender, so the van can survive multiple months of being neglected without its batteries dying (it's one of those custom vans with all kinds of electronics junk in it, so the battery drains in as little as 2-3 weeks if untended from all the constant-on sources such as memory backup for the nav comp). The shopvac and standup battery charger live there as well, barely visible behind the red Kawasaki, plus various bags of shop-towels and hung paper towels. The bins on the walls hold service manuals for the bikes and related literature.
For the curious, the "Parking" sign was a (whistles innocently) souvenier from when my buddy Frang took me to the private cast-party/world premier of the Lion King, before it opened; he was working for Disney Feature at the time. That sign was at the entry of the lot where we had to leave our cars before being bussed to the Astoria Estate for the big cast party. Old, fun memories.
Things left to do are quite obvious: Remount the shop lights so they don't look so nasty and don't have dangling cords. Also, do something about pegboard organization. Right now the RC-car stuff (soon to be given away and/or sold) is just there for show; eventually I'll put up all the little hangers (which live in the tiny orange bins above the white tilt-bins) to hang up all the tools that don't fit in the toolbox, such as the levels you see on the left side. I also need to find a better place for the motorcycle jack, as even folded up like that it sticks out enought o be an ankle-hazard. The dremel kits are the two boxes in the workbench's top shelf, and the hobby toolboxes full of RC-car parts and crafts tools live below.
I don't have a good picture of the left side of the garage for y'all; I don't have a wide enough lens to get both bikes and the racks on that side with any decent visibility, and as it's a late night on the start of a workweek I wasn't motivated enough to stitch together a bunch of smaller-angle shots with one of those panorama tools. Besides, it's just a damn garage. :)
And that's all I have to say about that.
