And so it begins..... my new garage

[eldubb440]

I always thought I was the King of creating work for myself...…… but that crown clearly belongs to you...… somewhere inside, you love it

 

[747mopar]

I always thought I was the King of creating work for myself...…… but that crown clearly belongs to you...… somewhere inside, you love it

It does amaze me how a simple little project always morphs into a something much larger. Biggest headache is I'll have a lot of hand digging to get the drain pipe all on a downhill grade.

 

[747mopar]

Beautiful weather for several days... UNTIL I DUG AGAIN! My boy and I went out and dug all the ditches for the added plumbing for the foundation drain, floor drain in the addition and another 2 to pick up the spouting and wouldn't you know it the second we get back with pipe it dumps the rain down!! This is ridiculous, every single time!

Ditches are full of water and the rain has stopped. What was a nice leisure job is now put on the muck boots and be prepared to get a wet ***.

 

[747mopar]

Ended up digging up the corrugated pipe which was DEEP and replaced it with solid pipe, might be over thinking it but if I ever need to snake it I'd rather it be smooth pipe under the concrete. I'll reattach the corrugated pipe outside of the garage where a spouting drain will go and forget it. Pretty well finished it this morning with only a little left... maybe 3ft. Here's what I had to work with err.

 

[747mopar]

After scratching my head as to how this water is getting under the slab I went back threw my thread and I'm almost 100% sure I know how. Now the question is should I even bother fixing it? If you look at this picture this is the footer under the garage door side, look at the far end and you can see the elevated footer... that's where it's getting in. The elevated footer is the side that's 4ft below grade, I'm sure that transition probably has a void for water to get past. After the block was layed the footers were filled with gravel so it's a clean path to where it's almost certainly not reaching the slab just following the ditch around. To fix it I'd likely have to dig all the way down 8ft and seal that corner up with a spring draining!! If I fix it it will wait until the end of summer when the spring is barely flowing.

 

[747mopar]

Not much of an update but I finally have running water. Here's what I came up with for a sink... 100% free. We had the stainless laying around from a previous project then the sink bowl and hardware was all left overs from our kitchen remodel and the Matco toolbox was donated by a friend. I like it and it stays with the patina theme. Need to hide that water line now. I decided to put the pump and tank on the mezzanine so that's the supply line coming out of the floor... maybe split a driveshaft in half to cap it?

 

[conv67bdere]

That looks Great Devin . . . Very nicely done . . .

 

[Cranky]

That looks pretty cool! My 'bathroom' is pretty small and has one of those mini sinks.....the room itself is barely big enough to turn around but works ok in a pinch. Uh, no pun intended.

 

[conv67bdere]

That looks pretty cool! My 'bathroom' is pretty small and has one of those mini sinks.....the room itself is barely big enough to turn around but works ok in a pinch. Uh, no pun intended.

Oh sh*t . . . in a pinch . . . now that's FUNNY ! ! ! LMAO

 

[Brandy]

cool beans!

 

[conv67bdere]

Not much of an update but I finally have running water. Here's what I came up with for a sink... 100% free. We had the stainless laying around from a previous project then the sink bowl and hardware was all left overs from our kitchen remodel and the Matco toolbox was donated by a friend. I like it and it stays with the patina theme. Need to hide that water line now. I decided to put the pump and tank on the mezzanine so that's the supply line coming out of the floor... maybe split a driveshaft in half to cap it?
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I've got the original driveshaft out of the Dodge Magnum station wagon that was attached to my 5.7 Hemi and I'll be happy to donate it to your cause . . . if that's the way you want to go.
I think that's a great idea and keep in line with your bath "style" . . .

Let me know . . .

 

[747mopar]

I've got the original driveshaft out of the Dodge Magnum station wagon that was attached to my 5.7 Hemi and I'll be happy to donate it to your cause . . . if that's the way you want to go.
I think that's a great idea and keep in line with your bath "style" . . .

Let me know . . .

I'll let you know but I think I have another driveshaft out of a RR? Is it steel or aluminum?

 

[747mopar]

Not much going on do to funds so I decided to tackle the phase converter. We toss out any non sealed motors at work so I scored this mammoth of a motor and base. The base was just something that was getting scrapped so I cut it up and welded it together to fit under the breaker panel (the notch is to fit around the main power feed conduit). All painted and ready to bolt in once dry. I've got a motor starter ready to go for a clean means of starting it and will likely just put a momentary start switch and relay on the 110V pony motor?

Wish I could have helped dad rig it up so I could learn something... oh well maybe I'll just have him come over and go through it again.

 

[747mopar]

Also started polyurethaning all of the drawers and doors for the bench. 4 doors and 32 drawers!!! Now to buy 32 sets of ball bearing drawer slides.... not cheap!

 

[747mopar]

The doors and drawers, keep in mind this is all lumber from a very old barn... nail holes and all.

A couple more things got moved in starting with dad's bolt bins, he no longer needs them so it's now my turn to keep the bins full. There's everything from 1/4"-3/4" and fine thread as well including the odd 7/16" & 9/16" bolts. Thank goodness for the mezzanine because I could find a handy place elsewhere.

Again Mezzanine to the rescue, didn't want the water tank and pump taking up space in the bathroom so under the stairs it went. The pan is plumbed in so no worries about leaks.

Last I moved my blast cabinet and wash tank in.

 

[HYRDGOON]

I feel your pain on the drawers and doors after I just finished 39 for our trailer primed and painted.

Damn brother everything in there is finding it's place and it looks awesome. The bolt bins from your dad especially!!

 

[Cranky]

Wish there was someone in my family that I could hand my stuff down too....and thought that one of these days I'd be able to buy some land a bit out of town and build a nice big shop but that ain't happening. As it is I'm in my shop now throwing 'scrap' into the truck. It's stuff I'll never use and know that no one else wants. It's kinda odd with all the people I know locally and none of their kids are interested in machine work or even working on cars.

 

[747mopar]

Wish there was someone in my family that I could hand my stuff down too....and thought that one of these days I'd be able to buy some land a bit out of town and build a nice big shop but that ain't happening. As it is I'm in my shop now throwing 'scrap' into the truck. It's stuff I'll never use and know that no one else wants. It's kinda odd with all the people I know locally and none of their kids are interested in machine work or even working on cars.

That really stinks to not have someone to pass it down to! I wouldn't loose hope yet, you never know.

I do know how fortunate I am though, he's always had the attitude that you can never have to many tools and whatever he has his whole family has. As it turns out I'm the only one who does this type of stuff at home and have a place for it so lucky me. My brother is a really good machinist/fabricator but mostly just at work but it's all a drive over the hill on his ATV if he needs it. Next tool to move in will be a Cincinnati Toolmaster mill. Dad bought a nice Bridgeport copy with a digital readout so again another hand me down... I like using the dials myself and don't want any of the digital stuff so it's all good lol.

 

[Cranky]

Over the years I grew to like the digital read outs but the stuff needs to be kept clean or you could kill a part not knowing the digitals were lying to ya but that only happened once. My mill doesn't have any but my lathe has a Travel dial and that thing is something I like a lot.

 

[747mopar]

Phase converter bolted down and put in place and the cabinet doors installed. For some reason it's gotten to be nearly impossible to find full inlay cabinet hinges, might be a good thing because it forced me to look in the hardware isle and ended up with heavier hinges anyways.