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When you get bored I can send work west!!! Ryan W31 |
How it leaves Aluminum and bare steel absolutely floors me.
I am sold. I appreciate your research on the cast iron restoration as well that is very interesting as I see cast iron cooking oddities quite often, just thought the stuff was wall art... maybe not. |
i swear this is not a garage but a bake house!! i knew it!
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That's neat, they were machined after copper plating.
The finish is so nice for carb base plates etc. I imagine the finish it will leave on an aluminum intake will mimic what came out of the vibratory tumbler WINTERS used to remove the green casting sand. |
It was the finish on aluminum housings that sold us on VB. Bell housings, Muncie cases,alternator cases.
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Some examples of the results possible with steel and aluminum:
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WOW......:worship:
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So the parking brake pedal Assy went in looking like S$&@ and came out looking like Jewlery?
Magic? Ron Popeil? Ryan W31 |
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I agree.
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Nice and NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love the results. Thanks for the intel!!
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Experimenting with plastic, cleans it up and brightens nicely.
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WOW... I am going to have to get one of those...
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Do they sell a larger cabinet? 18’ X 8’ X 8’ ????
Maybe I can use the magic hose and spray Sam’s F85 from front to back???? Seriously, I am planning to use CO2 on as much of the car as possible as a first step. Ryan W31 |
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A couple of members have asked us for updates on what we've been up to on the shop build. Well...most of our time has actually been spent working on our cars, after all that's what we built the shop for! After 3 years of on again, off again building rehab, project fatigue set in but we recently tackled a couple of smaller projects around the shop including the fugly paint booth doors. When we took over the building the paint booth turned out to be a great resource and we've used it extensively for all kinds of parts painting. Following extensive rehab of everything else the doors and surround weren't up to par with the rest of the shop. The doors consisted of 1 1/2" square stock steel ladder frames clad with 1/2" plywood and a makeshift filter system that was "unmaintainable". We did install a fan control system as the Devilbiss cross draft system was too powerful for the size of the booth and painting was difficult.
Paint booth doors circa original demo https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...22f7b68a_z.jpg Paint booth entry pre-update with deconstruction underway https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...394a9ea8_c.jpg Not only were the original doors a slap up affair but the door surrounds were equally poorly constructed; a mish-mash of wood and drywall. As the doors weigh more than 100lbs each and were secured by simple gate hinges with cardboard shims no less, its amazing they didn't fail. Our starting point was to remove the doors, strip the frames and deconstruct the door surrounds then rebuild both. Once the surrounds were stripped we rebuilt them with proper, robust framing better suited to support the weight of the doors. We discovered that the booth had been built out of square (like most everything else in the building...), in this case by about 5 inches! Yikes. Laser line showing the booth was constructed >5 inches out of square! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5f9fc5a6_c.jpg Re-framing the door frame supports https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ded72190_c.jpg Completed woodwork for the door surround https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4d9f54dd_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9d00a7f3_c.jpg Our resident painter hard at it. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1cc1c4c9_c.jpg The completed and stained door surround. Aluminum protective trim was added to the header and corner https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c49332b3_c.jpg Efforts then turned to reskinning the doors. Paul favored a diamond-plate design in keeping with the rustic industrial theme of the shop. Doors were stripped to the frame. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9fd085e4_c.jpg Aluminum diamond plate was added by pre-drilling, attaching with self tapping screws and Lepage PL construction adhesive followed by clamps. The blue film is a protective plastic cover that was later removed. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2477b4b5_c.jpg The doors needed a hinge system to attach the doors to the steel tube door frame and to the newly rebuilt wood surrounds. As each side is a different material and width, standard hinges weren't an option. Instead we sourced 4" unplated and undrilled hinges. Using the plasma cutter we cut one side down to to 1 1/2" inches to match the frame while the other side was drilled on the drill press to accept bolts so it could be attached to the wood frame. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1ecb00a7_c.jpg We welded the hinges to the steel frame and bolted the other side to the door surround. With the aluminum diamond plate weighing in at maybe 50lbs a sheet these doors are heavy! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...8458b345_c.jpg Now we need to add filters to the doors. There's nothing commercially available (that I could find) to retrofit the doors for paint booth style filter vents. So we adapted furnace filter vent frames instead that accept regular furnace filters. We cut out the vent holes using the plasma cutter, drilled, bolted then sealed the units in place. Aluminum trim was added around the edge and mesh was added to the filter box front mostly for aesthetics. Looks simple enough however it took a few hours to install. Furnace filter vent frame https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c43eb849_c.jpg Installed, trimmed and sealed https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...187cefec_c.jpg As there wasn't sufficient room to add a conventional door closer to the top of the door(s) instead we used heavy duty storm door closers that install on the inside of the door frame and to the surround. They handled the weight of the doors no problem. To finish off the doors we couldn't use just any door handles...so instead I bought a couple of vintage Snap-on combination wrenches and welded threaded tubes to them as standoffs (I still have one to convert) then drilled and bolted through the door skin. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ace1cf35_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...49b11ae9_c.jpg While we were at it, why not add a different style Snap-on wrench (we like our Snap-on!) to serve as the slider handle for the bathroom door we built a couple of years ago! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...acec5304_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...91c49eb9_c.jpg |
Wow and WOW! Looks terrific. “Snap-on” handles......lovin’ it!!!!!:biggthumpup:
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Looks great Lloyd. Glad to be part of it, even if I am just the resident painter lol!
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You can buy a manometer pretty inexpensively, port one side to the booth and one side to post filter and it will give you a difference in air pressure, tell you if you've got too much fan and also easier to determine when to replace your exit filters.
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The second wrench-handle installed
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The next priority is to create an appropriate place for (dry) media blasting and other shop activities that produce a lot of dust...and fallout. Our dry media blaster is located in the compressor room however the cabinet doesn't seal well enough so even a short session leaves the room covered in glass bead fallout. It requires a lot of cleanup which is time consuming and its no bueno for the longevity of our spendy compressor. The compressor room also houses the ceramic media tumbler and some minor storage so there's not a lot of elbow room for working around the blaster. We already have a 20' storage container and don't want to devote that much space for media blasting so instead we wanted to source a 10' container - that would be the ideal size. Turns out they are not very common (here anyway) and the price point is only slightly less than a 20 footer. Rather than buck-up we instead bought a 20' container - cut in half! We found a company that, among other things, buys 20' & 40' containers then re-engineers them into mobile offices and a variety of different uses for the movie industry, which is very active in our city. We wanted to find a cheapie container and that's what we got. Its well traveled with plenty of dents and scars but it's perfect for our project. We negotiated a good price and managed to find a new steel door amidst the mess of the sellers shop and we got a good deal on that too.
Here's our half container...with a half a truck sitting on top of it... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e225e6ae_c.jpg Our cut container and our NOS(?) door https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...43cc11a1_c.jpg The seller's shop...chaos https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...84096389_c.jpg We arranged for the seller to deliver the cut container to our shop the next day which worked out well as he has a 5 ton flat deck with a boom crane https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9491aff1_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5ece7f42_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7c1d34ea_c.jpg A short time after the crane set down the container one of the 3 truck batteries exploded!. It threw plastic shards from the battery case well into the air and dumped acid everywhere. Had the battery "let go" just a couple of minutes earlier the operator would have been injured as the boom controls are located directly above the offending battery! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c9c3759e_c.jpg Once the container was relocated to the back lot...shuffled through the shop via forklift, a new tongue & groove floor was installed and the open end of the container was framed, sheathed, wrapped, the base of the door frame was blue-skinned, then the wall was insulated, vapor barrier was installed and plywood added to the inside of the door-wall. The NOS (lol) door was then installed and plumbed true. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c7f7297b_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c0611d8f_c.jpg As we plan to clad the front of the container with the same galvalume corrugated steel we've used extensively on the building we installed J-trim around the door and edges along with drip flashing above the door and at the bottom of the front elevation. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...8c29561c_c.jpg Still a long way to go; cladding, electrical, air line, flooring and, when the weather improves, painting to follow. |
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Getting some of the cladding installed on a rainy weekday evening
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Now that the open-end of the blasting shed is enclosed and weatherized we turned our attention to interior finishing. To clean, seal and brighten the travel weary half-container we gave it a couple of coats of KILZ primer which adheres well and covers everything. As we had already laid new T&G plywood floors and applied joint filler-sealer (and sanded it) we decided to install 60mil exterior vinyl decking for durability. The vinyl was cut to measure then adhesive was rolled onto the fuzzy backing and the plywood flooring, booked, allowed to set up then applied and rolled smooth - a lot like hanging wallpaper actually. Everything but the seam sealer was completed. Would have got to that save for the Olfa knife incident...it will have to wait for another day.
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Im certain no work is planned for this shop!!
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Rest assured work is being done. The She Can as we will call it will house our media blasting. Our older blaster was in the compressor room and the dust was a concern as it was so close to our compressor. Our new Modu-Blast arrived last Tuesday with some assembly required. https://i285.photobucket.com/albums/...sblnt869x.jpeg https://i285.photobucket.com/albums/...sd8omohfs.jpeg Like a colt getting its legs,it stands up for the first time. https://i285.photobucket.com/albums/...s3pktmj0d.jpeg We will re seal the old Eastwood cabinet and use a different abrasive in it. We haven’t selected any visual accessories for the She can but Popouri and Velvet Tiger paintings are being considered. |
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Where is the Vapor blaster ?
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Front of shop, safe place.
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Tonight was the task of getting the Shecan ‘tucked’ into place and load the new media blaster.
We were aided by our neighbour with his forklift and we were able to place in in the desired space. We then moved in the new blaster and will do final assembly. |
Any updates on the shop build?
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Update with photos in 24 hours.
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Wow, over 2 hours to get thru this from the beginning.
What an absolutely stunning transformation. You guys do overbuild, but the result is fantastic. The ONLY thing that killed me was the dark stain on the cedar installed on the back wall. I like Lloyd's bathroom door better...:wink: |
Following the theme of over design and overbuild a retaining was is being erected in our back lot to avoid any slides from our neighbours. We also need to address the large whole created by eradication our invasive Japanese knotweed. It’s been 4 years since we Doug it out and there appears to be no more infestation.
We applied numerous Gallons of Round Up but it was not doing the job. Last summer a ‘guy’ was introduced to us who came and applied a secret formula that eradicated the knotweed. Don’t know what it was but no more knotweed and the crows that fly nearby now have three testicles. Photos of the retaining wall are attached with the forms up and the fittings in. The concrete pour will occur next weekend. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds |
Beyond these minor improvements the shop now gets used for what it was renovated for, restoring cars.
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Crazy Knotweed and problems it's causing worldwide, so great you've got it killed off! How much will the upper face of the poured block angle outwards or is something more being added on top? Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing this stuff! :beers: ~ Pete . |
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