Normally I would post something that was built in the shop for one of the cars, but with the frigid temps this past 2 weeks, I decided to spend some time at the house straightening and organizing the basement. When done, I decided to do a once-over to Jen's garage bay. It's been filled with crap, dirty and a general mess since we built the house 10 years ago. She deserves it, so I went for 2 nice shades of grey, put in a chair rail, framed around the heater and trimmed up the steps. New handrails and 4 8' light fixtures finished it off. She was so appreciative and liked it so much, she asked if I could do the other 2 bays! Not happening as there is too much crap in that side of the garage.
In reply to lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) :
Just to clarify, Jen is the snowblower?
Do you have a lot of conversations with her? 
I built a couple of outfeed/work benches for my wood shop, and used them to practice my cabinet building techniques. I used 2x4 studs and imported birch plywood, so relatively cheap material, but jointed and built like cabinetry. MDF tops with hard wood edge banding and $10 sheets of remnant laminate from the plywood supplier. Clamp face is cedar cut from rough sawn stock. They have adjustable feet for leveling and detachable casters to move them around.
In reply to sevenracer :
I hate to admit it, but I have the next 2 bays and there isn't room for it! Remember the thread about what to do with your junk when your gone, I forgot to add all the crap here at the house too!
Snow day Today, so I knocked out the pantry.
8am.
In progress
8pm.
Door handles and adjustment tomorrow, and my part is over.
Folding cart for my Arcdroid Plasma cutter
In reply to snowrx :
Love it! The arcdroid looks like a really handy tool to have around too.
Remodeling my Great-grandparent's farmhouse one weekend at a time. Nearing the end of the hardwood installation portion. I really dislike termites. 1000 feet down maybe 300 to go. Then the kitchen and bathroom and windows and roof....
In reply to Steve_Jones :
Oh man! I'd love to have a pantry like that, but won't because in a month it would be waaay over full. Look for her soon on an episode of "Hoarders".
Nice workmanship Steve.
This is pretty random, but l tried my hand at heating and bending large PVC conduit today. I'm installing solar panels as a DIY project and putting conduit underground for the wiring from the panels to the house.
I first tried a propane weed burner torch, but I would've grown old waiting for that thing to heat the conduit sufficiently. Not being known for patience, I moved on to oxyacetylene..
I got it hot enough to bend eventually, but scorched it pretty good in the process. You had to keep the torch moving and a few inches away.
Worked on my setup, put the next piece in a section of angle iron to hold it when it got hot and droopy (is that a word?) and allow turning it for even heating. Also made a rudimentary form to hold it in the desired shape.
Better. It's weird to have normally rigid conduit bending like a hosepipe.
There's concrete almost 2' out from the stem wall, so this is as close as I could get the pipe to exit the trench. I'll have to build some protection for this but at least it'll run up the wall now.
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