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[email protected] December 6th 04 07:09 PM

How to make more room in garage
 
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


[email protected] December 6th 04 08:44 PM

wrote:
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park

two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and

several
other things.


I'm only going to say this once so listen carefully... "GET RID OF THE
CARS!"
A car at home is a bad thing, as it can only take you away from your
garage full of tools.
If I were you, I'd sell the cars and use the money to buy more tools,
and build an addition on to the garage.

John B.


[email protected] December 6th 04 08:46 PM

On 6 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800, wrote:

Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.



Sell the 2 cars you have and buy 2 Smartfor2s. Then trade the 2
welders for one that will do everything you need to do. Get a small
enough one so you can store it INSIDE the sand blasting cabinet

Zebee Johnstone December 6th 04 09:10 PM

In rec.crafts.metalworking on Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:46:43 -0500
wrote:
On 6 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800,
wrote:

Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.



Sell the 2 cars you have and buy 2 Smartfor2s. Then trade the 2
welders for one that will do everything you need to do. Get a small
enough one so you can store it INSIDE the sand blasting cabinet



No no. Buy 2 motorcycles. They can live in the garage, and if you
choose the right bikes can provide endless reasons to use the tools.

Zebee

--
Zebee Johnstone ), proud holder of
aus.motorcycles Poser Permit #1.
"Motorcycles are like peanuts... who can stop at just one?"

Ed Angell December 6th 04 10:13 PM


wrote in message
ups.com...
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.
Just don't worry about it, no matter how much shop space you

have, it's never enough !

Ed Angell



ff December 6th 04 10:16 PM

Zebee Johnstone wrote:

In rec.crafts.metalworking on Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:46:43 -0500
wrote:


On 6 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800, wrote:



Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


Sell the 2 cars you have and buy 2 Smartfor2s. Then trade the 2
welders for one that will do everything you need to do. Get a small
enough one so you can store it INSIDE the sand blasting cabinet




No no. Buy 2 motorcycles. They can live in the garage, and if you
choose the right bikes can provide endless reasons to use the tools.

Zebee



I agree but the motorcycles can be in the living room. Get dark carpet
to hide the oil stains.

SteveB December 6th 04 10:24 PM


wrote in message
ups.com...
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


"Stuff", when put into the dark of a garage is like mice or cats. You come
back, you got more than when you left. It will be impossible to manage, as
"stuff" will propagate to fill available space. Case in point: If you added
500 sf to your garage this evening, it would be full in two weeks.

I would consider a shop, or doing something with those pesky cars.

Steve



Jim L. December 6th 04 10:30 PM


wrote in message
ups.com...
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


Try using the cube. Mount the welders on a shelf and store" other things"
below them. Jim



Gunner December 6th 04 10:57 PM

On 6 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800, wrote:

Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


Sure. Two ways. Add a basement or a second floor.

Cars in a garage...theres a concept Ive not thought about in years....

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem.
To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized,
merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas

steamer December 6th 04 11:08 PM

--Car covers are cheap, compared to renting workshop space! ;-)

--
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Hacking the Trailing Edge! : to Lumpy Adams...
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jim rozen December 6th 04 11:30 PM

In article , Zebee Johnstone says...

No no. Buy 2 motorcycles. They can live in the garage, and if you
choose the right bikes can provide endless reasons to use the tools.


Only problem is, those multiply too!

'88 Kaw KLR250
'78 BMW R100RS
'75 BMW R75/6
'69 BMW R60US
'59 BMW R50

Plus a pickup truck, all in the garage - except for
the oldest bike which is due to get its frame powder
coated soon.

Jim


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Erik Litchy December 6th 04 11:56 PM



I agree but the motorcycles can be in the living room. Get dark carpet
to hide the oil stains.


only if they are made in milwaukee

SteveF December 7th 04 12:40 AM


Carefully disassemble the front of the garage. Add 10 feet to the building.
Put the front back on.

Steve.
Who is just finishing up the design for a new shop at the house he just
bought with a two car garage.

wrote in message
ups.com...
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.




Charles Morrill December 7th 04 12:54 AM

Sure, wait for a nice day, call up some friends, and painstakingly move
everything outside. Keep your eye on the weather and make nice stacks
of everything so you can move it easily. Now right around midday, break
for lunch and have fun looking at all the great stuff in the driveway,
on the lawn, whatever. Then, drive the two cars in gradual-like: one
at a time. If you've got a friend with bagpipes, this goes real well.
Maybe someone else can even bang the drum slowly. Take a picture of
the two cars in the garage, print it up, and have it framed to hang
over your workbench in the garage. Next, pull the two cars out quickly,
and jam all the tools back in.

Charles Morrill


Eric R Snow December 7th 04 05:11 PM

On 6 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800, wrote:

Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.

Yes. Give all the stuff to me. Or, at the very least, give me the two
welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet, and several other things.
ERS

Zebee Johnstone December 7th 04 09:02 PM

In rec.crafts.metalworking on 6 Dec 2004 15:30:11 -0800
jim rozen wrote:
In article , Zebee Johnstone says...

No no. Buy 2 motorcycles. They can live in the garage, and if you
choose the right bikes can provide endless reasons to use the tools.


Only problem is, those multiply too!


Of course! You can't stop at just one.

But as someone else said, they can live in the house, try getting a car
through the back door...

Zebee
- 73 Guzzi 74 Guzzi 73 Ducati 76 Yamaha 52 BMW, single garage and the
living room is up 2 flights of stairs...

Ron DeBlock December 8th 04 02:37 AM

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800, stryped wrote:

Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


Build a shed. Move stuff from garage to shed, park cars in garage. Drag
more stuff home, 'cause now you have room for it in the garage. Continue
until garage is full and cars are parked outside again. Repeat.



Scott Moore December 8th 04 08:20 AM

wrote:
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


Clearly you don't have enough tools if you are even considering this.

For shame.

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Scott Moore December 8th 04 08:21 AM

steamer wrote:

--Car covers are cheap, compared to renting workshop space! ;-)


Besides, you can't park a mill out on the curb.

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Personal web site: http:/www.moorecad.com/scott
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compiler system: http://www.moorecad.com/ippas

Good does not always win. But good is more patient.

Old Nick December 8th 04 11:04 PM

On 6 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800, vaguely proposed a
theory
.......and in reply I say!:

remove ns from my header address to reply via email

FWIW I think that stryped is an old flame from here....Don. Not
_quite_ a troll.

Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.



pyotr filipivich December 9th 04 05:56 AM

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show wrote
back on 6 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


Either get an industrial sized box stretcher, or shrink your measuring
tape. And get smaller cars. that, or get a bigger garage.

Otherwise, the only "practical" suggestions I can offer is to think
"up". Look into some manner of "stacking", securing stuff "up" over the
cars when not in use. Make sure it is secure, nothing less fun that having
something fall on the car just before you have to go out.

--
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as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."

DoN. Nichols December 9th 04 10:51 PM

In article ,
pyotr filipivich wrote:
I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show wrote
back on 6 Dec 2004 11:09:54 -0800 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.


[ ... ]

Otherwise, the only "practical" suggestions I can offer is to think
"up". Look into some manner of "stacking", securing stuff "up" over the
cars when not in use. Make sure it is secure, nothing less fun that having
something fall on the car just before you have to go out.


Especially something like a Bridgeport or a Monarch lathe. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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jim rozen December 9th 04 11:27 PM

In article , DoN. Nichols says...

Otherwise, the only "practical" suggestions I can offer is to think
"up". Look into some manner of "stacking", securing stuff "up" over the
cars when not in use. Make sure it is secure, nothing less fun that having
something fall on the car just before you have to go out.


Especially something like a Bridgeport or a Monarch lathe. :-)


Well think of the alternatives. Would *you* want your car or
truck falling on your 10EE?

Lathe goes on *top*!

Jim


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Ron Thompson December 12th 04 06:27 PM

Is there a way to make more room in a garage so i can actually park two
cars in it? I have 2 welders, tool box, sand blast cabinet and several
other things.

Consider using the space high up on the walls for storage. Welders,
air compressors and shelves can all be hung high. Although the
compressor is better placed in a "dog house" outside to help eliminate
the noise.

Ron Thompson
On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA

http://www.plansandprojects.com

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to fill the world with fools.
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steamer December 12th 04 07:20 PM

Ron Thompson wrote:
: Consider using the space high up on the walls for storage. Welders,
: air compressors and shelves can all be hung high. Although the
: compressor is better placed in a "dog house" outside to help eliminate
: the noise.
--Good advice *unless* you live in earthquake territory. I save
the high shelves for storage of things like hunks of neoprene and foam,
heh.

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : Somehow related
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : to Lumpy Adams...
http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---


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