Building a shop and can not find ideas for it anywhere.You guys must have pics and ideas on what you did,come on post pics and show everyone where you spend all your time when not sledding!!
Show Me Your Shop
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Bigger the better with plenty of storage. I put a bridge crane in mine with a 1500# lift capacity. Use it for loading and working on the snowmobiles. Over size the doors, better to have 2 big doors then 3 small doors.
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Disco Dan Richter
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I have some I think, on my website: www.grandgarages.com
I know I have some pics somewhere.......
Where you building at? State?
I know I have some pics somewhere.......
Where you building at? State?
go as big as you can afford and then some. add lean tos for cheap footage. 14ft tall is a minimum IMO. allows for overhead storage and room.
Disco I live in Saskatchewan.The shop is built as big as I could afford. Went 50x60x19.Then the list goes on.Just starting on the inside for benches,storage and rooms but just can not find ideas except for traveling to see others in the area. Just thought there must be some cool ideas that everyone has.Will post some pics soon.Shower me with do's and don'ts,mistakes one has made or how you would do it again!!
Do:
1 Insulate walls and ceiling and sheet rock/mud. Paint walls white. This will make the garage very bright for working.
2 Install thermostacally controlled Ceiling fan heater (HOTDOG heater works excellent)
3 Plumb in copper tubbing air lines throughout the garage
4 Make sure you have a couple 30/220 amp/volt and 50/220 amp/volt circuits,and lots of 20/110 amp/volt circuits wired in.
5 Install flourescent lights (4 bulb) every 10 feet
6 Plumb in a vacuum system
7 Add as much storage as possible to keep crap off the floor
8 If you haven't poured a concrete floor yet, have the concrete guys make the surface smooth as glass. This will allow sweeping alot eaiser.
9 Plumb in hot/cold water and install at least a sink. Bathroom would be nice. They sell a small 3 gallon hotwater heater that fits under the sink. Works great.
Don'ts:
Dont scrimp on any of it. If you cheap out, you will kick yourself.
1 Insulate walls and ceiling and sheet rock/mud. Paint walls white. This will make the garage very bright for working.
2 Install thermostacally controlled Ceiling fan heater (HOTDOG heater works excellent)
3 Plumb in copper tubbing air lines throughout the garage
4 Make sure you have a couple 30/220 amp/volt and 50/220 amp/volt circuits,and lots of 20/110 amp/volt circuits wired in.
5 Install flourescent lights (4 bulb) every 10 feet
6 Plumb in a vacuum system
7 Add as much storage as possible to keep crap off the floor
8 If you haven't poured a concrete floor yet, have the concrete guys make the surface smooth as glass. This will allow sweeping alot eaiser.
9 Plumb in hot/cold water and install at least a sink. Bathroom would be nice. They sell a small 3 gallon hotwater heater that fits under the sink. Works great.
Don'ts:
Dont scrimp on any of it. If you cheap out, you will kick yourself.
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This was one of them:
don't have any pictures of the others.
don't have any pictures of the others.
here is some pics of mine. http://www.coffeyjet.com/home/shop%20pics/shop.htm
Supplicate good idea with the mounts built into the cement-what are they for grinders,ect or do I have the wrong idea.What do most guys use to plumb air lines around shop and large of main line should I go?Was looking at the pipe we used for the floor heat 3/4"ID plastic good for 100psi.Yes I know 100psi is not enough but that rating is for 180f so I'm thinking of test fitting a piece. The shop is up with only minor electrical left. 3000 sq ft cement w/in floor heat-heated with geothermal.Installed 2 doors 20x16 and 12x14 on the opposite end.Office space,bathroom and air compressor room with storage above.Just in time for winter!ah!!
A shop??
I'm thankful for the 2+Garage!!
I'm thankful for the 2+Garage!!
we have had great success w/ pvc for our air lines. bigger the pipe is good for more flow, less moisture and more resivour. when you tap the main lines never pull from the bottom of the pipe (moisture) between the compressor and hard pipe we run hyd line for protection from the vibration.
Watch out on using PVC for air lines. I've heard stories about it breaking and blowing shrapnel everywhere. If you do...shc.40 min.
What do you use for floor heat? Geothermal sounds spendy. I've heard of just using a hot water heater with a recirc pump or two and also heard of using propylene glycol antifreeze, but you have to have special equiptment for that. I'm trying to go as cheap as possible, 'cuz funds are limited of course.
I would like to install a 2 post lift also.
What do you use for floor heat? Geothermal sounds spendy. I've heard of just using a hot water heater with a recirc pump or two and also heard of using propylene glycol antifreeze, but you have to have special equiptment for that. I'm trying to go as cheap as possible, 'cuz funds are limited of course.
I would like to install a 2 post lift also.
as a pipefitter, I myself use pvc. cost, ease of mods and repairs, and condensation is why. pvc burst strengths are as high as you can imagine. here is a link to a chart on burst strengths http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/pvc-cpvc-pipes-pressures-d_796.html
and for copper http://www.copper.org/Applications/plumbing/techref/cth/tables/cth_table5.html
both are plenty overkill. the thing that I don't like about copper, if you take nice hot air (from the compressor) and shove it through a metal pipe that is cold, you get lots of moisture. plastic combats this pretty well. our shop runs 175psi line pressure and we have had one fitting leak after 10 years. that fitting was backed into with a forklift.
no matter what you use run all your laterals so the slope down and install low point drains. do not tap from low points on your drops. make all your pipe as big as possible it helps with everything.
and for copper http://www.copper.org/Applications/plumbing/techref/cth/tables/cth_table5.html
both are plenty overkill. the thing that I don't like about copper, if you take nice hot air (from the compressor) and shove it through a metal pipe that is cold, you get lots of moisture. plastic combats this pretty well. our shop runs 175psi line pressure and we have had one fitting leak after 10 years. that fitting was backed into with a forklift.
no matter what you use run all your laterals so the slope down and install low point drains. do not tap from low points on your drops. make all your pipe as big as possible it helps with everything.
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Grinders, vices, specialty mounts for the equipment we used to rebuild as part of the business, etc. They were completely modular so you could move them wherever you needed them so long as there was a connection in the floor for them to go into, as well as swapping out the ones closest to the benches (not built yet when picture was taken) for whatever task you needed at the time.. That shop was part of the company that my family owned up until a few years ago, but our personal shop is set up very similar just a bit smaller.
We used 3/4" pipe for the trunk line along the top edge of the wall and 1/2" pipe for the downrunners to the regulators and connections. Each connection was capable to run any pressure up to 180psi. We had a three phase 220volt with 110 gallon or so tank. We ran a -lot- of air tools.
Only reason we used iron screwed pipe instead of PVC was that we had it laying around. The previous owners had bought a bunch of screwed pipe and never used it, leaving it out in the shop. Due to that, we had lots of issues the first six months having to purge rust and such out of the drains on the downrunners.
We also replumbed the entire natural gas system, eliminating most of the pipe when we went to a 1" trunk line and 3/4" feeder lines for all the heaters.
Here's my bench.
Hey guys the info is great,sorry I never saw the other shop thread.Thanks for the link.PVC or copper will have to decide.Keep them coming.The geothermal was pricey but the lasting benifits justify the price.Cost recovery should be 5 years,maintenance minimum.Will post pics as soon as I am back on my computer.
big lathe, mill / drill, TIG, plasma, belt sander, table saw, slide miter saw, grinder, and my new favorite a cold cut saw hmmmmm, and a whole bunch of hand grinders, cutters, wire brush, rotary hand saw. I don't have a shop, just a really big garage.
All the guys I work with have been putting the closed loop heated floors in. No need for antifreeze, just turn it to 50 degrees, and let it run all the time; off a thermostat. You just need to have the pump kick on every so often, to keep the water flowing. They all agree that's the best investment they made. Insulation and big doors are the other. Everything else can be added later. I don't think any of them were big enough, in the long run. Something about the amount of crap you buy, will expand to fill all available storage space.
I don't have a shop, just a really big garage.All the guys I work with have been putting the closed loop heated floors in. No need for antifreeze, just turn it to 50 degrees, and let it run all the time; off a thermostat. You just need to have the pump kick on every so often, to keep the water flowing. They all agree that's the best investment they made. Insulation and big doors are the other. Everything else can be added later. I don't think any of them were big enough, in the long run. Something about the amount of crap you buy, will expand to fill all available storage space.
