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| Winter
Motorcycle Work Shop - Part 2 |
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My
goal was to create a well insulated bay so I could
work in nice warm comfort while it was 0 degrees and
below outside. Went through about 8 or 9 tubes of
caulk hitting every nook and cranny, spray foam, trim,
caulk and smooth the seams before painting for a finished
look and to get rid of drafts. Small natural gas wall
heater is in, this bay is only about 200 sq ft, this
heater is good for 400 sq ft heats up the bay in 5
minutes
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| Got
a sweet lift for the bay from craigslis, air over oil
hydraulic lift. Need to saw cut a spot in the center
of the floor and dig out 4' deep, this sets down in
there and has a flange that fits over the floor, so
it is almost totally flush. Going to saw cut a channel
to the wall and bury a hard line and put the air controls
on the wall. Was going to go with a harbor freight lift,
this is so much nicer and actually a bit cheaper. Access
to all parts of the bike, the ram lifts up to 1000 lb
3' in the air. (NOTE: in retrospect this lift is really
neat, but was such a pain to install that I could have
easily gone with the normal style table lift and been
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| Greg
and I ran air from my garage through the attic of my
Lowbrow Customs shop and into the attic of my new work
bay. I had an air reel I was going to mount on the ceiling
but Greg had a better idea and we ended up with a nice
flush mounted air reel. |
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The
piece of flooring will go back in in the attic, I
used a hole saw to cut a nice circle and feed the
hose back through it. It works perfect, butted the
flange on the 4-wheel guide up to a floor joist and
screwed it to it.
The
hydraulic lift was a bigger pain in the ass than anticipated.
The hole included cutting out drain tile and re routing
drain spouts, jackhammering a big rock that ended
up not being so big, and tons of ground water in my
very moist land. Wrapped up the lift nice and watertight
so it can sit in ground water if necessary. Coroplast
(corrugated plastic, sign substrate), shrink wrap,
heavy duty garbage bag, shrink wrap. And what do you
know, the lift actually works!
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| Finished
welding up the support for my new workbench last night,
here is part of it. 1.5" x 1.5" x .125"
angle, the top will be about 2' x 4', I have a slab
of 1.25" wood then 1/8" steel plate to top
it off. |
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Floor
sealed, airlines run, little crap to finish up and
I am ready to start wrenching in here!
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Final
Notes: My shop has been done about 8 or 9 months now,
and I work in there regularly on my bikes. It is really
nice having all my tools on pegboard instead of all
over the garage, and there is enough room to have
a bike on the lift and another off to the side in
progress without being in the way. It becomes a mess
when I am doing grinding and fabrication work though,
it would be ideal to use this as a motor building
/ assembly bay and have another area for doing grinding,
drilling etc. There was a decent amount of work to
finish this bay off, but as it is getting colder out
now it is nice that I just turn on the heater and
keep working in comfort.
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