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My house was inherited from my wife's parents... along with alot of 'stuff' before I could get into my little project, I really needed to clean a space to work in.
Ok I should have taken a picture of the mess that was in here... basicly I know some people are horrified by the disorder of my work shop. Trust me you can see the floor now and the benches are clean. It is 100 times better, I also redid the electrical in here to give myself some outlets to work with... cause I think dremels work better when they are plugged in.
I will change this bench around some more in the future but for now it will do just fine.
OMG *** happened to mah case! Oh yeah... I deriveted the case and removed all the stickers, cable management clips and basicly anythink not metal. Degreased the parts and did some 220/320/400 sanding on some troubled spots. The rest of the spots got light sand treatment with 400 grit.
Time to paint?
Nope... no painting for me. I needed to set up a "clean room" in the garage.
The theme to Dexter is playing in my head...
I took apart some old romex wire to make hooks... figure what I will do when I actually start to paint is put a part on a hook. Move that hook to a central area and spray it, then move it to an out of the way space to dry.
It is not raining but there is a threat of rain... so painting must wait.
Since the weather continues to foil my project... I decided to work a bit more on my work space. Picked up some cabinet grade laminated 2'x4' and 1'x4' sheets at a local building recycling shop. Did manage to anchor the shelves into the walls - a 4" mason screw does wonders for piece of mind.
Gives me a nice water proof surface to work on - also cleans off real easy (no little metal burrs getting stuck in the wood)
I spent a little more time touching up a few pieces of the case... You can see the extra holes I added to the motherboard tray.
Got a new bench vice (bout time too) - next step is figure out what to do with 30+ years worth of used paint buckets... And move the rest of my power tools into the room. I would like to move my 4' tool chest in here but I can't see a way to make it fit. Shame.
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Ok I should have taken a picture of the mess that was in here... basicly I know some people are horrified by the disorder of my work shop. Trust me you can see the floor now and the benches are clean. It is 100 times better, I also redid the electrical in here to give myself some outlets to work with... cause I think dremels work better when they are plugged in.

I will change this bench around some more in the future but for now it will do just fine.

OMG *** happened to mah case! Oh yeah... I deriveted the case and removed all the stickers, cable management clips and basicly anythink not metal. Degreased the parts and did some 220/320/400 sanding on some troubled spots. The rest of the spots got light sand treatment with 400 grit.
Time to paint?

Nope... no painting for me. I needed to set up a "clean room" in the garage.

The theme to Dexter is playing in my head...

I took apart some old romex wire to make hooks... figure what I will do when I actually start to paint is put a part on a hook. Move that hook to a central area and spray it, then move it to an out of the way space to dry.
It is not raining but there is a threat of rain... so painting must wait.

Since the weather continues to foil my project... I decided to work a bit more on my work space. Picked up some cabinet grade laminated 2'x4' and 1'x4' sheets at a local building recycling shop. Did manage to anchor the shelves into the walls - a 4" mason screw does wonders for piece of mind.

Gives me a nice water proof surface to work on - also cleans off real easy (no little metal burrs getting stuck in the wood)
I spent a little more time touching up a few pieces of the case... You can see the extra holes I added to the motherboard tray.

Got a new bench vice (bout time too) - next step is figure out what to do with 30+ years worth of used paint buckets... And move the rest of my power tools into the room. I would like to move my 4' tool chest in here but I can't see a way to make it fit. Shame.

* This Worklog post was generated using WorklogCreator - Version: 1.0.1.7
* Free Download: http://www.mod2software.com/worklogc...logcreator.zip