Posted by NNP on September 06, 2014 at 05:12:20 from (66.66.112.196):
In Reply to: New Shop posted by rnicholas on September 03, 2014 at 17:42:55:
big vise, which also means your bench it's attached to must be
immensely strong and bolted to everything/everywhere.
When mounting your vice and bench grinder, leave enough room around it to do big, long things.
working on tractors, a overhead beam and trolley, or a gantry
will save you a lot of time.....and keep you alive...(failsafe sling when using jacks)
Even with a gantry, a cherry picker is needed too on some jobs.
You can't have too many floor jacks either.
I like multiple toolboxes rather than pegboards, because of moisture, dust, paint overspray, but that's up to you.
2 or 3 stage lighting. normal banks for puttering, another circuit for working, and/or another circuit for 'brighter than day' painting/etc light.
Oh, and most things you have to fix don't run.....
A winch to get them in there is handy. I don't have drive-thru doors, and didn't want to drill my concrete. So I set a post in concrete outside the back wall, made a hole in the wall for a cable. mounted a winch on wheels inside....drag em in.
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