My barn conversion

[EddyP]

Thanks for the kind words

I'm turning a few shades of green here.....

Would it not have been better to have the small parts storage downstairs? If they hold 'often used' items your legs'll be worn to stumps going up and down the stairs.

Is the "other toy" under the cover the Aston in your avatar?

Hehe, thanks. Don't really want any parts storage downstairs, want to try and keep as clutter free as possible, I need the exercise to keep going up and down anyway

The other toy is a kit car I've built, it's pretty much finished now, took quite a while though! Had to get it finished for a fairly important day back in September, it's first major photoshoot, and some couple got married at the same time.

 

[Revs1972]

That's a Vortex GTV I believe. What engine did you put in?

 

[Revs1972]

Ha, just watched you on YouTube doing the quarter mile

 

[Revs1972]

PS I'm not a stalker

 

[EddyP]

That's a Vortex GTV I believe. What engine did you put in?

There's only one GTV, the others are GTTs or GT3s, all depends on the engine This is the Volvo T5 one, I did the articles that were in PPC magazine etc.

Ha, just watched you on YouTube doing the quarter mile

That didn't go well Never been to a drag strip before, the car wasn't finished, spent most of the time spinning wheels as it was so cold, damp and slippy! Wouldn't mind learning how to launch it properly and giving it another go to get a proper time.

PS I'm not a stalker

Are you sure?! The bushes outside keep moving..............

 

[slim_boy_fat]

The other toy is a kit car I've built,

OOOps, should have gone to Specsavers. That's the trouble with small avatar pics.

Nice job, though!!

 

[EddyP]

Thought it time for an update, first of all some more details of the airline tools:

I use Schrader fittings for my tools, these fit nicely between the fittings that were with some peg boards I got:

Thought it was time to start being more creative with the storage, to start with this seems like a waste of space:

This is a bit better:

Next a mate brought his race car over for us to work on it together, but we wanted to lift it onto some stands, so thought we'd see if the 4 poster can lift two cars:

Worked perfectly so now we can wheel it around the shop and work on it without bending over all the time!

Now time to get some tunes in, just some little speakers and an old amp for now, need to work out what to do longer term.

I'd been trying to think of a neat way to store my reels of cable, and where to store them, then I had a brain wave, in-between the joists of the mez!

All made from steel that I've picked out of skips over the last couple of years! Included the length of M16 stainless all thread.

Then I wanted to mount the vice on a stand as I want to keep the bench tops completely clear. Picked the stand up second hand from here for and bolted it to the floor, but thought it would need some bracing at the top for when I'm doing some bending or similar, so braced it back to the column for the mez, then I realised I needed a home for my grindstone and linisher, so thought the space behind the vice would be perfect!

Untitled by Ed P 82, on Flickr

Again, using steel from a skip, these were parts of an old desk, but perfect for what I need. I drilled and tapped the mez column to bolt the bits of angle to.
Then another brain wave, I could use some old gridding, again from a skip at work, then the holes could be useful for other things, like files!

Finished article:

Currently I'm working on wiring, and sorting out stuff like this:

 

[sardine]

Couldn't see no kettle or biscuit tin.

Useless.

 

[Revs1972]

Grind that base bolt down, it's doing my OCD in

 

[dobbslc]

That'll go through your foot!

 

[Scadden]

I started to bolt some of my flat pack kit together:





Then I had to call in reinforcements

It bugs me that I can see the buff marks through the paint

 

[EddyP]

I left the bolt on until I make sure I don't need it for anything else. Could probably cut it off now, nothing else will be mounted on that side.

Don't worry the buff marks are much harder to see now, the stair well is too dark

 

[Coo]

Great progress, and ideas !

 

[bricol]

I'd hang the air tools the other way up - stop crap falling down the inlets. Store mine in a cupboard for that reason - grinding shrapnel travels a long way.

 

[EddyP]

I'd hang the air tools the other way up - stop crap falling down the inlets. Store mine in a cupboard for that reason - grinding shrapnel travels a long way.

It's a good point, but where they are they're well away from any grinding, the vice is on the other side of the barn and has the side wall of the stairs in-between.