The "Perfect" Garage

[Bruce]

60x40?
Well I guess if you limited by lot space...
You'll first off need several areas.  Work bay with hoist, then several work
bays, none hoist, engine assembly area, metal fabrication area, paint room,
car wash/prep, dyno room, and an electronics area.

Too often guys scrimp on tools for fabbing, as a min equipment wise you'll
need:
2 drill presses (fine, and heavy duty)
3 lathes, precision, one with about a 6" swing, then one with a 14 swing
Crank grinder
S-W balancing machine, gram scale, and rod fixtures
Verical mill (Bridgeport will do <g>)
valve grinding machine
Gas, Mig and Tig welders
Plasma cutter
Hydralic presses
Brake lathe
Styrofoam cutter
small AL furnace
Crusible
Casting sand
Band saw
Joe Blocks
Granite surface table (one for small parts assembly, one for chassis work)
Material racks (sheet and tubing)
Lots of metal for fabrication use
Machinists hand book
The hand tool list should be self explainatory.
Flow bench


Electronics room.
Lots of bench space, 4  2x8' table tops, then numerous eye level sleeves
Scope
Signal Generators
Power supplies
several ecm benches
numerous ecms/pcms to tinker with
Complete reference materials for chips
All the circuits cook books
Several laptops, good PC  Several tera flops (cray perfered)
Comfortable chairs perfereable full environment control
Full selection of chips resistor, caps to work with
(On call PCB designer)
UPS for the whole area

Shop area is easy, one of everything Snap-On makes.
Several floor jacks
Air compressor oil seperators, and then oilers for the shop area.
Electrical outlets EVERYWHERE
Air sources EVERYWHERE

Dyno room,
chassis and engine

Of course this is just the min.,
Bruce






----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Sherwin
To: gmecm at diy-efi.org ; blown at lists.f-body.org ; diy_efi at diy-efi.org
Cc: Bill Ball
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 9:09 PM
Subject: The "Perfect" Garage


Slightly off topic, but not terribly far I would suspect, given the list
charters involved.  Thought you guys might have some creative ideas on your
collective wish lists.

Here's the baseline to work from.......Assume that you have a blank sheet of
paper, an unlimited budget, and a desire to create the "perfect" garage.
The garage will be a stand-alone coach house structure, architecturally
blended to match the main house on the outside.  Size is say 60'x40' ish in
terms of ground foot print.  Two story, with guy's loft above, and garage
below.  The floor between the two levels could also be open in part, to
couple the two spaces, and to provide either enough headroom for a hoist(s)
or general atmosphere when enjoying either level.  Lot's of skylights, and
natural light.  Beyond the above, you can do anything you want.........

What would you guys do with the space within, and what kinds of things &
equipment & features & neat stuff would you fill it with?  There must be a
whole bunch of us that have dreamed of this at some point in time?  Obvious
things would include heat, A/C, tunes and TV.  A place to either work &
create by yourself, or hang-out with and work with freinds.

Oh yeah,  forgot to mention that it will eventually be full of Blown & EFI
toys [errrr....well, maybe the odd carb'd toy too]  :).


Thanks.

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