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Hey Dave, you still keeping that Trunk Monkey around? I'm sure he would make a great night watchman (er, monkey...) but if you can teach him to run a spray gun you might really be onto something....

True story, someone has an elephant that uses oil paints to make impressionistic paintings... they sell well at respectable prices....

Are you going to spray foam the walls too Dave, Looks Great. Go deep on the insulation up top there, run all your wiring in conduit on the outside so you can change easily if needed. put plenty of outlets as well all over. My neighbors just ran what looked like a pex for their air lines as well around there new 60x80 shop. Keep Going man!! Doing great!!

hey buschter, I don't think we can spring for the foam in the walls. I may call and price out a 1" option and go with the fiberglass over that, but I doubt it will happen.

Yes we are surface mounting all the power, and my air will be routed in one of those new pex type airline kits... several actually.

Dave, awesome progress there!
Can you post a link to the Pex airline kits? My Google-fu is murky this morning. Thanks, my brain cells appreciate it.

Oh, not this year and maybe not till 2016, but I want my first car again. 1968 Mercury Cougar. 302, automatic, red.
Please have it ready no later than the end of 2016, thanks, Mark

Be like this:



http://www.rapidairproducts.com/maxline_masterkits.asp

WOW Dave, really moving along. Can't wait till we start seeing pictures of projects.

thats the stuff i was talking about dave,

Good to see the shop finally taking shape!

Hey ND. Is it July 1st yet?

I didn't say what year....

hey whyte bare, the roof tin is on!

Long day.


I also hauled 2 pickup loads of shop tools and equipment home today, and there's more coming.

Holy crap I have some cool stuff.

Camera is probably deceiving. How tall are the walls? The interior pic makes them look 8', but I'm sure they aren't.

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Lights?

Gonna be florescent strip lighting, figure it's the best way to go with the lower ceiling. White steel interior ceiling & walls too, should help.

Many, many dreams will come true, under that tin.

Pace yourself, Buddy.

GTC

Thanks Dave. Cool stuff, it'll make air plumbing my garage and running an airline down to my reloading room a lot less expensive, and a lot less work.



Scissor lift racing track in there, All Right!

I got 2 of their 3/4" 100' kits and one of the 1/2" 100' kits.

I have to run a lot of lines.

Dave about twenty years ago my ex-boss and hunting partner plumbed in an air compressor and manifold riser system to distribute air to the different work stations around his shop. The Distribution system from the Air Compressor to the work stations was run through the overhead using two inch black pipe with a line down from the overhead to each work station. We went to the local NAPA Store and them make hydrolic lines to a specified length and used them down from the overhead to each work station.

That was twenty years ago and the hydrolic lines are still in use today with less than a half pound of air loss in a month for the whole system. Think of this for a minute or two. The hydrolic lines are designed to handle a minimum of 2,500 PSI of hydrolic oil and you are not going have more than 250 or 300 Pounds of air pressure in reserve in your compressor system at any time.

I just thought I'd throw this little bit of info in your direction feel free to use it if you think it will work for you.

Gonna go with T5s?

My neighbor has a shop a little smaller and has fluorescents down each wall at about 4 - 5 feet high as well as ceiling.

IMO, shops can't be too well lit.

When he rolls up the overhead door in the winter, it looks like he opened a box of plutonium!