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My little buddy Joey and I spent the day putting tools and equipment together yesterday. All this stuff that's taking up room in the house garage has to move out to the new shop.



Here's a neat attachment for my spot welder, a set of pinch weld tongs.





Safety cabinet for flamible liquids, this is where my paints, primers and solvents will go.



We're going to pick up a new rollaway (tool cabinet and chest) for hand tools today, also some cabinets and shelving.

Any chance you gonna think about bead blasting barelled actions with that unit?

You got some cool toys dude...

Probably could, it honestly hadn't crossed my mind.

I saw the cabinet and wondered that same thing.

Nice shop, Dave. Let us know the date of your grand opening. Maybe some of the fire can show up for that.

What are you going to get? KRL? Epiq?

Dang....Dave's got some Toys....

The last gig worked so well, he's a new business plan...

Dave should do some research, find all the "1st vehicles" for a given group of Millionaires who are also car enthusiasts...

Track down those vehicles, purchase them, restore em and then offer them back, in factory new condition,....for a generous restoration fee, of course...

Dang Dave, you win. You know, "He who dies with the most toys wins".

Which one did you get? OTC? Snap On?

Isn't that the truth!!!!!!!!

KRL?



I wanted OTC but I went with the heaviest ATD offering I could find.

It's so much all at once, all this stuff. I had to cut some corners here & there.

Oh I got ya now, "KLR" = Snap-On.

That's a negative ghost rider.

We're on a budget here, lol.



We were loaded down yesterday, but there was no fancy stuff in the truck. We did the best we could with the budget we set for this stuff.





There's a 36" tool cabinet and upper chest, a pair of 3 drawer base cabinets on casters for under a work bench, 16' of 30" deep racking/shelving, a couple of wall cabinets and a wall locker/cabinet.

There's some other junk mixed in there, couple air hoses, welding gloves, wire brush cups for grinders.... blah, blah, blah...

I'm happy with the stuff we got. The tool box isn't high end but they use this brand at my family's old service station back home. Those drawers open many times a day every day and the box is doing great.

Get whatever tools that will do the job. Not everything has to be snap-on if that quality & price isn't needed. There are some good brands close to you with lifetime guarantee so theye are easy to replace if needed.

That being said....
I'm tearing down a final drive on a D65 Komatsu dozer (45,000# dozer). I had to block it up 6-8", remove the blade, tracks & both track frames. Some of those big bolts were stubborn. After many cycles of heat & beat then pulling with a 4' cheater pipe, I decided that something was going to give & it wasn't going to be me.
I grabbed an old Wright brand 3/4" breaker bar & a 7' sch 40 pipe. I sat down on my butt & pulled with all 6'2", 240# of me. The bolts finally came. I still am amazed that the wrenches held up. It's still straight but had to be very close to failure.

Good tools are priceless when needed but are just waste of capital when regular will do.

We all know how well you think out every step ND & there is no doubt that you made the correct choices.

Are you in there fulltime yet? When should I come visit?

Will Mrs.ND allow that to be displayed?

ummmm. updates....
We're all waiting.....

I got nuthin.

My brother is up with a crew doing some paved roads and parking lots in the area, he's stripping off gravel from a parking lot in town and needs someplace to dump it. We figger it would be ok to dump it around this here building....

Other than that, nothing new really, I put together a few of my shop cabinets. I have a couple more to go.

I do like these cabinets, this is the Menards store house brand.



The 2 base cabinets will go under a work bench and the 3 door unit is a wall cabinet, I have another just like it to assemble yet, plus a 48" wide wall locker style that matches these. Now that I have them home and have been able to check them out, I'll likely get more of these. I couldn't really tell if they were of decent quality and construction in the store.

You are such a f'n tease with all this stuff. Tool porn. Stop!

Did you seal the concrete inside or are you going to do a nice epoxy for the shop? Paint? hows the insulation coming? beer fridge plugged in? should maybe do a custom painted beer fridge for the shop as well. Find one of them old style good fridges and paint it all up.

Beer fridge?


That's brilliant!

lol!

Actually the coffee pot will have priority over beer fridge.

I'm sure we'll put a fridge out there but I'm not gonna fill it with beer just yet. We have a ton of work to do, I'm behind on projects I haven't been able to start yet because of the building delays.