Discussion Forum - Northstar Chevelle Club

That should work great.

That is very 

bowtie wrote:

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I will need a mannequin soon and wasn't sure who/where to look exactly.

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 Were you maybe thinking this one Bryan....?  

Seriously John, that's a great find and idea (Not that I'm surprised coming from you ).  I will have to save the link too for when finishing the walls in the bat cave.

Just got cleaned up from priming the south wall. It took 1-1/4 gallons of Kilz "premium" for two coats - and the stamping on the OSB is still leaching through! We'll see - I'll have to do a test swatch with final color to see if it bleeds... thinking a gloss light grey.

It's amazing at how much just this one wall in flat primer brightens up the space!

(I don't even want to go near why Bryan needs a mannequin...  )

Yeah, the slatwall is neat stuff - but friggin' HEAVY - about 75lbs a sheet! But what's cool is if you wanna hang something up, just click a bracket/hanger in the spot and done - no anchors, looking for studs, etc. It's screwed to the wall through every 3rd slot into the stud. In my case the ends of the panels fell between studs, so a bead of general-purpose construction adhesive near the edge is sticking it to the wall. What's also cool is if you use the metal slot inserts, the fasteners/screw heads are concealed.

SShink wrote:

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bowtie wrote:

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I will need a mannequin soon and wasn't sure who/where to look exactly.

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 Were you maybe thinking this one Bryan....?  

Seriously John, that's a great find and idea (Not that I'm surprised coming from you ).  I will have to save the link too for when finishing the walls in the bat cave.

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Oh yes, I have to have one of these, I have the perfect spot for it, her, she and plenty of height for the pole. Should go over very well in this very conservative roman catholic community.    

That's way cool garage art Bryan! 

John D wrote:

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Insomnia has its benefits... (OK, maybe not insomnia, but being "body-clock" programmed to wake up at 5am)
I am REALLY HAPPY at how this is turning out!

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And well you should be. Nice job.

 I have the body-clock thing going on too....

What strikes me is the previous owner built the garage in the late '70s. We moved here in '96. It's only taken FORTY YEARS to get the ceiling done, lighting installed, and walls finished/painted!

It only took 15 years to get a paved driveway all the way to the garage, then nearly 20 to build myself a shop that I'll have to learn how to work in!

I've been working on gravel or in the dark since I was a kid - don't know anything else...

No sheit, and there's 3 to do... I can handle "rough" carpentry - cabinetry is another art.

Progress report:

North wall is 98% done. Just some 1/4-round to trim off the slatwall. Log this in your history files - this is probably the cleanest you'll ever see the 40 Watt main workbench!

(Pulled the vise and grinder off, hit the entire bench with the belt-sander (varying grits) and there's a quart of sealer back on it.)

Funny you should say that... at Car Craft this year "S" showed some interest in a particular make/model. Of all the 1000's of possibilities she really likes the '68/9/70 Corvette "Stingray".

Now, for my 1/2 of it, the car would have to be a roadster/convertible ('Vette's with a hard roof are just wrong), for her 1/2 it'd need to be an automatic. I'm thinking pretty cheap buy-in here... A nice convert, base 350/350 car with nothing special = cheap $$$. Hmmmmm.

Well, the windows are trimmed & cased, did a throwback to the 70's and glued some cork around the main bench window (to actually use tacks and hold stuff up...), and started a little "man cave"/auto-art on the unusable wall areas. 

Ok, how many guys didn't have the Lambo & Alpine poster on their wall in the 80's??

(No shop is complete without at least one "tool company" calendar girl either!)

Thank You's to Bryan's for his compliments/credits in the latest newsletter - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

The "40 Watt" is nearly done. The overhead door is scheduled for replacement in the next few weeks. A new 5-panel, double-skinned (steel) door with injected polyurethane foam (R13+) will be going in. Once that's up and done I'll finish the east (last) wall.

I ran into a problem this past weekend however. With all the new storage (shelves, cabinets, slatwall, "tubs" in the attic, etc.) I organized myself into not remembering where anything is anymore!!
I changed the wheels/tires on the "Green Mary" Saturday (from alloys/meats to steels/snows/grandpa wire hubcaps) and for the life of me I couldn't find the box that had the hubcap adapters and steel-wheel lugnuts!! I could visualize the box on the shelf, over the west window... but that was the old 40 Watt. Could I remember where that box went in the new 40 Watt??? No.  
It took 3 trips around every cabinet, shelf, and attic... then the proverbial light-bulb went off when I looked at a tub in the attic marked "Misc 95/6 Caprice". Sure 'nuff the box was in there.

I also undertook a minor project during the hoop-swap, finding the cause of notchy/loose steering. With 92k turns on her, I expected something worn out. Turned out to be the driver's outer tie-rod end. Lemme tell you, it was a pleasure to do this job in a well-lighted & warm space, tools & supplies organized and at hand. Even with the rusted fasteners & 20 years of crud it took about an hour to exchange the tie-rod end (including the "red-neck/shadetree"/tape measure/count the turns/ruler toe-in wheel alignment).

I'll agree - having blank, horizontal space IS a catch-all for CRAP... unless you discipline yourself to finding a dedicated space for it (which more often than not should be the big green can you roll to the curb every week!), or you retrain yourself to PUT THINGS AWAY WHEN YOU'RE DONE. I have a tendency to "sprawl" during a project.

I'll post some pics of the door install.