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    Ain't much of a garage to brag about...

    We've lived in tract home in Santa Clarita (Los Angeles County) for the past 24 years. It had an attached 2 car garage that was set up as best as possible for working on cars. But it had a washer/dryer and other shared stuff with the missus...

    Then we moved (after 24 years) across town to an older-more rural part of Santa Clarita (called Newhall) and I now have another 2 car garage. This one is detached, so no sharing . Our home/garage is on a half acre in an area where most properties have been subdivided into smaller lots. So it's kind of a premium to find this size lot in this area. Bought it 5 years ago (from the bank who was unloading it at the top of the real estate meltdown) and had been renting it out.

    So now we're here...and we have some room to spread out and some equity to (someday) build a new larger garage on the back quarter acre.

    This weekend, I retrofitted this empty shell of a 2 car garage and built a workbench with cabinets on one wall, and erected steel shelving for the other 2 walls. Found it all locally on Craigslist for cheap. it's a lifesaver, as there's not much room in an 18 x 20 garage structure with 1 car in build mode in it.

    But now I have the room to resume the Nomad build. Onward!

    Here's pics.
    Paul

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    Looks like you're ready to start getting serious.
    Best wishes forward

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    Looks like you're off to a Good Start, keep moving forward and Good Luck!!

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    Looks good, Nice and neat, takes a lot of discipline to maintain!

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    Congrats on the new shop. Nice to have a place to work on your car again.
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    Its a lot more than I started with, I admire your organization.

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    And it's all properly grounded with new rods in the ground now. That makes me feel a little better...as the grounding on the old system was suspect.
    1957 Nomad- LS1/T56 on C4 chassis
    1959 Fleetside Apache 1/2 ton, shortbed, big window, 327ci.

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    We get by in our home 'one man' shops with putting more equipment on the circuits than it would support, but we can only operate ONE at a time, eh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BamaNomad View Post
    We get by in our home 'one man' shops with putting more equipment on the circuits than it would support, but we can only operate ONE at a time, eh?
    You don't need to design a circuit to support having everything on at once. If we did that, we'd need a 1000 amp panel to our homes.

    I have several 110V circuits in both shops. Unfortunately I didn't plan to have so much equipment on one wall in the old shop because I didn't originally build it for a business. Still, it all works with no problem 99% of the time even with two of us working.
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    Congratulations Paul! FINALLY... it does seem like forever since we read of your initial efforts to get your garage started! It sounds like you're going to have a very nice shop to work on your car once finished!

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