I was in Harbor Freight yesterday with a gift card and credit card. Got 50' of (Good-Year) rubber air hose, an orbital sander, some 6" sanding discs, compressor oil and air tool oil. It could have been alot worse, but I was focused on what I needed. There was alot of stuff that caught my eye.
That's how I was for the first hour, but then I started looking at absolutely everything and deciding if it would help me with the Civic and CRX or not... Looking at useful stuff for hours upon hours, while waiting for your ride, with a card in your hand is dangerous.
I found places to put the little stuff easily enough, but I have no idea where I'm going to put all the big stuff in my one-car garage! It's looking like I'm going to be taking over the basement in addition to the garage now.
The compressor is already in there, which works out well as it cuts way down on noise and is near to the only 220v outlet in the house. The blasting cabinet is going to have to find a place in the garage somehow, but I suppose the press can go into the basement as well as the pressurized blaster when it's not in use. I put the welding cart together last night and that's saved me some space due to the shelves that are built in, all my welding stuff is there now. But my drill press, chop saw, and engine hoist take up a ton of garage space. I might be able to move the hoist into the basement and free up some garage space for the press, but I'm not sure which way is better yet. I'm going to have to take out the card table I have down there as my 'workbench' and replace it with the portable welding table, to save floor real estate. Eventually I need to pick up or build a small honest to goodness workbench, which I need pretty badly to mount a vise and grinding wheel on. I've also got a standing shelving unit in there housing two transmissions, two heads, various other car parts and lots of tools. Not to mention a cheapo rolling toolbox taking up space, 5 rolls of carpet stacked up along the side wall, oh and a torn down 3G Civic.
And to think I still need to eventually fit a rotisserie in there!
Edited by DarkHand, 04 March 2008 - 05:16 PM.