[Milsurplus] workshop

[Bruce Gentry]

In some pictures of city streets in Amsterdam Holland, I saw three and 
four story row houses where every one had a  hoisting beam and every 
floor had really big  windows.  I recently remedied a similar problem at 
ground level. The people who had the house before me had turned the 
garage into a den. I tore out the false walls and drop ceiling, to 
return it to being a shop, and carried stuff in through the house. 
Because the original garage door opening had not been altered but 
covered with a poorly constructed plug/wall, I recently opened it back 
up and had a proper replacement garage door installed. The difference 
and convenience is amazing.  Everything that sits inside the door is on 
casters and can be moved aside quickly, and is also short enough to 
allow the door to roll above it.  I do have a detached garage, and one 
bay of it serves for storage.

         Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY

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> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "W2HX" <w2hx at w2hx.com <mailto:w2hx at w2hx.com>>
> To: "Ray Fantini" <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu 
> <mailto:RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>>; "Bruce Gentry" <ka2ivy at verizon.net 
> <mailto:ka2ivy at verizon.net>>; "Milsurplus" <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
> <mailto:Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>>
> Sent: 12/1/2017 5:10:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] workshop
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>> Ray wrote:
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>>> In the last house had a workshop built directly over the two car 
>>> garage. What seemed like a good idea at the time soon became a 
>>> problem. Everything had to be brought thru the house, up the stairs 
>>> and into the workshop.
>>>
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>> I had attempted to address that situation. My shack is also above the 
>> 2 car garage. But instead of humping stuff through the house, I built 
>> a yardarm with a block and tackle to get the stuff through a 
>> barn-door-looking opening.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Worked REALLY well! But to the whole point of this thread, fast 
>> forward a few years later and that barn-door-thingy is blocked with 
>> shelves and cabinets! I did make the shelves and cabinets all 
>> removable. But the reality of moving all of that stuff to use the 
>> barn doors makes humping new heavy things through the house look more 
>> desirable!
>>
>> Ultimately, "radios and electronics are just like gases. They expand 
>> to fill their container" (aka the Hertz Postulate (tm) )
>>
>> 73 Eugene W2HX
>>

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