The storage room

A baseline problem is always where to put all stuff.
And there's a LOT...
In the storage room my choice fell on four shelves.
Three regular and one for the corner.
They combined will give me over 20m/65ft of storage in my little room thats only
2x2 m/6,5x6,5 ft.
And still some space to spare.

There is of course plenty of space for shelves in both the garage and the machine room.
But I will minimize the use of shelves there and keep the majority of the stuff in the storage room.
Everything to “automate” the ability to keep everything organized and tidy.
So sick of the constant struggle to have a tidy shop.
If I can start this with base logistics for this purpose i'm glad and with 20m/65ft of shelves in a separate area I have a good start for this.
I will pair the new shelves with a bunch of new storage boxes from IKEA.
The see through kind for easy orientation when trying to find stuff.

About 50 IKEA "Samla" boxes with lid will be a good cure for my storage problems.

Flooring in da shop

Machine room

First up was the, to be, machine room that got some Laminate flooring.
The plan was to renovate the old wood floor but it had some coating like asphalt or rubber so it just became a smudge with the belt sander when i tried to sand it down..
So plan B was Laminate flooring, actually a better plan.
Became awesome, quite cheap and quick to do.
Forgot to take pic when it was done, but heres the first row down.

First row done

Garage

Here the floor got two layers of epoxy paint.
The plan was one layer but one wasn't enough so I bought more paint and laid down another one.
Really glad I did that second layer because now it looks great.

First layer on the way

Storage room

Another great thing in the new shop is the dedicated storage.
Not huge, but will have place for very much of the “god to have” stuff that otherwise will make a mess in a shop even when organized.
The (dream) plan for the floor here was end grain flooring.
But when I saw how nice it became with the Laminate flooring in the machine room I went for that in the storage as well.
Not only the floor got the treatment.
The walls had some cleaning up of old wiring and after that fresh white paint.
I even put baseboards in there.
First a layer of light gray and then mount them.
The storage is the only room all done at once, thats why I did the baseboards now.

First piece layed down

And done

Also did baseboard in the storage, here some gray paint first

Old...new beginning

After a fifteen year absence from the RC racetrack I´m back on a VERY grassroots level.
looked up the local RC club after the move and they only run Mini-Z but that is just up my alley now.
No full blown 1:8 scale nitro racing as I did during the nineties, this time it's only for recreation.
I just want to have some casual fun occasionally when I get the feeling and some time over and for that purpose the Mini-Z is great.

So I bought a used “stock” chassis, but stock is a strong word here.
It's actually just the electronics thats stock, the rest is all option raceparts from PN Racing.
Low center gravity chassis, aluminum and carbon fiber complete front and rear end, ball diff, full ball bearing set, a transponder and a used Mclaren body included and a custom 3D printed wing and probably some more stuff that haven't realized yet.
Gonna be a really fun, casual hobby thursday evenings.
Dont want more RC at this point, have waaaaay to much with everything in my life just now.
The Speedshop and the big toys in it are still No1 priority and I have no plan to change that.

Bought a “complete kit” with batteries and a OEM radio.

The used Mclaren body included is in a good state but the colorscheme ain't nothing that makes me happy.
I'm thinking of try to mediablast it with soda, a very gentle way to remove eg. paint i've read.
I might buy one and give it a go.

The radio is not that bad actually even if it looks like a toy, the only, and that's a BIG problem it's the lack of adjustments, so another radio feels like a natural step two further up the road.

Beaming up

Next up, a serious beam construction in the hole to keep the structure.

After the very time consuming door hole was done it was time to make the reinforcement to replace the bit of the wall now missing.
My friend Bosse was involved in the beam project from day one.
He helped me buy the beam, cut it to length and weld on “feet” brackets with holes in stainless to mount them to the floor.

The actual job to mount the beams was a quick and straightforward job.
Rise the vertical beams, drill the floor and mount them.
Measure the width at the bottom and cut the top beam same length.
Join all the three and weld them together.
Done

After that i had to fine adjust the squareness a tiny bit with spacers.

And after that i mixed some cement, took a Piping bag from my wifes baking stuff.
Filled it with cement and squeezed it in to all areas between the wall and the beam. It definitely now feels like the garage project got a new beginning this weekend.
Next up flooring in all three rooms and then move all stuff from Speedshop MkI to MkII. 

Bosse doing his stick weld magic

And the other side

Cleaning up

Bashing down a bit of a wall aint something done without a trace afterwards.
Ridiculous amount of dust from the diamond blade and lots of gravel from the rotary hammer going bezerk.
The big chunks ain't no problem except for the weight.
But all the other smaller remains…
I filled up 6 Wheelbarrows with dust and gravel.
I had a big hole in the ground at my property that I filled with all remains with the Wheelbarrow.
The fact that I have a Wheelbarrow with a flat tyre didn't help either.
It became another hard labour for the office desk klerk to drag, yes drag, the Wheelbarrow up the hill where the hole was.

The only thing left now is the big stones that I will take to the local waste recycling centre.

Filled up six of these

One down, five to go.

The big chunks

Big chunks and gravel

The flat tyre

Waaaay up there I took the gravel

The opening

One crucial thing for me is the possibility to go directly from the house in to the shop.
This was also a good thing because on the other side was a bedroom and a closet that I intend to use as machine room and storage and will increase the Speedshop size quite a bit.

So the job begun.
A job that should out to be harder than I ever could imagined.
Before I begun I rented two jack posts and put one of each side of the wall, just to keep the structure intact.

The job started with two drilled pilot holes through the wall and from there I used plumb line on each side to get the square.
Trace a door square after the plumb lines and the top line that I measured from the ceiling.
After that I used a big angle grinder with a diamond blade to cut after these lines.
The disc penetration was about 7 cm (3”)  and the wall was just over 20cm (8”).
So after I cut on either side I was left with a 7 cm (3”) part that I thought before I started was “just” to crack when I gave the wall some beating with a big sledgehammer.
OMG, was I wrong there or what.
It took sooo much more effort than I’ve thought both with sledgehammer and rotary hammer.
First I did a hole on top and thought that now the wall must come down if I beat on it with sledgehammer.
Nope
I made a “T” through and started pounding again and after much pounding I saw some cracks and I could lift off the stones one after the other after continuous beating.

First cut after the lines

Same view from both sides

I´m through

Top bit gone

Middle bit gone

Finaly the sladgehammer could do some good

Bit by bit...

....by bit by bit....

So in the end I was the winner.

Painting the new shop

So now the building of Speedshop MkII has begun.
YESSSS. FINALLY !!!!!!
So good to have started this, have been so much stuff with higher priority first so this project have been low priority way to long.
First up was to empty the area, then spray paint and roller new white paint on the walls.
And after that black paint on the radiators.

The timeline after painting will be something like:
# Empty the garage from stuff – Done
# Painting walls – Done
# Painting radiators – Done
# Open up a door hole from the workshop to the future machine room – Work in progress
# Paint the floor in the workshop area
# Move all stuff from Speedshop MkI to the workshop area.
# Renovate floors in machine room and storage
# Shelfs in the storage room
# Move most stuff from workshop area to the storage…and machine room

It’s gonna be a long and twisty road with of course lots of changes in the plan.
But that’s the plan so far, the next step, the start of Workshop interior, workbench, chill zone, will be a later question.

Some pics from step one, painting workshop walls white.

A dream come true with this new garage,

just the ability to open up is so awesome

First empty the workshop area before paint

Masking off everything before spraypaint

The dark hole before painting started

Halfway there, one wall left.