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Post by Leftympfrmde on Oct 1, 2020 23:32:36 GMT -6
I pray we never hear the "well, today was the day" story from you. :-( I'm not going to try to dissuade you from use. You know the benefits and drawbacks... and how to care for them. You also seem like the kind of guy who isn't going to be brewing in a pair of cargo shorts and flip flops. But by the same token, kinda surprised you aren't a stainless steel conical kinda guy! ;-) Safety first, of course. I actually brew in a pair of uninsulated coveralls, and a retired pair of safety shoes (carbon fiber toed low tops) lol! Conicals are nice; but not my style at home. I use anvil buckets. Ease of a bucket that mimics a conical. |
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Post by Leftympfrmde on Oct 22, 2020 9:13:15 GMT -6
For those who are interested, I finished up with the rest of this idea a few weekends ago. whole project set me back around $400 ($100 of it was for a new mobile miter saw stand from Harbor Freight) and about... 40 hours from concept to completion. For those who have the space to do this in your garage, do it. Its pretty amazing how much floor space this cleared up! this pic was taken before final clean up; also took to opportunity to purge stuff that was not used, and taking up space to the dump; three trips with the truck packed tight. next on the list is putting on a epoxy floor coating and replacing the garage door and opener. its about 25 years old, beat up, and running towards the end of its life cycle.  |
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Post by chils on Oct 22, 2020 13:09:00 GMT -6
For those who are interested, I finished up with the rest of this idea a few weekends ago. whole project set me back around $400 ($100 of it was for a new mobile miter saw stand from Harbor Freight) and about... 40 hours from concept to completion. For those who have the space to do this in your garage, do it. Its pretty amazing how much floor space this cleared up! this pic was taken before final clean up; also took to opportunity to purge stuff that was not used, and taking up space to the dump; three trips with the truck packed tight. next on the list is putting on a epoxy floor coating and replacing the garage door and opener. its about 25 years old, beat up, and running towards the end of its life cycle. If you need any help/info about winding your door torsion springs let me know. I did several hundred in my trailer mechanic career and just did my own garage a few weeks ago. Garage was the same as a trailer roll up door. |
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Post by Leftympfrmde on Oct 23, 2020 5:39:09 GMT -6
For those who are interested, I finished up with the rest of this idea a few weekends ago. whole project set me back around $400 ($100 of it was for a new mobile miter saw stand from Harbor Freight) and about... 40 hours from concept to completion. For those who have the space to do this in your garage, do it. Its pretty amazing how much floor space this cleared up! this pic was taken before final clean up; also took to opportunity to purge stuff that was not used, and taking up space to the dump; three trips with the truck packed tight. next on the list is putting on a epoxy floor coating and replacing the garage door and opener. its about 25 years old, beat up, and running towards the end of its life cycle. If you need any help/info about winding your door torsion springs let me know. I did several hundred in my trailer mechanic career and just did my own garage a few weeks ago. Garage was the same as a trailer roll up door. Tention springs have always been a bit of a boogie man for me; I deal with electricity all day long, which scares people. When I was an apprentice, I saw a guy get his clock cleaned by a commerical garage door spring; lucky it didnt cut him in half. Curious on what the safe way to handle them is. |
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Post by chils on Oct 23, 2020 11:57:44 GMT -6
If you need any help/info about winding your door torsion springs let me know. I did several hundred in my trailer mechanic career and just did my own garage a few weeks ago. Garage was the same as a trailer roll up door. Tention springs have always been a bit of a boogie man for me; I deal with electricity all day long, which scares people. When I was an apprentice, I saw a guy get his clock cleaned by a commerical garage door spring; lucky it didnt cut him in half. Curious on what the safe way to handle them is. The bigger the spring the more tension and thus bigger rolling bars. Home garage doors aren't too bad. You can get a good idea about how much tension is on it by closing the door and sticking a bar in one of the torsion spring winding holes and lifting up on it. When winding one you stay to the side of the bars and never in front. You can lift the bars with 2 hands to start, transition to one hand and lay the next bar against the door to hold the tension while you reposition. I've never seen or suffered an injury in 20 years of winding them and teaching new hires how to safely do it. Complete ignorance on the forces involved or improper tools is what can get you hurt. |
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Post by jayb151 on Oct 23, 2020 13:22:50 GMT -6
Garage looks great! I'm a little jealous. I've run out of wall space in my garage, and I'm not considering doing similar ceiling shelves to get all my stuff off the floor. The bigest wall suck I have is the bikes. I have them hanging upright on the wall, but a family's worth of bikes still takes up a bunch of space. Than there's my work space. And my 3d printers. And the kegerator and chest freezer. I'm basically out of floor space and gotta move up! Will probably follow a similar design as you Lefty.
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Post by shaggaroo on Oct 23, 2020 14:10:18 GMT -6
We just had our garage doors replaced, came out really well. I watched the guy wind the springs but they still kind of scared me. Apparently, a 7' door requires 7 turns of the spring plus a little more... who knew?  |
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Post by Ken on Oct 23, 2020 14:33:25 GMT -6
I once pulled into the garage, got out of the car and walked into the house & hit the garage door to close it. I was standing in the laundry room when I heard a noise I had never heard before. I looked in the garage but didn't immediately see anything. A little later I went to open the garage door and it wouldn't go up. Hello Garage Door repair guy?  The spring had snapped. I have NEVER heard such a bizarre noise... almost like breaking glass and loud as hell. Also, Shaggaroo... take care of those leaves man!  I like those doors. I have some small square windows in mine but I like yours better. |
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Post by chils on Oct 23, 2020 16:56:22 GMT -6
I once pulled into the garage, got out of the car and walked into the house & hit the garage door to close it. I was standing in the laundry room when I heard a noise I had never heard before. I looked in the garage but didn't immediately see anything. A little later I went to open the garage door and it wouldn't go up. Hello Garage Door repair guy? The spring had snapped. I have NEVER heard such a bizarre noise... almost like breaking glass and loud as hell. Also, Shaggaroo... take care of those leaves man! I like those doors. I have some small square windows in mine but I like yours better. Shring, shring, shring! It's the sound of the coils spinning on the pipe as the tension is released. Like your shower curtain getting ripped back with force. We used to roll old doors up, clamp them and cut the cables and let the tension unwind. Easier than backing them off. I went out after work, put a bar in the torsion spring and got y'all a weight reading on tension required. My door is 16x7' and I have 2 springs. One on each side. Took about 36lbs of force to lift it but this is only duri g the last few holes. I wrapped 2 rounds of 7 on this one without any bars at all.  |
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The spring had snapped. I have NEVER heard such a bizarre noise... almost like breaking glass and loud as hell. 
I like those doors. I have some small square windows in mine but I like yours better. 