Excuse the long post. My image hosting went down and I have about a month of blog content to cover. Ill post in real time following this post
Life changed and I'm downsizing. I sold my 24,000 sq ft warehouse and ended leases on 3 containers. (10x40) x2(10x20) .
I found a sweet storage space in Nooksack closer to my house in the County for $500 per month for a 20x30 with a tiny office built in and free electricity included.
My grand plan is to change the office into a rework station, the Back half into a functioning arcade and the front full of racking for CRT and supplies and the in between area for cab repairs.
In order to hold all my monitors. I need to construct racking. I'll be using x2 4x14' 4 tiered racks. That should be adequate for all my Monitors, CRT, Large arcade parts and boxed PCB.
I started by clearing the containers and loading up candy on the utility trailer
The space began to fill quickly.
The office was in pretty awful shape with the previous owner kicking in the door, removing built ins and leaving giant holes in the wall. I moved this shelf from the front to the office and then deconstructed it and got it out of there completely as it was too big for the office and did not fit in with racking either. The lake house needed a shelf in the garage so off it goes.
I wanted new surfaces and interiors and a place to nap and play video games so I decided to go gonzo and build a "tiny living room loft" above the office.
I got scrap carpet for $50 and they threw in free padding. Some tack and a carpet knife later. We have the beginning of the "tiny living room"
It is time to treat the office. I plan on creating a dedicated clean, bright area for a rework electronics station, complete with Melamine shelves.
It's time gut the place. You can see the previous damage from the built ins. the Ikea desk has got to go too.
I dragged my linoleum outside and traced it with a baseboard
LOTS of spackle was used in creating this room..
I used a qt of vinyl adhesive and brushed it out evenly against the concrete. I used my desks and chair kits to weigh it down overnight
These outlets are Nasty. They sprayed drywall texture over them and it's not a tasteful look IMO.
After 2 coats of 1-2-3 Primer. The topcoat is ready to spread. I used a "Dolphin Grey" Semigloss. It's easy to clean and closer to white for high visibility. After painting I cut and painted all the baseboard and crown molding to cover the perimeter of the room
The FLUO fixtures were burning up new t8 bulbs up so I hard wired some LED shop lights in the place and grabbed some fresh diffuser lenses.
Another problem I ran into was the steel conduit boxes didn't have anchors for Nema outlets so my shiny white outlets just floated out of the wall. That won't do.
The old conduit receptacle has grounds attached to the steel wall and steel conduit run going behind the drywall. I came up with a crazy idea and used drywall anchor conduit boxes and cut the back off so I could fit them in front of the back half of the grounded boxes. The first cut went off like a bomb and blue plastic shrapnel went everywhere. I ended up Duct taping the cutline and anchoring the box with some baseboard and a C-clamp. Much better
My outlets are now anchored
I installed a conduit box in the rectangular hole (not pictured) in case I wanted to snake in some ethernet in the future.
Lets build a desk!
I intentionally left an area blank as I plan on having an office candy cab up to a 25"
That pretty much covers my last month here's some Before and After
BEFORE
AFTER
I'd would love to hear your recommendations for favorite tools in your rework stations or any input you have.
Up next: Melamine shelves, Hakko, and power!...
Life changed and I'm downsizing. I sold my 24,000 sq ft warehouse and ended leases on 3 containers. (10x40) x2(10x20) .
I found a sweet storage space in Nooksack closer to my house in the County for $500 per month for a 20x30 with a tiny office built in and free electricity included.
My grand plan is to change the office into a rework station, the Back half into a functioning arcade and the front full of racking for CRT and supplies and the in between area for cab repairs.
In order to hold all my monitors. I need to construct racking. I'll be using x2 4x14' 4 tiered racks. That should be adequate for all my Monitors, CRT, Large arcade parts and boxed PCB.
I started by clearing the containers and loading up candy on the utility trailer
The space began to fill quickly.
The office was in pretty awful shape with the previous owner kicking in the door, removing built ins and leaving giant holes in the wall. I moved this shelf from the front to the office and then deconstructed it and got it out of there completely as it was too big for the office and did not fit in with racking either. The lake house needed a shelf in the garage so off it goes.
I wanted new surfaces and interiors and a place to nap and play video games so I decided to go gonzo and build a "tiny living room loft" above the office.
I got scrap carpet for $50 and they threw in free padding. Some tack and a carpet knife later. We have the beginning of the "tiny living room"
It is time to treat the office. I plan on creating a dedicated clean, bright area for a rework electronics station, complete with Melamine shelves.
It's time gut the place. You can see the previous damage from the built ins. the Ikea desk has got to go too.
I dragged my linoleum outside and traced it with a baseboard
LOTS of spackle was used in creating this room..
I used a qt of vinyl adhesive and brushed it out evenly against the concrete. I used my desks and chair kits to weigh it down overnight
These outlets are Nasty. They sprayed drywall texture over them and it's not a tasteful look IMO.
After 2 coats of 1-2-3 Primer. The topcoat is ready to spread. I used a "Dolphin Grey" Semigloss. It's easy to clean and closer to white for high visibility. After painting I cut and painted all the baseboard and crown molding to cover the perimeter of the room
The FLUO fixtures were burning up new t8 bulbs up so I hard wired some LED shop lights in the place and grabbed some fresh diffuser lenses.
Another problem I ran into was the steel conduit boxes didn't have anchors for Nema outlets so my shiny white outlets just floated out of the wall. That won't do.
The old conduit receptacle has grounds attached to the steel wall and steel conduit run going behind the drywall. I came up with a crazy idea and used drywall anchor conduit boxes and cut the back off so I could fit them in front of the back half of the grounded boxes. The first cut went off like a bomb and blue plastic shrapnel went everywhere. I ended up Duct taping the cutline and anchoring the box with some baseboard and a C-clamp. Much better
My outlets are now anchored
I installed a conduit box in the rectangular hole (not pictured) in case I wanted to snake in some ethernet in the future.
Lets build a desk!
I intentionally left an area blank as I plan on having an office candy cab up to a 25"
That pretty much covers my last month here's some Before and After
BEFORE
AFTER
I'd would love to hear your recommendations for favorite tools in your rework stations or any input you have.
Up next: Melamine shelves, Hakko, and power!...