Thread: Spring cleaning shop

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Spent the morning cleaning up the shop. No its not clean yet. I about half filled a pickup bed to go to scrap yard..old heads intakes cams cranks chunks of steel. I will probably need some of it back next week.

I gotta fix the door before I can do even that---and its cold/rainy

I need to clean mine as well. It'd be nice to see more floor space.

i hate cleaning shop and trying to decide what to throw out - but i've been doing some sorting while incapacitated and found stuff i didn't recall buying
will post some photo's soon of a nice clean tidy workshop/storage facility!!!!!!!!!

About that time again, busy last Spring and didn't bother so this year probably got about a week's worth of work should it ever warm up around here!!!!

Yeah, mine's a total mess! I intended to attack it, and then ended up dragging a new project home instead which makes it ten times worse. I need to just dedicate a week to cleaning & organizing.

I've scheduled myself on an, as visioned, 3 year plan to wind down toy car activities. About 1 year in. Shop space had gotten real tight with 5 cars and a bunch of "stuff" accumulated. So as time and interest allows I dig through and ask myself something like "what are the odds of using/needing this again?" More and more frequently the answer is "not likely". So Craigslist has been my friend, and lots of local car guys (and some across the country), mostly rodders, have been adding new treasures to their stash. Like Charlie I've got a pile of various metals that will eventually head to the scrap man. And like Mark I find things I'd forgotten I had. It's especially nuts because I often put a tag on the end of a box to tell me what all is in there..........you know, inventory control. But the embarrassing thing is I'd forgotten the box was stashed in the loft behind the ..............you get the picture. The '36 is at a buddies shop to enlist his help in the finishing details, and the '41 pickup got snatched up by an enthusiastic new owner last week, so the shop is starting to have working room again to plod on with the '28 and '32. Every so often something weird/neat happens, like the other night one of the local young guys was bemoaning the loss/theft/whatever of an old Autopulse 500 fuel pump he'd long searched for and was now gone. I thought for a moment and recalled I had one out there somewhere.......hmmmm, ah there it is. A quick clean up, a couple test leads to the charger and yay..........it works. So now he has another opportunity to progress on his period banger pickup. So, cleaning up can have it's rewards and feed the tall tale bin with more stories.

Good on you for helping out that young guy!