Thread: Just when you think you're caught up.........

Tweet

I am finally getting healed up from a winter's worth of grief on medical things and getting going in the shop. Things were proceeding quite well on Tom's coupe......until my air compressor quit compressing....
The one I had was just a cheapy, 5 horse single stage that I bought used. Figured it would be plenty good for one old geezer doing a few hours work every day, but I was wrong.
So I bought a new 2 stage compressor, only a 5 horse but plenty of CFM and an 80 gallon tank. Good unit and got a decent deal on it from one of the local stores, the owner of which owed me a favor or two.
Anyway I thought I would clean out the little one car garage that is attached to my three car garage and put the compressor in there to cut down the noise factor. Hmmmm, no idea where all that stuff came from that was in the little garage!!!! Couldn't even walk through it!!!! Two days shot cleaning it out and hauling junk, returning parts I seemed to be giving free storage on to their respective owners.
Even though the two garages are attached, I figured a bit of insulation and some OSB (or whatever they call it) would further help with the noise factor and make the little garage a bit more usable then a junk repository!!!!! Two more days shot!!!!
Then once I got the new compressor set in place I figured it would be good to strip the old compressor and use the 60 gallon tank it had for additional storage. That and chasing all the parts to connect the two killed another couple days....
Well, the newly covered wall sure would look better with a coat of primer and a couple coats of paint.... another day gone!!
So, with the new compressor, extra storage tank, fresh paint, and a more usable space a guy might as well put up a bunch of shelves for storage, and redo all the plumbing for air in the big garage as well...Two more days gone....

Anyway, that's what I've been up to. Hope all these good excuses will allow Tom to forgive me a bit for being sooooooo slooooooow getting his coupe fixed!!!!!!

Not done with the little garage yet, but here's an in-progress shot of the new compressor and the tank off the old one.....and a lot of the related mess I still have to get cleaned up!!!! Going to be a busy weekend!!!! Going to rain all weekend, so no drag racing....Might as well get the "new space" usable I guess!!!! Maybe even fire up the grill and cook a burger or two sometime!!!!