[Bogo]

Originally Posted by thorvald

I've been to most of the chains in the cities, I just don't remmber which is which.
other than that Cub sucks. my parents have one in their town. when I was home last summer they bought some "fresh" salmon at cub, when I opened the package I about puked. At least they refunded it.

I don't think I ever bought meat from them. Mostly the staples. The whole time I lived in MN I was getting my beef, chicken, pig, and turkey from ISU meat labs. I'd tell mom what I wanted and she'd get it for me. I'd then pick it up on the weekend. It was all frozen except stuff like peperoni. ISU Meat Labs retail outlet is only open one day a week and nearly everthing is frozen. Fish I got from Byerlys.

[semlin]

one other reason i want to only heat inside the booth is that i plan to vent the booth straight out the garage door at ground level. that means i can have a down draft booth with no elbows or uptube in the vent tube, which means i have much lower vent fan requirements than a normal set up.

of course this assumes i can properly filter the paint so that i don't overspray our cars

so the garage door will be half open, with a piece of foam backed plywood filling the gap around the vent tube. not conducive to heating the whole garage.

[Bogo]

Originally Posted by grrlscout89FJ62

G'morning TUT! What's on the agenda today?

Besides the usual chores, digging up a bad electrical wire going to the heaters in two waterers...

['74 UA FJ]

Originally Posted by NaterGator

Wishful thinking, but they're not the underdog everyone is making them out to be. That's just working to their advantage and everyone knows it but nobody wants to say it.

I'll be ecstatic if we win.

Roll Tide!

[yooper]

Originally Posted by semlin

sadly i get paid in funny money...

Maybe you should bill in guineas.

[semlin]

Originally Posted by yooper

Paint booth part II - The Garage Journal Board

Originally Posted by yooper

Paint Booth

the trouble with pvc booths is the set up and take down time. that is why i am thinking a marquee tent would work well as a starting structure and then i just need walls.

Originally Posted by yooper

Paint Booth

That's a big one for a car.

It looks like most people are using simple fans and blowers. Most modern box fans use induction motors which are spark free. It's the switches that make sparks, so you have to turn everything on ahead of time and then leave it all running until danger is gone.

I was just thinking too that heat's not that big a deal if you have a sealed paint booth with negative pressure that is vented with a blower going outside then the rest of your garage has no fumes and you can use any heat source you want to use. I still don't like flame based heat in a garage.

If you build a sealed negative pressure booth you need to have a filtered air input built - just build a frame for a regular furnace filter.

negative pressure gets the vapour out but it also means you get dust sucked in through the clean air side so it is not desirable. in a perfect world you want a second slightly larger fan sucking clean air in past an a/c filter or something similar that is finer than the exit furnace filters (which are course enough to catch the paint). I think I am going to pass on the larger fan but I will use a fine filter and I may use a smaller fan.

also these designs aren't really dealing with winter conditions. the garage doors are wide open allowing a ton of ambient ventilation for whatever gets out the booth. i have to be way more careful on adequate venting if i add a heater and a closed garage door to the equation.

[valentine]

Originally Posted by psfpilot

We picked up some cloudberry preserves there, too, but I haven't cracked 'em open yet.

It's definitely not moist here, but my berries haven't dried out yet. My wife keeps them in a jar in the pantry.

My wife keeps my berries locked away in her purse.

[yooper]

Originally Posted by semlin

negative pressure gets the vapour out but it also means you get dust sucked in through the clean air side so it is not desirable.

The clean air intake side needs filtration is all. You can get some pretty fine furnace filters. I have a HEPA filter on my furnace at camp that cleans out some pretty small stuff.

With your tent plan you would probably have to go positive pressure...fan in and fan out, both filtered...the problem with positive pressure is you get fumes outside the booth and into the garage...although if your door is half open that's not as big a deal...

[valentine]

Originally Posted by Bogo

NAPA's totes are good. I have a bunch of similar ones I bought from one of the shipping supplies places like U-Line. Cost me around $20 each. They are indestructible except below about 10F. Cracked a couple of them in those conditions. For awhile there you could get good lighter weight ones in the stores, but the ones available are now are junk. They can't handle stacking with heavy weight in them.

Mine are the good sturdy ones.

I have cracked one or two in the extreme cold. That's ok, I still have plenty left.

[srplus]

Originally Posted by yooper

My senior partner's wife is a potter and her studio is a shed attached to their garage with a kiln in it.

Put in lots of windows or sky lights.

Working on the plan and the site... I am going to put the back to the wood fence so it can not have windows... was planning on a clear or white shed roof that slants to the back and the fence and would not be seen and windows in the front and at least one end. The other end has to have a hinged door if we are to store the kayaks in it although I am thinking more and more of building it off the ground on piers and storing the kayaks underneath. That would be a lot more functional and give room inside for pottery stuff... lighting and electric will be important so I will prolly use a sub feed box for the demands of the kiln.

Promise not to 'pergolize' it.

[yooper]

no sapwood!

[semlin]

this would work but is too expensive

Nuheat: The leading radiant electric floor heating system manufacturer. Under floor heat for a warm floor.

[yooper]

stainless steel fasteners!

[yooper]

Originally Posted by semlin

this would work but is too expensive

Nuheat: The leading radiant electric floor heating system manufacturer. Under floor heat for a warm floor.

My megagarage plans include in-floor heating...it is the best.

[yooper]

Time for garage rearranging, ski tuning, and some sprakplug dismantling. I'm gonna open the engine case on the project rat bike and see if I can get the engine to turn. I sprayed a bunch of Kroil in the sparkplug hole the day it arrived; the sparkplug electrodes had a big ball of corrosion on them - I fear that this engine is seized. The seller said it turned over - he lied or was clueless - you can move the kick starter but you can feel the clutch slip, the engine does not turn over.

[stinkyfj60]

what?

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by stinkyfj60

what?

que ?

[stinkyfj60]

While I am here, I will answer any questions that I can....

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by stinkyfj60

While I am here, I will answer any questions that I can....

good, first one then. How much snow does you has up there?

[yooper]

I got a package from Hawaii!

[stinkyfj60]

Originally Posted by Rezkid

good, first one then. How much snow does you has up there?

Not much. The Valley Floor is dry! Wolf Creek is at like a 20in base or something....

[yooper]

Originally Posted by yooper

I got a package from Hawaii!

Full of Hawaiian treats.

Thanks Rachel!

[yooper]

Originally Posted by Rezkid

good, first one then. How much snow does you has up there?

Originally Posted by stinkyfj60

Not much. The Valley Floor is dry! Wolf Creek is at like a 20in base or something....

ketchup to see my skiing pics from this morning.

[stinkyfj60]

Originally Posted by yooper

Full of Hawaiian treats.

Thanks Rachel!

Any Spam?

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by yooper

ketchup to see my skiing pics from this morning.

I saws them...

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by stinkyfj60

Not much. The Valley Floor is dry! Wolf Creek is at like a 20in base or something....

dang...hopefully it'll pick up and dump.

fyi...in Jan I'll be a temporary resident of CO...should be fun

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by yooper

Full of Hawaiian treats.

Thanks Rachel!

[stinkyfj60]

Originally Posted by Rezkid

dang...hopefully it'll pick up and dump.

fyi...in Jan I'll be a temporary resident of CO...should be fun

Where in CO?

[Rezkid]

Originally Posted by stinkyfj60

Where in CO?

Vail or Breck...whichever one hires me first

hopefully Breck though as I have friends there and a place to crash in Alma

[yooper]

Originally Posted by stinkyfj60

Any Spam?

No buy I got some Honey Li Hing Mui and some "Local Oriental Mix"

And of course a good haul of Macadamia Nuts. NOM!