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OND's workshop - creating a workspace in the garage -FINISHED-
Ond:
Hey Jimbo! Sounds pretty cool having a game room AND a workshop. When you make progress let's see it!
Not having a workshop for a while was really starting to get to me. Ultimately, time I spend out there is a kind of therapy/relaxation/meditation stress solution. About 80% of my time there is spent on arcade related projects, but I do work on other things as well. I'm like Linus on washday without his blanket when I don't have a workshop.
The marine carpet is great stuff. I'm happy to vacuum it instead of sweeping cold hard concrete any day.
So let's do this, let's look more closely at da peg board und da pegs. Firstly a peg board, once setup, is really easy to use. Where I am, hardware shops stock all manner of pegs for every type of tool, even larger heavier ones. The peg board itself is just a sheet of painted Masonite. It needs a supporting frame to give it strength and to provide a gap between it and the wall for pegs.
I used some spare hardwood battens that I cut to size and divided the rear of the board into four quarters with a frame. That allows me to fix it through the drywall to wall studs at five points, four corners and the center. With all the tools on, it is quite heavy, so it needs to be properly fixed to something sturdy.
There's all kinds of pegs. Here's an assortment of spares I have. As I said earlier, they work much better if they are fixed into place on the rear of the board with something like hot glue. This doesn't mean you can't add more tools later. I just apply a dob of hot glue to a new peg before adding it to the board. Hot glued pegs are easy to remove again if need be. They just don't fall out when moving tools on and off the board.
Some examples of different pegs and tools.
Today I found this cute little baby hammer. Handy for delicate hammering jobs, tiny nails - whatever. So I added it to the board in the way I mentioned.
Today I spent time clearing more boxes and junk out of the garage. I'm getting ready for the second work zone which is under a window in the garage. Tomorrow I'll work on the lighting fixture and some power cabling.
Jimbo:
Hey Ond, that looks great - and thanks for going into detail with the peg board. I think I'll go this route too, I'll check the local hardware stores for their peg assortments ;). French cleat system sounds great but seems a lot more work for the same result.
With the carpet - how would you deal with liquid spills on it? And what about spray painting - or is the plan to cover the floor or do that in a different area?
I'm currently building my (mobile) workbench. Yes - I'll post a thread soon to show off my shoddy work, haha.
Looking forward to seeing this progress :cheers:
Mike A:
I am glad you have a work space again Ond. I would lose my mind if I lost my work dungeon.
Pixelhugger:
Inspired. Oh, and jealous.
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Jimbo on September 04, 2019, 05:03:50 am ---Hey Ond, that looks great - and thanks for going into detail with the peg board. I think I'll go this route too, I'll check the local hardware stores for their peg assortments ;). French cleat system sounds great but seems a lot more work for the same result.
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Most of the big pegboard sets come with small diameter stuff that is meant to work in 1/8" OR 1/4"
The small diameter means it falls out of the pegboard easily unless a plastic retainer is used (or it is hot glued as I just learned from Ond).
Unfortunately, you are pretty much stuck with those for the screwdriver and pliers holders.
Where possible, use the bigger 1/4" stuff. It fits snug and doesn't fall out. When I outfitted mine a couple years ago, Walmart had enough of a variety to get by for a decent price.
The long shelf ones are good for holding trigger style clamps, alternating direction to fit more.
This thing turned out to be pretty sweet, although the pencil sharpener broke fairly quickly and I replaced it with a titanium one.
https://smile.amazon.com/Lehigh-PBTMP-Measure-Pencil-Holder/dp/B0044FQOAW/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=pegboard+pencil+sharpener&qid=1567728945&s=gateway&sr=8-3
EDIT: Ond, I've been following. Shop looks great!
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