A new place to work on gear.

Robisme

Sansui Enthusiast

• Aug 20, 2015

• #1

I had a garage built and I installed some cabinets and a 10' counter top, in one corner of the garage, to use as a place to the repair gear.

Fittingly, the first victim is a G-9000. Don't worry, the counter is reinforced where the G-9000 is sitting, just for these occasions.:yes:

I also have a place inside the house, so now I should be able to get through the backlog of gear I have here.:sigh:

I got used cabinets off Craigslist. Now my wife wants her kitchen remodeled because the garage cabinets are nicer than the kitchen ones.



Rob

 

hi*ball

Records & Coffee

• Aug 20, 2015

• #2

Looks great - and spacious!

 

bhundu

Addicted Member

• Aug 20, 2015

• #3

I can see where your wife is coming from. That looks great!

 

JimSwaz

Active Member

• Aug 20, 2015

• #4

I am envious. I hate being envious. Poop!
SWEET WORK AREA !!! :yes::thmbsp::yes:

 

Hyperion

Roobarb & Custard

Subscriber

• Aug 20, 2015

• #5

Very nice Rob, it does look great, I had a similar issue with my wife and kitchen decoration. - sorted now thank goodness.

 

stereofun

Super Member

• Aug 20, 2015

• #6

Thumbs up. Nice with ample space. Neat little set of tiny drawers on the left.

 

ghazzer

Senior Member

• Aug 20, 2015

• #7

Nicely done. Looks like you put some thought & experience into it.

Enjoy - - -

 

Robisme

Sansui Enthusiast

• Aug 20, 2015

• #8

stereofun said:

Neat little set of tiny drawers on the left.

Click to expand...

Thanks all.

Yes, the drawers hold my stock of caps and transistors.

And as for my wife, she gets to park in the garage.

Rob

 

Oerets

AK Subscriber

Subscriber

• Aug 20, 2015

• #9

Nice!

Way to clean also.



Barney

 

BillyBatts

ALOHA!

• Aug 20, 2015

• #10

Wow. Those cabinets look GREAT in your pic, OP. No wonder your wife wants better kitchen cabinets now. Amazing what you can find on CL.

Nice area to work. Window and all. I thought I saw an Amazon Echo on the counter for a split second at first glance. I have mine in my shop. Makes a great tool when you are working when you can just say, "Alexa, play Miles Davis" rather than having to put something on when your hands are busy.

Enjoy that great new space. Looks great.

 

rmeade

Super Member

• Aug 21, 2015

• #11

Wow very nice
My experience with home improvement is that once you start you can never stop. That is when you renovate one room the one adjacent looks poor in comparison. So you renovate that one and ... well so on.

You need to nip this whole thing in the bud! Quickly, spray paint the cabinets in the new garage - and anything else in sight - with gang signs and obscenities.

That's my opinion and I am sticking to it!

 

nosirrah

RIP 11-19-2019

• Aug 21, 2015

• #12

The bad thing about new spaces is it gives you the feeling that as long as the empty space exsists then it must get filled....resist that one.

 

LexDM3

AK Subscriber

Subscriber

• Aug 21, 2015

• #13

Nice! You could hang some test instruments under the cabs to make them easy to see and free up bench space. Too bad a Tek scope is deeper than 12".

 

R

rcs16

Addicted Member

• Aug 21, 2015

• #14

Agree, a lab bench needs to be much deeper than a regular kitchen cabinet and have two rows of shelves in the back, so that you can have your instruments placed, important ones like DMM, scope, analyzer(s) placed at your eye level when sitting. On work bench surface, have your soldering tools. hand tools/supplies can be put in the drawers. I use an grounded anti-static mat as the place to put the gear I am working on. For a beast, , like a G-9000, the lazy susan idea can help you as well, that and a trolley.

 

AlTinkster92

AK Subscriber

Subscriber

• Aug 21, 2015

• #15

Khorns make great bench speakers in a garage,

 

slowpat

Slowly but surely....

Subscriber

• Aug 28, 2015

• #16

Looks great Rob!! Are the JBL's hung from the ceiling??

 

Robisme

Sansui Enthusiast

• Aug 29, 2015

• #17

Thanks.

No, the JBLs are on top of cabinets.

Rob