How bored are you?

[Fireball]

I'm looking at building some more storage for the tools in my "shop"- a small portion of a 2 car garage. Just figuring out the details of how I really want to do it so that I don't change my mind later and waste time and resources (wood, even if in this case it was really cheap, or even free).

I have 9 roll arounds in my garage. 1 metric, 1 SAE, 1 machinist tools. One power tools, one pneumatics, 1 electrical service. One automotive service, one for assorted hardware and one for car parts. 

Rule of thumb. However big you build - twice as big still won't be big enough.


Put EVERYTHING possible on wheels.

If I could put the lathe, vertical mill and surface grinder on wheels - I would.


Shop - 30 ft x 50 ft.

Edit - there is also a 2 post lift and full welding area.

I have enough mechanic tools to repair my vehicles, a table saw (contractor size), router table, carving bench, and a planer/sander/drill press stacked up. I have two rollaways, with intermediate and top boxes. Let's not forget the AC evacuation pump and controller. Then there is the shop vac with a vortex separator on top. Put in a stool on wheels, and what you have left is enough space to walk sideways through the part that that is possible. One of the rollaways is in a cabinet, next to the one that has the wire feed and gas welding rigs. I have to drag that shit out when I want to weld, and have to move other stuff out of the way to get them out. I have wood for future projects stored in the rafters on sheets of plywood and hanging shelves. If I'm in the garage and an earthquake hits, I'm a goner. The wife and I went to Oregon in '13 looking for a place to potentially retire to. One of them had a shop building like what you have. When I work on my vehicles, I lay on cardboard, because I'm on a sloping driveway and I'd roll down it on a creeper. I'd literally surrender my right nut for something like that...it's been giving me trouble, anyway.