Dandy Dave Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Okay fellow Buick enthusiasts. I was thinking it would be neat to see who takes the cake for their shop work bench/ tool box where your Buick, Buicks are maintained and restored. Who has the neatest and cleanest, <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> who has the dirtiest. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> and the one I'm shooting for is the most piled high! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> The only rule is that you must take the photo "as it is" Your on your Scouts honor now! No cheating. OK, I'll go first. Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Well here it is and I bet most of you fellows would be embarrased <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> to even show a bench like this. Well, It did'nt get this way over night you know. It has taken years of use and many, many projects to get it in this condition. Notice the dust! What is that I see? A Buick hubcap in the vice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Here it is from another angle! No time to fiddle around. ( It is on top of the Box.) Now where did that 7/8ths wrench go? <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> This is by no means an idle work bench. Believe it or not, it does get cleaned off from time to time. Do you think it is about time??? Now for someone else. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Eaton Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I am not sending photos as I am not proud that my 16 foot work bench usually has about enough room to work on a hub cap. I seem to have problems filing things....if "things" are on the work bench, then I know exactly where they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhigdog Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 You win. I won't even try.....Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Barney, It seems to be a similer problem the world over. Those of us who do a lot have a messy bench because we don't have the time to clean it or are just too tired at the end of the day. Everything is reletive. "An empty bench is an idle bench" <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Albert Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 i think i have to send out a search party to find mine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Shaw Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I spent some of last week end cleaning up my shop. Give it a week or two and it will be just like yours again. I am currently working on three Buicks: My 13 headlight rings needed some dents and cracks repaired & I am still sanding them with 200 grit. My thumb got a big blister last week, so I had to stop. My 31 rod bearing babbitt has been poured but it is now waiting for my machinist buddy to turn it down to size. And finally, my 15 speedster project is ongoing with a freshly tinned gas tank that was three weeks late. I picked it up this week & it is now being prepared for paint.In computer terms they call this multi-tasking....; it sure keeps me busy in the evenings when I am not traveling for work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Thriller Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I can't show you mine...it isn't put together yet...I do have a messy work bench, but it hasn't been used for Buicks per se. I did purchase one of these pre-fab work benches though - I think its about 4' long, with peg board and a light...once the weather warms a bit more, I can start thinking about putting it together.Mark, I'm surprised to see you online, what with all those pre-war photos to look at and all <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jscheib Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I have a great idea. I bet you could get your spouse or partner to take a few photos to embarass us. If mine read this forum, she would surely do it (enough said, I don't want to send any photos either).John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sintid58 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Mine is especially bad right now. Parts from the pickup litter the entire garage. Just drop in a set of head gaskets and slap her back together, yah right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 So, I see that this seems to be a universal problem and goes with the hobbie/business. I have been in a lot of local farm shops and many of them are worse than mine! Poor over work and under paid farmers that were around this area 20 and 30 years ago never had time to empty the bench. Most of those places are gone now replaced by weekend and retired New Yorkers, who for the most part, have a nice clean bench because they hire me to service, repair, and restore their oversized lawn mowers and other vintage stuff that they never take a wrench to. The only good part is that they can afford to pay me more than the farmers of old. Job security! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUICK RACER Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 I'd win by majority, I have workbench in the attached garage, a workbench 12' in the basement(Buick Dungeon) and another 12' one in the back garage, and a kitchen table, a pennisula in the kitchen, and a shelf in the laundry room, and a living room full of Buick stuff, tools, pictures, and then there's the '56 Buick Hallway, the GSX bathroom, and the guest room full of Buick literature and stuff for swap meets, and more, there's not much but a picture of my '68 GS 400 Convt on the wall in my bedroom, and I don't think there's any parts just more magazines. You don't want to see pictures of my place, it's a Buick nightmare. But I usually, know where everything is, that's the scary part! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 Buick Racer, I'll have you know that I also have a pole barn that is 32 X 100 that is stuffed with treasures. Not Buick, but all old and wonderful. Not to mention the back yard which you should have seen before I decided to clean up and sell off and scrap a bunch of stuff. I am sure that you have me beat in the Buick department with a fine collection of Books and stuff but, pound for pound, I'm sure I have you beat. That Model 12 Cat roadgrader weighs in at 22,000 pounds nevermind the powershovels, bulldozers, farm tractors, trucks, cars and engines that I've been addicted to collect in the past. And as if that wasn't enough, I had to go and build my own scaled down power shovel from scrap. (Dandy Daves li'l Digger.) And here it is. Man, I got the disease bad, and at a very young age too. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Dave! If Buick built power shovels they would have worked sweet like this one. Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Mine is no match for the ones shown...but it is at a point where the only thing I can do is scoop everything onto the floor and just sift the good parts out <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />Plus, I have absolutely no room to work, with the car sitting there.I also need to figure out a new shelving system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZondaC12 Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 relative size...workbench area. tryin' hard to keep it as neat as dad did. mom wasnt too happy when i was doing the heads and cam swap in the cougar over winter break. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> parts and tools all over the place! and a temporary "bench" made out of a long piece of plywood and sawhorses was also full of parts off the car.workbench in the basement, doesnt get used quite as muchwow a whole ton of metal i doubt ill ever use! dad took whatever he could get whenever. especially down in schenectady at GE where he worked, they be tearing down a building or getting rid of scrap metal/shelving units, yup hed cut it up and bring it on home. in one of those grape boxes on the floor theres a chain with links about as big as my fist, and a hook on the end twice as big! i can barely lift that box.his parts washer (has really come in handy! and the sheetmetal brake is trying to peek out from behind that hardware-store-looking chest of drawers full of so MANY nuts and bolts! unbelievable...more metal. notice that wrench. yup, from GE. nice conversation piece when i have friends over. we also have a nut and bolt that fit the wrench!finally another cart of metal and other parts. the lathe is there, and the skat blast bead cabinet is trying to peek out! actually his parents bought that for him just a couple years before he passed. last summer one rainy day i decided to take the parts for the dust collector, and the hose and other accessories that go with it out of their boxes and put it all together. now i just gotta lug he air compressor downstairs! but id really like to try it out, there are some things i could certainly use this for. maybe this summer. ive offered to blast stuff for a few of my friends if they ever have rusty stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 ZondaC12, You definitely have the neatest and cleanest shop to date. Tell mom to calm down about all the parts there is when you work on things. That is just the way it is. To take someting apart and do a complete restoration it takes a minimum of three times the space as it would take together. Get the owners manual out for that blast cabinet. I have one the same size but an older model with the smaller window. My compressor is 19 CFM @ 100 pounds pressure and keeps up with it OK. These units require a lot of air and it is not good to let the compressor run constant as it will heat up and could burn out. The size of the air storage tank does not matter as much as the cubic feet per minute output of the compressor when you are doing something like sandblasting. Thanks for posting the photos. Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 Smartin, A friend of mine took cement blocks and used planks between them. Need more height? Add a block on each side and bring the plank up. And if you dont like where they are you can always move them. If things get heavy in the middle add a block for support. Deep shelves are a pain and the stuff in the back gets swallowed up by the stuff piled in front and is lost and forgotten about until cleanup day. (Gee, maybe I should think about taking my own advice. Now, if I only had room to place some blocks. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />) <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_MrEarl Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Great thread Dave. I was gonna take some pictures of mine but appears my habit of opening the door and pitching stuff in has resulted in me not being to even open the door anymore. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 Mr Earl, You are my kind of Buick Man! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Eaton Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Paul does have the neatest shop so far.........I am attaching a photo taken in Orland Park IL. There are 5 cars in a 2 car garage. Left to right is a '62 Corvette, '90 Reatta, '66 Corvette, and a '57 Corvette....barly visible is the body of a '63 Corvette hanging from above... the chassis in in a shed out back.This guy has a small neat work bench, but his basement is full of shelving, with parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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