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THE backyard/home shop pic thread!!!

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I used my loading dock door once. I had them in an old shop and was in a different biz, packing potatoes and used all the time, had 2 used 1. When I built this figured I should have 1 and use it for paint fan actually and have an "insert", had it out once to use and once for service. The dock outside I use a lot, side apron a lot, have a walkin cooler in the back. 3 14x14 and a 16x14 and dock door.
 

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There was another similar to this sat here for packing/general farm. Had a fire and got out of spuds. I was going to downsize a little but wanted room for a paint booth and was going to partition it off first then decided to put it all under 1, glad I did, this is way better. If I wasnt in this type of biz would downsize for a "Hobby" shop or regular shop type thing and increase the heat and increase the light. This leaves me room for decicing and thawing, some warm parking when its really bitter.
 

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This was built as shop. b What made is work so super well is I have a couple storage buildings. I dont have to have anything in I am not using. I even hyper strip on occasion and load a cart full a week goes out, super strip carboard etc. While I can find a spot when I got to rebuild something I try to stay on it and ideally the place is empty and while not sophisticated is somewhat like a pit stop where we make as much routine work as easy as possible. It sucks to have to do wheel and brake work but we aint gotta do it on our back in a snowbank. More gets done right cause there is less excuse not to.
 

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Mine is out of the way. It's used more for parking and takes me about 10 minutes to convert for paint. I pick up the incoming air fro up top, I run it for a couple minutes to pull cobwebs out and don't mess with filters in but I have them on the fan.
 
I have a belt drive. I bought it and used a lot, did something where I had to fix it and sized a couple pieces better and turn it from 40 inch to 30 something and reduced the flow quite a little. It conserved some heat mostly This gets a filter in front of it. I had fixed the thing, ha and put too much power to it and bent something and it made too much wind anyway so,,,, I took snips and cut 3 inches off the end of the blades, straighten it up and bought a new strip and zip it omnb with a 210 and spooly, they reflashed the outside to fit.
 

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I take a common 2 wheel dolly and remove it from the loading dock door and takes about 5 minutes and 6 screws. I try to get as many features in a pic as I can but this is ducted to pull fresh air from outside over the motor and into the exhaust stream.
 
When I first thought about this had considered hard wall partition etc and then built aroiund it and come back to it to remember where I had seen this before. I went out and found a straight 40 ft 5 inch alum pipe and when I did this figure I would have to change the plastic and its been up 29 years.
 
When I first thought about this had considered hard wall partition etc and then built aroiund it and come back to it to remember where I had seen this before. I went out and found a straight 40 ft 5 inch alum pipe and when I did this figure I would have to change the plastic and its been up 29 years. The beauty is that it clears so well that I dont have overspray and dont have to have a dedicated space.
 

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