So my project for this weekend, which has been going on for months, with timeouts taken for modeling, home and yard improvements, and the obligatory camping and fishing trips for my sanity. It's slow going, but I will get it done eventually. My laser, and modeling projects, are temporarily down while I am sorting out the garage, laying out the workshop, and storage areas. Once I have the layout setup and have both of my lasers on workbenches, a chambered exhausted area for 3D printers, and all my production tools placed, I am having the electrical panel updated to an 200A service with drops to power everything. I need a spot for a Fiber laser too, so I can direct write brass and stainless sheet instead of sending the artwork out for chemical etching. This is what the garage looked like a month ago: Here is where I am today, still sorting and boxing what I am keeping, and tossing what I don't want anymore. The workbench against the wall has one laser, and all my laser materials will be stocked on the adjacent shelves. The folding tables in the center will be replaced with another 16' row of workbench for the other equipment. This eats up one full bay of the 3 bay garage : Here on the sorted side of the garage is a 24" wide x 16' long row of shelves on the organized side, with another garage bay on the other side where my car, camping, and gardening stuff are. All the black boxes, of which there are just as many on the other side of the shelves, are full of train supplies, with Z Bend Track modules on top. I have way too much stuff, far more than I could ever use. I can only work till around noon these days as it gets way too hot. It's 95 in the garage right now, I'm heading in for a YouTube nap. Yesterday I turned on YouTube at 12 noon, and started watching "What's Neet In Model Railroading" on soldering, and I don't remember any of it. I woke up at 5PM. For some reason YouTube knocks me out quick.
I'm going to give the train room a good cleaning and update laptop Excel file that has all of the N scale Frisco manufactured releases, over 400. Also have a page for all of the items I own, around 250 total with about 135 being Frisco. Joe
I need to correct the previous post. Barbary should be Barbados. All the aforementioned breeds have a tropical breed background. Just remember to graze them at night during hot weather.
