[s-cars] Marc's garage tips

[Linus Toy]

At 08:41 AM 3/13/2003 , Charlie Smith wrote:

>Before you pour the concrete floor, put in about a dozen tie down points.
>Take a 1' piece of 1.5" pipe, and a 16" piece of chain.  Cut a notch in
>one end of the pipe so you can slip a link of the chain into the notch.
>Weld it there.  Mount these vertically around one car bay area, with
>the tops just even with where the floor will be.  This will give you a
>chain you can pull out of the floor to hook things onto.
>
>Speaking of pits in the floor.  If you have the ceiling heigth, consider
>getting a used floor lift removed from a gas station.  Call gasoline
>companies to see what you can find.

One more thing on the floor...if you anticipate a 2-post style lift, make
sure it is poured 6" thick, and not the more conventional 4"  It is very
difficult to fix this later.

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