[s-cars] Marc's garage tips
Linus Toy
linust at mindspring.com
Thu Mar 13 09:26:29 EST 2003
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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