Workshop Build 7
Have been down with the cold, but getting better, and as such, time for what was done last weekend. As you can see from the last post, there are cabs in the workshop. Oh dear!
Had given the concrete some time to go off and harden. It created an awful lot of condensation in the workshop. The underside of the roof, rafters, beams and walls were dripping in it, unreal, but after a coupe of days it all started to dry up and looked well again.
Time to get that all important floor insulation down. This is Kingspan PIR board which is foil backed on both sides. Simply drop, or cut and drop into place and do the seems with foil tape, helping to keep the boards in one place.
The good wife, always looking to give a hand, and tell me what to do 😊.
This went down really quickly, so finally, at least for now, the flooring. This was simply 22mm tongue and groove chipboard. You can get cheaper 18mm boards, but for this being a workshop, I was looking something a bit heavier. It’s also fairly easy to cut, as long as the saw is sharp.
Again with the boards being fairly long, this process went quite quickly as well. The glue was hard in 24 hours so can walk on the next day. This meant that I could get the van hired and start moving the cabs from storage into the workshop and stop me paying those maddeningly high fees, at least here in Belfast that is.
Amazingly this all went without too much of a hitch. The Midnight Maximum Tune twin racer is a beast of a machine to shift, but nothing compared to the SEGA Championship 2 DLX, when it doesn’t have any useable wheels on the underside and all that metal just weighs a ton.
Oh! I’m looking the screen box section for one of these if anyone knows of one going.
I did have one wee pain point when shifting everything. On our second run, the trolley wasn’t fastened down and decided all on its own to take out my B/W Invaders screen. Totally necked as can be seen.
I’m thinking that it could be useful as a bit of a project in the future, so will keep it for now and not trash it.
So what’s next! I’ll have to get the front door made and locks and handle fitted. For now I’ll just board out the connecting door between this part of the workshop and the main workshop area for now. I’ll start to tackle that when the warmer weather moves in.
In the meantime, I’ve to go get an initial 16 sheets of insulation to start boarding out the walls and sound proofing for between the rafters and also to start looking at how I’m going to get the electrics wired up. I’ve also bought a high output oil burner to heat the place, but needs a good service.
Plenty to keep me busy, never mind trying to get the mini cab built. Tons of ideas for that one and I’ll keep you all posted.
Incase any of you are wondering, these are all project cabs. Nothing here has been tested or presumed to be working. I’ve a load more in other locations, so over time I’ll get those shifted here as well.