revtothelimit - motorbike forum

You couldn't spell pedantry and had to use a spellchecker too then.

Er, no.

As someone who has actually spent a fair amount of time in the workshops and garages of international level motorsport teams, including F1 and MotoGP, I can tell you virtually everyone has standard grey cabinets and benches from RS or wherever. The only reason they wouldn't (and this is a very good one from the team's POV ) is 'cause they're sponsored by the tool cabinet maker

F1 teams have fancy carbon fibre pit walls and stuff, but that's cause they have a weight limit/budget for how much they can ship around the world.

Bought a 7ft work bench for the garage and really pleased with it. It was 400 delivered, has loads of space in and on it. I much prefer wood than metal cabinets, easy to repair for starters. I can just stick a new work top on it when it gets too manky. Rated to 500Kg with the wheels on and being able to place it where I want it for the job I'm doing is superb.

dern wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 am Bought a 7ft work bench for the garage and really pleased with it. It was 400 delivered, has loads of space in and on it. I much prefer wood than metal cabinets, easy to repair for starters. I can just stick a new work top on it when it gets too manky. Rated to 500Kg with the wheels on and being able to place it where I want it for the job I'm doing is superb.


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Nice. Personally I'd want that floor a bit flatter though for wheeling anything heavy about (or much bigger wheels on the castors).

Rockburner wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:57 am

dern wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 am Bought a 7ft work bench for the garage and really pleased with it. It was 400 delivered, has loads of space in and on it. I much prefer wood than metal cabinets, easy to repair for starters. I can just stick a new work top on it when it gets too manky. Rated to 500Kg with the wheels on and being able to place it where I want it for the job I'm doing is superb.


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Nice. Personally I'd want that floor a bit flatter though for wheeling anything heavy about (or much bigger wheels on the castors).

That's a job for the summer. All the stuff will go in to the garden and I'll level the lot. Just moved in though.

My shed is at present resembling a bomb site. So no pic's of it at the moment.
Over the years it has gone through what seems to be a yearly make over. One year it was new kitchen units, another year it was stripped out and to be a bit more bare.

This looks like the stripped down bare version. But it looks absolutely nothing like this now.



The other end of the shed (at the same point in time as the above pic), looking messy with junk everywhere and my mill looking to be stripped in readiness for new bearings.



And my shed that I do my spraying in.


I will have to have a tidy up and take some pics of how things look now. But it is such a mess maybe not. lol

My old friend Frank ,who has sadly past away now, used to live in an old police house/station built late 1800's.
He lived in the house and made the' booking in' office and cells into his workshop.
You can make out an original solid cell door behind the milling machine and he bars on the windows.
There were 3 cells in total , its a bit scruffy in the pics as i took them towards the end of his life but
that workshop saw many bikes through the years.

In the first pic, what is the small snap on cab (of which oi have a grubby example) sitting on......

David wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 7:06 pm In the first pic, what is the small snap on cab (of which oi have a grubby example) sitting on......

It does look like its floating in the pic, I have looked at some of my other pics and you can see its sat on
some shelf brackets.

David wrote: Sun Mar 23, 2025 7:06 pm In the first pic, what is the small snap on cab (of which oi have a grubby example) sitting on......

I have one of those too, then I realized I wasn't going to go down the SO route.

IMG_20250324_143556 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Mine is currently in a state of moving/changing, almost constantly actually. With bikes coming in, going out etc.

Yesterday we picked up a weights bench and a load of weights, but we're also getting a squat rack which will mean a complete move about again. I've got a few things on the floor like the gazebo sides, the jerry can, the bike washer, these things normally live in the loft space, but at the moment they're not taking space i need so are just staying down.
As you can see, there's no motorbikes and unlikely to be.

We have a large single garage, a big shed, a smaller shed, some smaller outbuildings, and a workshop.

T'other half's cast offs are scattered around the first three, while the workshop is bigger than all of them combined.

I'm on an offensive to get all his stuff into the workshop, and reclaim the garage and big shed, clear out the small outbuildings, and get rid of the small shed.

I've wanted to do this for ages, but I've been spurred on by the fact that my dad (a former mechanic, now 83 years old) is clearing out a lot of his tools, most of which are coming in my direction. So the garage is a priority.

This weekend I started on the 'clear shit away' mission. Of course, I failed to take a before photo but here's a 'not quite there, but' photo.

The red cabinet on the left is one that my dad made while he was working in the fire service workshops - he built the frame, and got the panel folks to sort out the sheet metal. So it's genuine fire engine red
Lots still to do, for a start there's a pile of sand on the floor soaking up the last of the recent quad oil leak, and I'd like to sort out some proper flooring as it's currently part concrete, part remnants of flaky floor paint.

I need to arrange my tool storage properly, too.

I can easily now get a couple of bikes and the quad in there, whereas a few days ago it was a squeeze with one bike and the quad. So I'm pleased with my progress so far

Is that a dismembered arm in the bottom right of the photo?

mangocrazy wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:01 pm Is that a dismembered arm in the bottom right of the photo?

Close, it's a tourniquet (unused, but y'know, chainsaws).

That self-levelling stuff looks pretty good for garage floors, dunno what prep it would need though if there's oil soaked in. Quite fancy doing my garage with it but (and it's a big but!)...I'd have to empty the garage first.

Count Steer wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:08 pm That self-levelling stuff looks pretty good for garage floors, dunno what prep it would need though if there's oil soaked in. Quite fancy doing my garage with it but (and it's a big but!)...I'd have to empty the garage first.

The consensus here seems to be carpet tiles. It's level already, just flaky

Sunny wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:30 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:08 pm That self-levelling stuff looks pretty good for garage floors, dunno what prep it would need though if there's oil soaked in. Quite fancy doing my garage with it but (and it's a big but!)...I'd have to empty the garage first.

The consensus here seems to be carpet tiles. It's level already, just flaky

The self-levelling bit just means you don't have to trowel it flat, if you're level to start with it, it's a bonus, and it should deal with the flakiness and provide a moisture barrier. Rubber backed carpet tiles on an unsealed/no DPC floor can be a bit

Count Steer wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:08 pm That self-levelling stuff looks pretty good for garage floors, dunno what prep it would need though if there's oil soaked in. Quite fancy doing my garage with it but (and it's a big but!)...I'd have to empty the garage first.

I was told that the self-levelling screed as sold by the likes of Screwfix is for internal use only and not designed as a finish surface; i.e. you're meant to put some kind of floor covering (tiles, laminate flooring etc.) on top. It's not meant for any kind of sustained foot traffic, and definitely not for vehicles.

Which is a shame as the stuff I used (Mapei 3240) flowed beautifully and gave a really smooth, level surface.

mangocrazy wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:40 pm

Count Steer wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:08 pm That self-levelling stuff looks pretty good for garage floors, dunno what prep it would need though if there's oil soaked in. Quite fancy doing my garage with it but (and it's a big but!)...I'd have to empty the garage first.

I was told that the self-levelling screed as sold by the likes of Screwfix is for internal use only and not designed as a finish surface; i.e. you're meant to put some kind of floor covering (tiles, laminate flooring etc.) on top. It's not meant for any kind of sustained foot traffic, and definitely not for vehicles.

Which is a shame as the stuff I used (Mapei 3240) flowed beautifully and gave a really smooth, level surface.

There are different sorts. Most of it is internal use only and some are prep for a finishing surface but some are OK as 'wear' surfaces. I think they're more expensive - probably got more vinyl type stuff in. I've seen a few garages done with the one poured coat and they look spiff. The last one was in a brand new-build double garage and they got the professionals in. Hate to think what they paid but, judging by the house and cars, I don't think they'll go hungry.