vetteboy
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Re: THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread
I have a shit-ton of 8' T12s, and while the lighting in my shop is ****ing awesome, I wouldn't go that route now. T12s are becoming obsolete and a few years from now I'll probably have to replace all the fixtures.
T8's are likely gonna go the same way and won't net you much benefit in the meanwhile.
I'd do a bunch of 4' T5s w/electronic ballasts and place them smartly, or at least in such a way that you can add to it over time pretty easily. Task lighting over the work bench and more towards the perimeter of the room will help get light into the vehicle if you don't want to lose the space of doing a few vertically mounted on the walls. Do the MJ half first with what you can afford for now and reuse/consolidate the existing fixtures into the storage half.
What's the ceiling height?
Do as much high-up perimeter shelving as possible, especially behind otherwise useless areas like the garage door tracks. Find a good cheap stackable container type and build the shelving dimensions around that, and consolidate stuff w/labels on the containers. Shelving units are nice but not the most efficient use of floor space if you can distribute it elsewhere. I'd be more inclined to put rarely-accessed crap up high and keep a single shelving unit for transient stuff, like parts for a current project. Even stuff like motor oil/power steering/etc doesn't need to be right on hand; if you put it in a labeled container and know where it is, that only adds like 5 seconds to get to it but frees up a bunch of lower space for something else (or nothing).
Narrow workbench.
I have a shit-ton of 8' T12s, and while the lighting in my shop is ****ing awesome, I wouldn't go that route now. T12s are becoming obsolete and a few years from now I'll probably have to replace all the fixtures.
T8's are likely gonna go the same way and won't net you much benefit in the meanwhile.
I'd do a bunch of 4' T5s w/electronic ballasts and place them smartly, or at least in such a way that you can add to it over time pretty easily. Task lighting over the work bench and more towards the perimeter of the room will help get light into the vehicle if you don't want to lose the space of doing a few vertically mounted on the walls. Do the MJ half first with what you can afford for now and reuse/consolidate the existing fixtures into the storage half.
MoparManiac said:
What's the ceiling height?
Do as much high-up perimeter shelving as possible, especially behind otherwise useless areas like the garage door tracks. Find a good cheap stackable container type and build the shelving dimensions around that, and consolidate stuff w/labels on the containers. Shelving units are nice but not the most efficient use of floor space if you can distribute it elsewhere. I'd be more inclined to put rarely-accessed crap up high and keep a single shelving unit for transient stuff, like parts for a current project. Even stuff like motor oil/power steering/etc doesn't need to be right on hand; if you put it in a labeled container and know where it is, that only adds like 5 seconds to get to it but frees up a bunch of lower space for something else (or nothing).
Narrow workbench.
