I am already beginning to see that the time and frustration saved by having everything in a specific place is significant. I am also enjoying the benefit of having a clean and painted garage floor on which you can find the nuts and such that you drop.
What has been frustrating up until now is that all my tools and garage supplies have been kept in the basement due to the lack of shelving in the garage. On Saturday, by completing a very rare "1 day project" this problem was solved.
I made use of a drawer unit that my wife acquired (good and solid, with metal drawers), bits of wood from the wood store in the top barn and some of the paneling, which, if I have done my calculations correct will be left over after the other side of the wall is complete. It was a bit of a design as you build affair, but the end result is satisfactory and all in all very solid. Drawers for tools, shelves for parts and a nice clean top for Haynes manual/Drawings/clean parts..... By the end of Sunday the shelves were adorned with most of the Triumph parts, new and old all carefully segregated and labeled, paints, nuts and bolts and so on.
So now that things are beginning be in order it's full speed ahead with the spitfire. I'll attempt to write a report of progress to date and what's planned for the next few weeks soon.
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I always thought your garage in England was a model of tidiness and organisation.... It has taken me ages to realise that the job ain't finished until all the tools and bits and pieces have been put back in place. And now I'm about to plunge into the dark dim recesses of my music collection (admittedly rating only a 3 or so on the Fathers scale by volume) and attempt to catalogue and organise it all - orchestral scores, violin, viola, chamber music and all the CD's - I may be some time....
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