[Shop-talk] Garage tile

[Mike Rambour]

   Some miscellaneous junk here so ignore the pics you don't want to see...

http://singer.rambour.com/stuff/

  Has pics of my garage tiled floor along with my 2 lifts and 
cars...and lots of other junk.  The Silver Dino is sitting on a 
scissor lift on that pic, you can see the scissor lift a few pics 
below with my 34 Singer on it.

         mike

At 12:40 PM 7/5/2007, cornerexit wrote:
>I too would be interested in peoples experience with these tiles. Any
>pictures of an actual working shop with these tiles would good as well.
>
>I just don't see how they could be functional in a working shop, but I'm
>sure there are things I am missing here.
>
>In my shop I do a lot of work on the race car while it is on the two post
>lift. This means there are all manner of spilled fluids, hot parts that are
>cut off the car that land on the concrete, sparks from the welder that land
>on the concrete etc. I just don't see how tiles can stand up to that kind of
>thing? I also use a number of rolling tools/equipment while under the car on
>the lift - trans jack, oil drain, welder, torch, differential stands etc and
>I wonder how these things will roll around on top of the tiles?
>
>In addition most every piece of equipment and storage cabinets in my shop is
>on wheels so I can reconfigure the shop based on the current project.
>I wonder how well rolling stock moves on these tiles. And I wonder how well
>it would work if only part of the shop floor were tiled? How would I get the
>rolling stock up the threshold onto the tiles or vice versa? My steel stock
>rack on wheels and my ammo cabinets are pretty darn heavy to push around as
>it is on the mostly smooth shop floor.
>
>The other corner of the shop has the metal fab equipment - welder, welding
>table, drill press, lathe, mill, grinders, bandsaw etc. In this area you
>have sparks, metal chunks, oil, chips etc falling on the floor. I wonder how
>easy that would be to clean up?
>
>On the other hand I just installed a power rack, 300lb. Olympic weight set,
>FID bench, and lat pulldown station in a corner of my shop and some sort of
>tile or mat under that equipment might make working out a little nicer.
>
>Wayne
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