How about track lighting? I mean lights on a track with a pull cord that brings them in when the door's open, pulls them out when closed. I've got the clearance for a swing arm, with no drop ceiling but I daresay a track would do.
|Grant Beagle responds: | |>'m laughing with you, not at you! I dumped the carcass of a large dresser |>that I |>am building for SWMBO onto my table saw the same way. The saw was unhurt, |>but |>there is a big dent in an edge (a front edge of course) of the dresser. | |Always the front edge. I've got a small letter box that proves that rule. It is |the only project where a screw-up is on the back edge. Everything else that |I've screwed up has been wildly obvious--at least to me. |
Sorry to hear of your mishap(s). I share your pain.
When my dad still was alive and running his automotive machine shop I used to give him a hand on the weekends.
One day I assembled a little four-banger industrial engine for him and raised it off the bench with the roll-around hoist to finish spray painting the bottom. Finished with that I started to roll it out of the way and had the wheels catch in the expansion groove in the concrete floor. The engine started to swing and the CG moved outside the support zone and over it went.
Now this could have just been a 283 Chevy with an easily replaced steel oil pan but noooo.... this had to be a damn near one-of-a-kind engine with a *cast iron* oil pan. Fortunately, the customer was very understanding and we managed to braze up the cracks and machine the pan rails flat and save the day.
Wes
Glad to hear you're ok. Careful out there!
Kevin
Glad you're OK Charlie...machinery can be replaced....
Rob
Kind of a strange irony in the above sig line there Charlie.
Not beating on you, we all do things like that every once in a while, most of us are still alive and mostly un-maimed mostly by the grace of God, not because we are that all-fired smart or alert 100% of the time. Glad to hear you weren't injured and that no major damage occured.
If you're not using it as a garage, you can do what I did and just replace the whole door with a pair of french doors and either a side window or wall.
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That's why I installed a roll-up door when I built my shop, 300$ at the Borg for 8' x 7'. Easy to install and only extends into the shop 18" or so. Jim A.
The formal statement of _The_Law_of_Perverse Statistics_ is:
"The probability of the bread falling butter-side down is inversely proportional to the value of the carpet."
Unless it is strapped to the back of a cat....
EVEN IF the Law of Perverse Statistics is strapped to the back of a cat, it still reads the same.
As for the other scenario, I'll just suggest that the "Harvard Law of Sociological Research" applies:
'Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of temperature, pressure, and humidity, the organism will do as it d*mn well pleases.'
An alternative (I don't have swinging doors - but have heard that they can be a real PIA) is to split the door the other way and hinge it at top and center.
I'll post a picture of my shop door on ABPW. I think it's a scalable (simple) solution to the problem...
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