Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

@Spike188 - Heck! Is that a garage or the new Canadian Case/Ingersoll warehouse?

All kidding aside - It looks Awesome !

More rack picked up today, another barging from FB.

A little progress toward preping for winter. Ports for fresh air exchanger were framed in this week. Custom ductwork was drawn up, ordered and picked up last week. Tube heater should arive in 2 weeks.

It sure is coming along Eugene. All that’s left is a tv and a couch and you’ll have to list it as a 2nd home!

The fresh air unit duct work is starting to come together. A partial coil of isolation connection was found on marketplace. After a quick course at Google University four pieces of 8 by 14 isolation fittings were made from the coil. Each piece of ductwork is connected by S and drive cleat. The drive cleat requires a half inch hook on the 8 inch side of each piece of duct. A couple of pieces of slotted Shelf angle join together made the perfect tool for bending the half inch hooks. after forming the Drive cleat hook attaching the duct work began. The Next Step was making the correct length duct at a 45° angle. That required a bit of old school math and the Pythagorean theorem. A 30" peice of duct was cut and a side 90 to exhaust the air outside was attached. Now that everything has been test fit on the floor the unit can be lifted to the ceiling for mounting. I'd like to do that this week but it may not happen.

@Spike188 Looks like you are going to end up with one really comfortable shop to work in...

i hadn't planned getting the duct up today but snow is in the forcast for early next week. Next Step is hanging the air exchanger.

Adding 2X4 supports laid a cross rafters for hanger rods to bolt through took about 30 minutes. The exchanger hangs from springs and is isolated from the ductwork. There is still 28 feet of inlet air duct to hang to front of shop.

Spike keep up the good work, it looks great. It will be so worth the effort down the road. Harry

The shop was a mess with floor space at a premium while hanging the ventilation and calculating hole location, cutting duct, and moving forklift. We put the Fiat an the lift and parked work carts and tool boxes under the car on hoist.

After a nap yesterday I went to the shop to clean and found Merri there running a broom. She helped put up more shelving. Part of which was laying outside, and in front of the shop door. And and 2 hours later the place is presentable again. This morning we woke up to snow.