Bernd, we have a double garage, it has my ute which fills one bay and my wife's Suzuki Baleno (small hatch) which fills half the other.
There is another garage which is about 1.5 times the usual width, it is supposed to be the workshop and has an inspection pit.
There is another room opening off the 1.5 garage which is the electronic workshop, then at the side of the house we have a 20' shipping container.
The 1.5 garage is 'full', shelves stacked with good stuff! Three motorcycles, arc, mig and gas welding sets, drill press, bench grinder, workbench with vice, cold saw (for metal), lawn mower, cabinets of good stuff, a small loft for other good stuff. A table (made from a flush door) for my copy router machine. I cannot move in this room!
The electronic workshop has a collection of computer relics, old radio transmitter front panels (lots of knobs meters and switches), PCs including TRS80, Z80 mini, Dec Rainbow, daisy wheel printer, stacks of old floppy and hard disk drive waiting to be ratted for stepper motors and magnets, shelves with technical books and shelves of neat stuff, ancient meters, funky switch gear, funny gear box things etc etc. Telescope equipment, the floor is covered with plastic bins filled with good stuff. I cannot move in this room!
The container is reserved for Lego which is under some degree of control but the space has been eroded somewhat by a growing collection of camera equipment.
My lathe is installed in front of the Suzuki with my little Adept shaper beside it. Heavy wooden shelves on one side carry about a ton of transformers of all sizes waiting for the day when scrap prices are optimum and I dont need any more transformers! There is a high shelf with cartons of radio valves (i.e. "toobs") waiting for the day when someone needs one of them.
But it is not as bad as it seems, to make room for the lathe I had to get rid of a floor standing Collins radio transmitter which went to a new home back in America for which he paid me the agreed sum. The transmitter is 55 years old and had stood in my garage for 25 years, I am glad I kept it that long.
Last evening my niece came to visit bringing her boyfriend who is bit of a computer expert. He told us he had been reading about 'core RAM', perhaps you know what that was? I got up from the table and astounded him by bringing a card from my store of good stuff which he very proudly carried off to show his workmates. I took that from a scrapped mainframe in about 1977.
Never throw anything away Bernd!
