Jlel12
Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2009
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
Hi all,
I'm going to be moving in the next few months, and am starting to plan out moving my little home shop. Background on this move and my shop:
Generally, I'm just looking for advice from anyone who's done something like this before - either moved their shop, or put their shop in storage - to make sure I don't forget anything. Specific things I'm curious about:
Any thoughts/ideas/recommendations welcome! Thanks, all.
I'm going to be moving in the next few months, and am starting to plan out moving my little home shop. Background on this move and my shop:
- My home shop is little (corner of a basement of a Boston apartment building), and all of my tools are commensurately little (Benchmaster mill, Ames lathe, Walker-Turner 944 bench drill press, 14" Rockwell bandsaw, Rockwell-Delta vertical sander).
- We are in the process of looking for a house, but thankfully have family we can stay with while we search. Our plan is to load the majority of our possessions - including the tools - into a PODS storage container, and then leave the container in storage until we've got the house lined up.
Generally, I'm just looking for advice from anyone who's done something like this before - either moved their shop, or put their shop in storage - to make sure I don't forget anything. Specific things I'm curious about:
- What corrosion-inhibition steps should I take? Coat of Fluid Film over everything? Does this stuff work?
- I'm planning to tie down the machines inside the PODS container with ratchet straps. Anything else people recommend for securing machines?
Any thoughts/ideas/recommendations welcome! Thanks, all.