New Project - Machine Shop

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by cook_dw

You can see the plates for ramps to be installed. Drive them up there.

That would need to be a very long and sturdy ramp. Those stand offs are used for vertical stop plates, to prevent a vehicle from rolling off too and are just bolted. Not sure I would trust that arrangement to hold the weight of a car ??

[Andy]

I had a new pad, so I'm unsure about prepping the old one, but I acid etched mine and used a product from Sherwin Williams called Armor seal. I've had it on there almost two years now and the only places where it has come up is where a piece of steel or heavy tool hit the floor hard enough to chip the concrete. It's easy to clean, chemical resistant, and isn't too slippery when wet. I went with a color called steel grey i think and it's light enough to brighten the shop up. Good lighting makes all the difference in working in there as well. I have 7, 21,000 lumen lights in my 40x60. They were about $100 a piece on amazon but are on sale now.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...0?ie=UTF8&th=1

https://www.sherwin-williams.com/pai...floor-coatings

[Charley Lillard]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

That would need to be a very long and sturdy ramp. Those stand offs are used for vertical stop plates, to prevent a vehicle from rolling off too and are just bolted. Not sure I would trust that arrangement to hold the weight of a car ??

Most 4 post lifts these days have wheels so you can roll them around. You could roll one up to one of those, lift the car up right in front of it and roll it on.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by Charley Lillard

Most 4 post lifts these days have wheels so you can roll them around. You could roll one up to one of those, lift the car up right in front of it and roll it on.

That's true and would work. I had my 2 lifts inline in my old shop and have transferred cars from the back lift to the front one, and vice versa. Rather intimidating doing that 6ft off the floor..

[scuncio]

Lynn- spent four hours on a small area of my floor, with the Zep citrus cleaner and then the Zep purple degreaser, and still I’m not having much success getting these oil stains out. Did you have any luck with the microbial cleaner?

[RPOLS3]

Originally Posted by scuncio

Lynn- spent four hours on a small area of my floor, with the Zep citrus cleaner and then the Zep purple degreaser, and still I’m not having much success getting these oil stains out. Did you have any luck with the microbial cleaner?

Tony - you might consider renting a ride on floor scrubber. All of the commercial cleaning companies that I've seen use this product with good results use the ride on scrubber. Probably have to make several/multiple passes with it too. This is not a miracle solution if the machine oil has been there for decades though, once it gets into the concrete unless you shot blast the surface (which creates other issues and even then it's likely the stain is permanent) it's not coming out.