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Car Lift: Concrete (part 2)

I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks getting ready for pouring the concrete. Busting up the floor was step one, but I had to back-fill with gravel, pack it down then add some reinforcement from rebar and remesh. The existing concrete wasn’t thick enough to dowel into (drill and epoxy in rebar) so I ended up using many…

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Real World, Shop

Car Lift: Concrete prep (part 1)

Moving the car lift from the old home.It’s a beast and has been very helpful in maintaining the family vehicles and critical to the work on fixing up the 71′ Corvette. The new shop didn’t have the right thickness and strength concrete so I’m having to cut and bust up sections to be reinforced. I’m needing to make sure I…

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