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Yeah, my "shop" is actually in a single stall garage at my office building.  The garage is on the other side of the parking lot and it was only wired for single phase.  Since the wiring for the garage was drawing from the equipment room in the office basement I was able to pull some more wire through the conduit to bring it up to 3-phase.   Currently I have designs on the stall next to my "shop" so I can double my square footage and buy more equipment.    It's going to take a bit of finagling to get that though.

Here are a couple pics moving my Wells Index 860 into the "shop"...





Yes, that is a furnace in the garage.

-Ron

My best friend set up his shop in an unheated garage in Maryland and very quickly discovered that even 40* temps made anything metal too cold to touch for long periods of time as one would when making a cut with a mill or lathe. He would up sending $$$$$ on a gas powered radiant heating system. So yeah, the furnace makes perfect sense, especially in Nebraska.

I have heat and A/C in the shop. But I also have a dozen servers on the second floor of the shop.

I couldn't be out there without the heat/cooling. A very nice "side effect" of being able to keep it a constant temperature in there is that I don't have a lot of moisture build up due to changes in the weather. Combine that with a de-humidifier and I have no problems with rusting.

-Ron