Be careful of the $9.99 fluorescent fixtures, they usually have quite
undersized ballasts and tend not to last very long. Often you wind up
replacing the bulbs and fixtures. I would recommend using T8
fixtures w/ electronic ballasts. They are much more energy efficient,
put out more and higher quality light. I would also recommend
mounting them on the tables if possible so that the light is where we
need it. I wouldn't hang the lights on a pulley system, I would mount
them no more than 12' off the floor for maximum effectiveness. My
impression was that the overall light level now is suitable for
storage and we would only need additional lighting over the work
areas where we are doing assembly and testing.
I won't be able to be there this Thursday, as I only have enough gas
this week to go to work, but will be there next Tuesday.
-----Original Message-----
From: chuq jackels
Sent: Nov 4, 2009 2:16 PM
To: frgeek-michiana
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Warehouse Plan of Attack
Some of the items that we came up with that we need to get the
shop up and running are : 8 - 4' Florescent Lights ($9.99 ea. at
Menards) 2 Cases of bulbs (cool-white) for said lights (12.99 ea.
@ Menards ((if I remember correctly)) ), 5 gal. White paint, a
couple of rollers, A push broom a regular broom, and a good metal
dust pan. We will also need some chain to hang the lights from
the ceiling with.
Imre has some scaffolding that we can bring over and use to put
up the lights.
Thinking about the lights, I am thinking it may be an idea to put
the lights on a pulley system so we can lower them down when the
need arises to change the bulbs! I will talk with Imre and see
what he thinks the best idea is for that.
The schedule that we have made (providing materials are available)
11/5 Thursday Night: Deck scrub the floor in the Office area,
wet-dry vac the water up, reaffix some of the loose panels that
are there.
11/10 Tuesday Night: Paint the Office
11/12 Thursday Night: Hang Lights & start the building process
11/17 Tuesday Night: Continue Building
11/19 Thursday Night: Finish building (hopefully)
11/24 Tuesday Night: Closed
11/26 Thursday Night: Closed happy Thanksgiving
12/01 Tuesday Night: Start organizing Office area
12/03 Thursday Night: Continue organizing Office area
12/08 Tuesday Night: Start organize Storage area
12/10 Thursday Night: Finish organizing.
We are going to need some extra hands at the warehouse to get
this stuff done and from my understanding we have a commitment of
2-3 people each night so far, so if anyone is available to help
out please show up!
Thursday night warehouse will be starting about 6:15pm until
about 10pm.
Goose and I talked last night about some things that we need to
get accomplished and one of the main things that we came up with
is that we need to either find a way to have a Thrift store like
all other Free Geeks do, or eBay, Craigslist, yard sale, or
consignment at my shop (25% to the shop 75% to FGM).
Chuq
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