Monday, December 12, 2011

Sats Long haul

Rolling out on a very cold at morn 2 weeks before Christmas ,4:30 am  dark , short on sleep, The AKK Krew is going to get it's newest piece of equipment a Debliss paint booth, no more renting a booth, or transporting cars, on site paint booth .It has been a long time coming .
 The booth was part of a Collision Shop that fell victim to this last down turn in the biz cycle, Out of the ashes of one comes another.
 So 4.5 hrs later we are on site,in Columbus Ga looking at a 27'x15'x12' fully operational semi down draft
lights on and fans running . oooo this is going to be fun.
 First up cut elec, sounds easy , just hit the breaker marked ' booth 1 ' ... there is none, This building was built in the 20's, beautiful brick building, or it was at one time, before neglect and time had taken over, I wish I could describe it accuracy , the main offices have a small show room on the corner , big glass windows on to the main street, with art deco touch thru out , then the 'back' office looking on to the service floor well over 10 K worth of space with a mix of old and new equipment lifts frame machines
and some stuff I am not to sure what it is but it is interesting , the upper offices are just as intresting, well over 2K sqft devoted to that, with the 'corner ' office over looking it all. Off to the far end are 2 booths, and one is ours, We just have to remove it and transport it.
 Attached to the booth is a make up room , wood/drywall room built on the the tech door . Marc & his lovely bride Dena go at it, a full on tear down , mean while Spook is get the elec/ and air shut down, 00Dub is on the exhaust stack, and Snoop take Thomas and Dan and start on the booth it self.
It took us the better part of 7 hrs to remove a 5 gal bucket of nuts and bolts from the structure and disassemble our paint booth.
 Rolling out of Ga after dark, the 4.5 hr trib back wasn't to bad other than the alm latter that showed up in the road in front of Snoop, and the 3 of 4 other drivers that almost took out the front of the Deathstar, ( snoop lifted 2500HD , ) back at the shop way past out bed times, drop the trailers and home all of us go,
Mission accomplished
 Tired, and in need of a shower , but with a smile,
It was a good Day