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Feb 06, 2012 17:56:54
lewisrn
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My wife loves auctions and I don't, but I sometimes tag along. I was at a local auction with her and I noticed a stainless steel commercial deep sink. It was pretty dirty, but it wasn't beat up.

I've wanted a deep sink for the garage ever since we bought this house 6 years ago, so I wanted to see how much it went for in the auction.

When it came time to bid on the sink, someone started off at $5 and the bidding was pretty slow after that. When it got to $10 and stopped, I couldn't resist. I started bidding and won the bid for $17 !

Here's a picture of it installed in the garage.

Feb 06, 2012 18:17:05
HL Miller
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That's a killer deal- nice find!





Feb 06, 2012 18:18:46
ssduane
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thats one of the best "tools" for a garage and you scored for the price of that one.

Feb 06, 2012 18:20:38
Moggy59
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Theif!!:)-D Good bid on that one. Looks heavy duty.

Feb 06, 2012 19:08:47
twigworker
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Congratulations Bob !

I am an evangelist for haunting auctions and used restaurant equipment outfits.

That thing is going to make a great impact on your shop.

If you run across another one, let me know and I'll tell you how I made one into a recycle solvent sink for cleaning parts.

Jack

Feb 06, 2012 20:23:13
Gary E
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Great score.... I recently bought another $50 laundry tub to replace the old one that looked like a autopsy drain. That one will last a life time without causing vomit just washing your hands.

Feb 06, 2012 21:47:01
Basil Adams
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Darn, I'm jealous. I have a fiberglass one that's functional but yours is pretty too. Good score!

Feb 07, 2012 04:15:24
Peter-Sherman
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looks like 316 grade stainless!

Feb 07, 2012 04:34:39
Blake Sonnier
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Good deal.. That's likely a $1000 piece if you bought it new..

Feb 07, 2012 04:46:26
MG Unlimited
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17 bucks for a sink with beer spigots? That IS a deal...wish i were you Bob.

Feb 07, 2012 06:49:56
lewisrn
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I don't know what kind of stainless it's made of, but it is heavy!

Also, the faucet didn't come with it. With the cost of that and having it plumbed,(no plumbing in the garage) I'm out a couple of hundred bucks, but I believe that it's still worth it.

Just looking around the internet,I've found similar ones for $600 and up. It should definitely last longer than I do!

Feb 07, 2012 07:17:26
bleteaches6
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That's a great find. Congrats.

Feb 07, 2012 09:10:17
P.DAVID
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Looks great. Is it hooked up to a drain?
I want to put a deep sink in the new garage but do not have a drain, just a lot of questions...
How would you empty a sink with no drain?
Do you use it for liquids other than water?
How do you dispose of what ever you put in the sink?

Feb 07, 2012 09:35:34
Be Coming
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Quote: "
Looks great. Is it hooked up to a drain?
I want to put a deep sink in the new garage but do not have a drain, just a lot of questions...
How would you empty a sink with no drain?
Do you use it for liquids other than water?
How do you dispose of what ever you put in the sink?
"


David.

1. Put a bucket under the sink. Empty the bucket when it gets full.
2. I wouldn't. The worst I've put in a shop sink is cloth dye. You don't want to have anything worse than the kind of grease you get from washing pots and pans. This is a sink, not a solvent tank.
3. It depends on what it is. Relatively clean water (grey water) gets thrown over the garden. Really mungy stuff gets dumped down the toilet.

I use my stainless sink for hand washing engine components as a final removal of swarf and grit. I use dishsoap and lots of rinse water, then blow dry the components before hitting them with a shot of WD40 water displacer.
The sinks outside my shop are hooked to a septic system, so I'm careful about what goes down them. We have another fiberglass sink over on the other side of the building that has a bucket under it.

Feb 07, 2012 10:09:21
lewisrn
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Quote: "
Looks great. Is it hooked up to a drain?
I want to put a deep sink in the new garage but do not have a drain, just a lot of questions...
How would you empty a sink with no drain?
Do you use it for liquids other than water?
How do you dispose of what ever you put in the sink?
"



1. Yes, it is hooked up to the house drain system. I was lucky in that the wall behind the sink is the outside wall of the laundry room and that particular part of the house is built on a crawl space. So I knew that hot/cold water and a drain were close by and I assumed that would make the plumbing fairly easy & cheap.
2. As someone previously said, you can run into a bucket, but that's obviously not the best solution. If your garage is attached, see how far it is to a drain in your house. You may have to use a small automatic lift pump to get the waste to the drain. If your house is on a slab, you may not have too many options, but I'm not a plumber so maybe someone else will respond.
3. I use it for everything.

Feb 07, 2012 13:46:36
SURFIT
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Nice to have a sink in the garage. Mine doesn't. Couldn't find a house with one when I purchased
my house. Now I just squirt a hand-full of Gojo in one hand and go use the kitchen sink.

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