05-18-2009, 11:27 AM
Galen, If you want to put a shelf on the other side of the room with a connection across the garage door, just put a swing away or lift out bridge across the electrical panel. If the panel is high enough on the wall, a single track going across underneath the panel access would be very easy to just reach across to flip or change breakers. If it isn't removable, make the bridge low enough to clear the entire panel in case a breaker fails and has to be replaced. If you were to put in a wall, as Wayne suggested, you would lose some of your layout area due to the need for an aisle between the wall and the garage. An alternative might be to do as George Selios did with the Franklin & South Manchester and and put a ceiling over the the layout and suspend a curtain from the ceiling that would fasten to the bench work to seal out dust. The curtain could be pushed back or removed for operation and then installed to protect the layout when your operating session was over.