had a minute to clean up and take some pictures. I am getting married next weekend and will hopefully have some time after that to get back to working on projects. been so busy planning and tying up loose ends.
Compressor is in the basement on some hockey pucks, I ran 1/2" copper all the way over to the garage with a ceiling drop and retractable reel. There is one water trap right after the compressor outlet and one right when it stubs into the garage. At my two previous apartments I had the compressor in the garage, and not only did it deafen you when it ran, but it took up floor space. It's now tucked away in a small utility closet, inside of a finished room, in the basement. Plenty of isolation away from the rest of the house, you can barely hear it running.
Retractable power and air
Transition from flex to copper hard line. You can see some of the lighting in the background.
And now for the decoration:
Had a sign from an old valet job in college.
My sister painted the framed piece for me (freehand) off a small photograph I took when I first bought that car. Means a ton to me. The decals I got online from various vendors, mostly ebay and amazon.
The story behind the fender is a funny one. This past winter I had a buddy repaint both fenders as they were all scratched up and looked terrible. After months of waiting while he painstakingly cleared, wetsanded, and buffed, I finally installed everything, and it looked great. 2 weeks later I'm cruising home and a deer jumps out and splatters all over the right side of the car, ruining the fender (was dented in at least 6"). It was beyond saving, and I had just bought a rifle, so for some fun plinking practice we took it out to a buddy's range and showed it who was boss.
I kind of want to install it for a car show just to freak people out...
More wall art, a gift from my sister.
The rim is off my old 2006 SE-R Spec V (great little car, I sold it to a teenager who totaled it a few months after buying it). The old rotating spigot was leaking so I tossed it and sweated in a new, quarter turn valve. Tapped into the hot water line as well while I was in there, now washing during the wintertime is fantastic.
Next project - living room coffee table
The monitor is a nice flat screen hooked up to one of those $80 chinese mini-pcs running Android OS. It's got everything I need (browsing, Pandora, other music apps, Netflix, you name it). It's not bad but sometimes can be finicky, so I might make the switch to a cheap conventional desktop. I'd also like to mount some speakers up on the walls and connect them to a receiver that has an AUX input.
