Evening Bob,
Blimey mate, at this rate your "To Do" list will be done by Easter.
Can I make a suggestion, if, only the speaker is going on your new shelf and not much more, why not glue the supports to the wall. We have various brand names here, No More Nails and No Nails spring to mind. I've used all types, sticking skirting and architraves, and nothings fell of yet.
Happy new year to you and Liane.
Steve
Hello
Steve! My "To Do" list is pretty fluid. Any time I check something off, three new things pop up.
Your suggestion to glue the supports is excellent. In my previous homes I used that technique often. The problem with this house is the original paint. They sprayed texture goop on the walls to get an orange-peel finish and then sprayed latex over that. I don't know what they used for the texture but it doesn't penetrate or adhere to anything but the joint compound. When I paint a room in the house I take a foot-wide knife and nick the surface with a corner and then slide the knife under the wall coating. Around 90% of the coating peels off in sheets and a few small areas need attention with a smaller blade. That corner of the garage hasn't been stripped because 1) it's the garage and 2) there is a water heater that makes the job a royal pain. A couple of strategic drywall screws should work fine.
Happy New Year to you, Jen and Chloe!
You've been as busy as a one armed paper hanger! Great work.
Go ahead and stock the speaker shelf now. That flat space is making me squirm.
Looks like you did great clamping on the angle. Other methods are
1 use pin nails to hold the trim until the glue dries,
2 nail or screw 45 degree blocks to the wall side to give you clamp spots,
3 cut a 90 degree vee in a scrap board and balance it across the 90 degree corner and
4 clamp a pair of 1x4's to each side of the shelf then clamp on a block across the two boards.
You probably did the quickest.
I'm going to take a nap now.
Andy, I forgot to wear my hat and mix up a vat of paste.
The shelf has been bumped down the list but maybe I can fill the empty space with stuff that will be fun to extract from behind the water heater.
I like all those ideas and next time I'm going to try at least one or three (actually, 4 sounds real good -- no holes to fill or wood to cut).
I just got up from my second nap of the day.
I still have a cassette player, not hooked-up, sometime I'll go through that stuff, and dispose of the tapes, and recycle the electronics. Last time I tried to play a cassette tape, the machine ate the tape and I paid-attention to the capstan drives on the cassette decks, cleaning them with isopropyl alcohol and a q-tip. I think the tape just age-deteriorated to the point of becoming sticky, and doing its best imitation of an 8-track tape being eaten by the machine. A sign of the times, you almost-never see discarded cassette tapes on the side of the road, their entrails blowing in the wind, after some disgusted listener ripped the defunct plastic box from their stereo, and tossed it out their open window, faster than a Las Vegas divorce. The best cassette player I had was bought probably in the late 1970's, after I bought my Sansui 8080db receiver w/dolby. It was an electronic-display Pioneer, with the electronic, not analog, db meters which gave-off a soft blue glow as they responded to the sound. All the cassette lighting was the same color, I liked to sit in the dark, and to watch the electronic illumination while listening to the chosen music.
Now every time you see a set of speakers at a yard sale or a thrift store, you will be eyeing the foam rings to determine if they're replaceable.
You operating a wheelbarrow, jeez, my hat's off to you. I think one of those two-wheeled ones might help, but a lawn wagon makes a lot more sense. I scavenged a two-wheeled wheelbarrow awhile ago. I never had one. It had a rotted frame but the tub was OK, as-were the wheels/tires. Like fixing speakers, I have developed a habit of picking-up discarded wheelbarrows, or at-least stopping to inspect them, to-see if the components I need to save are OK. I buy an 8' PT 2 x 4, and rip it into 2 x 2's, a few different-length galvanized carriage bolts, some fender washers and nuts, and cut the lumber to-size, then bolt everything together. I use a router to put a wide-radius quarter-round on the first 18" of the handlebars. Presto, another wheelbarrow!
I have a great idea, why-don't you extend a line around your garage for your air compressor, using that 320-p.s.i.-rated PVC?
Philip, I still have a JVC dual cassette on the shelf of shame. It goes with the two VCR/DVD players and two DVD players that we no longer use (Blue Ray has replaced all those).
I kept the cassettes for the day when I can go through them and throw out the ones we have on CD. Then it will be a small group that get transferred to CD on the computer. I think it's the rubber on the capstans that get sticky rather than the tapes. There is a chance you can buy new capstan tires for the more popular/better quality machines. That is not even on my "To Do" list, any more than transferring 8-track cartridges -- I still have an 8-track recorder.
I am resisting going to thrift stores or garage sales for anything. My next door neighbors run a consignment shop in Boca so they are at almost every garage sale in Palm Beach and Broward Counties. I almost asked them to let me know when they saw tool stashes at the garage sales but bit my tongue instead. My dumbest move was to go to a pawn shop. They wanted more than retail for beat up high-end stuff.
Like most things I did when I was younger, it was very entertaining -- the reason I had a sign on my desk: "Hire the Handicapped, We're Fun To Watch." Along with my two four-wheel wagons I have two two-wheel Rubbermaid garden carts. When the plastic wheels failed I couldn't find replacements for less than the cost of a new cart. I found cheap wheels last year but with smaller axles (all-thread to the rescue). Didn't spring for two sets because I wanted to see how well the cheap ones held up. It's almost time to buy a second set.
My under-bench compressed air system in my last house had PVC pipe but that was long before I found the Garage Journal. My current air system is a combination of galvanized and copper. The galvanized resides under the shallow cabinets next to the compressor and runs 60 feet (to cool the air and condense the water). The copper runs across the garage attic to the second air hose reel (and air shower). That hose is handy for drying freshly flossed wheels and crevasses in freshly washed cars.
Bob looks great. I would build a shelf for my radio but not enough older people here in Charleston to warrant us having a station that plays our music. I do have my coat hanger ready to install though; in case any even come close.
Bobby, we have plenty of old people in South Florida but the radio stations play "Classic Rock & Roll" from the '80s and '90s. On the rare occasions when I go to the thrift stores, I look through their CD collections. I found a dozen Do-Wop CDs for $1 each and ended up getting them half off (it was Tuesday, half-off for Seniors).
I caved in and figured out how to copy CDs to an iPod and now have 5 iPods with all "our" songs residing in the cars, garage and workshop. That's part of the reason I bought the Bose Wave -- an iPod can be connected to it. You can buy an iPod on eBay for less than $50 that only needs a new battery. There are lots of YouTube videos showing how to do that.
Nice work on saving the Advent bookshelf speakers Bob. That reminds me I have a pair of Boston Acoustic speakers and the foam kit to repair them sitting and waiting for me to get busy.
Advent were great speakers (and still are) when I was in college and highly desirable although I could never afford them. My first pair of "towers" were home made and then I eventually graduated to a Radio Shack speaker pair. Those little guys should do well to sooth your bride with great sounding content.
Also it's kinda crazy now how pricey some vintage audio equipment is getting. Especially good working receivers and turn tables.
Keep On Rockin!
Bob
Bob, it's funny you have a foam kit ready to go. When I bought my second Sony 400-CD changer I bought the two drive belts they eventually all need. I think I have quite a few repair kits that never got installed for stuff I probably no longer own. I'm starting to think I need a project list on Excel. Or maybe a dozen notebooks with project lists in them. Wait a minute, I have a Geezer book (with fountain pen). Not sure what that thing on the right does.
I'm glad to hear the Advent speakers are good quality. I should know that but my audio dreams fell apart when I used one of those fancy electronic calculators to determine my income divided by expenses left enough for one or two dreams and audio equipment wasn't one of them. Liane rarely worked outside the home but her frugality allow me to own a dreamish used Corvette and us to travel.
