Where is everyone?

[maxidyne]

I know you are busy. I'm not doing anything interesting, but I miss you guys. I hope you are well and will be able to get back on the forum soon....

[Conelrad]

Been here all along...

[Motorola minion]

There is enough interesting content here, retirement treats most of the forum members well but I'm NOT retired and still find time to read almost everything here.

I'm trying to post more, comment less it seems my comments are on many of the threads.

[back-2-mono]

I'm hear!

[electra225]

It is good to hear from you guys. There is no limit on posting. Dave you can comment on every topic more than once if you'd like. I know everybody is trying to get the last few nice days outdoors before the weather gets colder. I'll share some projects once I round up the parts. The POS Zenith radio, the Analyzer, my little record player Tolex are all on the "to do next" list once I get the parts.

[TC Chris]

Many chores catch up with us as summer passes. This past weekend I worked on the sleigh bed. It was in my Grandma's guest room and when Dad was visiting, he griped that he didn't fit the bed. So Grandma had the headboard sawed off. Wisely, the guy she hired chose the headboard--the end with one side unfinished (and not veneered in mahogany, just some cheaper wood), the side that went against the wall --and not the footboard, veneered with mahogany both sides. And then Grandma saved it. And when we sold her house, it went to my parents' basement. And when that flooded in the same event that hydrolocked my Mustang, the headboard's bottom 10" were damaged by dissolving the hide glue. So now these many years later, I sawed off the damaged 10" and reassembled the top & bottom pieces. I had to make a drilling jig so I could use 1/2" dowels to reinforce the joint, plus epoxy. Happily, epoxy hardener turns purple with age, so the glue was the same color as the stained mahogany. Then I stained the unfinished side, just to see how it will look with varnish.

And then I waded out with my plankton net to see what kind of microscopic critters were out in Saginaw Bay this year. I don't have a boat in the water at the shoreline so I just had to drag the net through shallow waters in my swimming suit. The usual suspects will show up under the microscope but there are often some interesting surprises out there. When I was teaching plankton on the schoolship, we'd look to see what was in our sample, the kids viewing on the video monitor. They'd see all these moving creatures. Then I'd ask them if they remembered going swimming and sallowing some water. Lots of "Yuck," etc. Then I'd point out that they hadn't died, had they?

I still have to weld a new section onto my flag pole, the one that got bent over when the ice moved ashore off Saginaw Bay a few years back. It's on the list. And my goal is to make my older sailboat's odometer hit 8,000 miles before it comes out on Oct. 16. It's within about 24 miles now, but the odometer, a mechanical device driven by an impeller under water, went on strike Sunday. I'm not sure whether it snagged a weed or has Quagga mussel colonies on it. Next weekend I'll take a hand drill and rotate the drive cable backward to see if that helps.

And I'd love to find a happy home for the big Frigidaire electric range and a couple vintage Mixmasters and some vintage TV sets and the antique medical ultrasound treatment device,etc. they won't be hot items at an estate sale.

Chris Campbell

[electra225]

Vintage Mixmasters are almost indestructible. They are also very usable. And they are supported by a group of collectors that are fairly active. They are almost worthless as far as monetary value, so you can buy them reasonably, kinda like radios were when I started collecting them. I liked buying them at farm auctions. Mixmasters, sewing machines, pianos, CRT TV sets, were items you could buy reasonably. I wish I was closer, Chris. You have a Zenith TV I'd like to have. Distance makes it impractical.