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It died a wet and rotten death but was reborn as homeless housing !

xoxoxoo

 

We picked up Yolanda, our 2020 Tesla Model Y this afternoon. She's now hooked up to the just-installed-today Tesla charger, which seems to give approx 40 mph/65 kph of power to the battery.
I've been driving gas cars for 45 years, so there will be a lot to learn (especially because everything is controlled via a touch screen beside the driver). Exciting, eh?

 

These showed up this weekend

I had the full run of Wierdo in college but I lent them to a gal who wanted to write comics... She did, sort of. But dispite me asking and writing her my mailing address she never returned them. It's gonna cost me about $250-$300 to replace them. I may send a fb message to thank her for that expense.

The car is shown at the top as when it arrived.
By the end of last night it was the lower two pics.
Had plenty of play damage from a kid...just like me in the late 60's early 70's. Now hot wheels collector geeks might say I damaged it more.
Files, sandpaper and a set of modern wheels. Waiting on another car to steal an engine out of.

 

Here's a Starrett 18" rule/square blade I just got. It's special because of the offset groove and that it's 1-1/2" wide.
My boss just bought a new 24" virsion for over $200 but this is used (auction pic with rust) and after I got it, some wet dry 400 grit and then 600 grit. Final polish with Flitz polish and it looks great and cost me $125.
These wide rules fit special protractor heads.
My boss and I are probably borders but I always try to beat the average price and go with used stuff and he is a "want it now" kinda guy.
I think I have more cool stuff cause I focus on things they no longer make.
I would guess this is newer than the 50's because on the opposite side it has "quick reading" 32nds and 64ths.

 

I was a machine operator, DeVlieg jig mill, in the early '80s. After the oil bust hit Houston machinist tools could be bought for pennies on the dollar.

 

Oh yeah I spose that was some fairly big machine work ?
I mostly cut, drill and tap...then weld and grind. It's not machine tolerance but we try for pretty high accuracy in our shop. Dimensions change a lot from sanding, weld shrinkage and plating brass and nickel coatings..makes it hard to hit on the 64ths but we don't usually think in thousands of an inch.
There's never been much of a lull in high end architectural, from the 80's till now.

 

Just got this old stanley tape measure.
6 ft. long tape with no return spring. You just slide the tape out and back in.
About $9.00 with shipping.
I just thought it had a cool housing with the deep depression on both sides where you hold the case.

 

Just bought these new to me speakers. Jbl 4408 studio monitors. Very good condition, just some very light scratches on the exteriors. Original titanium tweeters, 8 inch woofers in good shape. A lot of recording studio playback for sound engineers has run through Jbl studio monitors over the years. They replaced my expensive and pretty but smaller Paradigm Studio 20s that I've been using the past ten or twelve years and a mismatched Jbl 2600 for a center channel. I love the ridiculous oversized speakers occupying the space. These just have a dynamic quality that a larger woofer brings. Price was also reasonable. They had been on Craigslist for 29 days before I grabbed them.

 

Alexander McQueen sneakers, shipped from Cypress...they address packages oddly and NY sent it back. I paid $25 to ship a 2nd time...I'm happy, they fit,

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White's cowboy packer boots for work...$200 off eBay. Heels still have text visible. These are about $650 new. My feet have outgrown the older ones I have...when you get old, your feet get wider...

 

I just took this off eBay, advertised as a Nike UFO watch, working, missing band.
The band can't easily be replaced as it's a special molded rubber thing...but I can figure something out. Case is aluminum so I plan to mask off the buttons and face then polish off the scuffs and Nike swoosh so it's clean.
I don't know why I bought it. I don't wear watches. It was $33 and others on eBay now are much more, some asking near 100$ without band or a broken band.
It just struck me as a nice object to hold in your hand.

 

Hired to Kill and Island of Death.

Hired to Kill is about mercenaries, posing as fashion models on a photo shoot with a mission to get a political prisoner out of a south American jail I think...Oliver Reed is in there and he can do sleaze pretty good.
Haven't seen this.

Island of Death I have seen and it's why I bought this listing.
On the video nasties list and banned in many countries for a lot of years.
Newlyweds with a religious bent go to a Greek island to...I don't know, push the goals of a perverted dogma ?
Features bestial rape, LGBTQ brutal murder and just general 1970's grind house mayhem. This must be hovering around in the top 10-15 most sick and wrong movies I've seen.

Director Nico Mastorakis has a bunch of B grade movies under his belt but Island of Death seems to be the only one that's really beyond the pale. I remember it was ludicrous just how gross it was and hopefully another view of it will be...fun ?

Hired to Kill with it's fashion model mercenaries seems like it'll be fun too if not a total assault on your...well, everything.

It's kind of embarrassing to even admit to knowing about Island of Death.

 

Boink, "Want to watch a movie?"

Date, "Only if we watch one of the ones I brought with me."

 

Ok,...I'll cop to that only a little bit.
I can hang with a Mystery Woman binge.
I really like Pollyanna.

But say someone wanted to watch Inglorious Basterds the Tarantino remake,.I'd say yes only if they agree to watch the original that's spelled correctly Inglorious Bastards, because I think it's better, a lot better.

Or, if someone wanted to watch Chariots of fire I'd really push them to watch Gallipoli instead, because it's better.

Just like I'd say the song Wildfire, is sapy crap and you need to listen to Wild Horses.

I do like to go with the flow and see how things pan out on their own before I try and interject myself. Both to judge others tolerance and see if others actually have something interesting to see. Most are ok at level 8 or 9 but ya I tend to blow out a tweeter turning the knob to 12.
There are limits but I don't know where they are till I cross them.

 

So I just got these speakers that I put together from a flat pack kit. Website called diysoundgroup. The owner practically runs it as a nonprofit. Parts are almost at cost for his kits, probably a little lower because he orders directly from the manufacturers, like celestion. His designs are all sourced from the DIY community. This style came from the econowave design. If you go online you will see the econowave collaborative threads start around 2011. So with permission, he takes other designs and makes kits for them. Stock goes out a lot, because this is basically a one man operation. Actually waited months for the HT-10s to be made available. Took about a week to assemble. Crossovers come with a preprinted pcb board, but still have to be hot glued and soldered. Cabinets are glued and clamped. After sanding the butt joints, they were covered with bondo and resanded. Paint is not finished. That is zinnser shellac primer on them currently. I kind of like the white, with the black contrast. Wife says it doesn't match anything. So at some point they will be final finished. As far as the sound, it's incredible. The speaker is set up for high efficiency, around 94 db for 1 watt. And they play loud. You keep turning up the volume until you realize it's blasting, but your ears aren't fatigued because there is no distortion
To get the woofer to match the output of the compression driver, it is set up for very little bass. Peters out around 80 hz, so you need a subwoofer. But they will output around 110 db. I know they are too close together, but that will be resolved at some point. At any rate, I love them and I'm finally happy. I have some audiophile speakers I bought years ago. They are fine, but they don't have authority. This is uncompressed, room filling, high quality sound. The width of the horns also helps create a wide soundstage. The tweeters don't beam but sound good from multiple seats. These things sound great, and rock. A 6.5 inch woofer may output to a decent 45 hz, but there will be no passion. It will not move you. These rock.

 

Just for fun I dug out my trusty old radio shack db meter. On a slow response C weighting, I measured around 110 db with my receiver pretty much tapped out. That's concert level sound. That was approximately 5 feet. My setting position is about 10 feet from the speakers.

 

For years I considered purchasing a replica Sankara Stone from the second Indiana Jones movie, but the props honestly just looked like nondescript potatoes. Occasionally I would see a version designed to be more translucent, but I asked myself if I really needed one at this point.

Finally, I ran across a version produced by Disney using state of the art technology, (They did buy the rights to the films along with Star Wars, for those that didn't know) and am quite pleased with it. Not only does it glow, but it pulsates much like its twin in the film.

 

Very cool.