Hobby projects including cars, photography, woodworking, restoration, and many other things of interest.
I don’t know where I picked up this little gem. It seems I have had it a very long time. It is a 45 rpm record of Rockin’ Jerry Lee by Jerry Lee Lewis. Interestingly, if you look closely at the label you will see that it is a promo …
The Backstory Collecting LP records has been a “thing” for a long time. In the 1980s it was thought that the new fangled CDs would replace them, and for the most part Compact Discs did just that. Then digital files, such as MP3, replaced CDs, or just about. But downloading …
Are you a collector of Bear Wallow books? It seems like a lot of people are collectors of these slim cookbooks. I have quite a few of them. I do not know the exact number, but I am guess that I have more than a dozen. My latest acquisition is …
What we have here is a blast from the past. In this case we are flipping the MG Midget body that is mounted on a rotisserie that I built. Some folks have been confused in that they thought the body-work was done ON the rotisserie. That is not correct. The …
Hmm, well, I finally broke down and purchased a new keyboard. Frankly, I went over the top and got a Corsair K95 mechanical keyboard. Those keyboards that come with a new computer have been getting cheaper and worse. I replaced my latest disaster with an older Microsoft keyboard I had …
In the previous post I mentioned that this not a “how-to” serious of posts. This is merely a “what I have been up to in the pandemic” discussion. Shopping The first thing on the shopping list was a speaker foam surround kit. I went to my usual source, SimplySpeakers.com, and …
The Things you find … Just to be clear, this is not a “how to” post. This is a “what I have been doing during the pandemic” post. Anyway, under the heading of “the things you find” are these Band & Olufsen Beovox S2200 loudspeakers. It has been said that …
I was poking around some boxes on a shelf and I found this gem from 1982. I was reading 4-Wheel & Off -Road magazine at the time and discovered they had a readers’ submissions section. My CJ5 at the time had a soft-top which was framed with metal rods. Jeep …
