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Post by bubbajoe on Jun 3, 2015 13:14:48 GMT -5
Bubbajoe, Thanks for the offer, . . .I will let you know if I need anything? I love all the little cars. . . . I do hit the sales too. But not as often as you. But my budget for cars is no more than 50 cents unless it is a rare redline. . . I might go $1. If they want more I tell them someone will buy it. . .and it is a good car. And leave it for the next person who has deeper pockets than me. I don't know London, barclay, Lone star? I might by sight but not name. I would love to see your collection. GB barten i'm right there with you....unless its minty mint i will only spend a buck or two on the little cars myself...i have scored some really sweet deals at flea markets over the years...i'll take some pics of my collection as soon as time allows and post them here...one of my best purchase was 5 matchbox from the early 60's with the boxes...now the cars were trashed but the boxes were almost new..the boxes run more than the cars themselves now a days...paid 4 dollars for the lot. |
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Post by barten on Jun 3, 2015 17:59:44 GMT -5
Bubbajoe, Thanks for the offer, . . .I will let you know if I need anything? I love all the little cars. . . . I do hit the sales too. But not as often as you. But my budget for cars is no more than 50 cents unless it is a rare redline. . . I might go $1. If they want more I tell them someone will buy it. . .and it is a good car. And leave it for the next person who has deeper pockets than me. I don't know London, barclay, Lone star? I might by sight but not name. I would love to see your collection. GB barten i'm right there with you....unless its minty mint i will only spend a buck or two on the little cars myself...i have scored some really sweet deals at flea markets over the years...i'll take some pics of my collection as soon as time allows and post them here...one of my best purchase was 5 matchbox from the early 60's with the boxes...now the cars were trashed but the boxes were almost new..the boxes run more than the cars themselves now a days...paid 4 dollars for the lot. Sweet! I think i have several good scores, redlines, AFX, and matchbox, but no boxes. Can't wait to see them. GB barten |
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Post by barten on Jun 3, 2015 18:01:40 GMT -5
Very cool, Those are huge? ? ? ? would make a great light/work table. I didn't think tempered glass could be cut? I agree there are so many things being thrown away that can be used. IT might be a good thread on what you recycled for the toy room and your builds? Yup, they're huge! And no, tempered glass cannot be cut. (Not by me, anyway; and not by anyone I personally know.) So what will happen will be that I'll end up leaving the glass the size that it is, now (since I have no choice, if I'm gonna use the "given to me for free" glass) ... and instead, I'll be cutting the metal frame pieces until they fit right around the "freebie" tempered glass. As it turns out, that will be a relatively easy task ... since the top, bottom, left, and right sides of each frame are just extruded aluminum, which screws together. And yes, it would be cool to see some threads start up, regarding cool stuff (for our work areas, or whatever) that were made out of recycled materials. When I find the time to get back to the "big solar panels turned a light table," I'll probably start up a build thread on that ... (under "tips," maybe?) ... That will be COOL! very industrial. . .and what a great surface to work on. GB barten |
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Post by wardster on Jun 3, 2015 21:47:53 GMT -5
I'm actually thinking (seriously) about mounting the finished "light box / back-lit panel / whatever it is" on a specific wall, in my upstairs work area ... but having it mounted vertically, like a framed photo, rather than having it become a horizontal surface. That is probably because I used to have a non-backlit surface in that same spot, wall-wise; and it worked out great for making large drawings or tracings or what not. So it would be more of an upgrade to something I used to have, rather than something totally new-to-me. Having said that ... if the first one works out as good as I hope it does, I'll presumably have left-overs of the frame pieces; and who knows? Maybe making some sort of a smaller version, that's something I could mount either horizontally or in a way that I could "tilt it" (like some drawing boards) might not be a bad thing. The horizontal way is something I hadn't thought of, really, until I saw how many of you guys seem to work over a sheet of glass. It's something I'll consider, over time. Meanwhile, though, I'm still tearing up walls and what not. Making things look temporarily worse in my secondary work area, than better. But it will all be to the good before too long. The new holes I'm making in the walls are ones I can use, later, to run electricity -- to have more outlets and/or lighting circuits, right where I decide I want them, etc. What was it Big Daddy used to say: "Big mess, big success"? If that's true, then I'm definitely well on my way now!  |
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Post by barten on Jun 6, 2015 15:38:41 GMT -5
I'm actually thinking (seriously) about mounting the finished "light box / back-lit panel / whatever it is" on a specific wall, in my upstairs work area ... but having it mounted vertically, like a framed photo, rather than having it become a horizontal surface. That is probably because I used to have a non-backlit surface in that same spot, wall-wise; and it worked out great for making large drawings or tracings or what not. So it would be more of an upgrade to something I used to have, rather than something totally new-to-me. Having said that ... if the first one works out as good as I hope it does, I'll presumably have left-overs of the frame pieces; and who knows? Maybe making some sort of a smaller version, that's something I could mount either horizontally or in a way that I could "tilt it" (like some drawing boards) might not be a bad thing. The horizontal way is something I hadn't thought of, really, until I saw how many of you guys seem to work over a sheet of glass. It's something I'll consider, over time. Meanwhile, though, I'm still tearing up walls and what not. Making things look temporarily worse in my secondary work area, than better. But it will all be to the good before too long. The new holes I'm making in the walls are ones I can use, later, to run electricity -- to have more outlets and/or lighting circuits, right where I decide I want them, etc. What was it Big Daddy used to say: "Big mess, big success"? If that's true, then I'm definitely well on my way now! That sounds really GOOD! And working standing up is good! I use to draw my stained glass window designs on the wall so you could step back and see it. Can't wait to see it! My room is getting the stuff put in I will have to sell about three boxes of kits. And sort all my parts. I wish some of you lived closer. GB barten |
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Post by wardster on Jun 6, 2015 17:46:35 GMT -5
That sounds really GOOD! And working standing up is good! I use to draw my stained glass window designs on the wall so you could step back and see it. Can't wait to see it! Exactly so. Sometimes standing up while working is the best thing, for certain tasks. And the wall I have in mind for that as-yet-still-not-created backlit surface is one that has a long "walk backwards" area, behind the area where I'd be standing. That extra "walking backwards" space, which I had often used to "see the object from a different perspective" turned out to be a big part of the reason that area felt so useful, for the prior incarnation of that "draw stuff, standing here" idea. Just to show how some tiny improvement, once tried, might start a train of ideas and ways to improve things, that evolves over time: The particular wall space I have in mind was located between several doors; and was also directly in line with where a person comes up the stairs, and turns a corner. Also, it's close to an area where the "upside down V-shape" of the roof of the house, interferes with doing a whole lot with that space. Having to maintain access paths to and from various doors, pretty much killed the idea of putting a normal work table, or even some display cabinets or shelves or whatever, on or near that 40-some inch wide piece of flat(-ish) wall space. Also, there is a large amount of texture on the walls, themselves ... further killing any easy way to put that space to some good use. Eventually, long ago, it dawned on me to take a half-sheet of Masonite or whatever, that was just in my way elsewhere, and mount it to that wall ... making a flat spot on the textured wall. To that, I simply stuck some white posterboard or large paper (to hide the very dark brown, almost-black surface of the Masonite) ... and then taped up whatever big blueprints or whatever, that I was working on. Which turned out to work really well ... partly because (and I hadn't noticed this, consciously, before I'd put that flat board up) there was a light in the room, right above that location, and to the left of it ... so, even when I'm standing there, and blocking the rest of the room's light, that one overhead light did a pretty good job of making that "drawing surface" be a functional, good thing. I knew that light was there, of course ... but until I stood there, facing that wall, I hadn't had any good reason to notice that a right-hand'er like me, with a light that was located up and left, wouldn't be blocking a light source like that, as he drew stuff. So that light's position turned out to be just perfect for the next "work space idea" ... and all it took for me to notice how great it all worked out, was a leftover half a sheet of masonite (sorta the same stuff that wooden clipboards are made out of, if that explains it better) and some drywall screws to attach the "flat stuff". Over time, the big ugly sheet of dark brown masonite, just slapped up on that wall, was getting me some disapproving looks in terms of how it made the room itself look ... and what I was thinking of doing, initially, was to simply go buy a sheet of white-colored masonite, to replace the dark brown one. It would have made the room look better (because it's a much closer match to the wall's coloring) ... and it would have been a better "behind drawing paper" surface, too ... but ... And then, before I'd actually purchased the "new and improved" stuff, lo and behold ... I see those two bleepin' huge solar panels, next to the dumpsters located near some doctor's offices. I looked the panels over; saw they were (as you've said) very "industrial" and had been factory-made to screw together, and come apart the same way; and saw the frames were made of easily-cuttable aluminum ... and the next thing I knew, I was talking to the receptionist in those offices, to see if they'd mind if I took those panels off of their hands. She checked with whomever it was that had removed them from their original purpose (solar panels, in a big array on their roof) ... and his only concern was that I didn't cut myself on the glass, if I hauled it away for them ... which I promptly promised I wouldn't do ... and next thing I know, I have two big solar panels sitting in the garage, awaiting their tear down and eventual re-purposing. The tear down phase has already taken place (as mentioned) but the rest of it still hasn't happened ... but will, as soon as I get a bit farther along on the big hole I made in my bedroom wall (an unrelated project) ... and some other upgrades get made to that other area. I don't have any pics of this stuff, ready-to-post, right now ... but I'm taking lotsa pics as I go; and eventually, will post them. |
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Post by barten on Jun 9, 2015 20:27:04 GMT -5
I need to see pictures? Please... sounds good!
So whats the next step?
GB
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Post by wardster on Jun 10, 2015 2:22:57 GMT -5
I put some pics up of the big hole I had made in my wall, being fixed ... but that's in the other thread about workspaces. car-toons.proboards.com/post/7461/threadI'll see if I can't get some pics online, showing the solar panel project, before too long ... once more work on that actually gets done, I mean ... but the other big project I'm working on has to take precedence (and my free time) for now, since I can't just leave things where they are, with that one. Not without being in big trouble! I have that big hole in the wall "mostly fixed" as far as the view from my actual room / secondary workspace ... but from the hall side of things, it still looks 3/4 like heck. So that's where my work time has been going, of late. Gotta wrap up the "messes all over the place, and bits of the walls still missing" project first! So I guess I'm saying that I'm saving the solar panel project as an "after-dinner treat" ... but once I'm working on that one, as a primary project, I'm planning on taking / showing more pics of that one's progress, too. |
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Post by wardster on Jun 10, 2015 15:21:04 GMT -5
Just to add a few thoughts to what I said, above:
One reason I sometimes have a high "word count" with no pics to go with the typed words, is that I'm still figuring some things out.
I find that I often have a "gestation" or "just thinking about it" period, before I go ballistic and get busy doing something. Not always -- depends on complexity of a given project, etc., etc. -- but in this case, yeah, I'm wanting to think about it, first. One reason is: in talking with you guys about this project, and taking those pics to show you what the big "before" solar panels looked like, it dawned on me that the space I plan to put this thing is taller than it is wide ... and that may not be a bad thing.
Maybe the pics of them, standing on end, made me partly think about it in a way I hadn't thought about it, before. But Barten's comments on how he drew stuff (stained glass patterns) that were mounted, temporarily, on a wall, also got me thinking about having the option to have that panel, when it's all done, be "rotate-able" or something ... so that I could use it in "portrait" mode, or in "landscape" mode. So, one big reason I'm delaying that "backlit drawing board" project, for a bit -- (well, besides having guests over in a few days, and the remnants of a big hole in a hallway / bedroom wall still needing fixing!) -- is that I'm consciously thinking, for the first time, that I might want to be able to mount that panel in BOTH modes. Before, it felt like I needed to think about it for a bit longer ... but I couldn't quite figure out why. Seemed like a simple enough project! But now, the "why" finally dawned on me.
In other words: for long-in-width, but skinny-in-height projects it'd be nice to be able to mount the finished board, facing that way.
But for "tall in height; but skinny in width" projects, it might not be a bad thing to be able to mount the whole thing, that way.
Which implies that I'm gonna have to think a bit harder about any electrical wiring I do inside that thing; so that I have a couple of choices as to where any power input and/or switches would be located; so that those things aren't in my way, or too far out of the way, when the whole panel is oriented in one position or another. There's probably a simple solution. I just need to think it through.
Also, I'm gonna have to come up with either a mounting system that allows me to dismount the whole thing from the wall, and then put it the other way ... or, ideally: some method sort of like a "Lazy Susan" rotating arrangement, where I can just just rotate the whole thing on a central axis, rather than physically removing the whole thing and re-mounting it, every time I want to change how it faces.
So ... I'll be thinking about those kinds of things for a while! And once work actually begins on all of that, I'll include pics, etc.
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Post by barten on Jun 28, 2015 7:33:40 GMT -5
Just to add a few thoughts to what I said, above: One reason I sometimes have a high "word count" with no pics to go with the typed words, is that I'm still figuring some things out. I find that I often have a "gestation" or "just thinking about it" period, before I go ballistic and get busy doing something. Not always -- depends on complexity of a given project, etc., etc. -- but in this case, yeah, I'm wanting to think about it, first. One reason is: in talking with you guys about this project, and taking those pics to show you what the big "before" solar panels looked like, it dawned on me that the space I plan to put this thing is taller than it is wide ... and that may not be a bad thing. Maybe the pics of them, standing on end, made me partly think about it in a way I hadn't thought about it, before. But Barten's comments on how he drew stuff (stained glass patterns) that were mounted, temporarily, on a wall, also got me thinking about having the option to have that panel, when it's all done, be "rotate-able" or something ... so that I could use it in "portrait" mode, or in "landscape" mode. So, one big reason I'm delaying that "backlit drawing board" project, for a bit -- (well, besides having guests over in a few days, and the remnants of a big hole in a hallway / bedroom wall still needing fixing!) -- is that I'm consciously thinking, for the first time, that I might want to be able to mount that panel in BOTH modes. Before, it felt like I needed to think about it for a bit longer ... but I couldn't quite figure out why. Seemed like a simple enough project! But now, the "why" finally dawned on me. In other words: for long-in-width, but skinny-in-height projects it'd be nice to be able to mount the finished board, facing that way. But for "tall in height; but skinny in width" projects, it might not be a bad thing to be able to mount the whole thing, that way. Which implies that I'm gonna have to think a bit harder about any electrical wiring I do inside that thing; so that I have a couple of choices as to where any power input and/or switches would be located; so that those things aren't in my way, or too far out of the way, when the whole panel is oriented in one position or another. There's probably a simple solution. I just need to think it through. Also, I'm gonna have to come up with either a mounting system that allows me to dismount the whole thing from the wall, and then put it the other way ... or, ideally: some method sort of like a "Lazy Susan" rotating arrangement, where I can just just rotate the whole thing on a central axis, rather than physically removing the whole thing and re-mounting it, every time I want to change how it faces. So ... I'll be thinking about those kinds of things for a while! And once work actually begins on all of that, I'll include pics, etc. It is good to thing through the process for a while and work out the bugs. It will be cool when done. |
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Post by Starryeyes on Jun 28, 2015 14:18:48 GMT -5
Paint booth hooked up and ready for business!!  |
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Post by bubbajoe on Jun 29, 2015 12:21:34 GMT -5
Paint booth hooked up and ready for business!! I want to come play at your house  |
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Post by Starryeyes on Jun 29, 2015 12:56:06 GMT -5
Paint booth hooked up and ready for business!! I want to come play at your house You are welcome anytime !! |
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Post by barten on Jul 9, 2015 7:22:25 GMT -5
Chuck! Looks GREAT! Next time I'm driving through town I'm stopping in! ! ! ! Great job.
GB
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Post by barten on Jul 9, 2015 8:42:34 GMT -5
So it is getting even closer. I found a drafting table, chair and light on Craig's list this week.     It is getting closer I just need to find some time to clean out the rest of the boxes. I have a bunch of kits to get rid of and some action figures. (all the boxes in the middle.) I guess any kit can be tooned? After seeing what Ira and others do around here. GB barten |
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