Hobby projects including cars, photography, woodworking, restoration, and many other things of interest.
A New Project – Recycle Audio Gear
The story here is rather interesting, if I do say so myself. I acquired a Sony CDP-C345 5-disc CD changer. It supposedly did not work, but the exact nature of the failure was not known. I checked it out and discovered that the drawer would go in and out over …
Rockin’ Jerry Lee
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 …
A Tip or Two If You Are New to Record Collecting
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 …
A Little Baking Project
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 …
MG Flipping
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 …
The Magic of A Really Good Keyboard
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 …