24-06-2012, 06:28 PM
Hi,
Good luck with your clear out David; it's amazing how long it takes just to clear a single shelf of junk and dispose of it; also good luck with the sale of your mast.
This morning I loaded the car for another trip to the tip. Amongst the items to be dumped was my old but faithful 17" CRT Compaq monitor; the three radio chassis and a newish Epson all in one. The Epson was a huge disappointment as it ate cartridges whilst printing extremely little; it was a pleasure to throw this into the skip and watch it break into pieces; I refused to keep feeding it cartridges and had I read the reviews before buying I wouldn't have touched the thing.
Gary who owns the wood burner visited this morning and cleared out the oak logs and the three broken radio cabinets. This afternoon I gave away a very nice Bakelite Cossor Melody Maker to very close friends who will never part with it so it has gone to a good home. I had two of these.
Next to go will be lots of old electrolytics salvaged over the last ten years but of no use to me and taking up space followed by lots of speakers. A proper clear out means being brutal otherwise nothing will go. I don't have the same attachment as you David to sets I've restored because once the set is restored then I lose interest in it as I can't do anything else other than keep dusting it. The enjoyment for me is in the doing and I agree hobbies cost money but I regard the money as disposable not expecting or even wanting a return on it.
It does indeed take a lot of time to dispose of items collected over many years and I keep finding items I had forgotten I had. A bare workshop would be wonderful then I can start all over again but this time with woodworking. The main thing is to retain interest and occasionally have a change of direction to provide new challenges. Life's too short for watching the rubbish TV day in day out.
Be careful though David not to replace single disposed of items with two more.
Kind regards, Col.
Good luck with your clear out David; it's amazing how long it takes just to clear a single shelf of junk and dispose of it; also good luck with the sale of your mast.
This morning I loaded the car for another trip to the tip. Amongst the items to be dumped was my old but faithful 17" CRT Compaq monitor; the three radio chassis and a newish Epson all in one. The Epson was a huge disappointment as it ate cartridges whilst printing extremely little; it was a pleasure to throw this into the skip and watch it break into pieces; I refused to keep feeding it cartridges and had I read the reviews before buying I wouldn't have touched the thing.
Gary who owns the wood burner visited this morning and cleared out the oak logs and the three broken radio cabinets. This afternoon I gave away a very nice Bakelite Cossor Melody Maker to very close friends who will never part with it so it has gone to a good home. I had two of these.
Next to go will be lots of old electrolytics salvaged over the last ten years but of no use to me and taking up space followed by lots of speakers. A proper clear out means being brutal otherwise nothing will go. I don't have the same attachment as you David to sets I've restored because once the set is restored then I lose interest in it as I can't do anything else other than keep dusting it. The enjoyment for me is in the doing and I agree hobbies cost money but I regard the money as disposable not expecting or even wanting a return on it.
It does indeed take a lot of time to dispose of items collected over many years and I keep finding items I had forgotten I had. A bare workshop would be wonderful then I can start all over again but this time with woodworking. The main thing is to retain interest and occasionally have a change of direction to provide new challenges. Life's too short for watching the rubbish TV day in day out.
Be careful though David not to replace single disposed of items with two more.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
