My down-sizing pics.. Anybody else have any you want to share?

Tony M

There was still no hum from the Adcom system today.

Nancy's headlights turned out great.

Tony M

BlueFox wrote: »

Now he needs to fix his ceiling and cover the insulation.

In order to get to the HUGE JBLs to let that good-man take away, I have to move a few things and then I'll be able to easily get to my scaffolding and then move it to the front room. I'll assemble the scaffolds after I plan the project out more. I think the time to start is here. Time to seal the insulation off!

I have been storing $$$$ wood trim on the support strut bars for years. I'll staple plastic on the top of the wall and have it funnel any bug debris (turds) and dust my vacuuming doesn't suck up, slide to a bucket. I have to remove these trim boards to have access to the one side of the rooms' ceiling down low.


Having the ability to even plan this out is a simple task and simple job now.

A day or 2 ago, I was looking at what's left that's stored on the A/C wall side on the floor and couldn't believe it's only 7' deep now. 1/3 of the room's width. There's the Oriental screen and what's behind it also but it can be moved in 1/2 an hour to someplace else when the time comes.

I will be at the scaffolding in the back room in a day or two so....It's time to DO IT!

I might document this too as part of this downsizing because I hope to sell more speakers as I do this ceiling work too.

I re-read this thread this afternoon from the first post and I didn't realize just how many of you members of this forum has participated, commented and encouraged me to keep downsizing.

Many have applauded me on my progress from the very begging too. This look back on all the posts and comments for the first time opened my eyes and mind to how lucky I've been to have friends like you, all across the country, to be my needed support to keep going.

"Thank you very much" to all of you.

Clipdat

Please be careful when you decide to tackle that ceiling panel project. You're not a kid anymore like me

BlueBirdMusic

DON'T STOP NOW TONY!

Tony M

Thanks Harry.
I have a bunch listed right now and haven't had a nibble on the speakers on CL. But I did get a nibble this morning on that TV /audio stand I've been advertising for a month I guess. I had planned on donating it real soon. The guy(?) asked if I still had it in his email. I said yes. I'm waiting for more correspondence and had planned on making his day by telling him to just come get it for free.

I've been really tired for days after taking a cold shower one night. Hardly a drop of warm water. My wife ran out the hot water washing dishes and what-ever else. She never said what else... She let me get in there...I think she is going frikn bonkers on me FAST from what's been happening around here the past 6 months or more. The next couple of days after that, I took care of my 82 year-old Aunt who has 20% heart function. She 's an angel but the woman she was staying with was hard to arrange anything about meetings. Totally bazar! My Aunt and I spent a lot of time together but the last night, I went into shock from freezing in this Freezer of a house she stayed at for a few nights. She should've spent the whole time here but it wasn't arranged that way.

I've rested for 2 days in bed to recoup.
I needed rest anyway from all the activity I've done the past few months.

Yard working is upon me now too. I did some a week ago and some more this afternoon. I'm almost on top of it.

I think the man and his son getting my HUGE JBL speakers will do ALL the heavy work if they can, letting me be a lightweight helper.

I've been stressed out and worn out and am trying to pace myself the best I can. But my Aunt's motel sharing woman put a number on me and my wife. My Aunt CAN'T get upset so she tried to ride the BS and she did well. She too was very exhausted from her visit from Georgia to Charlotte to Charlottesville to Wilmington. Then back home the same way. She told me today she had to rest for 2 days also.

I was out in the cottage today going to the back room to start the A/C back there. I smiled walking through that front room going through it and coming back out through it. It's a life changer for me now.

I was in a pit of despair for years.

Not anymore!

I have to add, I still have projects/ steps/stages to attack in my mind and I'll do each one which-ever one feels like the one to do at that time for that week. Maybe a few days. maybe one day too. I have 3 planned.

I might donate some stuff again. That was a fast space maker. I got to selling instead of donating. Sales have slowed the past 4 or 5 days. It gets me thinking again...donate or sell. It's all ok as long as I do like you suggest,

I NEED to keep going forward with the space reclamation efforts.

I'll keep sheading stuff off my shoulders and check off the to-do list of things also.

Tony M

I worked till 4am getting the back room cleaned up some so I could get to the HUGE JBLs and the scaffolding that's just beside the 2 subwoofers.
I had a blast tonight.

I was planning to take the JBLs out the back door when the man gets here but after some quick thoughts, going out the front door is very possible NOW...AND... I can clean up in front of my collection of receivers racks at the same time in preparation for the front door access method.

I did just that and I was on a roll and could've downsized, organized and compartmentalized that whole back room according to what trade tools went with it's companion tools working way into tomorrow. Everything went great.

I now have a pretty good clear head as to what I want to sell, keep, toss into the trash or donate as I see what I've stored again with a different mind-set.

I really was riding on a great wave of PRODUCTION tonight. I didn't move the scaffolding but I could've started to in less than 4 minutes now if I chose too. What a great feeling!

BlueBirdMusic

Tony, you need to be careful. You could be overdoing it a little. Try some regular sleep times.

RELAX some more.

Tony M

Thanks Harry.

I've been in a state of do what I can when I can and rest accordingly.

I pace myself and work steady. Slow and steady wins the race. :-)

I got one great early morn. rest in. Got up, ate some cereal and went back to sleep for 1 1/2 hours. Feeling a little tired still but not sore like I was the days after I polished the headlight lens on the 3 vehicles.

I might go get some more CBD oil and Chrome bumper polish in a minute. It's a beautiful day again. I'll also see if the guy interested in those JBLs wants to wait until after him and his son go out of town for the weekend, to get these speakers. The speakers aren't in my way at all.

I'm going to research what people recommend for bumper polish on the web now.

I do over-do it all the time. But I rest when projects are done.

Harry and Drew too...Thank you two for thinking about my health during this process.

I'd tell about how much yard work I did yesterday but...:-) I paced myself then too.

Tony M

Church speakers leaving along with a couple more sets also leaving. I have empty dollies everywhere now.

Tony M

I built this stereo/album/ cassette cabinet when I was about 21. 40+ years ago. It looks just like the day I finished it. I'll get more pictures of it in the future. Amazing how some objects stay with us for life! And being something you built yourself adds special connections that feel really good. I need to put it in service asap.




The scaffolding is ready to be put up in the front room now!

BlueFox

How much more to do before you are finished?

Tony M

When I sell / donate my collection of speakers and stereo stuff until I have just a few sets and a few stereo receivers/ amps and stuff.

I still have a lot advertised, a lot still to advertise, so through the summer and fall easily.

I had a couple of great guys come back Fri. and Sat. and buy some electronics to go with the speakers they bought from me a week or two earlier. I always give great deals to repeat purchasers.
I like it when I sell something that isn't even advertised.

I was going to start putting King's green-board on the ceiling of the front room last mon. a week ago or so, BUT I got up and saw 4 people had emailed me wanting to come over to buy, hang-out or to see if I still had stuff that I have advertised.

I also had an element in my water heater burn out two weeks ago, THAT SUCKED, so I knew I had that to do that job ASAP also.
Sales came first since we always had SOME heated water.

I finally had a day with no people coming over yesterday and I was finally well-rested, so I went and got heater elements. (2) since I was going to have to move my washing machine to get to my heater I might as well replace the heater's 2 elements. I also bought the extra long-"bent in half" elements. We now have twice the heating element length inside of this heater. We believe we had THE BEST hot water in over 30 years last night!
We never sensed the water temp. getting cooler last night. Even when the original 2 elements were working, the second person to shower , usually me, had to give the heater some time to heat up because my wife LOVES really warm to hot water.

I also bought new washing machine hoses and swapped them out too. I forgot how old the ones were that I put on the last time so...better safe than sorry, right.

I couldn't get to sleep last night so I had measured the space where the church speakers were and saw my 2 chrome metal racks could fit there if I took down a couple of shelves off of the wall.

The front room is a mess now from all the selling I did last week. I made over a grand last week. That's some kind of down-sizing when one sells a grand of stuff that's just been taking up space. With the back room being a little more spacious, I can clean up the front room and maybe do the ceiling work while I wait for someone to respond to these ads. I'll reduce the asking prices on certain sets of speakers here and there too.

audioluvr

BlueFox wrote: »

Now he needs to fix his ceiling and cover the insulation.

Nah. That helps with the acoustics!

Tony M

Before and after...

Feb. 1st;


April 21st;

pitdogg2

Looking good!

BlueBirdMusic

Do you have afterburnt in there somewhere Tony? He seems to be part of the downsizing.

mrloren

nice job!

Are these Advents



I know cleaning out the garage last month was a lot. 3 loads to Goodwill and one to the work dumpster

Tony M

Those are my beloved Polk audio SDA-SRS2's.

That's a lot of donating and shedding of things. Nice.

I did some more organizing last night and feel I've acquired a lot of space to where I can ALMOST get to anything, anywhere now. It was a great feeling last night. I still have have a lot to do though.

verb

Wow Tony! I am impressed! Looking good!

Having nearly finished closing out my brothers estate, I can relate! He tended to collect things over time too! Too many CL ads to count, 3 days of estate sales, dumpsters, burn piles, salvation army, you name it. Man I'm tired!

Tony M

Thanks Dave.

Again, sorry about your Brother.

I didn't want to leave a mess for Nancy to deal with since I was feeling good enough to meet people again and I had the house and yard in order. Nancy would've called a friend of mine to come look at the speakers and take what he wanted. He really doesn't have the room either so I think he would just get the Tritons and maybe some electronics. I'll have to ask him when he comes over to help some next week what he would've taken.

Nancy would've probably just given it all away. Now she would keep the ESS AMT1b's in our living room forever. She loves those!

I think I've made over 2K so far. I'm getting ready to put a ceiling up now that I have the room. I bought the ceiling boards and screws yesterday. I think I'll put some scaffolding up today. My listening sessions have been memorable since I have so much open space between me and the speakers again.


Going to look at your garage update thread now.

oldrocker

Looking real good, I did a similar thing and cleared out a bedroom. I don't miss any of it.

Still have a few items stored in basement that I'll eventually get rid of.

Tony M

oldrocker wrote: »

Looking real good, I did a similar thing and cleared out a bedroom. I don't miss any of it.

Still have a few items stored in basement that I'll eventually get rid of.

I'm finding I don't miss the speakers I've sold because I didn't really listen to them much anyway. I liked owning them, thinking I'd set them up proper and enjoy each pair for a few months at least. Didn't happen...

So with all this new space I've made, I've set up scaffolding and for the past 2 nights, I'm putting ceiling boards over the exposed insulation now. The acoustics are sounding better. The room is getting cooler temp. wise too.

I put the boards up on the ceiling in the back room a year ago. This time, a thought came to me yesterday to make a template to punch little hole where the screws need to be. Every 8 inches. This template "on a strip of trim" has been a Godsend to my productivity. No more guessing whatsoever. The left-over piece of trim has been turned into a "board holder" to hold the bottom of a board, freeing up my 2 hands to work the board left-or-right. Another device I didn't think to use last year.

Little by little.

I still have ads running on CL, but this week has been dead except for one person who couldn't call me when he said he would on 2 occasions. I told him I'm keeping the Polk towers he said he wanted to buy. The more I listened to these towers, the more I thought...DAMN, these towers are fantastic sounding. The 150.00 price I advertised them for was just plain stupid. I remember them sounding great, but never heard them in a BIG room, spread apart. I never listened to these towers before for very long either. 1/2 hr. or more at my friend's house and then 20 minutes here. I think they are the RT20P towers. GREAT BASS!

I now have the room to keep these for a while longer now. I think I'll build some grills for these this fall.

Clipdat

Thanks for the update, Tony. Hope you had a wonderful Thursday.

Tony M

I fell off the wagon yesterday.

Just by chance, after looking at a post by my wife on Facebook, I went to look at "Facebook Marketplace" and saw a Pioneer Elite VSX-36TX for FREE. The ad said it works fine. The ad was 12 hrs. old...

I thought...no way but what the heck, ask if it's available in that little instant pm box space.

A man quickly replied and said he still has it. I asked him to call me and gave him my #. He did. He had many calls from people wanting it but they couldn't go get it for some odd reasons. He said if I was serious, he'd hold it FOR ME...if I was going to go get it right then and there. I was there in 30 min..

It does work great. I listened to it all last night while working out in the cottage. It made cheap Digital audio surround speakers sound good. Now that says a lot about this unit's capabilities.









Ok, I'm back on the wagon again today.

dromunds

I’m a fan of Pioneer Elite

Clipdat

Damn, it weighs 31 lbs! Nice beefy build quality and looks to be in excellent condition. Sweet.

Tony M

Yep, I think it was worth a slight chance to see if I could be the lucky one to receive it.

My older friend Mr. Paul and I like Pioneer Elite gear too. He's been mainly using Pioneer Elite gear for 15 years or so ever since we met. I've given him a few Elite pieces over the years as gifts. They have a great sound to almost everything I've heard from them.

I had an older Pioneer elite that a tech said couldn't be repaired. I forgot to test it as a pre-amp ( ) and put it out for trash pick-up. I did take the sides/feet and knobs off of it. It turned on and all, it just had NO output no matter what I did...except maybe it could've been used as a pre. That was a year or less ago too.

Maybe the fancy sides I took off will fit this unit. That would be AWESOME! I'll find out pretty soon in a day or two.

oldrocker

All good.

My wagon has a wobbly wheel every once in a while.

Darn Tandberg RTR.

Tony M

The next few days will be very gratifying. I'm sealing the ceiling and it's going pretty good.

verb

Awesome score Tony! Can't beat free!