A day-to-day strive
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Leave Cali day 27

Packing the lab and the shop, with more desks going out to the curb. pdf version
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I did a lot of work in the bedroom I used as an electronics lab. A lot of stuff got sold on eBay, Craigslist and the Silicon Valley eFlea. Some very nice voltmeters were sold to friends for cheap. The lab is now pretty much just the stuff I want to move, other than those big black desks. There were three of them in the lab. and they all went out to the curb where metal scavengers took them away, gratis. One bedroom over is the music room. That is where I spend evenings transcribing audio tapes I have made over the years into a computer and onto my NAS (network attached storage). A lot of the stuff in that room is already gone, though the Teac 3440 tape player itself got given away before I left for Florida. The 7-inch Heathkit player got sold at the eFlea, and for a decent price no less.
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This is how I had to stand the metal desks up to wheel them out of the lab. I bought a couple furniture casters at Home Depot.

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The desk in the front room, ready for setting on the curb where the metal scavengers take it.
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The lab desk is a mess in the morning.
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Some boxes are packed but the rest of this stuff has to get boxed and moved to Florida.
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Another of the three desks that was in the lab.
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Now it's in the living room, also ready for the curb. I bought eight of these from Applied Materials facilities.
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Everything here made the move. I had finally cleared the lab of things I needed to sell off.
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Now over to the shop, and the Harley parts.
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I bought a bunch of bins at Office Depot. These are really strong and you can stack them eight high..
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The bigger bins held lots of Harley parts. In this case cables and handlebar stuff.
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I still had parts needed to fix two broken bikes.
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This tub was for air filters and fuel petcocks. I made a tally of the bins on my Harley website. I have sold a lot off since moving to Florida.
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Carburetor and intake parts that the movers can just put on the truck. They wrapped in plastic.
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Those same parts that have to go on the couple bikes I have to fix before moving.
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This tank mount was on a custom 1980 Sportster I bought from Ken Puccio.
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The tank developed pinhole leaks so I had to toss it out.
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This goofy exhaust is for an XR-1000.
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The small bins worked out great to store a lot of parts. The bins and the shelves all made the move to Florida. I did sell a lot of parts in 2017 at the Daytona AMCA swap meet.
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The heavy parts like these flywheels were harder to pack. I used sheet foam.
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All the odd bolts got thrown away.
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I should have saved these screws and bolts and nuts. I really missed them after I got to Florida. It was a dollar a pound to move, I got cheap.
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That green spring-winding machine did make the move, it is out in the shop right now.
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All these generators made the move, half of them don't work. I should have tossed these.
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A K-model gas tank, and some portable air conditioner parts made the move.
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Another home-made cabinet is also full of gas tanks. The red ones went on my 1977.
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I sold the orange gas tank at the swap meet in 2017.
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I moved all three of these home-made chipboard cabinets.
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The crated engine and parts made the move, the stuff on the right was given way.
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The box with the red oval has the top end I need to put on the bike on the right.
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My trusty 1977 Sportster needs a transmission rebuild, all before the movers come in July.
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The shop area is a mess, but the movers packed it all up.
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Two Hakko hot-air rework stations went to the eFlea. One was broke, one was worth money.
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The motorcycle stuff is organized and packed up, ready for the movers to put it on the truck.
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The 1960 primary cover is valuable, like the Thunderheads aluminum heads in the bin.
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The shed in the back yard is emptied out.
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My home-made bead blasting cabinet goes in the house as does that table you can just see the one leg of.
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This is an air-to-air cooler for compressed air. It drys out the air for the bead blaster or painting.
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Back in the lab, everything here is getting moved.
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Same for all this stuff, I started and finished the day in the lab.
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 A lot of these floppy disks had old old software that I needed to save, like ProCAD.
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I re-setup the computer so I could keep using it until the day of the move.
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A final look at the desk before it goes to the curb for metal scavengers.
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