What non automotive projects and repairs are you doing?

Post by **matthew1** » 29 Oct 2023, 08:55

Blacklab467 wrote: ↑29 Oct 2023, 08:13 Maintaining the basement arcade takes up a lot of my time in the winter. There's always lots of soldering and troubleshooting to be done on these aging machines and parts supplies are becoming rare and scarce.
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Oh he11 yea.

Oly850 · Post by **Oly850** » 29 Oct 2023, 13:09

Manov that is a great post, do you think they’ll let me check my tool chest on the flight over?

Oly850 · Post by **Oly850** » 29 Oct 2023, 14:15

Because I can’t really roll around on the ground under a V70 anymore, I’ve recently taken up photography, both digital & film. 35mm film photography is really addictive if you haven’t tried it in awhile.

: Setting up for sundown on Lake Erie; 344F6A96-6C6B-459A-87B4-C6AB2259FEC0.jpeg (635.04 KiB) Viewed 730 times

: Foy’s Store, 91 years in Dayton, Ohio; 3F73AC79-8F47-4F91-9C3F-BCE46E563116.jpeg (766.45 KiB) Viewed 730 times

: My old ‘71 VW bus, long gone.; IMG_3762.jpeg (43.1 KiB) Viewed 730 times

: Mario Andretti’s #2 car from his 1969 win at the Indy 500.; IMG_3327.jpeg (671.48 KiB) Viewed 730 times

: Vinny & Ruca; IMG_3469.jpeg (284.25 KiB) Viewed 730 times

: Newly painted freeway bridge in Cleveland, Ohio; bridge.jpg (454.11 KiB) Viewed 721 times

: My new (old) Minolta XE-7, fifty years old, $18 works like a champ.; minolta.jpg (251.81 KiB) Viewed 721 times

: Me on the Apollo lunar rover test article, Huntsville, AL; IMG_3879.jpeg (115.62 KiB) Viewed 730 times

Post by **matthew1** » 29 Oct 2023, 16:38

That's a nice Minolta. I have one from the generation before that, about 1980. What I started with in 1986. Nice 50mm too you have there.

Do you shoot BW film? Process at home? If you don't, start. It's a riot.

Post by **matthew1** » 29 Oct 2023, 18:48

Whoops, my Minolta is circa 1980, and yours is (first run) 1974. Yours predated my XG-1. I fixed your portrait oriented photos. The forum doesn't play nice with those.

Post by **Blacklab467** » 29 Oct 2023, 20:25

Love that camera and those Daschunds! I took photography in grade school and would like to get into it again if I had room for a darkroom and all those developing trays and those chemicals, probably not practical today. Do you develop your own film? I wonder if all that stuff is still available for the hobby photographer. Nice pictures!

Post by **xHeart** » 30 Oct 2023, 09:00

SOURDOUGHJIM wrote: ↑28 Oct 2023, 08:34 Scavenged a couple of small bookcases to get service manuals put up. (Have you ever seen a more obsolete collection of info before?)

I know where to go for my old car repairs!

Post by **xHeart** » 05 Nov 2023, 07:16

Th results are showing after two weeks into treating Creeping Charlie. Lawn is ready for final fertilizer of the season, closing with winterizer. I do have a dormant seeding to do before the frost settles.

Post by **matthew1** » 05 Nov 2023, 21:41

Blacklab467 wrote: ↑29 Oct 2023, 20:25 Love that camera and those Daschunds! I took photography in grade school and would like to get into it again if I had room for a darkroom and all those developing trays and those chemicals, probably not practical today. Do you develop your own film? I wonder if all that stuff is still available for the hobby photographer. Nice pictures!

BL, I spell out my doctrine/process starting here at this post viewtopic.php?p=575708#p575708 in case you're interested. IMHO it's a fantastic hobby because the satisfaction is off the charts.

Post by **Blacklab467** » 08 Nov 2023, 06:49

Thanks Matthew, I may have to look into that as a hobby again. My father had a pretty extensive collection of Asahi Pentax cameras and lenses and filters, etc that he wanted to get rid of a few years ago and I had offered to Ebay them but instead kept them for potential future use. I may just dust them off and start using them again!

What non automotive projects and repairs are you doing?

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