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Bob Anderson's new home.
I was looking for something on U-Tube, next thing I know, I'm going through a tour of Bob's new home. Looks like a little more elbow room.
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Like your tree, need to hang an antenna or two from it.
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Thanks! We've been slowly moving in over the last two weeks. Many of my TVs have been put into a climate controlled storage facility to keep them out of harms way.
Bigger consoles and some of my favs will be going into the new house. For sure the Dumont Clifton, Zenith porthole and Philco 37-690 radio will be shown off. It'll be a while before a new workshop is up and running again. Last edited by bandersen; 02-13-2017 at 04:18 PM. |
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Nice digs!
I'd keep the POTS wiring, get 2-5 rotary dial phones, and get a Bluetooth to POTS phone adapter for that smartphone. That way you can enjoy period correct phones, and if your charging your smart phone in another room or floor and need to make or answer a call you don't have to run to your smart phone.
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WOW!!! I should live so long. You really have something here. I can't get my mind around it.
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My 15 YO home is all carpeted except for the baths and kitchen areas. I hate rugs! You're concerned about the Electrical service. There's nothing wrong with using the old fuse box as a pull box. It's done all the time, when doing a service upgrade. It helps to keep the new panel neater. It looks like a lot of home-owner wiring present. |
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TV room on the first floor and radio room on the third floor, looks great Bob. That easy access from garage to basement is fantastic!!!
Change all those standard Leviton switches to 1920's pushbutton types with brass plates, now that's original. The receptacles, where you do not have a ground wire to the box, can be changed to GFCI type. A 200 amp service panel will give you more breaker pole space but the meter base and service cable outside will need to be changed also. Since load is not being increased, it may not be worth it. That is still a good 100 amp panel. Your house is old enough to have been heated with coal, so maybe the area under the front porch had a coal chute coming in.
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No, third floor unless you mean the attic Yes, it's so much easier to move stuff into this place Not sure what I'll do about the electrical situation. First up I think I'll have a crack in the foundation repaired then maybe some plumping issues. I'll be doing some painting too. The spare first floor bedroom is going to be my display area for now. Only have a few radios in there so far. I'll be doing some swapping around to see what works in there. Need to install some shelves too. I don't want to cram it so full they can't be enjoyed. Put a few more sets into storage and still have more to go. Moving the big stuff into the house on Sunday with the help of a friend and a moving truck. |
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The code in Chicago, requires all wiring to be "Vermin Proof" meaning the use of EMT, BX or Armored cable or Greenfield. Not sure about the rest of Cook county! Regarding the use of grounded receptacles in an area that didn't originally have them, there might be a return to ground through the BX armor. The real problems come into play, when the home was wired with K&T, which wasn't allowed. |
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Chicago, NYC and others are big enough that the "code" was amended to enhance safety due to population concentration. Unfortunately, few places with these risk factors could actually win against allowing the compromises inherent in "affordable housing". Philadelphia allows NM cable (aka romex) at least in low-rise buildings where the NEC permits it.
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Also, several surrounding counties didn't allow SE cable installations. Some of the existing SE cable installations are starting to look pretty ratty 70 years later, especially after the tin-man worked his magic. |
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Just imagine all the run time you will get on your "portables" as you move from room to room doing stuff.
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I've always preferred conduit and other fully shielded building wiring...It helps reduce grid based RFI, and if the insulation inside is old and lousy the conduit will impede fire outside the conduit should the wiring inside of it go up.
The first place I lived in was in the Chicago suburbs and all the original wiring was conduit.
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