This is my office.....
 

Did some moving around in the house over last weekend....

I work from home for a company in Phoenix. This is where I now spend my working day. Kind of enjoy it :)

http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...0&d=1378431780

Looks like you've got it made El Capitan. :smoke:

HOMINA ! HOMINA ! HOMINA ! (grin)

me likes a lot..

Very nice!

Thanks for the picture.

OOoooooohh!!

Love yer little Sony 301!!

Is this the one you fixed up and then sent ME the doner parts? The one you sent me got MINE running pretty good (after some more recapping). Only a very minor linearity still exists (and goes away after like ten minutes).

I hope yours is still running tip-top. It's the only set in this pic I could have in the space I have to work with. I should post a pic of all my little tiny sets up and running...but most you roundy purists will likely just crap in my Cheerios at the sight of about a hundred very small sets running with the same picture.

That's the one!

It still works well on cable, but on the agile modulator the reception isn't that hot. Picture gets kind of like a ruffled potato chip. I can adjust it out pretty well though.

Are ya kidding?? I'd LOVE to see that!

Of the sets on that wall, all of the color rectangulars work, and the 9T246. The Motorola portable lost signal, so I have some tubes to test.

That is very nice.... Love the purple walls! My office only has one tv, but I do have more computer screens.....

Very nice tomatoes you got there! I could never work at home because I'd be way too distracted. It's bad enough for me at work now with all these websites and forums! :nono:

Very nice! Is there enough juice to run all of them at once?

Oh sure....I have the outlets on that side of the wall wired to one breaker.

It's not distractive if you discipline yourself, and work within your own quirks. For example, I could never work on a TV while I'm working, because I'd have to leave off right where I'd want to keep going, have to start and stop constantly, and I'd get frustrated with both things.

That, and since I absolutely hate having a messy office, it forces me to finish things and reassemble them :)

He posted a couple of pics of a few of them lined up a year ago, check it out:
http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=255481

Of course, feel free to provide a new pic of more of them. :smoke:

That was only of that one reference design "cheap chinese" set. It's sort of a subset collection....all of them in one place. There is like 30 of those now. Getting hard to find different ones I don't have now.

It's hard to take a pic of a bunch of running sets. I seem to always have to go turn ALL the contrast and brightness down to almost nothing on all the sets.....or they are just a bunch of big white lights.

I'm not at all a photographer

Like my remotes, your collection of those little sets thankfully wouldn't take up a lot of room. Always a good thing. My remotes could be considered a sub-collection, but I have a lot more of those than TVs.

I had a thought regarding the problem taking pictures of running sets: increase ambient lighting. My cheap camera sucks in low light.

Cool. I used to have a Motorola portable that looked like the one under that "'mater" sign. :)

Yeah, I was wondering exactly what kind of TV is that, and the one immediately to its right?

Looks pretty nice my friend!!!!!!

Merci for sharing :)

To the right of that set is my RCA 9T246. Works fine, but not the brightest picture in the world due to low HV, that I still have to trace down.

The Motorola came from bandersen :)

I knew that was a Motorola! :banana:

Yes, but exactly what model of Motorola?

My '62 Motorola remote, a favorite of my collection.

Uhhh....a black and white one? :yes: Lemme see here.....

Model 14P3Z, I think it sez.....

Hey Tim, I love this room! Soo cool to be able to work from home in a place like that! PS Love the wall color too! I like purple.... :)

On the other side of the room, this is my workbench, with a Halolight chassis currently underway. I got a whole bunch of hardrock maple kitchen cabinets from a friend, really well made from the 1950s, and more than I'll ever need for my kitchen. The excess really worked out well here :)

Very nice Tim! I like your diggs! *(*´∀｀*)☆

I can work in a mess, but it has to be organized :)

When I need a tool or a part, if it's not right at hand and I don't know where it is, it slows the job down to nothing, and drives me insane ;)

Tim,

That is a great lair and I bet its warm with all the tubes lit...

Is that a Hickock 277 signal generator I see in the first pic?

610A, with a 505A scope :)

Got the scope mostly recapped, but now the damn sweep is vertical, not horizontal. Eh, whatever, it looks cool anyway :)

Very nice. And, I see the DeWald in the picture, too. :)

:lmao: How did you do that ! ?

I think Tubetwister knows.....

Love the towel hangin' on the cabinet door..Indispensible item, that..

I never touched the tube! I have NO idea how that happened, unless someone's playing a joke on me here, and nobody in this house would know to do that :)

Yep! Was supposed to get to that in the spring, but then somehow a bunch of TV restorations came in from other people that actually wanted to pay me good money to do! :)

It's going to end up being a fall thing. We'll get it going :)

And, of course, as stuff happens, the moment you get neat clean and organized with a LOT of room, more stuff just works its way in (sigh)....

The Victrola XI was a gift from a friend (busted mainspring), the Bendix TV I couldn't pass up at $60, and the Victrola VV4-7 was a $40 Craigslist find that was so badly water damaged it wouldn't stand up on its own. Bought it for parts for the XI, and ended up fixing it and regluing the snot out of the cabinet, which is now nice and sturdy :) . A coat of Howards Feed N Wax brought the finish right back....mostly

Those are some impressive devices! By the way, I've read, and bet you have, too, that the mainsprings on phonographs aren't anything to toy with, that they can kill you, and might be worth it to send it off to a specialist.

For sure. Figure 30 feet of coiled spring steel lubricated in a mixture of graphite and vaseline. Noooo thanks! Even if I didn't manage to cut my hands, the mess would be incredible! :eek:

I just got a replacement restored motor assembly off ebay for the Victrola XI, and it arrived damaged. The capstan was bent due to poor packaging, and the secondary mainspring was shot. Seller was so nice that I figured I'd save him most of the bother and switch the capstan from my old one, and just send him the secondary mainspring back.

Looks like you've got a Kentile cork floor. Very nice.

Actually, it's one of those asphalt tiled floors, like the kind in most high schools, etc.

Or is that what it is? I dunno :)

They had real cork and faux cork. Real cork is a little springy kinda like modern cushioned roll vinyl. The imitation was hard like other tiles. Either way, I like the look.

If that VV4-7 is anything like my VV4-3 I bet it's loud! Gotta love those Orthophonic Victrolas.

DAMN is it loud!

I'm using medium tone needles, and the cabinet doors usually remain closed unless I really wanna party, 1920s style :). Beats the hell out of my Victrola XI as far as, well, just about everything. Not fair to compare yet really, because the reproducer on my XI needs rebuilding....