Happy New Year Everyone!

[TV'S&MORE]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

Do you guys out West get the ball drop feed live from NYC, or is it delayed until it's actually the new year out there?

Out here in cilifornia it is delayed until it's actually the new year.

[kvflyer]

Well since I am spending time here in Australia, we kinda saw it before the "normal" time in America.

Happy New Year everyone. Hope this year is even better than last year.

[Eric H]

The N.Y. drop I watched was delayed until Midnight California time.

The little RCA made it till then but the vertical did shift and shrink just a little by then, also these little sets run scorching hot, the area over the flyback and sweep tubes is nearly too hot to leave your hand on, no wonder all the flybacks have wax dripping out of them!

[Boobtubeman]

I used to watch the NY ball drop via big dish at 9pm and then revue at midnight

Smashed as hell last night hollared out the front door to the neighbors at 11:59:30

"GET READY F***ERS!! "

SR

[bigaudioal]

Thanks for all the new years posts. Great to see all the old sets working in 2014. Happy new year everyone.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Happy New Year everyone. It never occurred to me to fire up an old TV. Instead I was out flying my RC plane with lights on at the crack of the new year. It was -20 degrees Fahrenheit when I checked just before midnight. Even with gloves on my fingers froze up fast, and so I had to land at 7 minutes. Apparently I have my priorities messed up, although it's not much worse than snowmobiling. You just got to do the crazy stuff to make the winters pass by faster here.

Winter is ideal for restoring old TV's and radio's.

This is the first home I had where the basement is nice and warm.
They're predicting some real bitter cold weather, this coming week.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Agree it's a good time to retreat to the warm basement and do some restoration. However if I spend too much time down there I tend to get cabin fever and get bored doing too much of the same ol' thing. As I'm sure you know, January through April can seem like forever here in the Midwest. I sure hope it doesn't snow into May this year.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Agree it's a good time to retreat to the warm basement and do some restoration. However if I spend too much time down there I tend to get cabin fever and get bored doing too much of the same ol' thing. As I'm sure you know, January through April can seem like forever here in the Midwest. I sure hope it doesn't snow into May this year.

As you well know, being a fellow Wisconsinite, that this winter has been a real dandy, so far.
I'm retired for almost eight years now and seldom stay home all day. I have to go somewhere, being a thrift shop, Menards, Home depot, ETC.

[DavGoodlin]

If I ever get to retire, this will be the toughest time of year for sure. Driving around here in the little bit of snow we DO get sucks big time.

Everybody just HAS to go buy up all the bread milk and gas they can for some reason, so the roads are busy, and Im just trying to get home from work.

That's a real incentive to pipe the outdoor boiler loop into and insulate the barn-garage, where the big TVs are. I already got the pipes and radiator in the outbuilding I do the cabinet re-finishing in.