Here's what my repair room turned into...
 

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So says the wife anyway..

Oh well, guess babies take presidence over hobbies, (which is of course the way it should be).. Moving it to the garage soon.. Lol

Anyone else have this similar situation?

No, my problem is the opposite..try'in to get 'em out so I can have the room back! It's time to leave the nest!!:D

Wow, that is disturbing.

Yeah.. lol, it is.. But Autumn loves her stuffed animals, and she watches baby cartoons on one of the CTC-17's. The one on the left has a vertical problem upon warmup, I really want to get it fixed sometimes, it's recapped and has the best picture of both of them. What you dont see is the CTC-40 (works, with needing a new focus resistor) and a 1970 Zenith (bad yoke) in the closet.

Reminds me of my youngest sisters room circa 1990! I had loaded it up with sets: a pair of Motorola 23v table models & a pair of early 70s Admiral consoles. I don't know why she let me get away with that. None of them worked good enough for her to watch.

I'm not even gonna show my "repair room" as you all would probably join together to have me banned from VK. It really is a wreck with all of my projects and things that I've been bringing home stuffed in there. I will say that audubon5425 has seen my "rat hole" and it has only gotten worse since he last visited. I've been thinking that I want to get my CTC25 combo up and going; but, I'd have to empty everything out of the shop to do it.

By some slim chance I ever have a family; they will come first. But for now, this insane hobby is one of the main things I enjoy in life.

I bet if you move even one she knows it. :yes:

John

How did that happen? ;) :D

The answer is simple: W.A.F. or "Woman Acceptance Factor". Things that we like, such as vintage TV's, pinball machines, arcade games, or anything that would constitute a "guy garage" if they register low in the "W.A.F" level, are destined to either have their use redefined as in the picture, or worse, relocated.

LOL

You pinned it precisely!

My wife is very accepting of my TV collecting hobby, as I don't really have many sets in the house. I have most of my collection in other locations from Dallas to Los Angeles, and stashed in other peoples' homes as well.

But to put it in perspective, my TV hobby is definitely the LEAST weird. My others are collecting Cold War era air raid sirens; the huge 500-pound ones that you see mounted atop poles, and I also collect Toyotas from the 80s with Diesel engines. My wife, and the entire populations of the towns of Moorpark and Somis, CA, are very nice & tolerant of my air raid siren hobby ;) . And of course there's also my motocross track that I bulldozed in among our avocado groves, and I tear around on the track sometimes at 7:00 on a Sunday morning. Wanna live next door?

Charles

Remember Cabbage Patches? What my kids did to me one day...

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Reece, they love you for that! Kinda stuff memories are made of...

Absolutely!!! You the man Reece!! I would let my kids do that to me too and thats what its all about! When she gets older, I wonder if shes going to want to tinker with my hobbies?

:yes: ! Also shoulda painted faces on my knees to blend in!

I got a couple Christmas photos like that somewhere, and the before the kids get up shot with the old man hitting the coffee hard...

My big girl helps me with stuff but that about where the interest ends. My little one is more about dance etc...

I do try to get them involved at least enough so they know the diff between a capcitor and resistor, and tubes of course.

as a science project with my little one I made a cap out of some packing tape and alum foil, rolled it up and everything (prob could sell to the audiophools), tested as about a .006 on the cap tester.

There is a fine line between getting them involved and taking over (which I tend to do). My Dad did it great, he would let me fail repeatedly without jumping in to save the day, you learn far more from mistakes, but it can be unnerving for the parent.

Reece, I can relate to that pic, for me it was beanie babbies...

My repair room (former single car garage) has temporarily become a bedroom. I put in a dividing wall to make a second small room which I haven't finished. As yu can see in the last picture, the front parlor has become my office, workspace and general depository. Yes, it is messier than normal in this photo, but only slightly. :D

...Air raid sirens heh heh heh heh.

Charles, did you ever get the engine and tranny out of the half cut installed into a body? We're starting to get 1995 JDM RHD vehicles here now, but they regulate the hell out of 'em now.

Not yet... I decided to keep that one as a spare for the two trucks that I already converted to 2LII-T and a 3L. If I convert my newest truck; an '05 Tacoma 4-door, I'd get a 2KD-FTV commonrail engine. Who knows though; I could change my mind if a nice 90s Toyota 4x4 comes my way with a good body & bad engine.

Charles