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I always feel comforted when I'm around paneling, mostly because I grew up around it.
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Or maybe it's the escaping formaldehyde.
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Wayne Knight posted:Can’t wait for the HGTV greige era to end.
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Remember when HGTV and the DIY network actually showed cool tools and informative and educational poo poo and not just people flipping houses and fake as hell house buying shows.
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Unperson_47 posted:Remember when HGTV and the DIY network actually showed cool tools and informative and educational poo poo and not just people flipping houses and fake as hell house buying shows. I remember when HGTV was the new form of mindless content being compared to classic informative content like This Old House. Like we just keep sliding further from any point.
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the thing that pisses me off about the fake grey is that you can buy relatively decent cheap wood, leave it out in the weather for a few months, and it'll take zero effort to make it look exactly like the plastic mimic flooring, but just be normal inexpensive wood that doesn't puke chems or toxic microplastics or whatever. The fact that oil is extracted and recombobulated into a lovely synthetic version of something that's easily gotten for way less work or energy consumption is deranged. gently caress, if you can't wait a few months put hydrogen peroxide on the wood and leave it in the sun even. Get fuckin 1x4s or w/e it'll be fine. Once it greys out finish it normally. Unless i'm deadass wrong the whole thing is just assinine 
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I’ve never seen any wood that could be reasonably used as flooring which was cheaper than vinyl or concrete tiles. Related, you do know floorboards need tongue and groove sides to hold them together, right?
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I bought a time capsule 1965 ranch from the widow who had it built. I have wood paneling but mine is on the ceiling. Apparently the hot ticket for wall paneling and floor was cork as I've got a cork accent wall in my living room and cork floors in my bedrooms.  In the basement they went all out and alternated cork and mirrors with gold leaf that look like marble for the accent wall.  I'm lazy and would rather wait for cork to come back into style than remodel but sadly the lower half of the cork around the living room windows was starting to crumble aside from where it was glued to the yellow wall underneath so I've got a brown and yellow polkadot pattern that I need to address when I have some vacation time and ambition.
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 Your house is the very best in obsolete and failed technology. It looks like you even have close-enough vintage hifi gear in there too  Please never change it.
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That looks like actual wood planks and not lovely paneling on your ceiling. Kickass house all the way through. I wish cork was more durable, it's a neat material.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:the thing that pisses me off about the fake grey is that you can buy relatively decent cheap wood, leave it out in the weather for a few months, and it'll take zero effort to make it look exactly like the plastic mimic flooring, but just be normal inexpensive wood that doesn't puke chems or toxic microplastics or whatever. The fact that oil is extracted and recombobulated into a lovely synthetic version of something that's easily gotten for way less work or energy consumption is deranged. Idk if u grasp how cheap and durable hydrocarbon polymer is across the board, how easy it is to install, how expensive real wood is, or how both might, "puke chems" especially if the wood is chemically treated,
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Grassy Knowles posted:I remember when HGTV was the new form of mindless content being compared to classic informative content like This Old House. Like we just keep sliding further from any point. This Old House and The Woodwright's Shop ftw
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don't care your arguments mean nothing aint how we did it in my day the whole point of grey flooring is it isn't fancy wood it's some reclaimed old crap
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my turn in the barrel posted:I bought a time capsule 1965 ranch from the widow who had it built. holy poo poo I love your house
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Mr.Radar posted:
Good eye it's actually Marantz's top of the line in ~1975 510m amp, 6300 turntable, 3200 pre, 150 oscilloscope tuner hooked to a pair of Ohm i speakers which are conventional instead of Walsh design but were quite possibly the first home speakers with integrated subwoofers. https://ohmspeaker.com/legacy-products/i/ The pioneer RT-707 was a recent $20 find at a garage sale that I rehabbed and is a compromise because Marantz never made a reel to reel. It's one of the smallest reel to reels and it actually fits in with the stack once I put some wood rack mount covers I got off eBay on it.  The house itself has all kinds of obsolete technology still installed like combined antenna rotator and output wall jacks, pushmatic circuit breakers, 100% copper water supply and sewer drainage plumbing etc...  My next project is setting up a voip system that will let me run pulse dial house phones so I can teach my 5 year old how to use analog phones in emergencies and so I can have an excuse to put out some of the phones I've thrifted like the rest of my furniture.  Enhance 
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my turn in the barrel posted:The house itself has all kinds of obsolete technology still installed like combined antenna rotator and output wall jacks, pushmatic circuit breakers, 100% copper water supply and sewer drainage plumbing etc...
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Wipfmetz posted:Why did they need to rotate the antenna on such a regular basis that they've installed walljacks for it? Because TV antennas are directional and in some locations the networks' transmission towers were at significantly different headings.
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Indeed. And in the case of Europe, to receive a neighboring country's TV channels, you also needed to point the antenna towards that country's TV transmitter. In the VHF days the range could be very large, so many people within about 150km of the border would have either multiple antennas that were stationary, or a rotor mounted antenna with a little dial/clock on top of the TV set to set it to the right compass bearing. I find rotor control clocks almost everytime i am at a flea market, but the actual rotors themselves are very rare because they're often just still sitting on the roof, almost half a century after cable got introduced... I have one, keeping it for ham radio purposes so i can point my big honking Yagi at England and bother some bri'ish greybeards. I'll see if i can post a picture of that thing. They're pretty neat, there's a synchronous AC motor in the control box and in the rotor. The compass dial has a limit switch you turn to (for instance) 90 degrees east. Then the synchro motors will both turn at the same speed until the limit switch is reached, and they're now pointed in the same direction. To calibrate, you let the antenna rotor bang against the mechanical limit and turn the rotor to 0 degrees. LimaBiker has a new favorite as of 07:17 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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LimaBiker posted:Indeed. And in the case of Europe, to receive a neighboring country's TV channels, you also needed to point the antenna towards that country's TV transmitter. In the VHF days the range could be very large, so many people within about 150km of the border would have either multiple antennas that were stationary, or a rotor mounted antenna with a little dial/clock on top of the TV set to set it to the right compass bearing. Whenever I was on vacation with my mom the hotels would have some weird channels. I was introduced to Spongebob in german and after all those years I just can't loving do it in english, not my sponge
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my turn in the barrel, I love your house  I grew up with Ducktales in Swedish, hearing it in Norwegian years later was such a mindfuck.
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This is still used today, it's probably how your garage door works.
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Wibla posted:my turn in the barrel, I love your house "Kom bli med / til Andeby"  Definitely a shared generational experience. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 15:57 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Also same in LV The one in Vegas has (had?) and Pinball 2000 machine that you could play. That really made my day, when I was there.
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 Fig. 1: a controller for the PlayStation negative 8.
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Powered Descent posted:
I want you to know that that made me chuckle.
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Powered Descent posted:
man I hate getting stuck with the madcatz at the sleepover
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Wipfmetz posted:Why did they need to rotate the antenna on such a regular basis that they've installed walljacks for it? I'm in Marengo IL which is a small farm town but is near enough to 4 major markets that you can pull in TV and Radio with a large enough antenna that has a rotator. Local TV news would come from Rockford/Janesville to the west but major market stations like WGN in Chicago/Milwaukee/Madison are all in completely different directions and far enough that without a rotator you are hosed.  My house also seems to act like a faraday cage and blocks TV/radio once you are inside. Being built in 1965 with a then trendy flat roof it's probably a combination of lead sheeting on the roof, lead paint and possibly metal mesh in the walls and probably lead in the window glass. So the PO put up a 2 story utility pole and a huge antenna and rotor that are looming from the back yard.  But once you have the antenna/rotor and run the wall plates/jacks you would hook up your TVs and radios in each room. You could then just take the rotor controller to whatever room you were in and plug it into the antenna Jack and a 110v outlet and it sends the power up the wiring to the rotor so you can see where the antenna is pointing and fine tune reception from anywhere in the house.  My parents had a channel master rotor setup when I was a kid and I used to love playing with the knob and then watching the indicator dial move as the antenna rotated to where it was supposed to point. Here is a YT video with a split screen showing how it works at both ends simultaneously. They were able to be mounted outside but we're also commonly mounted in attics like this to keep the rotor components from getting frozen in the winter or seizing up after years of being exposed to the elements. https://youtu.be/zR0FNET_0p0?si=M8xLlyT9Cu8Jzid8 Here is a few vintage ads that the YT algorithm thought paired nicely https://youtu.be/gq3UsfQ5CoY?si=RjzbwAa_EO_2Qhfn Sadly my antenna wires were broken and dangling from the pole when I bought the house and there is no rotor controller box and I highly doubt the rotor motor still works. I also hate the way the antenna sticks up over the house and the pole is sketchy and leaning so I need to pull the antenna to resell or donate and then cut down the pole before it falls down.
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You should try contacting your local ham radio club and seeing if anyone there wants the antenna or rotor. I've read that vintage antenna rotors (in working condition) are desireable to ham operators because they can handle heavier antennas than modern ones. There's a good chance you'll find someone to take them away from you in exchange for helping you take them down.
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lol at how perfect your house is for this little conversation. The car in the driveway really makes it.
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wash bucket posted:lol at how perfect your house is for this little conversation. The car in the driveway really makes it. '68 Impala?
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That's a 65 Impala 4 door project car that my brother was trying to talk me into buying. I previously had a 66 4d hardtop that I had to sell because the frame was rotting away. The 65 seemed nice but on closer inspection it looks like it was built in the pimp my ride era and to about the same quality. They shaved the doors and put in poppers, frenched the tail lights into Chevy bowtie shapes and put in a really nice custom leather interior but the body work has a bunch of Bondo under the failing paint job. It has a motor and trans put in it but needs all the wiring replaced and it's too much $ to put in on top of buying the car. Single dading my 5 year old son means I don't have the free time even if I wanted to invest the cash. It's not quite period correct but once the Impala moves on or my brother finds a better place to store it I'm going to try and track down a 70 to 72 Buick Skylark that's a little more turnkey so I can actually take my kid to car shows and enjoy it and just teach him how to do maintenance wrenching. That or an old El Camino so I can haul my various thrift store furniture purchases.
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my turn in the barrel posted:Here is a few vintage ads that the YT algorithm thought paired nicely It's not technology, but this style of advertising is long obsolete too.
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Should have bought the maintenance contract for their cooler doors.
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/OnlyAWorldAway/status/1715372627693355337?s=20 https://www.wsj.com/articles/walgreens-test-of-ad-enabled-cooler-doors-ends-up-in-court-c79fecd6 WSJ posted:But technical issues meant the simple act of grabbing a soda from a smart cooler could be fraught with frustration and even danger, according to court documents filed by Walgreens with the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois.
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thepopmonster posted:https://www.wsj.com/articles/walgreens-test-of-ad-enabled-cooler-doors-ends-up-in-court-c79fecd6 All I can think of is Michael Palin saying "What a stupid concept!"
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Your house is gorgeous, my turn in the barrel. Nice work. Is your kid's bedroom full of cowboy stuff, or did you let them be inauthentic and modern?
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I totally missed that 'my turn in the barrel' was OPs username and thought everyone was just lining up to get fired out of a cannon for their interior design opinions
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