Almost 1AM here, going to bed in a minute.. but was a good evening for me
Ddozens of sorting stuff sessions finally paid of : after playing Tetris for an hour shuffling things around the lab/living room, lab now is starting to look decent and almost usable, it's promising, I am excited.
It's amazing how many boxes you can stuff in a tight space if you dare taking advantage of the vertical dimension.... praying that the stack of boxes doesn't collapse
As soon as bedroom is finished, lab will should be able to have enough room to be usable, less stacking boxes up to the ceiling required... stuff should be more easily accessible.
Can't wait.
While shuffling stuff around, I relocated my 4 big boxes of scrap boards... emptied all of them in search of the few remaining transformers I was pretty sure were hiding in there somewhere...
Was successful, found 7 of them, quite beefy, not shitty tiny ones. 6 "standard" ones and .... the last one, la pièce de résistance I absolutely wanted to find... that big ass toroïdal transformer !
Salvaged from that huge monstrously cheap/crap Hyundai Home Cinema A/V amplifier. Yes apparently they don't make just cars, the also make consumer amps... which are just as crap as their vehicles !
Guy who gave me that amp also happens to drive a Hyundai... bought it brand new, 2 years later the white paint on it started flaking badly all over that car, then rusting... known problem, Hyundai told them "too bad"...
Then I opened the very last "what the hell is in there " box... only to find out it was my collection of heat sinks !
No more mystery boxes now... think I have dug out, opened, emptied, sorted.. every box and container I had.... all done !
Then as I get back to my computer to type this very message, I see that I just received a new e-mail... an automated message from Leboncoin.fr , saying someone just hit the "Buy" button on my ad for my vintage Metrix Wobuloscope type 232 !!!
He didn't even try to negotiate the price ?!
https://www.leboncoin.fr/bricolage/2106119112.htmI put it up for sale 3.5 months ago at 150 Euros (paid only 60 for it but that was a bargain...) because well you got to be a bit greedy at first hey... but other than someone offering me 60 for it, no takers.
Relisted it at 120 a month later, no takers... 6 weeks ago relisted it at 110... got 159 "views", but still no takers.... until 10 minutes ago !
So 110 Euros in my pocket ! Well more like 95... 'cause I need to buy stuff to package it properly now. Still about 100 Euros coming my way, much needed, and will free a big spot in the lab as well, that is PRICELESS !