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A view of the lighting/speaker/fan control console.
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i lived in a place that was ALL that kind of knotty pine novelty t&g boards interior. (this was back in the mid 1960s) it was the only place my parents ever owned, and it was only for a few years. it came with a couple of moris chairs and a built in set of shelves, complete with two full sets of encyclopedias; one from 1919 and the other, i think it was 1925 or there abouts. (oh and between the pages of one of the volumes of one of the cyc's, there was a b&w photo of, appearently the origeonal owner builder and their family, playing with a pet? fox.)
oddest thing, i turned on the tv a couple of nights ago, and on bbca(merica) they had the league of extrodinary gentlemen.
(life has many odd and wonderful syncronicities)
oddest thing, i turned on the tv a couple of nights ago, and on bbca(merica) they had the league of extrodinary gentlemen.
(life has many odd and wonderful syncronicities)
Its fun the knob in the middle dims the lights above it, the switch on the side turns on audio to the speaker just to the right there (the horn thing has two coils on a metal plate inside and was one of the first speakers, before the paper cone came about.) the toggle turns power on to the lights, the meter on the far right is an amperage meter the one to the left of that is a voltage meter goes to 220, reads steady at about 110 unless the fridge kicks on in the other room, then it dips a little, the amps and voltage goes down when you dim the lights, but the lights shut off around 20volts.
The hat on the glass head is one of the first styles of collapsible top hats ever made, made by a company in england and is all copper and brass springs and armatures inside (hence why we never fixed it, it looks soooo nice mad hatter esk there) the goggles are some old tank captain goggles with a set of colored lenses from an old military flashlight under the rubber caps from the flashlight, they fit perfectly and are 55mm so if i used a normal camera filter that would work too.
The fan is a 1914 Westinghouse 3HP, 35lb fan solid cast iron and brass with enamel coated blades as this was a rare one, part of the first "air conditioning" systems, it was bolted to a metal grated box with an enamel drip tray, i did not know it at the time I found it, but that was an ice block box, and I wish I could go back to 1994 and slap myself for not grabbing it before that old building was torn down. >.<
The gauge cluster above was from an old HRT boiler in an old asylum, and leaked oil all the fuck over the place when we lugged that damn thing into the car, it weighs about 95lbs on the steel plate they are bolted to.
Sadly they are bakelite and glass, the other ones the bigger pannel that is not in this picture, weighed around 160lbs and took two ppl about 20 mins to get it from the car inside to down stairs with a few rest stops lol.
That one is iron plate and brass gauges painted in black enamel.
The ring of keys has 36 keys some bras some steel and none newer then 1940, the oldest one there is a castle garden gate key, it dates back to the early 1700s british but it is the plainest and most boring key there lol though it is the largest.
The gear holding the shotgun shells that make up the pencil/tool holder is a cog from an old machine in the basement of an abandoned insane asylum that apparently rocked a bed back and forth like a cradle, but the bed was a slab covered in straps and it rocked vertically or horizontally depending on what side you spun it and locked this gear to, the arm had to be left behind sadly because it was iron and rusted solid to the pin under the bed.
The green ink in the inkwell is from 1912, and is very watered down since we had to add water to the nearly tar like ink it was, the pen is a cobalt glass writing pen from around 1910 and tickles the geiger counters a little bit for some reason.
The insulators under the glass head are from a phone pole deep in the woods, an old DC pole from who knows when, they are unmarked and sort of purple in the light from the sun, got like 4 splinters none undr an inch long getting those guys, two in my left inner thigh and two in my right wrist/arm lol.
There is but not sure if in this photo or not can't spot it, a Morse Code key from the early 1900s too, cherry wood with both coils still working we used a 9v battery to test it out and its pretty nice, brass, and some kind of black material that is or isnt bakelite on the key never figured it out lol and full copper coils with iron rods and adjustable pivot and springs.
Lights are from a hotel, prolly around 1980s when it closed down judging by the decor and phone on the desk being a rotary phone with a seperate switch panel lol.
The keyholes on the wall are just random brass goodies found in multiple abandoned houses and hotels over the years.
All this in my cousin's bedroom/workshop witch was an old Speak Easy back in the day, and has awesome hidden doors and all kinds of hidey holes in the clothesets and an old raised stage and full maple and mahogany bar with ash top and like 30 layers of urathane so its like glass ^O^
Good times! It's such a fun workshop, we always made cool shit there, he's off in the Marines now but hell be back soon and we might start back up with our old tricks again lol ^_^
I hope so anyway, cuse this shit is collecting dust, and now I got like 5 huge knife switches all 600+ volt ones brass and even have spark snaps on them, I wanna do more shit lol Gotta use this old Tesla shit too before it just, turns into junk in the back room like the rest of the shit, the dentist chair and friggin piles of gauges and pipe shit. >:/
We're lazy fuckers lol
The hat on the glass head is one of the first styles of collapsible top hats ever made, made by a company in england and is all copper and brass springs and armatures inside (hence why we never fixed it, it looks soooo nice mad hatter esk there) the goggles are some old tank captain goggles with a set of colored lenses from an old military flashlight under the rubber caps from the flashlight, they fit perfectly and are 55mm so if i used a normal camera filter that would work too.
The fan is a 1914 Westinghouse 3HP, 35lb fan solid cast iron and brass with enamel coated blades as this was a rare one, part of the first "air conditioning" systems, it was bolted to a metal grated box with an enamel drip tray, i did not know it at the time I found it, but that was an ice block box, and I wish I could go back to 1994 and slap myself for not grabbing it before that old building was torn down. >.<
The gauge cluster above was from an old HRT boiler in an old asylum, and leaked oil all the fuck over the place when we lugged that damn thing into the car, it weighs about 95lbs on the steel plate they are bolted to.
Sadly they are bakelite and glass, the other ones the bigger pannel that is not in this picture, weighed around 160lbs and took two ppl about 20 mins to get it from the car inside to down stairs with a few rest stops lol.
That one is iron plate and brass gauges painted in black enamel.
The ring of keys has 36 keys some bras some steel and none newer then 1940, the oldest one there is a castle garden gate key, it dates back to the early 1700s british but it is the plainest and most boring key there lol though it is the largest.
The gear holding the shotgun shells that make up the pencil/tool holder is a cog from an old machine in the basement of an abandoned insane asylum that apparently rocked a bed back and forth like a cradle, but the bed was a slab covered in straps and it rocked vertically or horizontally depending on what side you spun it and locked this gear to, the arm had to be left behind sadly because it was iron and rusted solid to the pin under the bed.
The green ink in the inkwell is from 1912, and is very watered down since we had to add water to the nearly tar like ink it was, the pen is a cobalt glass writing pen from around 1910 and tickles the geiger counters a little bit for some reason.
The insulators under the glass head are from a phone pole deep in the woods, an old DC pole from who knows when, they are unmarked and sort of purple in the light from the sun, got like 4 splinters none undr an inch long getting those guys, two in my left inner thigh and two in my right wrist/arm lol.
There is but not sure if in this photo or not can't spot it, a Morse Code key from the early 1900s too, cherry wood with both coils still working we used a 9v battery to test it out and its pretty nice, brass, and some kind of black material that is or isnt bakelite on the key never figured it out lol and full copper coils with iron rods and adjustable pivot and springs.
Lights are from a hotel, prolly around 1980s when it closed down judging by the decor and phone on the desk being a rotary phone with a seperate switch panel lol.
The keyholes on the wall are just random brass goodies found in multiple abandoned houses and hotels over the years.
All this in my cousin's bedroom/workshop witch was an old Speak Easy back in the day, and has awesome hidden doors and all kinds of hidey holes in the clothesets and an old raised stage and full maple and mahogany bar with ash top and like 30 layers of urathane so its like glass ^O^
Good times! It's such a fun workshop, we always made cool shit there, he's off in the Marines now but hell be back soon and we might start back up with our old tricks again lol ^_^
I hope so anyway, cuse this shit is collecting dust, and now I got like 5 huge knife switches all 600+ volt ones brass and even have spark snaps on them, I wanna do more shit lol Gotta use this old Tesla shit too before it just, turns into junk in the back room like the rest of the shit, the dentist chair and friggin piles of gauges and pipe shit. >:/
We're lazy fuckers lol
Well i think its actually cobalt, like as in cobalt blue balls of radioactive spun glass melted down and made into this lethal pen lol
I guess the pen is mightier then the sward.
I wouldnt put it in my mouth but it seems like a low ish dose, not nearly as much as the radium clocks we keep in the back room, in the lead tinfoil lol.
I guess the pen is mightier then the sward.
I wouldnt put it in my mouth but it seems like a low ish dose, not nearly as much as the radium clocks we keep in the back room, in the lead tinfoil lol.
My fav thing for a while was the goggles cuse they were 3d, but i started working on a set of motorized aperture sets, that react to light, I just gotta find a way to make the delicate leafs brass without making them wide and drag agaisnt eachother, then it will look nice.
I also have to re re re re work them cuse theyre a bit too fast and too light sensitive, like, you light a match and they go "ZIP" and shut almost all the way. Friggin lame.
I gave up on those like 3 years ago, might dick with em soon though, i'm feelin the itch.
I just don't like gathering goodies much anymore, realizing I have exposed myself to snow-globe like tunnels of asbestos and random radium gauges and other bull crap over time, I don't wanna press my luck health wise.
Plus i'm not a kid anymore and I don't just bounce when i fall through floors any more, now it's a damn scary thing to think of lol.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, I kinda felt like "well if somethin happens ill just crawl out of the rubble and laugh my ass all the way home, and hell, if I gotta go to the hospital, that just means time off of school!"
lolol
I also have to re re re re work them cuse theyre a bit too fast and too light sensitive, like, you light a match and they go "ZIP" and shut almost all the way. Friggin lame.
I gave up on those like 3 years ago, might dick with em soon though, i'm feelin the itch.
I just don't like gathering goodies much anymore, realizing I have exposed myself to snow-globe like tunnels of asbestos and random radium gauges and other bull crap over time, I don't wanna press my luck health wise.
Plus i'm not a kid anymore and I don't just bounce when i fall through floors any more, now it's a damn scary thing to think of lol.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, I kinda felt like "well if somethin happens ill just crawl out of the rubble and laugh my ass all the way home, and hell, if I gotta go to the hospital, that just means time off of school!"
lolol
I remember thinkng "damn I should shut this stupid geiger counter off while i poke at this medical equipment, someone might hear it and ill get caught in here... damn this thing just wont shut the fuck up."
And then being like "hahaha look at all the asbestos, it's like a fuckin snow globe in this boiler room."
I really really really am nervous about the possible effects and long term problems I may wind up with down the road from collecting all this shit.
And then being like "hahaha look at all the asbestos, it's like a fuckin snow globe in this boiler room."
I really really really am nervous about the possible effects and long term problems I may wind up with down the road from collecting all this shit.
Maybe I can make keychains out of all the calified lung pearls I cough up in the future, i'm sure me and my cousin will be sitting with other explorers around a bucket of pearls hackin em up into it goin "remember those friggin asylums, man that was the the most scary shit ever *hack spit* "oh hey that's a good one, I love the coloring in it, I bet we could ebay these" lol
all joking aside fuck UE, too damn dangerous now adays, and with the "ghost hunter" nerds out there, they're starting to get wise to the whole scene and ripping down buildings left and right, like my beloved Kirkbrides, all but a memory and dark spot in the states' past :/
all joking aside fuck UE, too damn dangerous now adays, and with the "ghost hunter" nerds out there, they're starting to get wise to the whole scene and ripping down buildings left and right, like my beloved Kirkbrides, all but a memory and dark spot in the states' past :/
lol, even if I got checked out, there ain't shit they can do for mesothelioma anyway.
They can just tell you youre dying, and it could be a month or several years, and they can't do anything about it.
So why worry about it, if i KNOW I'm dying that would be a very bad thing lol.
They can just tell you youre dying, and it could be a month or several years, and they can't do anything about it.
So why worry about it, if i KNOW I'm dying that would be a very bad thing lol.
Yeah we have it wired to the knife switch on the console there, and from that it goes to a PC in the back room streaming music from the 20s, it's really neat when people come over and start playing with the controls, cuse they all do things.
The toggle switch turns on the light set at the top, and the knob is the dimmer, the first meter reads the voltage, the next one reads the amps, as you dim the lights they respond, the second and third meter don't do anything yet, and the fuses aren't connected to anything.
The toggle switch turns on the light set at the top, and the knob is the dimmer, the first meter reads the voltage, the next one reads the amps, as you dim the lights they respond, the second and third meter don't do anything yet, and the fuses aren't connected to anything.
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