Ok. I'm in the process of sorting through our home, which we have lived in since 2002, and her parents before us. We are leaving Long Island and heading to rural Vermont. Gonna have a workshop & garage & my very own radio shack (still theroryish) I may even YT it This gives me a once in a 52 year lifetime opportunity to actually choose a small space that isn't someone else's, and everything is placed how I want. I'm looking forward to the next portion of life being as interesting as the last.
Ditto - when I first saw it I initially thought it was a converted radio station, this is just as cool knowing a little backstory on it. A quick search showed that these basement homes were actually a thing back in the day.
I have always been a packrat when it comes to collecting books and woodworking supplies. One way I sort of "flush out" my storage of junk and projects is by putting a sort of upper limit of what I get and perhaps for 3-4 months, (a year in some cases) I disallow myself from acquiring more treasure until I find a use for every item, think of it as a junk audit of sorts. With woodworking it involves burning off all those interesting pieces of wood I collect that end up being useless after all, donating excess tools to charity or restoring and to relatives and putting together big batches of furniture. Often I will make a few complex boxes of oak or a new stool or an extension to my workbench and that burns through whatever I was procrastinating on and saves my workspaces from the infinite storage problem. Until they invent low cost pocket dimensions I think that this method works best for me!
Great tour! I live in an area where there were still a handful of basement houses up until maybe 15 years ago. When I was a kid I always imagined a car flew off the road, took down the first floor, and they just decided to go with it 😂
Would love a standalone video regarding your electronics and test equipment area. Not sure how deep you get into that stuff but I imagine you having some type of work bench full of test gear. Would be a lot of fun to see what type of equipment and tools you use when tinkering with circuitry.
It depends, sometimes it's just whatever empty space I have in the garage, sometimes it's my office desk, sometimes it's a folding table. I don't really have a dedicated space for electronics aside from storage.
Love the old Civil Defense supplies. I’ve got the dosimeters and a field survey meter. I found a bunch of those water cans and similar cans full of sanitary and first aid supplies forgotten under an abandoned school I was working on. I asked by my company wouldn’t let us take them.
Dont worry too much about the tile as most of the asbestos is in the mastic below it. Even if the tiles have asbestos, its typically below 2% and fibers typically aren't released when broken.
Loved the basement tour! I can totally relate to having hobbies you are excited about but just don't have the time so you start thinking "when I retire" - I have my fingers crossed this is true! You'll find a couple of those Tandy TRS-80 Model 100s in my collection as well Thanks for sharing!
Might want to get a new fire extinguisher, yours is recalled. (straight plastic handled Kidde, with a red plastic pull pin) If you look it up, you should be able to get a free one from Kidde
we don't have that kind of houses or basements here and i spent all my life in apartments. seeing a basement full of treasures is fascinating. curious cats, old weird tech and random signs and stuff is perfect
Thanks for the tour of the basement, a sturdy basement is the foundation for a good house. It's great that the cats contributed to the video. There are still plenty of things in the basement for future projects, which will be interesting and exciting.
I like to take stuff and collect it for about a year and then go through and clean it up and it works good have a big yard sale just before summer hits and that's my vacation loot,, sometimes I make out really well it's surprises me what people throw away
Thank you I don't feel so bad now and I see There's Hope LOL I actually cleaned out half of the garage well enough to have two riding mowers and a vehicle park inside I am proud of myself I think...
Back home from vacation and catching up on videos... Love the wheeled shelving idea! Storage capacity without needing an access aisle for each unit. I'm gonna use that.
Very Nice, my cluttered mess is jelouse of all that empty shelf space, but coincidentaly i just did some cleaning/organizng myself the other day and freed some up space aswell and wow does it feel better, i dont think i want to clutter it anymore , boxes is the way to go, clear is smart. Its hard to find something after you stored it and i dont have as much stuff. I have a general area i know where to look and that helps but it would be nice to have some kind of database of all the junk. A system where you can just point the thing at a camera and throw it in the bin and the AI camera will know what it is and what bin you put it in so if you ever need to find it again you can just check the database and it will tell you what you have and where it is. I thought about doing this on a smaller scale with electronic components ive been salvaging, I was doing it manually actually, writting the values of the resistors on a notebap. I was new into electronics and was happy to catalouge these resistors and their values and later i thought what a waste of time, until i needed 3 resistors to steup a voltage divider, then checking the notepad i was able to find the 1 to make it happen, and there was only 1 ... love when that happens, that obscure part you save you thought youd never need but one day you need it. Makes all the hoarding worth while. Anyway it would be cool to even automate all this collecting and catalouging without ahving to write anything.
Mate you need to do a history video of your basement house and other basement houses. A basement houses sound like a great idea to keep warm in a place that snows.
Man... that video server looks familiar. Reminds me of a videoconferencing system we had at ISD 197 back in '99/2000. The name started with a T but it isn't coming back to me at the moment. Thanks for the tour! I need to reorg my horde... I use the wire rack and clear bins system but I am bad about putting stuff back when I am done looking for a thing. You've inspired me to spend some time getting my basement back into order.
It's been super refreshing to have the basement wide open instead of cluttered and cramped! It feels like a clean slate where I can actually get things done! Whether or not I actually get more accomplished remains to be seen 😂
I have a barn (well, more than one, but this one in particular is the key point) with racks from a warehouse. They're quite high, meant for a fairly large forklift. I believe they're 8' high and there are three levels. The barn in question came with the property and the shelves came from an old shoe factory.
@@saveitforparts They enable me to store all sorts of stuff that I'll never use! That's a pile of stuff the kids get to deal with when I die! They're basically warehouse shelving, made of thick metal. They're all set up in rows. I confess, I didn't do the installation myself. I do actually own a propane powered forklift, but it's not tall enough to reach the top shelf safely. So,, that shelf is largely unused, though I have used a ladder to put some stuff up there. I'm not a hoarder! I swear!
I do curse the guy sometimes when I have to fix something he blatantly F'd up. Like the bathroom vent fan that just went straight into the ceiling insulation with no duct 🤬
I retired recently, fully intending to finally build my model railway and get also back into ham radio. Unfortunately we had to move house and downsize, so now I have the time but not the space for the model railway. I have managed to get back into ham radio, so not a complete loss. You should introduce your cats sometime please.
you keep naming all these Minneapolis places I hit when I come up there to pick up FedEx Freight. I havent hit AxMan yet tho. Freegeek and UnM reuse is pretty cool. They had a freeking DENTAL XRAY MACHINE last time i was there. Jeez.
I'd hire you if you answered the old "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" question with a copy of that picture. "That there is a man of vision.", I'd tell myself.
I live in SW Minneapolis. I'm also a hoarder of weird tech stuff, but I'm at the point of divesting myself of stuff I'll never get around to using. If you want a look, let me know. My basement looks like an Ax-Man exploded.
Sounds like a dangerous collaboration 😅I'm tempted but also cautious about adding more to my own to-do pile! I suppose you could always shoot me an email gabe (at) saveitforparts.com
loved every second of this vid and wished it were longer, keep posting bro 💯, but why your videos give 90s feel, do you use some kind of editing or use effects or old camera maybe?
It was another University surplus find, along with the photo of a caver weighing a bat. I assume they're from some science or vet lab but I'm not really sure!
I have a pile of Motorola MC55 and MC65, mostly from University surplus. I think only two of them fully work and hold a charge. I was actually trying to start a project with them this week but kept running into issues, so that video may or may not ever happen :-/
What a cool house! I need to figure out storage too and you showed some great ideas. Where are the wire shelf carts from? Did you put the casters on yourself, or did they come with them?
@55Ramius I'll have to check. It's a great storage idea that would solve a specific problem for me. (I have a 2' wide closet that's about 6' deep.) Neighbors tell me it was for a ping pong table. Rolling shelves would be a great idea!
I grab those wire racks whenever I see them cheap. They're common in restaurants and science labs so they show up at business surplus sales around here. You can also get them on Amazon or at hardware stores, but I think they're $80+ for the medium size.
i wish basements were more common in the UK its a lot harder to find them in houses now a lot of them in older houses were filled in with concrete and they don't put them in new builds anymore
We didn't have one when I grew up, we lived right by the beach and the house was up off the ground a bit. It's nice to have that extra space for random junk!
exactly i wish it was more common place i could fit so much more junk in the house haha 🤣the first place i lived in on myself had one but a previous owner filled it with concrete for whatever reason @@saveitforparts
Повеселил на славу!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 Спасибо большое, только Россия никогда то такого не опустится, чтобы уничтожить граждан, да ещё таким ужасным способом!!!!! Ядерное оружие в России, как средство сдерживания от агрессивного "запада", проще говоря всех "элит мира" кто хочет завоевать нашу территорию уже столько лет, но всё бесполезно! Россия имея такую огромную территорию не нуждается в захвате чужих земель, но за всех своих братьев славян и тех граждан, дружественных стран, по отношению к России, кто нуждается в нашей поддержке, мы всегда рады помочь отстоять свою независимость и защитить свободу граждан нашей Великой Родины! Так что на счёт своего бункера можешь не беспокоится в отношении России. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
