First stop was Joe and Anne's place where the decorative furniture included this amazing cabinet radio.
![DSC01857.jpg](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkXMpSm-uI/AAAAAAAASWs/CmarlM9XNhg/DSC01857.jpg?imgmax=800)
Joe spend many years working on ships and has built boat style storage spaces throughout the house for storing radio restoration parts including a huge range of valves. Here's the view up a trapdoor above the loo into some previously wasted space.
![DSC01868.jpg](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkXmUfbXHI/AAAAAAAASW0/FSflP70pnF0/DSC01868.jpg?imgmax=800)
![DSC01872.jpg](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkX4qau2UI/AAAAAAAASW8/MCv63C1mhWU/DSC01872.jpg?imgmax=800)
Throughout the house there is no wasted space that is not filled with bits and pieces, this includes the attic all the way down to a crawlspace under the floor.
Upstairs there's an official long wire antenna that looks like it might do for transmitting too.
![DSC01886.jpg](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkZE3siSlI/AAAAAAAASXU/9kEEa4wodwk/DSC01886.jpg?imgmax=800)
Valves are even stored under each bed.
![DSC01883.jpg](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkZPsnwWTI/AAAAAAAASXc/wcPxu9YzCeI/DSC01883.jpg?imgmax=800)
So no bouncing I guess. Lots of drawers are full too.
![DSC01880.jpg](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkZljRTNbI/AAAAAAAASXk/epkzQVWcj1E/DSC01880.jpg?imgmax=800)
Everywhere.
![DSC01891.jpg](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkZ03A-saI/AAAAAAAASXs/R1VkYv9-qeA/DSC01891.jpg?imgmax=800)
If you want something, it gets looked up in the catalog..
![DSC01894.jpg](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkaFwG4nbI/AAAAAAAASX0/6G294-ON3vA/DSC01894.jpg?imgmax=800)
Ah.. it's in a box under the floor near the front door, off we go.
![DSC01904.jpg](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkae5zMIjI/AAAAAAAASYM/HP4AWrYHtU0/DSC01904.jpg?imgmax=800)
There it is!
![DSC01896.jpg](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZka9IFpZsI/AAAAAAAASYc/eCu8p4-Uww0/DSC01896.jpg?imgmax=800)
Next we were off to visit Jack, he also has an extensive collection of valves.
![DSC01914.jpg](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkbUbXgvaI/AAAAAAAASYk/4Xy3fl-zE5U/DSC01914.jpg?imgmax=800)
Now Jack was quick to say that he's not a radio collector but he does seem to have accumulated a few sets.
![DSC01915.jpg](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkbpWAITOI/AAAAAAAASY8/dgjjqsZIiSk/DSC01915.jpg?imgmax=800)
In several rooms.
![DSC01916.jpg](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkb1XvTH0I/AAAAAAAASZE/tq__CKXd8jg/DSC01916.jpg?imgmax=800)
Around the house.
![DSC01917.jpg](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkcFo_QLSI/AAAAAAAASZQ/2pfJ-z74Vnc/DSC01917.jpg?imgmax=800)
Here's radios for listening to while doing the washing.
![DSC01918.jpg](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkcUSeE2HI/AAAAAAAASZY/4-n6UJ1CsRs/DSC01918.jpg?imgmax=800)
I found a set to buy, Jack turned it on and wasn't happy with the sound so got to work fault finding.
![DSC01930.jpg](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkcqwJfPzI/AAAAAAAASZg/oCuB1mEvbDg/DSC01930.jpg?imgmax=800)
I'm going to collect it next week.
![DSC01935.jpg](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_uT-6DNNXTO4/SZkc2u1gQJI/AAAAAAAASZ4/Bwd9LknZ9SI/DSC01935.jpg?imgmax=800)
Thanks Rob, Joe, Ann, and Jack for a very entertaining Sunday afternoon.
2 comments:
I envy that storage utilisation. Especially the discipline to have everything catalogued for easy access.
I must do that eventually. I have far more bits and pieces than I have compartmentalised storage for. A bunch of ziplock bags in larger boxes would be needed for all the less-usual bits and one-of objects. I already have my bulk capacitors like that, but I have no idea which box contains what so retrieval is a protracted affair that usually kills the mood and/or wastes the afternoon.
awesome ... I have some radios too
thks alot
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