House Work

Haven't had many posts recently, been busy working on the house.

• painted everything but the basement
• replaced a pump and replumbed the hot tub
• replaced almost every light fixture. Just the foyer chandelier and bathroom lights left to go.
• replaced a bunch of switches
• tons of organization stuff. bought a steel full-wall book shelf for all our books
• garage (see other posts)
• etc...it's never ending

Some fun stuff though, like the space wall:

I found high resolution images of all of the top posters and had them printed at CVS: good mix of US space and Soviet space propaganda. Already had most of the ones in the middle. Walmart sells glass front poster frames for ~$5, can't beat that.

The aquarium on the right will eventually be a display case for the H1 rocket engine turbine sitting next to it on the floor, and the H1 engine pocket technical manual I just won an auction for. The turbine is too heavy for me to lift up and into the display...might be a good justification for buying an engine hoist, haha. I'll eventually CNC-route (need to build that first...) a polycarbonate stand for it to sit on inside the display case. I went with an aquarium because most display cases I found couldn't support the weight of the turbine, but 40 gallons (size of that aquarium) of water is over 300lbs, and the turbine definitely doesn't weigh that much. Used aquariums are also really cheap on craigslist/fb marketplace. Tip: if you have something really heavy you want to display in a case: buy an aquarium to do it.