No, I’m not trying to pass this off as a gun article, I just didn’t want you to think I forgot the site while I was getting my work area and site support squared away. You might think of this as a status report. Most of this week was spent on finishing demolition and getting the area prep’s for paint and floor refinishing.
Rambo may have missed a bet when he made his survival equipment selections and didn’t pick up a Superbar. I spent quite a bit of time with mine pulling out old built in shelving and floor molding. Older homes are usually made well, they just may have been subjected to a lot of refurbishing, remodeling and painting. Pulling original sections out tend to uncover this history.
With the floor molding pulled, portions of the uncovered wall color ran from white, to blue, to a purple cast, to a really nasty looking beige. The walls are going to be painted a light antique white, and I’ll cut and install new base and shoe molding after the floor has been stripped and refinished. The new paint is a washable one coat latex and the neutral color should make for a clean home office.
The new cabinets are white, the desk furniture is pine and I’m in the process of cutting the counter tops from Douglas fir planks. The desk and similar pieces will be used for the computer system, printer, etc. I’ll reinforce the bench top and mount a couple of loading presses and some of the tools I use on a regular basis.
There were a lot of funky area on the wall. Quick changes and expansion of systems and telco lines make for some pretty sloppy work. Fortunately, textured walls makes it a little easier to blend in repairs and patches.
On the left is an example of rushed cable routing. The hole was about an 1″ in diameter. This type of condition was repaired and all other cable connections were moved off to wall receptacles, or routed through the crawl space under the floor. Then all of the cables routed in the crawl space were tie wrapped and routed along the support beams.
There is a vent at the top of the closet space that pumps about 60 cfm. Tied to a thermostat, it was used to control air temperature when the space was filled with systems and heat generating power supplies. The fan will stay, the thermostat will be replaced with a simple on/off switch, and the setup will be used to evacuate solvent fumes. The three T1 data line circuit boxes (right frame) will remain, with another two located directly below. Only one will be is use, but the area will be set up for easy expansion.
A high speed LINUX server was set up to host the Real Guns site. There is enough steam to drive and Apache based web site and a couple of SQL compliant data bases. It will be paired with another server for mail service and several other system utilities. I hope to move the site over in the early part of the week. We’re just trying to decide if we want to run the MS Front Page 2000 extensions, or still with Adobe Go Live or Cold Fusion. If this seems like a bit much for a hobby, it probably is. The site gives me a chance to prove out system elements for the commercial side, so I figured why not take advantage of the opportunity.
Next time, I write I’ll be done with the work area and back on some gun articles. I guess I could have just erected an “Under Construction” sign.
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