2016-05 Speaker Stands

I've been keeping an eye out for something to use for speaker stands or a good design to build from scratch. I found these slightly odd stools.

They looked like this

Here they are stripped down

I reclaimed the wood from the seats, trimmed it to fit the width of the frames and added some stick n cable clips for the speaker wires.

These speakers have no internal cross overs and I have these that I use with them. Why not mount them on the back of the stands to keep them tidy too?

Like this

 ! For The finished !

(I really don't like blogger's lay-out tools / editor.)

2016-04 Empty the LP Queue

I have about 4 to 5 hundred LPs waiting to be listened to or just to be shelved.
It's getting to me. This month I want to review and shelve them all.
I started a bit late and set 8/day as a goal. Had a cold and took a break then came back reinvigorated and decided on 10/day and 20/day in the weekend.
Then the Rotary Book fair happened and I added 25ish to the Queue. Now I've set myself 15/day and 30/day in the weekend. I might make it.
Here's my progress chart that I keep to enthuse myself:

It went well enough. I've kept on top of things too now that I have better organised shelves with some free space. Next to do are the 45s.

2016-03 Bread

Almost too easy this time: I had wanted to try a bread-maker for a while and found one at a garage sale for $5. It came with books too.
Bought some yeast and had a go at a basic white loaf. It all worked very well. I tried adding some rye meal flower on the next loaf. 1 cup of rye and 2 cups of white flower. A bit dry. This loaf: half a cup of rye and 2.5 cups of white. Very good.

Here's the  machine. It had some small scrapes in the loaf container where the Teflon had been damaged by using a knife to loosen the loaf but it didn't look too bad and tha price and books made it worth a go.

 Nice simple display and controls. The time is a count down and you can set a start delay and the total time for the loaf to be ready is then shown.

 Here's the dough ball being kneaded after the first rising.

Let it cool for 1 minute before tapping it out on a board.	... and it seems to come out quite cleanly.	I eat the end that had the stirring blade in it first.

With some olive oil, sharp cheese, tomato and basil .