Following up on the previous post....
I spent the better part of two days decluttering the lab. Unfortunately, this being done in haste, it mostly entailed sweeping stuff under the rug. Now the rug has 30 cubic feet of clutter swept under it, and it's just a tad lumpy.
For the past several years, the middle bedroom has been the Bluebeard room:
And here's what had accumulated behind that always-closed door:
Not very promising, eh? No wonder I'd been using the sewing table out in the living room as an electronics workbench.
Well, things having gotten slow around the beginning of October, I started work on the great project of turning the storeroom back into a lab. By mid-October, I had enough space cleared that I could move the electronics stuff into the lab, and use the sewing table, once again, for sewing.
The photo above is actually from mid-November, after I'd put in more shelving, added some more test equipment (spectrum analyzer, bench multimeter, etc.), and actually gotten some work done in there. This is about where things still stood Monday morning, when I got the call to make things look nice for a photoshoot.
Here's the lab today:
No, your eyes don't deceive you, that's a gen-yoo-wine 1964-vintage HP multimeter winking its Nixies up there. Last calibrated in 1975, though I believe it was in service for quite some time after that calibration expired in February, 1976. It's not actually in use now, but it makes a nifty lab ornament, almost up there with a big honkin' wall-mounted ammeter. (A Jacob's ladder in the lab would probably not be in compliance with current ESD guidelines.)
Floor space! Look at that floor space!
Next on SVR Makeover, the living room. After that, the garage....
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