Not gone just busy
Been rearanging and moving crap around in the 14×66 to facilitate actually being able to work on things in there.
Got the repair room about a quarter there. If that but it’s close enough that I am able to actually work on things in a semi comfortable room/building.
Wood heat for the entire building is a Warm Morning small upright parlor stove right by the front entry door. The location in the middle of the building and in the hall helps to heat the entire building without a fan. If the weather gets really cold putting a small fan blowing down the hall toward the repair room warms it enough for me to work.
I’m leaning toward opening a general fixit shop. No automotive repair! Household stuff, and electronics if you bring it in type repair shop. No service calls! Don’t plan to post set open days or hours either. Kind of a private word of mouth fixit shop for odd stuff.
Damn if I know if it will work but I keep getting folks bringing me things to fix so guess I need to go with the flow and see how it goes.
Since the building is on the other side of the property and the gates over there can be closed and locked, I don’t think I’ll have quite the problem I had before with the shop here in the qhut and me 200 feet away in the trailer with folks showing up all times of the day and night wanting stuff done.
Nor am I after that kind of volume. If I can get one or two small ($5 to $50) repair jobs a day we can survive easily. Even one $20 job a day 5 days a week will allow us to live much as we are doing now.  The airsoft thing is growing but we need a bit more coming in to help pay for some of the materials to help it grow.
So not quite as much time at the computer lately. Have got the network up over there so will be doing some computer type stuff from over there soon. Running a wireless link from the repair room machine to the wifil lan/cable link here at the compound, using connection sharing in pclos to connect via ethernet to the hub in the center of the building and then to the entry/payment workstation at the front desk.
This place is turning into a REALY big elephant and my knife is getting dull… 😉
Themocracy
2nd try. The power company ate my first comment, even though the computer didn’t go down. Weird. I think it blew up my Internet connection, and I didn’t have time this morning to fix it.
Anyway, as I said this morning, this sounds like a good fit for you. Word of mouth should bring you plenty of stuff (I regularly, at least every two weeks, say “I’ve got a friend that could fix that, but I don’t think he is doing that kind of work anymore.”) Let me know when , and I’ll send stuff your way, if you wish. No cars, though. I’ve sent you enough of those through the years. If it’s over my head, I’ll find a good mechanic and let him have at it. And a LOT is over my head with cars. The thing I DON’T want over my head, however, IS a car. I don’t trust jackstands that much….
Certainly agree about the jack stands. Not crazy about getting under them. would rather pick the car up with the tractor and stand beside it while I work on the under carrage… 😉
Started working on stuff today. Did several pieces that had been kicking around since before christmas. Also got an antenna up so I can check video recordings. Ain’t gonna pay for cable just to test equipment.
Site is not totally up for business yet but will be fixit.technoprimitive.org.
Quotes and tickets will be online. Payment via paypal will be accpted as soon as I get the coding done…
Just to clarify: Fixit.technoprimitive.org is open for business. All jobs, both large and small, will be concidered. If I think I can do it I will quote a price.
As you know, I will work on just about anything. Over the years I have fixed a wide range of stuff, ranging from a silver candlelabra to a windup toy steamboat to a battery powered blinking led casino broach.
Not entirely sure, but I believe that this marks the first time in human history that anyone has ever used the phrases “windup toy steamboat” and “battery powered blinking LED casino broach” in the same sentence…..