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By Dave, February 17, 2012 4:52 am

Once that’s done should be good for another 20+ years. Time for bed so till later folks… 😉

Put one from another clock in it to check it out and it works fine. Got a couple of bushings to replace and a full clean and lube.

Got another day at Valley tomorrow. Got a Sessions tambor mantel clock in for repair today. Got to order a suspension spring for it.

Tested it on a wooden clothes pin and it looks pretty good. Will test it on a couple of other pieces prior to using it on the wall carving.

Mixed bees wax, lemon oil, and shortening. Heated in a bowl of water in the microwave till it all melted, stirred it up, and let it cool.

Restained and tinted it and got it looking pretty good. Looked for paste wax at WW after work but no joy so after supper made my own.

Made it through the day at Valley today without too many problems. Repaired a wall carving that was damaged by the tornado last year.

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By Dave, February 16, 2012 1:35 am

Gonna try to get a truckload of stock loaded and ready to head out first thing Saturday morning without having to make a Piedmont run first.

Left it there to unpack Saturday when we get down that way. Got to work at Valley Thrusday and Friday.

Finally got all the shelving up, started unpacking all the bits & pieces & pricing/marking things. Got all but one tote done by closing.

Got to the Treasure Chest a bit after 2 and got started. Ended up having to add a brace between 2 walls to put in the shelving I wanted.

Made it to Piedmont and got a load of shelving and some stuff to go on them. Stopped at Valley on the the way through and ate lunch.

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By Dave, February 15, 2012 2:52 pm

First gotta load some stuff from here and then breakfast. So till later, folks… 😉

Tis morn and I am not ready to be awake. But awake I am so guess it’s time to head to Piedmont and then points west and south.

What the hell, think I’ll see how soon I can hit 5000. 😉

Tis certainly a whole lotta blather about nothing much.

Hadn’t noticed till just now but my previous tweet was #4000. Methinks I might be tweeting a bit too much/often… 😉

Only problem is that from here to Piedmont to Pell City to here is about 114 miles. 🙁 Hope to cut the Piedmont leg of the trip out soon.

Need to drop a some things off & pick up some things to take to the new booth. Get the feeling we’re gonna be doing this a lot for a while.

Tomorrow promises to be a long day too. Gonna head to Piedmont to get a truckload & then head to Pell City with a stop at Valley on the way.

Took the stuff in and ended up selling a fair amount of it to another dealer before putting it into stock. Priced the rest and headed home.

Left out about 4:30 after buying way too much stuff. Got back to Valley a couple of minutes after 5.

Unloaded shelves and a few pieces from the truck and set as much of the booth up as we had stuff to work with. Then did a bit of shopping.

Finally got on the road to Pell City about 1:30. Made it to the Treasure Chest about 2:15 and after talking to the manager took a booth.

Moved some other stuff around. Made a couple of sales. Priced some stuff. Went to Subway for lunch then to the water dept to pay the bill.

Long day again today. Went to Valley Antiques for a bit this morning and put in another clock, which involved redoing the whole clock area.

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By Dave, February 14, 2012 3:46 am

It’s a clock that was left with me to check but abandoned about a year ago so I guess it’s mine now. Figured I’d fix it for the experience.

Balance only has 90 to 120 degrees of rotation rather than the 360 it should have. Gonna let it run for a day or so and see how it does.

Sprayed it with carb cleaner and got some of it out. Still needs much more cleaning. Got it all back together and it’s running but not good.

Has a floating balance and someone had oiled it quite a bit with something other than clock oil many years ago. Gummed it up quite a bit.

As the clock has been sitting for 20+ years it’s in need of a complete cleaning. But to see if it will run I just oiled it a bit.

End of the spring was bent out of round. Took pliers and reshaped it like it should be. Put everything back together and it winds fine.

Been working on an old Bulova clock this evening. The time mainspring wouldn’t wind. Got the barrel out, and popped the end off.

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By Dave, February 13, 2012 3:03 pm

Then I can get to work on redoing the freestanding shelf. But life wouldn’t be as much fun if it didn’t include these sequential vortexes.

Already got all the other bits I need either out there or here except for that one piece, so guess a 40+ mile drive is in the making today.

Need one more upright for some shelving changes I need to make at Valley. Gonna have to go to Piedmont to get it. 🙁

Not sure what the morrow will bring. Lotta stuff I need to get done here, so may stay home & get some of it done. Or may go out & about.

Got the fire restarted and a cup of coffee made. There are things I need to do but am not in the frame of mind to do much but sit tonight.

Raised (doubled) the price on the item we went to sell after the person no longer wanted it. Hope they decide to get it later. Arsehat!

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By Dave, February 12, 2012 2:47 pm

Hoping we can get the rest of the stuff put in place and get everything priced at the booth today. Tis Sunday so Valley doesn’t open till 1.

Log on the fire. 2nd cup of coffee on desk. Oatmeal in microwave. Cat kicked and purring as that meant I was paying him attention.

With fire going and electric heater running it’s mid 60’s in here which is fine with me. About time to throw another log on the fire.

Closed off the trailer till the cold wave passes to keep the rest of this place warm. And by warm I mean above 50 degrees F.

Did make it home in time to clean the flue before dark but on just before. Got the 3 foot display case moved to Valley Antiques and set up.

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By Dave, February 11, 2012 2:26 pm

Not going to make a very long day of it though as I need to get back here and clean the flue so we can build a big fire tonight. Tis COLD!

We just don’t have any more room for either of the displays. Not sure what we’re gonna do with the 5 foot one. For now store it most likely.

Making a Piedmont run this morning. Going to load the 3 foot glass display and take to Valley for some other folks to use.

Another really long day yesterday but did get a fair amount of stuff done. Booth is starting to shape up pretty well.

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By Dave, February 10, 2012 4:44 am

Just finished drilling, dowelling, gluing, & clamping a spindle for an antique bed. Hope it’s not gonna be too hard to reinstall.

Fire started for the nights heat. Need to take a day and get another cord or two of wood cut and stacked. Maybe this weekend.

Very long tiring day today. Got some stuff done but not as much as I had wanted. Going back to Valley tomorrow to try to finish the booth.

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By Dave, February 8, 2012 3:06 pm

Then we get to find places here to put the rest of the stuff from Piedmont. Till later, folks…

About to head to Piedmont to get a load of shelving. Should be the last going to Valley. Hoping we get done at Valley today.

For now am gonna call it a night, so till tomorrow folks… 🙂

REALLY don’t like the new twitter interface. Am trying Hotot as an alternative. Not real sure I like it either but gonna see how it goes.

Twitter changed its layout completely, between last tweet and this one. Guess I’ll get used to it but I really liked the old look better.

Got all but one case and the stuff on the walls moved from the front. Should be able to get the rest done tomorrow after the Piedmont run.

Have 4 sections of shelving on one side wall, 3 across the end and have put 2 up on the other wall. Got to go to Piedmont tomorrow for more.

Long day at Valley Antiques. Got most of the front booth moved into the back section we have taken. Got a 14 x 18 alcove to ourselves now.

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By Dave, February 6, 2012 4:40 am

For now am gonna call it a night and start again in the morning. Till later, folks… 😉

If all goes as planned will end up with more sq feet in one place so can have much larger stuff as well as all of our shelving/small items.

Until I got a bright idea and opened my mouth. Gonna be moving the stuff in the front booth to a new area we have taken by our back booth.

Spent the morning packing stuff in Piedmont, and the afternoon unpacking it in Alexandria at Valley Antiques. Getting closer. Or was.

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By Dave, February 5, 2012 3:13 pm

Still looks like we have 10 to 12 more loads of stuff at Piedmont to move. A lot of the rest will come here for yard sales & flea markets.

Got about half the stuff at Valley shelved yesterday. Will get the rest put up today. May go out there prior to opening at 1 to work on it.

Got another load moved from Piedmont to Valley yesterday. Friday was spent in Wally Worlds, on the road, and in Calcis.

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For now, gonna get another cup of tea and then call it a night, so till later, folks… 😉

Most likely going to Calcis tomorrow so will be the weekend before we make another Piedmont run. Glad of it as I really need a break.

Which is a good thing. As there are another 10 + loads of stuff at Piedmont we are gonna have to put somewhere.

Figured we would have too much to shelve but looks like we can add several more shelves and put in another truckload of stock.

I put a few things up, rearranged bits and pieces, and put pictures on the walls above the shelving. Need another load to finish up spots.

Not a lot of business today at Valley, but nowhere near as dead as Piedmont. Cat got the rest of the totes unloaded and the stuff shelved.

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By Dave, February 2, 2012 1:49 am

We’re working out there tomorrow so will try to get the rest of it unloaded, marked, and put out in between waiting on customers.

Then unpacked 3 of the 12 totes. Called it a day at 5 pm. Still have 3 loaded totes in the booth and 6 in the back of the truck.

Got to Valley about 2:45 pm and started unloading. After removing everything from the back booth we put in yesterday put the new shelves up.

Long day. Spent the morning and noon hours in Piedmont wrapping and packing stuff and taking shelving down. Loaded the truck about 2 pm.

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By Dave, February 1, 2012 4:23 am

For now gonna get another cup of tea and call it a night, so till later, folks… 😉

A few more spots to touch up on it and then will shoot it with a coat of urethane the next warm dry day I have at home. Hope by the weekend.

Almost finished painting another lamp base that I had repaired a while back. Brought the paints home from Piedmont yesterday.

Should be ready to use by tomorrow evening. Got a end table with built in lamp torn down to refinish the table top and base.

Brought the waterfall desk home to redo the top. Got one coat of shellac on the damaged area and have more of the flake shellac soaking now.

Will be working at Valley on Thursday so hoping to get at least some of the stuff set into place in the back booth.

Going to try to get to Piedmont tomorrow to get 3 more shelving units and the rest of the stuff in the middle room loaded up.

Got the front booth reset today. 3 shelving units installed, and the freestanding double sided one moved. Then 12 totes unloaded.

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By Dave, January 31, 2012 3:46 am

After that the remainder will be coming either here or the storage trailer. Closer than we were last week at this time anyway.

The 3 sections should finish the front booth. Then back to Piedmont Wednesday for 4 more sections of shelving and stock for the other booth.

Was after 5 when I got home, so didn’t make it to Valley. Will head there in the morning and see how much shelving I can get up and stocked.

Made it to Piedmont today. Worked all day in the middle room. Got 12 totes filled and loaded on the truck, along with 3 shelving units.

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By Dave, January 30, 2012 4:12 am

Till later folks… 😉

May work on moving more stuff around in the storage trailer tomorrow. Think I am gonna call it a night and see how I feel in the morning.

rather than go at it wide open and not be able to do but a day or two and then be down for a week or so.

Not sure if I am gonna be up to doing a load or 2 tomorrow or not. Need to get it done but would rather go slow and be able to keep at it

Got one load of stuff moved from Piedmont to Valley today. By the time we got that one done twas just too little energy left to do it again.

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By Dave, January 29, 2012 3:02 am

May not put it all in as that’s the max that we could move out there. Also need some room for furniture too so may only put 5 sections in.

Looks like we can add another 7 sides of shelving to the space at Valley. Which means that we can move at least 2 rooms from Piedmont.

Gonna make a run to Piedmont tomorrow morning early(ish) to get a load of stuff moved to Valley. Would like to make 2 + loads tomorrow..

Spent all day today at Valley Antiques putting new shelving up and stocking it. Took another booth also that we will be working on tomorrow.

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By Dave, January 27, 2012 7:42 pm

After I clear out more of the trees and put the boom on the tractor and haul it over here and clean a few pounds of rust off of it… 😉

Lot of rust as is to be expected with it sitting outside for 8 + years but looks like it’ll clean up pretty good. Now to find it a motor.

Managed to get far enough into the thicket to get to the drill press. Amazingly it’s not frozen up. Quill still moves and spindle turns.

Having a very no energy kinda day. Gonna at least go over with a sling blade and brush axe to see if I can get to the drill press.

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