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Post by berlyn on Oct 4, 2007 10:24:01 GMT -5
I'd like to start this thread as a welcome to the Chambers Commune for new members. Please take a few minutes and introduce yourself to our lively bunch of Chambers owners or "gonna be" owners. Feel free to ask questions, advice or anything you would like. Be sure to go under "Our Ranges" and add your "Chambers story" here. chamberscommune.proboards61.com/index.cgi?board=ourranges&action=display&thread=1186984681Another thing, is we ask members to please put in there location under their profile. If you are looking for something, it helps knowing what part of the country your at. Welcome to the Chambers Commune!! Look around, don't be shy say hi, grab a cup of your favorite drink and have fun on our board!! Group chat night is on Thursday, please feel free to join us.
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Post by fiveowife on Oct 6, 2007 16:33:25 GMT -5
Thanks for the "formal" welcome. I will say that I have felt welcome here from the beginning, which hasnt been very long, but everyone has been helpful and nice! So, thanks again!
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Post by oldsalt on Oct 25, 2007 18:29:36 GMT -5
welcome to the Chambers Commune for new members I've been lurking all afternoon, enjoying all your cultist ravings about these wonderful personable old ranges, and finally decided I'd best post and say, "Hi!" Wifey found a restored 15-B-4 on Craigslist and it looks like she has to have one. She asked so niiice... I thought the $3500.00 price tag looked a bit steep, but it is fully restored complete with a safety on the gas line. I'm still plunking around thinking that gives me a lot of leeway to find a nice example for a few hundred bucks and do our own restoration. I've really enjoyed the cameraderie and information sharing that goes on here. Thank you very much. My name is David, and I am a restoration addict. "Hi, David." We have restored an old folding rocking chair, a stand-up record player case, an early electric Singer sewing machine and its case, a 1930's steamer trunk - now lined with tongue-and-groove cedar, a 1975 Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 Export, an RCA Model 17 radio and Model 100 speaker, a 30-year-old house in Maine, and we are now embroiled in a 1903 6-Bedroom Victorian house in Hillsdale, MI. We have fought with ourselves over the "renovate or restore" question on the house. We are firm believers in "they don't make stuff like they used to"; but my work is extreme-high-tech sensor networking, so I see lots of value in what we can do with electronics these days. My work is in Washington, DC for the next five months. I get home to Wifey and the thundering herd (four kids (g10, g8, b5, and g2), 2 dogs (an Irish Wolfhound and a Miniature Pinscher), 3 cats, 2 parakeets, and a few squirrels in the back yard) in Hillsdale, MI for a long weekend each month. Normally I'll be on the retired white BMW R1100RT-P police motorcycle, but if I found the right deal on the Chambers anywhere loosely between DC and the Ohio, Indiana, Michigan border I'd borrow my commuter-pad housemate's pickup for the trip. I'll go quietly over to the "gonna-own-a-Chambers" couch now and get back to lurking. Thanks again for a delightful forum.
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Post by haasfan on Oct 25, 2007 20:49:18 GMT -5
Hi David, You'll like it here. Thursday night is chat night...click on the chat link. We're all addicts here, it it's old, we want it, at least one of everything. When it comes to houses, it's preserve first, restore second. The current thinking on wood flooring is never strip and sand...makes sense and makes me squirm at the thought of all the wood floors I've mishandled. Hillsdale is beautiful. I am North of Detroit in the burbs and we have a member who lives in Eaton Rapids with a very nice stove for sale on Craigslist Detroit. Jump in our chat and start posting, too!
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Post by chipperhiker on Oct 25, 2007 22:41:16 GMT -5
Another new member!! Yeah.
Welcome to the crew David. No need to lurk, just chime right in anytime you like.
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Post by berlyn on Oct 26, 2007 0:12:24 GMT -5
oldsalt, Welcome and thanks for joining us in chat. Hope we didn't scare you!! We get really really excited when we see someone is starting their "Chambers Journey". We have all different model type owners here. Some were bought pro. restored, some have done there own, some have just givin theirs a nip/tuck here and there, some are just in great condition and are fine to hook up and cook up a storm. No matter waht model you go with you will be happy that you choice a Chambers. They rock!! ;D Be sure to download service manuals and look at the differences in the model. There are free here www.vintagechambers.com
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Post by ahappycamper on Oct 26, 2007 5:31:11 GMT -5
Welcome David!
Let me be the first to give you some good Karma on your Chambers journey.
You have some mighty cool stuff already!!
Don't be a lurker, jump right in...the water's fine here.
Welcome again!
Janice
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Post by haasfan on Oct 26, 2007 6:26:29 GMT -5
OH my gd! I issed the new guy in chat!!! I'm sure you all moderated your language...remember, break 'em slowly...... Glad you met some of us, David!
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Post by pipercollins on Oct 26, 2007 8:44:07 GMT -5
welcome to the Chambers Commune for new members I've been lurking all afternoon, enjoying all your cultist ravings about these wonderful personable old ranges, and finally decided I'd best post and say, "Hi!" Wifey found a restored 15-B-4 on Craigslist and it looks like she has to have one. She asked so niiice... I thought the $3500.00 price tag looked a bit steep, but it is fully restored complete with a safety on the gas line. I'm still plunking around thinking that gives me a lot of leeway to find a nice example for a few hundred bucks and do our own restoration. I've really enjoyed the cameraderie and information sharing that goes on here. Thank you very much. My name is David, and I am a restoration addict. "Hi, David." We have restored an old folding rocking chair, a stand-up record player case, an early electric Singer sewing machine and its case, a 1930's steamer trunk - now lined with tongue-and-groove cedar, a 1975 Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 Export, an RCA Model 17 radio and Model 100 speaker, a 30-year-old house in Maine, and we are now embroiled in a 1903 6-Bedroom Victorian house in Hillsdale, MI. We have fought with ourselves over the "renovate or restore" question on the house. We are firm believers in "they don't make stuff like they used to"; but my work is extreme-high-tech sensor networking, so I see lots of value in what we can do with electronics these days. My work is in Washington, DC for the next five months. I get home to Wifey and the thundering herd (four kids (g10, g8, b5, and g2), 2 dogs (an Irish Wolfhound and a Miniature Pinscher), 3 cats, 2 parakeets, and a few squirrels in the back yard) in Hillsdale, MI for a long weekend each month. Normally I'll be on the retired white BMW R1100RT-P police motorcycle, but if I found the right deal on the Chambers anywhere loosely between DC and the Ohio, Indiana, Michigan border I'd borrow my commuter-pad housemate's pickup for the trip. I'll go quietly over to the "gonna-own-a-Chambers" couch now and get back to lurking. Thanks again for a delightful forum. "Hi David" We've already met. Did you get the second email? Welcome aboard. Bill
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Post by antheat on Oct 26, 2007 15:25:59 GMT -5
I'm catching the sickness BAD! *lol*
I'm still digging up details on the C I have my eye on - what in the world am I going to do with 2?!
Anthea
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Post by chipperhiker on Oct 26, 2007 19:23:36 GMT -5
Use them, of course!!! Then again, they are pretty just to look at...
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Post by oldsalt on Nov 4, 2007 23:29:26 GMT -5
Thanks all for the genuine welcomes. I've done entirely too many projects seat-of-the-pants, learning as I've gone without so much as a snide comment from someone who has invented the wheel already. Its cool to think of entering this one with the wealth of knowledge and cheerleading this crew does for one-another. I was completing a paper Thursday that was due Friday, but thought of you all having your hot conversation. (A little oven humor there...) I'll be along for the ride again soon.
Thanks again, David
P.S. Piper, I did get your second email, and everything looks great. You've done wonderful work. Now I just have to figure out which way I want to go for sure. (I'll let you know what she tells me.)
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Post by pipercollins on Nov 5, 2007 13:37:11 GMT -5
Thanks all for the genuine welcomes. I've done entirely too many projects seat-of-the-pants, learning as I've gone without so much as a snide comment from someone who has invented the wheel already. Its cool to think of entering this one with the wealth of knowledge and cheerleading this crew does for one-another. I was completing a paper Thursday that was due Friday, but thought of you all having your hot conversation. (A little oven humor there...) I'll be along for the ride again soon. Thanks again, David P.S. Piper, I did get your second email, and everything looks great. You've done wonderful work. Now I just have to figure out which way I want to go for sure. (I'll let you know what she tells me.) Actually, I think I sold the restored one. Just waiting for the deposit. The unrestored one is still available at the moment. You're welcome to look at them in any case. You know...just to taste the Kool-Aid.
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Post by oldsalt on Nov 5, 2007 20:40:12 GMT -5
You're welcome to look at them in any case. You know...just to taste the Kool-Aid. Thanks for the invite. I think that Kool-Aid seems like some strong medicine just now. I'm trying to curb my enthusiasm. Its hardly like I need another project, what with our newly acquired house in Hillsdale and me working in DC. There's the attic to insulate and floor and the basement windows to correct and the granite bench to put back up after Halloween pranks and things to put in storage and... "Hi. My name is David and I am a Projectaholic." Well, you get the picture. I've made a pact with myself in a rare moment of lucidity that if it is not a pristine "C" for a ridiculous price, I'll have to pass. In the spring I'll bag this defense contract and return to the small-town Midwest from whence I came some 22 years ago, and maybe then I'll be able to get down to some more restoration work. I just talked to Wifey about the stove today, and she said she might like one in brick red if we found one we could tear down and do from the ground up, but she is reticent about more projects, too. Maybe we'll get one for the house now and another for the fishing shack when we sell the house in Maine. (www.dunhamrealty.com/providencelodge) Then I can restore one while we live out of the other - kind of like VW Bugs.
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Post by pipercollins on Nov 6, 2007 10:51:16 GMT -5
We used to have another member with a restored beetle. Kinda lost him in the "diaspora" in the mix between this board and the other when this one was first set up.
If anyone ever had a private email for Bluebeetle, let him know the politics quieted down and we miss him.
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Post by chipperhiker on Nov 6, 2007 17:21:53 GMT -5
I agree. I miss Chris/BlueBeetle, too.
It'd be good to have another VW fan around here. I'm starting to obsess about buses again.
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Post by oldsalt on Nov 6, 2007 18:10:02 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong. I do not have a VW Bug. I just know that you buy them with two motors so you can be rebuilding one while you burn the other up. I do have a Mini Cooper, which has a slightly more survivable plant than the VW.
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Post by pipercollins on Nov 7, 2007 9:04:31 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong. I do not have a VW Bug. I just know that you buy them with two motors so you can be rebuilding one while you burn the other up. I do have a Mini Cooper, which has a slightly more survivable plant than the VW. What year Mini? Just one? I'm not an owner myself (Triumph cycles for me...), but I have a couple friends with Minis and there too, it seems like you can't have just one. (Not talking about the new ones here.) One of the pipers in my pipe band has four Minis ranging from '64 to '75.
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Post by oldsalt on Nov 7, 2007 9:41:29 GMT -5
Mine is a '75 Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 Export - 2 carbs on a 1275cc plant, built to be the fastest production Mini ever for the Autostrada. I bought it and had the body and interior done from the brass tacks out while I was stationed in Italy, and had Capitol Motors in Purcellville, VA tune the engine and suspension. Wifey and I have a scheme to get a not-so-special Mini and cut and stretch it for the family. (We have four kiddos now and she wants to adopt another two or three.) Stretch Minis are an under-studied art. I just bought my latest bike, a BMW R1100RT-P - here's the slideshow of my viewing prior to purchase: ( hambleton.info/P-Bike.exe
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Post by pipercollins on Nov 7, 2007 17:19:01 GMT -5
Now there's a darling red charmer.
The car looks snazzy too. ;D
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Post by oldsalt on Nov 7, 2007 21:04:31 GMT -5
Thanks, Piper! I should disclose, however, that wifey just keeps getting better looking so I dare not post any newer pics of her. The car, though not as precious, has changed as well. Like I said, we had her blasted and rebuilt, and it was like being reborn. The Yukon was suffering pretty bad from childbirth pains as I looked for some alcohol and an axe to cut the umbellical cord with:
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Post by redrange on Nov 7, 2007 21:07:25 GMT -5
Hi everyone. This site is so much fun that I joined, posted a few tentative bits, and now here I am. I bought my first two Chambers before I was a member. Just bought my third. I now have a red, white, and a copper Chambers and two vintage fridges to go with them - will post the pics in the our ranges site. It's going to be awhile with all the refurb work so my regular kitchen's brown Kenmore appliances are getting an inexpensive totally over the top retro 60's kitchen to go with them before the more sedate vintage kitchen goes in with the Chambers. I'm sure no one will like it but me, but that's okay. Not that the kitchen isn't retro right now. The green and orange teapot wallpaper is finally starting to fail at what must be the 30 year mark. :-)
I'm involved in interior design (the out there stuff stays firmly at home) and have an interest in green renovation on top of the traditional construction that most clients still want.
What else - I love to cook and like vintage interior furnishings, but more on the streamlined side. And like David - can't believe this - I have old minis. I really have to laugh. You see everyone in the DC region obviously has a penchant for Chambers and minis. I have a somewhat modified MKII Cooper S and a Deluxe, although neither in the spectacular condition of David's beauty. And yes, I am definitely a girlie girl. You should see me in my frilly apron. I discard it before I get into a sports car and roar off down the road. :-)
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Post by pipercollins on Nov 8, 2007 9:25:30 GMT -5
That's awesome redrange. Welcome aboard. I think you'll find we all have a lot in common...at least more stuff in common than not. Although I'd recommend against starting any political discussions
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Post by oldsalt on Nov 8, 2007 9:46:32 GMT -5
That's awesome redrange. Welcome aboard. I think you'll find we all have a lot in common...at least more stuff in common than not. Although I'd recommend against starting any political discussions Religion would be right out as well, but the way some folks here pay homage to their appliances kind of rules out moratoriums on religiosity. Welcome again, Redrange. I hope to get a chance to see that copper shine! David
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Post by chipperhiker on Nov 8, 2007 13:16:24 GMT -5
Welcome Redrange!!
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