I can smell that thumbnail...
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I can smell that thumbnail...
That sure came back beautifully! Good job.
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It wasn't so bad when I got the Respirator out of the car!
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Made it my goal this week to try to clean out the garage a little bit. It's been a while since I could see the surface of my workbench. I wonder how long it will stay like that. Probably no more than 10 seconds into my next project.
Also went ahead and took all the project cabs out so I could reorganize them and save space. Lots of potential in those shabby cabs....
Also went ahead and took all the project cabs out so I could reorganize them and save space. Lots of potential in those shabby cabs....
TheYeti
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That's the neat part. It isn't
It's rough in the winter and unbearable in the summer. The best time to get work done is fall and spring.
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Ok, so good to know I'm not the only one!That's the neat part. It isn't
It's rough in the winter and unbearable in the summer. The best time to get work done is fall and spring.
Put on layers in the winter (a space heater can help too), and get a giant-azz industrial fan for the summer.
This is very true.
Phetishboy
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I've got a nice 50,000 BTU Reznor natural gas heater in mine. I always keep the garage right around 60F during the winter, wife always tries to turn it down to 52 or so, but I just crank her back up. But I keep paint, Bondo, stain, glue, etc., in my garage and I can't have it freezing. It gets down to 25 below around here in the winter.
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Finally got around to installing a light behind the roller in my Major Havoc.
I went through the trouble of building a little MOSFET breakout board for the light so that it could blink while being signaled by the 5v from the start lights... Only to realize I goofed up. The 5v side of the lights is constant, so on the active end, the light was blinking opposite to the start lights... And off during game mode.
So it's solid for now until I address that. I think I'll just through a NOT gate in there and that'll take care of the issue.
I went through the trouble of building a little MOSFET breakout board for the light so that it could blink while being signaled by the 5v from the start lights... Only to realize I goofed up. The 5v side of the lights is constant, so on the active end, the light was blinking opposite to the start lights... And off during game mode.
So it's solid for now until I address that. I think I'll just through a NOT gate in there and that'll take care of the issue.
This seems like a good move. We have a very large outbuilding workshop we haven't gotten around to finishing yet. Hopefully when we do finish it, it will be climate controlled.
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Designed a couple PCBs for things I'd previously breadboarded.
Maybe I'll actually make a couple of these. I know my Lunar Lander setup is pretty kludgy right now.
Maybe I'll actually make a couple of these. I know my Lunar Lander setup is pretty kludgy right now.
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Had our first arcade party in a while for some of my wife's friends. Always fun to get all the games turned on and see what still works and what broke.
The most popular games of the night were:
Inferno, Space Duel, Addams Family, Lunar Lander, Space Station, Galaga, X-Men, and Firefox.
The losers of the night were:
All Williams games except Inferno. Major Havoc, Crystal castles, Dig Dug, Millipede, Centipede, MKII, Qix, Tempest, and Asteroids/Dlx. I don't think any of those games got a single play.
The casualties:
- Smash TV's marquee light died [fixed]
- X-Men is having some audio problems
A couple photos of the new layout sections:
Most of the rest of the layout is the same as before except the other 90s games are banished to the hallway.
I need to try to do a KLOV open party again at some point. Maybe when I Robot is done.
The most popular games of the night were:
Inferno, Space Duel, Addams Family, Lunar Lander, Space Station, Galaga, X-Men, and Firefox.
The losers of the night were:
All Williams games except Inferno. Major Havoc, Crystal castles, Dig Dug, Millipede, Centipede, MKII, Qix, Tempest, and Asteroids/Dlx. I don't think any of those games got a single play.
The casualties:
- Smash TV's marquee light died [fixed]
- X-Men is having some audio problems
A couple photos of the new layout sections:
Most of the rest of the layout is the same as before except the other 90s games are banished to the hallway.
I need to try to do a KLOV open party again at some point. Maybe when I Robot is done.
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Don't know quite here else to put this, but here's an uncommon machine. Warp Warp cocktail. Dedicated.
I'm not sure how many of these were made. The serial on it is 14274, model GC201. I doubt 14K cocktails were made, so it must not be sequential by number. For what it's worth, the PCB appears to have "109" or "601" etched into it, depending on if you think it's upside down or not.
At a glance, it looks like a midway cocktail. But it really is fairly different in how its constructed. It's almost like Rock-ola copied Midway's homework looking through some frosted glass.
It folds out in the same way as a midway cocktail, and has lights in the same places, but I found it interesting that the lights which illuminate the control panels are actually mounted to the monitor section of the cabinet, rather than to the control panels themselves.
It has a K4600 monitor, which is pretty cool. Extremely clean too. Cleanest monitor I've ever picked up. Has some good Warp Warp burn on it though. Apparently K4600s came standard on these.
The coin door is also fairly over-engineered, with a little aux PCB and a MASSIVE volume pot. Plus locking cams which I've never seen on a cocktail before.
I'm not sure how many of these were made. The serial on it is 14274, model GC201. I doubt 14K cocktails were made, so it must not be sequential by number. For what it's worth, the PCB appears to have "109" or "601" etched into it, depending on if you think it's upside down or not.
At a glance, it looks like a midway cocktail. But it really is fairly different in how its constructed. It's almost like Rock-ola copied Midway's homework looking through some frosted glass.
It folds out in the same way as a midway cocktail, and has lights in the same places, but I found it interesting that the lights which illuminate the control panels are actually mounted to the monitor section of the cabinet, rather than to the control panels themselves.
It has a K4600 monitor, which is pretty cool. Extremely clean too. Cleanest monitor I've ever picked up. Has some good Warp Warp burn on it though. Apparently K4600s came standard on these.
The coin door is also fairly over-engineered, with a little aux PCB and a MASSIVE volume pot. Plus locking cams which I've never seen on a cocktail before.
koolmoecraig
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Very cool game. I HATE left hand fire buttons though.
I just found your thread and wanted to drop a line to say "cool videos".
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Thank you! Hopefully a new video coming in a couple weeks. We've got another crazy pickup and massive project coming in any day now!
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