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Midschoolfool:
They did the same to my Smart Sam I had on my ripper. Though admittedly they didn't have as much room on those :LolLolLolLol:
Midschoolfool:
Got the builders in. IE, fookin me.
First thing I did was a few days back. Make the flat CAT 6 wired.
I wonder if when I move out they realise all of those sockets were not there before :LolLolLolLol:
Next job is cinema rig upgrade. Well, more of a "make it better". One thing that irked me was having the Linn Centrik centre on the floor. No matter how much I play with the settings it still sounds just like it is coming from the floor.
The biggest issue was the fact I wanted a 75" TV in a room that has exactly 1" clearance on the angled roof. So I can not put a centre speaker below the TV. My original idea was to buy a Revel unit, here.
OK so this is what it actually looks like.
Two mid drivers angled, a 7.8" wide square sub (with 6.5" of woofer surface area) and a positional tweeter. I was then going to modify/hack up the TV stand and put it in the front after emptying all of the drawers the other day.
But alas I could not bring myself to destroy a OFL cabinet. That cost a fortune new. So I decided to buy a replacement and hack that up instead. Problem was
1. Getting "rid" of the old one without even trying to take it down several flights of stairs (not happening even hercules would struggle with a 40kg cabinet)
2. My kitchen looks like this.
So I decided to get rid of the chairs that have never had an arse in them and replace.
Much better. I now have storage for PC crap.
And two tubs worth of electronics tools.
Next up was finding a cabinet. Frank Olsen.
Am going to cut the middle door for the speaker and fix it closed. And then..... After hours of heavy lugging :LolLolLolLol:
New one comes Monday. Bedroom got the freebies upgrade too. Just need to wire in the sub.
Chilli Rinse:
Progress on the Hellcat has been slow. It is now looking more like a bike. American to mid bb adapters, bb, crank, sprocket, pedals and half link chain fitted over the last few days. Gyro set up, stem, bars, levers, brakes, post, clamp and seat have been on a while. The wheels have been on for a week or so. I am not sure about the grips I bought for this build (Primo Brian Wizmerski signature Wiz grips in white), so I'm still looking, probably going with black. On the home straight with this one though.
Chilli Rinse:
So, last week I remembered that I had an early 80's lugged Apollo stripped down and gathering dust in the garage. I dug it out and fell in love all over again. I have ordered a nice period saddle because I am putting her back together. The Tange forks had been sprayed but I knew the original paint was underneath. After work today I slowly started stripping off the spray job to reveal the ugly truth. I was hoping there was a little more of the original paint there though. I could not have lived with the mismatched spray job but this is one job I wish I had never started. What was I thinking
:LolLolLolLol:
Midschoolfool:
A lot. A bloody lot.
My project is almost complete.
If you were wondering what it actually is? it's a PC. There are two boxes to it. One is filled with radiators, a pump, reservoir and fans and the other (the one I made from scratch) houses the hardware. They are connected by a coolant hose.
I literally have to do about 3 hours work when the resistors I am waiting for to arrive and then it's done. I have about 200 hours of machining time into it, as well as painting and etc.
I have also been working on the AV setup. I bought these on sale recently.
And they came with ?380 worth of free cables.
So I had to upgrade the stands I have on the inside of the front array to have spikes and standoffs for isolation.
Which I completed the last time I was there. In order to change out the speaker cables I had to take the whole rack apart and remove every amp above the one I wanted to access.
But am pretty much ready. The only other job left to do was sort out the horn tweeter in the centre array. When I bought it it was black and had far too many mounting holes in. So, I chopped it in as can be seen in the pic above. I then removed it, and filled all of the mounting holes but four.
Because the main centre speaker is an enclosed unit. So there is no pressure in the cabinet. I sanded that out today, and it needs painting white with some paint I have ordered before being rebuilt with the compression driver and remounted.
Bought a new kettle and toaster and set those up.
So yeah, just winter things. I did work on bikes in the cold last year, but I am getting too old for that now. Especially with arthritis. Screw that.
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