Archive for April, 2007
Sarah’s Birthday Party
A photo of the group that got together for Sarah’s surprise birthday party earlier this month.
April 20, 2007
Something pretty cute Sarah wanted me to note. He has started doing some barking, and although we think this is the most darling thing, we have to tell ourselves that it will be bad later, so we scold him when he does it. But usually, he will do one little bark, and then right after he does this sort of chewbacca call growl thing. It is really funny.
My R-Type buttons stopped working.
The controls for the release of the protector for the R-Type ship had mysteriously stopped working. One day a couple of weeks back I turned the machine on and they weren’t working.
Justin took a look at them, it was weird, both black buttons just stopped making connections and closing the circuit. He was up late, so after he figured out what the problem was he just adjusted them and they were fine. I had a similar problem with the fire right after I got the game, I was surprised to have this happen all of a sudden, but just glad it works again.
Stripping the Pac-man cabinet
Even though it was very sad, tonight we stripped the old Pac-man cabinet I had sitting in the garage. Justin was down and he brought with him all of the guts from the Mr. Do I had bought last November.
Now, this Mr. Do was the most hideous thing you had ever seen. It was in an old Space Duel cabinet with chewed up sides, the joystick was sunken in, the monitor didn’t even have a frame so the chassis was attached directly to the wood, etc. etc. I ended up finding a buyer for the thing, a Mame guy, and for $15 I didn’t have to worry about it ever going in the basement.
So, I had some paint stripper, and although I went back and forth on what to do with the Pac-man cabinet, I decided a couple of things. I am tired of walking around it in the garage. It could be one of the most common cabinet, so to destroy the already partially destroyed artwork that had been painted over wouldn’t be as big of a deal. People were making new ones all the time. I also wanted the experience of how to strip one down, it should be a fun project, and I had already bought the stripping stuff.
Overall it took about two and half hours total to strip down to small bits of paint and primer.
Justin and I also got out the old monitor, and put it into a horizontal frame from another tube I had from the Robotron cabinet.
Working on Mr. Do! clown on bezel
Yesterday I worked a good deal on the clown from the bezel as well as the crazy looking winged guy. Still thinking they won’t be finished until next weekend.
April 19, 2007
Today at lunch Nokes was pretty excited. At one point he jumped off the top step at the door onto the deck, and surprisingly landed just fine. He also got into a little bit of a fight with the Rose bush, but sniffing and licking made him realize that the bush would win every time. He dashed around the side and jumped onto the deck.
April 19th, 2007
Someone wants the cab, for $15 I should hope so, it is a deal. I am so happy, and it is a load off. I had Justin strip all of the parts yesterday in prep for brining them down. I finally decided to put the parts in either the Robotron cabinet I have, or the empty Pac-man. I would strip the paint and clean either one of them before I did so, but either was a better option in terms of looks than the one we had.
