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Galvanised steel under ramp protector
Posted on January 28th, 2007 by James.
Categories: Pinball.
As you may recall, last Tuesday my under ramp finally cracked, after I fired the ball into the start mission hole.
At the time I was cutting up my exhaust to make a shuriken and I thought that I could use the exhaust metal to repair the under ramp. That was a crap idea, so on to Plan B! (more…)
Exhausted
Posted on January 27th, 2007 by James.
Categories: Bike.
I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted! Tee hee..
.. ok, it’s a crap joke 
.. But check it out! I’ve got a whole crap load of shiny attached to my bike 
I went for my first proper ride with the new exhaust today and I think it’s really made a difference to the power which is cool. I think it’s also a little quieter than my last exhaust.. but then I might be comparing that to the sound it was making with the whopping great rusty holes in it
Dodgy wiring and ball smashing fun
Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by James.
Categories: Pinball.
Last night all my solenoids stopped working. I checked all the fuses and everything seemed in order, then after panicing for a bit I checked the fuses again today and noticed that I’d missed one!
An obscure little one in the corner call F112 Solenoid Secondary with a bizarre 7Amp rating. It’s the only 7A fuse in the system and I didn’t have a replacement handy. I’ve ordered a set of 5 from pinball heaven, but I wanted to test everything just to make sure, so I did a bit of dodgy wiring .. I only had 5A and 15A fuse wire, so I decided to double up the 5A wire and attach it to the fuse slot: (more…)
A Wii bit of fun
Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by James.
Categories: General.
Today Darren bought over his Wii so I could see what it was like on my 50″ widescreen. I must say, I wasn’t massively impressed with the graphics, but that’s more than made up for with the controller. Wii sports is awesome and five of us played it together for hours.
Then we thought we’d have a look at Zelda.. and when I realised that you could put in whatever you liked for the name of the main character (usually called “Link”) and his horse, hilarity ensued (more…)
D.I.Y. Shuriken
Posted on January 21st, 2007 by James.
Categories: Shiny Things.
What do you do, when you’re invited to a birthday dinner with 2 hours notice and since you didn’t know you were invited, don’t have a present for the birthday boy? .. Well I could have show up empty handed and I’m sure he wouldn’t have minded, but instead, with 2 hours before the event, I decided it’d be fun to try and make him something using the metal from my old bike exhaust and my new dremel (xmas pressie).
So I present to you, my D.I.Y. Shuriken! (more…)