clarkey1984

Thanks everyone!

i WAS hoping to be able to go out on the lash tonight but the other lad at work had already booked tomorrow off work so i couldnt have the day off, but i did have today off, plus a little drinky session last night too so not all bad.

And as for the arcadian rhapsody, well, all i can say is the lyrics need re doing, i will get it done one day, i promise!

A big bump for this thread, but i thought i would let andy2003 (and anyone else who is interested) know how the machine is getting on now.

This baby has finally moved out streakseims girlfriends kitchen and can now be found sitting happily opposite the bar x (i have moved the room around, again so i can fit 2 machines in) and i have done a few bits to it as well...

Put new bulbs in the hold 2 and the Hi or Lo button (cant remember which one it was) that andy very kindly left me some spares of.

Fixed the top lock so that the door doesn't sit about 7 0r 8mm out as it was, i removed the big thick washer that was between the barrel and the locking bar on the back of the lock so it fits a little bit tighter, plus i spaced the lock out at the front using the metal plate that was inside of the door before to to make it even tighter as it still wasn't flush but it is now, call me silly, but stuff like that bugs me, it has to be level, although this shitty looking arrangement of bits of metal is only temporary, i will be making a spacer block out of wood and painting it black so it looks better soon.



I also managed to find the other lock i robbed from inside the bottom of the bar x that used to hold a little door closed that houses the drop trays and fitted it in the bottom of the door as it had a lock missing, but the locking bar was too long and i havent got anything here to cut it with, so back to the bar x again, stole the bar of the top back door lock of that (which was short enough to fit) and just moved the little metal plate up a bit inside the bar x so the longer bar would still work.



Then i did what dom (streakseims) suggested, after me him and his mate callum carried it up 2 flights of long stairs, i filled in the yellow sticker reflecting how heavy i think the machine is




Then, after coffee and sandwiches, i set to work again....

The flaky paint on the front, although not a problem, just gave me something to do today as i had a days holiday off work (waiting for hughes electrical to deliver some stuff so i had to be in all day, and what better way to do use my day than work on a classic machine!

Before...







After, well, should i say half way, it looks a little bumpy in places so it needs another few coats to look proper. Not finished yet!



^^^^ Ignore the straggly bits under the freshly painted black bit, those were flakes of the old paint that had stuck to the glass, they have gone now.




I tried to make a wooden block for the top lock but due to the tight space it needed to fit in and the size of the hole i needed to drill to fit the barrel through, it didnt really work, i made 4 blocks, and all of em broke on the sides, so i had to make do with painting what i had already done black so at least it matches in now.




And, thats it so far, next job, top bulbs and another start button coz it has a crack in it, again, doesn't really matter but i want it to be mint! Oh yeah, and a refill lock.

yeah the jackpottyforums.co.uk link is a little messed up at the moment, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

the easiest way is to use the original zetaboards URL for the site, which is...

s1.zetaboards.com/jackpottyforums/index

After arcadian rhapsody is done, this will be the next one i will have a crack at, much easier to do vocally.

Well, i do like a challenge, i find it fun, plus it stops me wanting to go and lose all my money in the local shitpiece machines around here

As much as i do not wish to brag or anything, that recording of my vocals sounds hideous and powerless compared to what i can do, but considering i was using a speaker from the door of a rover 200 as a mic i couldn't really expect anything good quality.

I suppose recording in a small 1 bedder flat in the middle of a big estate with nothing but a small set of PC speakers for sound wasn't exactly a recipe for success either, as it is hard to give it full vocal welly somewhere like this, as opposed to a sound deadened and acoustically set up studio with proper gear, where you can really let rip with a loud voice without worrying about the neighbours.

So i mark myself 3/10 for that, and can and will do better!