Take it easy on the kid, guys. Before I locked up his bully pulpit I'd told him not to make any objections in any hacks threads but mine or he faced an official warning. I also told him that he can post whatever he wants to say in my threads, but he'd better slap a smile on it or put a sock in it.
A mild objection or two, some intelligent questions about what, why, how and yet another one about the plastic fish silliness is a vast improvement . . .
. . . way better than a smile or a wink, way to go, kid!
My hacks don't need support or disapproval, nor do those of others and such commentary is to be avoided. It's sort of an "I'm interested or not" kind of deal, sometimes even folks not particularly interested in mods or hacking will drop in for a question or a comment . . .
. . . not many in my hacks threads though, response rates are up now that I'm using illustrations, pictures and keeping .TXT down to a minimum. :
Most of the what and how commentary/pics will follow . . . one "what" is adding provision for two display enclosures:
. . . later on I'll do one that's a customized glazing semi-stock kinda thing . . .
. . . for now a partial chopped-top, hot-rod deal will be the main line of this hack attack . . .
. . . here's a very large part of the why, the pairs of pics speak volumes . . .
. . . chopping the top of the hot-rodding display moves it a full 13.5cm back from the edge of the desk, tucking The back right corner of the case underneath the shelf overhang. The little clamp in the "after" pics was placed so as to touch the recessed left front corner of the Plus Case before I moved it back to where it will sit. That way the air bubbling noises that go along with animating my plastic fish will be muted by the 10cm or so of extra viewing distance that will ease these tired old eyes when they glaze over in a . . . erm . . . reverie of whatever sort . . . with luck, it'll be creative . . .
. . . but reminiscing and napping will be good practice for the future as well! [
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Not sure if this is the cool part or the useful part . . . I'd like to think a bit of both. However the Picture window planned for the left side with A/B LED backlighting will be definitely be a cool feature, I've wanted to do one of those for forever and a day. [] ]'>
edit, it's not as obvious as the broken fake vents on the right, but you can see where the vanes of the real set of cooling vents have been warped by overheating by the slow moving air passing across the heat sinks and clustered components at the top of the A/B, in front of the flyback transformer. Removing the TwiggyBox really put a hurt on some very elegant engineering done by the early design team.
One of the uses for the semi-stock plexi windowed case will be doing infra-red photography to illustrate differences the baffling and chimney effects of the TwiggyBoxGambit that I hope to see in terms of operating temperature reduction of the A.B.
I will, of course, be using the bucket on the 128k+++ for that experiment. [}] ]'>
A mild objection or two, some intelligent questions about what, why, how and yet another one about the plastic fish silliness is a vast improvement . . .
. . . way better than a smile or a wink, way to go, kid!
My hacks don't need support or disapproval, nor do those of others and such commentary is to be avoided. It's sort of an "I'm interested or not" kind of deal, sometimes even folks not particularly interested in mods or hacking will drop in for a question or a comment . . .
. . . not many in my hacks threads though, response rates are up now that I'm using illustrations, pictures and keeping .TXT down to a minimum. :
Most of the what and how commentary/pics will follow . . . one "what" is adding provision for two display enclosures:
. . . later on I'll do one that's a customized glazing semi-stock kinda thing . . .
. . . for now a partial chopped-top, hot-rod deal will be the main line of this hack attack . . .
. . . here's a very large part of the why, the pairs of pics speak volumes . . .
. . . chopping the top of the hot-rodding display moves it a full 13.5cm back from the edge of the desk, tucking The back right corner of the case underneath the shelf overhang. The little clamp in the "after" pics was placed so as to touch the recessed left front corner of the Plus Case before I moved it back to where it will sit. That way the air bubbling noises that go along with animating my plastic fish will be muted by the 10cm or so of extra viewing distance that will ease these tired old eyes when they glaze over in a . . . erm . . . reverie of whatever sort . . . with luck, it'll be creative . . .
. . . but reminiscing and napping will be good practice for the future as well! [
)] ]'>Not sure if this is the cool part or the useful part . . . I'd like to think a bit of both. However the Picture window planned for the left side with A/B LED backlighting will be definitely be a cool feature, I've wanted to do one of those for forever and a day. [
] ]'>edit, it's not as obvious as the broken fake vents on the right, but you can see where the vanes of the real set of cooling vents have been warped by overheating by the slow moving air passing across the heat sinks and clustered components at the top of the A/B, in front of the flyback transformer. Removing the TwiggyBox really put a hurt on some very elegant engineering done by the early design team.
One of the uses for the semi-stock plexi windowed case will be doing infra-red photography to illustrate differences the baffling and chimney effects of the TwiggyBoxGambit that I hope to see in terms of operating temperature reduction of the A.B.
I will, of course, be using the bucket on the 128k+++ for that experiment. [}
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