Hugh's Gaming

Sweet tool!  This is my first air powered stapler which I received yesterday so I can install new ground braid in my project cabinets.  It was super easy to use, install the staples, attach to the air hose and start firing!  I had the PSI set to 60 and it worked wonderfully.    It is important to note that this stapler does not have a safety switch so wearing protective goggles is a great idea!  I actually fired off two accidentally LOL

A friend of mine gave me a few playfields for FREE   I now have more wall art for the arcade!  I got two Funhouse playfields and one Eight Ball Deluxe.  The nicer Funhouse and the EBD are going on the wall… the Funhouse that is in bad condition will be repaited and will be my first major playfield project.

Gallery with high res images:

http://gallery.metahugh.com/main.php?g2_itemId=3436&g2_highlightId=3421

Man I haven’t laughed this hard in a long, long time!

KLOV – For the soldering experts… How to fix a big mistake?

WOWSA!

Yeah that big bit of silver at the bottom of the picture is solder!

I emailed a picture and description to my wife of the Bally Skill Roll.  Here is her response:

erm. nice thought but no.

I quit LOL

Unfortunately not with fixing my games   I have been working on our house to get it ready for Xmas.  So here is what I will be tackling once I am done:

1.  Firepower Rebuild.
I have started working on the boards, so far I have re-capped the power supply and next I go to the CPU board

2.  Burgertime
I just received my new 8 position POT that I need to install so the game isn’t stuck in test mode.  I still need to strip and clean the inside of the cabinet and replace the control panel overlay

3.   Earthshaker, Dr Who or something else
I am not sure which game I will do next.  I am thinking Earthshaker because that is basically a big shop job.  Dr Who is a complete restore, swap into a new cabinet and all.

Instead of manually creating thumbnail pages for my pictures I have decided to start using Gallery to store my images.  It’s free and works pretty good!  I did attempt to get this going a while ago but I had continual problems trying to get it to function.  I guess the 5th time is the charm!

Hugh’s Image Galleries

Yeah my blog looks like crap right now, I know .  I was able to port all of my data and images from my old webhost but I still need to work on the design.  It’s coming!

Here are a few posts I will be putting up in the near future:

1.  Repairing the Scared Stiff Spider Stepper PCB
2.  Space Shuttle – Coil Issues
3.  Shop Out Photo Gallery for Scared Stiff

My old hosting provider, Easy-CGI, did a horrible job with my hosting.  Apparently they were bought out by another company and ever since that transaction took place my hosting sucked horribly.  It was constantly going down and the majority of the time I couldn’t FTP into my site.  I just migrated over to Godaddy.com for my hosting.  It was a bit cheaper (Only $6.95 a month) and it has what I need.  I just finished porting over my posts and my uploaded images.  Now is probably a good time to decide on another skin, I wasn’t really happy with the black one I had anyways

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I am no longer using the word “Grail” in connection to any game that I really want.  Really what is the actual use of this word?  Have any of us actually searched for the “Grail” as in the “Holy Grail”?  Probably not so why use the term?  It’s like using “Ninty” in place of Nintendo.  Neither make sense or have any real connection to what they are supposed to represent.

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