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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #440 on: June 23, 2017, 12:54:21 pm »



Rob Zombie did add that awesome sequence to the Beavis and Butthead movie.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #441 on: June 23, 2017, 01:45:34 pm »
He's a brilliant artist and marketer. 

But his music is derivative at best.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #442 on: June 23, 2017, 01:49:48 pm »



So Rob Zombie = Kiss?

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #443 on: June 23, 2017, 02:54:31 pm »
He's apparently made a career out of ripping off Ministry, though it's unexplained.


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(I'm not carrying water for Rob Zombie, it's just an odd accusation....)



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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #444 on: June 23, 2017, 07:09:10 pm »



So Rob Zombie = Kiss?

Well Kiss, like Rob Zombie, is also awesome.  They have more than one song though and most are rock staples, so you can't really compare them.  The only comparison I can make between the two is that they are decidedly stuck in the time periods in which they peaked.  That isn't necessarily a bad thing though.... I don't want Stan Bush doing albums that aren't Transformers related after all. 

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #445 on: June 23, 2017, 09:00:52 pm »
Come on Jim do I really have to play Jesus built my hotrod for you to acknowledge the fact that White Zombie borrowed heavily from what Ministry was already doing?

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #446 on: June 24, 2017, 04:50:26 pm »
So I'm in Banning, CA, in the midst of like 400 arcade cabinets...



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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #447 on: June 24, 2017, 05:28:46 pm »
I see a Two Tigers cab there. I played the crap out of that when I was a kid. It has been decades since I laid eyes on that game.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #448 on: June 24, 2017, 06:15:05 pm »
What's up with all the papers taped to the screens?  Is it an auction or something?

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #449 on: June 24, 2017, 09:04:22 pm »
So I'm in Banning, CA, in the midst of like 400 arcade cabinets...


Any story behind where you're at brohiem?

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #450 on: June 24, 2017, 09:59:07 pm »
He's prepping for his secret arcade society party...



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« Reply #451 on: June 24, 2017, 10:50:25 pm »
I'll post a big thread with a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----ton of pix tomorrow. We're driving back from Banning right now.
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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #452 on: June 24, 2017, 10:54:06 pm »
Here's a teaser...


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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #453 on: June 26, 2017, 02:00:35 pm »
3 days of wedding survived.   :P

Anyway, if you add a little apple juice, and put a sealed cap back on the bottle, wait a few days, you get carbonation.  I took 20 photos of this and none of them really captured all the little bubbles, but here it is fizzing away...



The extra fermentation made the cider much dryer and the bubbles substantially improved the mouth feel.  I'm not quite at Crispin or Austin East Cider levels, but I'd put this right alongside Strongbow and Hornsby's and above Angry Orchard.  I'm not sure if I need to re-evaluated my opinion of commercial cider or take pride in what I've accomplished with limited skill and materials.

Now this means I'm going to have to invest in some heavier duty bottles that can withstand pressure long term.  Unscrewing the jugs is kind of a startling experience right now...


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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #454 on: June 26, 2017, 02:02:34 pm »



There is a cider brewery right by my house that makes stuff that tastes exactly like regular unfiltered apple cider.  You'd never know it was alcoholic.  Lots of people here, including my wife, drink almost exclusively their stuff.   :cheers:


http://www.homesteadcider.com/

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #455 on: June 26, 2017, 02:08:48 pm »
I'm going to have to figure out how to calculate the ABV of my stuff.  I use yeast that can get up to 18% but I think I'm about half that.  Knocking back two pints gets me a decent buzz, moreso than a typical draft beer, but less than an equal volume of wine would, so I'm figuring about 10%.  Very little hangover, which is nice.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #456 on: June 26, 2017, 02:21:12 pm »


Pretty simple process.  Buy a hydrometer, get readings both before and after fermentation, and then run it through a standard forumla to calculate ABV.  Formula varies a bit by what you're fermenting or how accurate you need it.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #457 on: June 26, 2017, 03:17:26 pm »
Lowes is having a paint sale.  I'll get 20 dollars back on my paint.  Got some black and had them color match a nes gamepad.  That will be great for the world of Nintendo display case I'm building.  Just about ready to pull it out and paint btw, which means I might actually be able to take some pics. 

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #458 on: June 26, 2017, 03:30:05 pm »
I'm buying a house and can maybe get back in to this hobby. The building part of it anyways.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #459 on: June 26, 2017, 08:13:41 pm »
So I'm in Banning, CA, in the midst of like 400 arcade cabinets...



If you can read this, it means Photobucket's money grab ruined my signature photos.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #460 on: June 26, 2017, 09:38:15 pm »
The Banning Repair Trip.

Many of you who have come to ZapCon have had the opportunity to meet Alpha-Tron, a California collector who is genuinely one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. He is always great to us Phoenix locals, and likes to talk about how close we are. A few months ago on KLOV, he was talking about how he was assisting the owner of Arcade Expo in Banning, California with the upkeep of his machines. They have two shows a year in Banning, one in March and one in October, and in the course of getting ready for the October show they brought in a bunch of machines that were considered projects. Joe was talking about how great our Phoenix repair parties were and how he'd love to do something like that in Banning, and a bunch of us locals jumped at the chance to help them out. So he got permission from the owner to have an event there at the show place, and it was a go.

Once we decided on a date, things went in the motion pretty quickly. We picked June 22, and in the end seven of us committed to going. We caravanned over in two pick ups, and I rode over with Arcadenut, Aceldamor, and Jawhn. We got to Banning about 5 PM on Friday, which was about a 4 Hour drive from Phoenix.



The Arcade Expo facility is huge. It's literally a warehouse complex that this guy owns. And in this complex, he has over 700 pinball machines and over 400 arcade machines, plus a fair amount of old EM machines. It was awesome just walking in, especially if you had never seen this collection before. Also, since there was no one else there, we pretty much had the run of the place, so we could get in and look at everything that was there.



But there was also a slight problem. Temperatures outside were around 105°, but the AC unit inside the warehouse complex wasn't working. We had someone drive up from San Diego who is also an AC repair technician, and he said that the AC unit hadn't probably been working for years. So with all the games on, the temperature in the place quickly rose. However, we did have access to a portable swamp cooler and a giant industrial fan, so we made the most of it.



So for the next 24 hours, we went and checked every single arcade cab, testing them for any issues. We looked at everything, like controls, monitors, buttons, lights, etc. We annotated our findings on the sheets of paper you see on the machines (Joe is going to compile the data electronically later). Some guys worked on cap kits for monitors, others set games to free play or wired in coin up buttons. One of our crew, Kent,  brought two charcoal grills and we cooked out for dinner. The cool desert wind picked up at night and we ate and drank outside. We worked up until 2:30 AM, then set up camp and slept in the arcade with doors open to let in the night air.



The next morning we finished inventory and then fixed what we could. Unfortunately, the place was lacking in parts. I scavenged some replacement parts from the back of the place to fix a sit down Night Driver cab. This one meant a lot to me because it was the first arcade cab I remember seeing.



We all decided to return to Phoenix on Saturday since we were pretty much fatigued from the heat and at a standstill without parts. We're planning a return trip before October now that we know what needs to be done.



It was awesome seeing so many original machines, some rare, and some I hadn't played in 30 years. It really affirms what I love about the designs of classic cabinets and why I have no problem being called a purist. It was a great time. I had fun talking shop and hanging out with my Phx collector brothers and the CA locals who showed up (we DID outnumber them!). If you get a chance to go to Arcade Expo, do it!


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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #461 on: June 26, 2017, 09:41:45 pm »
More pix!















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« Reply #462 on: June 26, 2017, 09:47:39 pm »
Even moar!!















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« Reply #463 on: June 26, 2017, 09:49:51 pm »
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« Reply #464 on: June 26, 2017, 09:58:33 pm »
Bonus!













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« Reply #465 on: June 27, 2017, 04:41:08 am »
You are livin' the dream brother. :cheers:

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #466 on: June 27, 2017, 08:55:39 am »



Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!   :cheers:


I've seen collections like that before but man are they few and far between.  Here in MA just the building space would be ridiculously prohibitive.

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« Reply #467 on: June 27, 2017, 11:44:17 am »



Holy ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!   :cheers:


I've seen collections like that before but man are they few and far between.  Here in MA just the building space would be ridiculously prohibitive.

Yeah, the owner has some cash. In fact, the arcade complex had one building for pins, a second for vids (connected by a short hallway), a small cafeteria, a building dedicated to EM shooters, a big storage building for parts (mostly pin), yet ANOTHER storage area for projects, and plenty of parking and picnic space. It's at the base of a mountain, and at night was really cool.

As a bonus, Alpha-Tron gave me this...





What is it? An open-frame 19" VGA arcade monitor!
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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #468 on: June 27, 2017, 11:53:55 am »
Hopefully it's not in a flood plain....  :P  If so, tell him that driving his Ferrari into 3 foot deep water won't help.


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« Reply #469 on: June 27, 2017, 12:25:58 pm »
Hopefully it's not in a flood plain....  :P  If so, tell him that driving his Ferrari into 3 foot deep water won't help.

The factory complex is right next to the Banning airport and old enough that you can tell it's not in a floodplain. I think his collection will be fine.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #470 on: June 27, 2017, 01:14:19 pm »
I would be more concerned about the AC not working.  Extreme heat and cold aren't good for arcade machines, especially pins and the older EM stuff. 

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #471 on: June 27, 2017, 01:19:48 pm »



109 can't be typical weather there. 


People keep games here in non climate controlled storage all the time and the extreme cold doesn't affect them much.  They have a much larger tolerable range than people do.

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« Reply #472 on: June 27, 2017, 01:20:15 pm »
60-100 degrees is neither extreme heat nor extreme cold.  Temperature isn't going to change quickly inside an open space like that, either.  They're fine.

The factory complex is right next to the Banning airport and old enough that you can tell it's not in a floodplain. I think his collection will be fine.

Yeah, that's what the other guy thought, too.   :lol


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« Reply #473 on: June 27, 2017, 01:24:44 pm »



And that's what PAPA in Pittsburgh thought before they lost 200+ games in a building that hadn't seen water since the 1950s.




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« Reply #474 on: June 27, 2017, 01:27:42 pm »
And that's what PAPA in Pittsburgh thought before they lost 200+ games in a building that hadn't seen water since the 1950s.



Finally.


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« Reply #475 on: June 27, 2017, 02:56:22 pm »
You guys are a ---smurfing--- joy to interact with, you know that?
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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #476 on: June 27, 2017, 03:01:26 pm »



We're not here to amuse you.  We're here to amuse ourselves, bud.   :cheers:

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #477 on: June 27, 2017, 09:10:04 pm »
We're supposed to amuse ourselves?  I thought we were just supposed to drive each other crazy.  :D

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« Reply #478 on: June 27, 2017, 09:15:14 pm »
We're supposed to amuse ourselves?  I thought we were just supposed to drive each other crazy.  :D
For most, that is the same thing.

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Re: 2017 Chuff thread
« Reply #479 on: June 27, 2017, 09:21:02 pm »
I don't need no chauffeur.... I already drove there myself.  *laughs manically*