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Zebidee:
--- Quote from: javeryh on September 20, 2025, 01:04:27 pm ---That looks so incredible it's hard to believe it's not a real pinball table.
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My thoughts exactly!
Another Ond piece of tech-art. Leaves me feeling both "in awe" and "inadequate". Outstanding.
I want one too but know my limitations ^-^
Ond:
Just a general update. All projects (including non-arcade related) got put on hold due to moving house and getting setup. My wife and I moved out to the countryside.
The guy who owned the place before us was a keen gardener. In the last few weeks I've been figuring out what kinds of fruit trees I have (Google lens helps). Turns out I have a few types of apple trees, lemon and fig trees as well.
My workshop is very nice after much hard work. Left over from the previous owners renovations, was a whole lot of floating timber floor panels. Naturally these were used to cover my workshop floor! Way nicer than cold concrete I think.
I also gave the space some fresh coats of paint. Here's a pic. Oh yeah, through the window, another fruit tree, a giant grape vine growing along the verandah edge!
Back to building stuff soon as I can.
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: Ond on November 21, 2025, 03:51:33 am ---My workshop is very nice after much hard work. Left over from the previous owners renovations, was a whole lot of floating timber floor panels. Naturally these were used to cover my workshop floor! Way nicer than cold concrete I think.
building stuff soon as I can.
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Nice improvement with the timber floor. I can tell you from experience that concrete floors generate concrete dust, and that will get into your lungs as well. I don't know if that can translate into silicosis, but better safe than sorry. After tiling the floor of my lab, I know that I spend a lot less time clearing gunk out of my sinuses.
Urethane coatings over concrete wear off, and anything plastic-y will stick too it. I don't understand exactly what chemical process is going on, but it has even caused the near-indestructible wheels of my Samsonite luggage to disintegrate over about a year!
In the workshop at Questacon (National Science and Technology Centre in Canberra, where I used to work) they used parquetry floors in the workshop. Expensive, but much nicer to walk and work on all day, still very solid, and much friendlier to expensive tools when accidentally dropped.
Love your view 8)