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Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« on: September 07, 2005, 10:36:49 am »
Since Bob seems to be temporarily incommunicado after Katrina, is there anyone else who sells cap kits? Am I just going to have to wait until Bob comes back? My MVS has been giving me problems for months, it finally went altogether.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2005, 10:38:05 am »
Oops, meant to put this in the monitor forum.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2005, 10:45:23 am »

You can usually get them off ebay... or this place seems to have them.  I have never ordered from them, though.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2005, 10:55:20 am »
Thanks Chad. Looks like the link you gave has the one I need. I never thought to look on ebay.

Question answered. Feel free to post cheesecake and/or bacon.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2005, 10:56:46 am »

Most parts are available on Ebay, from people who don't have the ability to set up their own websites.  Accordingly, they usually cost a little bit more and are from less well known merchants, hoping that someone, like you, who can't find the part will just run to ebay and pay the extra few bucks.  I've done it a couple of times myself.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2005, 10:57:50 am »
I always just wrote down all the caps, and then went to the electronics place and bought them, cheaper than the kits are, and I had them that day.
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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2005, 11:00:04 am »

Yeah, but most of those type of electronics stores have long since vanished.  There is one in my area, but it's an hour drive there and an hour back.  I don't have 4 hours to spend rounding up a cap kit when I can wait a week and get one ready made in the mail.  Not being an op, it doesn't matter if one of my cabs is down for a period of time.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2005, 11:02:06 am »
I always just wrote down all the caps, and then went to the electronics place and bought them, cheaper than the kits are, and I had them that day.

For god's sake, haven't you seen where he lives??? What's he going to do, make caps out of moonshine and squirrels?!?!



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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2005, 11:07:22 am »
No offense taken. The local Radio Shacks have an abysmal assortment of parts these days. The squirrels broke into my still and drank up all the moonshine, then stole my Mini and went to Mexico.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2005, 11:13:18 am »

Friends don't let squirrels drink and drive to Mexico.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2005, 11:14:47 am »
They aren't my friends, they stole my moonshine.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2005, 11:17:07 am »

Obviously you kept too small a stash.  It was consumed by squirrels.  If you had an acceptable store of it there would have had to have been 750,000 squirrels.

You can't fit 750,000 squirrels in a mini.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2005, 11:19:35 am »

Obviously you kept too small a stash.  It was consumed by squirrels.  If you had an acceptable store of it there would have had to have been 750,000 squirrels.

You can't fit 750,000 squirrels in a mini.

Sure you can, but 300,000 of them have to ride on the roof and 25,000 in the trunk.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2005, 11:20:23 am »
Don't forget Zanen Electronics and penn-ray.com sell capkits.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2005, 11:20:29 am »
300,000 squirrels provide too much wind resistance.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2005, 11:22:35 am »
Thanks Ken, I'll check those sources too.

300,000 squirrels provide too much wind resistance.  They would not make it to Mexico with a single tank of fuel.

You're assuming that my Mini has not been converted to run on moonshine and squirrel vomit. Nothing to be ashamed of, it's a common mistake.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2005, 11:24:11 am »

If you have a car that runs on squirrel vomit, you are holding back crucial technology that could free our country from dependence on foreign oil, high gas prices, and high heating oil prices.  You are crippling our national security, our foreign policy, and our economy.

You are a bad, bad American.

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« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2005, 11:28:25 am »

If you have a car that runs on squirrel vomit, you are holding back crucial technology that could free our country from dependence on foreign oil, high gas prices, and high heating oil prices.  You are crippling our national security, our foreign policy, and our economy.

You are a bad, bad American.

Bush threatend to send Big Oil thugs over to my house to crush up my Atari carts if I exposed my moonshine & squirrel vomit carburetor. I've already said too much.

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Re: Cap Kits
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2005, 11:30:42 am »

Bush can't manage to take care of my crabgrass, what makes you think he has effective thugs? 

If he does have effective thugs, I demand that they come and spread weedkiller on the lawns in my neighborhood.

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« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2005, 11:35:37 am »

Bush can't manage to take care of my crabgrass, what makes you think he has effective thugs? 

If he does have effective thugs, I demand that they come and spread weedkiller on the lawns in my neighborhood.

I actually don't think Bush has effective anything, so I guess there's nothing stopping me.

Other than my own lazyness. And you thought I was a bad American.

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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2005, 11:38:59 am »

Any American who drives a Mini clearly is missing the concept.

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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #21 on: September 07, 2005, 11:45:25 am »
Clearly I'm missing the concept by such a wide margin that I have no idea what the actual concept is. ???

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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #22 on: September 07, 2005, 11:52:06 am »

Wide right.

You would also make a poor field goal kicker.

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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #23 on: September 07, 2005, 11:56:29 am »


You would also make a poor field goal kicker.

Which I think would pretty much go without saying. I'm about as athletic as a sack of turnips.

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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #24 on: September 07, 2005, 11:58:47 am »

Stop eating the squirrels, then.

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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #25 on: September 07, 2005, 12:02:33 pm »
Some folks'll never eat a squirrel, but then again some folks'll.

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« Reply #26 on: September 08, 2005, 12:30:38 pm »
The squirrels broke into my still and drank up all the moonshine, then stole my Mini and went to Mexico.




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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #27 on: September 08, 2005, 12:32:16 pm »
How did you manage to get a copy of my surveillance tape?

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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2005, 12:35:15 pm »

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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2005, 04:42:10 pm »
You can find people to sell you cap kits on the rec.games.video.arcade.collecting group.

You can find the kit descriptions you need here :
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« Reply #30 on: September 08, 2005, 04:46:51 pm »
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« Reply #31 on: September 08, 2005, 04:47:23 pm »
No.
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« Reply #32 on: September 08, 2005, 04:48:36 pm »
Just when I was starting to think that you might be okay after all. ;)

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« Reply #33 on: September 08, 2005, 04:49:18 pm »

That's harsh.

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« Reply #34 on: September 08, 2005, 04:51:22 pm »
Won't help.  Still can't have one.
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Re: Cap Kits, Squirrel Vomit, and Bush's Thugs
« Reply #35 on: September 08, 2005, 04:52:24 pm »
Now that's harsh!

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« Reply #36 on: September 08, 2005, 04:52:49 pm »

I think fredster is my mother in law.

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« Reply #37 on: September 08, 2005, 04:56:14 pm »
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