It has been some time! Sorry for the long hiatus, but I had to do some renovation work on the building where my puppet stage and workshop are located, so no chance to finalize videos. I pushed this one through in between cleaning and sorting stuff into shelves.
Eearlier this year I finally decided that I needed a spray booth. Both for what little airbrushing I do and for some of the restoration projects.
I did some improvisation to keep the cost down. All in all, it took about two days to cobble this thing together, and another afternoon for the little extra bit in the end.
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Time Clock - Restoration Project #47 - Part 2
Part 1 is over here: https://youtu.be/dsYLKyeK_Vw
A very common question I get almost everywhere is "how much time do you spend on the projects?" - and I have no idea. I do have a fully blown phobia of timekeeping aparently. And yes, that's a problem for my day job too. But it led to an interesting eBay search and here's the result: A vintage time clock!
Like so many nifty gadgets, it's of US origin and takes the wrong voltage/frequency to run. And even if I don't want to hook it up permanently, I still want it to work for whenever I do fancy it for whatever purpose. So it was clear from the get go that I needed to do same modifications...
In this part 2, I can start putting things together again and find out all the details of the inner workings.
The clock was missing any identification markings about model or series numbers, but had a sticker for "Cincinnati Time Clock Co." on the side. They might be the ones who maintained it though, as the best "looks like my device" hit so far was provided by Rynnan, who discovered an IBM model 2500-5 that looks exactly like this one. Although the "-5" might indicate a "master clock" driven model, the chase and clock face is an exact match with mine... The early "IBM" tag might also be a reason why it has gone missing, as that might be a nifty collector's item.
0:00 Intro / Review
1:11 Assembly Start: Coil Pack / Base Plate / Actuator Plate
3:00 Leaf Switches / Feet
4:08 Ribbon Winder
5:15 Ribbon? How and Fix
7:20 Assembly: Clockwork Beginning...
9:38 ...Frame Completed, More Springs and Levers...
10:25 Number Wheels
11:25 Aligning Levers
13:50 Clock Shaft / Motor
14:40 Clock Face / Clock Gears
16:15 First Test With Motor / Electrical Work
18:03 First Stamp Test / Lock Issue
19:35 Second Stamp / Mechanism Slow Motion
20:20 Stmap Explained
22:15 Overview / Summary / Credits / Outtakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_clock - Generic info about time clocks for the young ones out there
Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)
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Thanks to everybody who signed up already!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZotcpGtr_Xg
Finally! After an entire year of collecting ideas, planning, scripting, prop building and casting (and yes, even some location scouting) the second installment of "Dog's Life" is here!
Come and take a peek at what happens when Dog has to visit his physician, Dr. Badger! Guest starring: Cat as the nurse!
The soundtrack for this video can be found at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11990988/
NOTE: YouTube (aka Google) seems to force comments through G+ now. Since I am NOT interested in a G+ account, I can no longer approve comments here. Please use the Vimeo version to comment: https://vimeo.com/78441589 - please direct complaints to the Google "customer" support, as there is nothing I can do about it. I'm sorry to see YouTube go down the drain myself.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScJargbPHf4
When I first started the "Tinkering" series, I thought: oh, if a handful of people are tuning in, it'll be awesome. Never have I thought that I'd actually hit the 1000 subscriber mark. I still hope for more of course, but "going four digit" is a huge thing for me. Thank you all!
I took the opportunity to patch together a "making of" type of video, together with a Q&A session. Most questions were about my tools: favorite, most obscure... these kind of things.
0:00 Intro / Time planning
1:20 Starting the µLab and finishing with the CNC mill...
2:05 Scripting / Voiceover
3:08 Audio processing
4:01 The Stage!
5:25 Insert Shots / A/V sync / "Special Effects"
6:40 Exporting and Timing / Fine Tuning / Subtitles
8:00 YouTube stuff / Summary
9:00 Q&A: Favorite Tool / Most used Tool / Treasured Tool
9:50 Q&A: Underrated Tool / Most Useless Tool / What Project to do
10:55 Q&A: Anything I can't fix? / How to keep track of parts?
11:52 Q&A: Prerecorded dialog? / Closing words / Outtake
Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)
You can support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/atkelar
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8KXhfMgmc
During Artillary practice one shot was - slightly - off target and detonated in a nearby village. Only by sheer luck nobody got hurt (except a cat) and the Austrian Military has still not officially announced what caused the gunner to shoot into the wrong direction... So, I've come to my own conclusions here and provided a comedic view of what *might* have happened...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFqJKL3KHf8
It's another new year, another good opportunity to tweak things. Here's a bit of an update about what's to come on a general level!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmdQmbMUmY
The theme for Eurofurence 25 was "Fractures in Time" - i.e. pretty much anything revolving around time travel or related topics in SciFi and Fantasy.
For me, it was clear from the start that I wanted to have a "Time Circuit Display" as a prop on the set of the photoshoot, which I organized.
For that purpose, having a 100% authentic replica is not really an option, since the studio flashlight will drown out pretty much any LED (except for high-power ones, but hey, that wouldn't be accurate either)
Extending an idea that I had a few years ago, when I made a "fake torch", I decided to put a cheap flash that can trigger from the main flash would be the way to go. Here's how planning and construction worked out. Mind you, some things I'd have done slightly different, had time not been very limited...
If you like my little videos, please consider dropping a few bucks into my coffee bin: https://ko-fi.com/atkelar - I am not doing this for a living, but it would be nice to offset the cost of the materials a bit. Also, I'm looking to finance a second camera for the hands-on shots, so I'd have two angles to intercut. I would hate to put my main camera into the workshop hazard.
Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)
https://ko-fi.com/atkelar
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elf8Vyidyp4
Restoration Project #42 - PE Musical 5V - Part 1
My first ever restoration was my grandfather's old tube radio. I did that one before I made videos, so it isn't anywhere up here, sorry. It does have a "phono" input on the backside and that always fascinated me: how about a record player that fits the time period? And so I scouted all over the net for affordable ones. Mind you, I wanted something to restore and just for fun... so paying three digit amounts plus shipping was out of the question here, otherwise I would have found it way sooner.
Cue last year: a friend in Germany poked me and asked if I would be interested in a lot of old record players that somebody in his neighborhood offered "free for pickup". And one of them fit the bill! So I paid shipping only on this...
...and now follow me on the first part of the two part series to find out just why it was free.
0:00 Intro / Presentation
1:13 Opening up the case / First Impressions
2:39 Discovering Model Details / Motor Stator-Status
4:00 Rebuilding the Stator
5:39 Rotor Cleanup and Run Capacitor
7:35 Motor Trials / Resistor Issue
8:53 Amplifier Section / Transformer Issue
10:20 Rewinding- / Repacking Transformer
11:20 Amplifier Start / Audio Transformer
13:05 Speaker and Transformer / Recapping Start
14:30 Volume Potentiometer Repair
16:19 Capacitor Replacement
17:36 Rectifier Replacement
18:27 Fuse Holder Board
20:08 B+ Go! But...
20:30 ...Finally! / Goodby / Outtake
Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)
You can support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/atkelar
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwE1ogVOrB8