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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 04, 2019 03:33 PM
Amphibious Update
So, as I’ve covered here before, I’m building this model car…boat thing. It’s a model of a WWII US Army Amphibious Jeep. These were the brainchild of the Allied Command while planning for D-day: build a whole bunch of amphibious vehicles and basically drive to France right across the Channel. The larger 6 wheel amphibious truck version of this was very successful, but this not nearly as much. It’s basically as if you forced an Army Jeep to drive around wearing a big bathtub: the end result was neither a good Jeep nor a good boat!
It is a cool model though!
It’s like my tenth project: I always have other things going on with films and projectors and the house and my job is basically made of projects, so it wasn’t getting done. Right at the start, I cut the two hull sides out and then left it for an entire year! (All priorities!)
I’ve used CineSea as an excuse to actually get some work done on this thing. I make some goal, and then I sail it with my son in the Pool at the Ocean Holiday.
The goal this time was to build the cockpit floor. This is where the seats will ultimately go, but more importantly the underside of it is where all the electrical stuff (batteries, switches, wiring) is mounted. Before I built this I had to round up a whole bunch of clip leads and wire it up poolside. Now I just throw switches (land or sea) and run either the wheels or the prop or both.
-but fate intervened!
When I got to CineSea the pool looked like this! This was opening weekend and the hotel was still cleaning the pool after being closed all winter.
Now I ask you: would you take a model you’d been building (on and off) for a decade and put it in that “water”?
Turned out OK, I remembered it’s amphibious and “sailed” it up on the sun deck!
(It wasn’t as much fun!)
October 31, 2018: The Back Story
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted May 17, 2019 03:22 PM
Big Bang: Big Screen
Sometimes something important happens on TV and I get out the cables and connect the VP into our broadcast cable TV. The first time was the last Winter Olympics. Last night was the final one hour episode of The Big Bang Theory. We love this show and have been watching it for years, so we decided to make an occasion of it: made some snacks, invited some friends, rigged for big screen projection.
I’m not sure when these episodes will air worldwide, so I’ll only make one spoiler: 12 seasons later, they finally fixed the elevator!
The shame of it is it’s basically the only TV show I watch right now, so I guess screen-wise I’m going to have to shift even more for myself, but at least we gave it a great sendoff.
I noticed something while I was operating this way: that I have made myself a really bizarre TV set! The screen is in the front window, the volume control is on the dining room table, and the channel selector is at the back of the house about 30 feet away from the screen. What’s also unusual is the fact that an Elmo sound projector pays a key role here. This all evolved from just one film projector on the table. When the sound system was added that entire end of the system was grounded through it. When other 8mm, 16mm and video projectors are added in, their audio goes to the mixer through balanced connections so ground stays with the first Elmo. Without that ground this wicked ground loop develops and you can barely hear the audio through the hum. So for just last night, I needed a movie projector to watch TV!
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....will you be trying it out in some nearby pond?
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