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I was just in Dublin this past week with collaborator/designer Sean McDonald at the Science Gallery’s BioRhythm Exhibit, debuting a piece of Interactive/Educational Software. Many thanks to Science Gallery for making it possible. More to come soon…
Continue Reading →I mocked up a jtm45 chassis in SketchUp for Mathew at Suspect Device Audio. He’s working on an awesome marshall jtm45 offset prototype clone, sometimes called the “kitchen” amps, because jim marshall built them in his kitchen. It should be pretty cool, I’ll post pictures of the faceplate and chassis when we get [...]
Continue Reading →So, we stopped yesterday after james complained that the van was surging, loosing power suddenly, and just not behaving right. I found a Dodge dealership in Toledo Ohio that apparently does has tons of sprinter experience and parts.
Two hours of diagnostics later, I was told we needed a new fuel [...]
Continue Reading →New window arrived. Not shattered like the last two, but scratched and mangled, oh well, I’m going to get a credit form the supplier, and at this point, that’s fine, I’m just glad it showed up in one piece. Below is the blank where the new window is going.
So the idea is to [...]
Continue Reading →I put in a cargo wall to protect the band from betting impaled with guitar headstocks in the event of a high speed crash or an abrupt stop. This my first experience with expanded metal sheet, it’s 1/8″ thick, and is super sturdy, and much lighter than a solid steel wall.
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So yesterday I worked on the van some more, and the framing is almost done. Cargo area, bunks, and benches made out of steel. Here are some pictures. What wasn’t documented was removing the cargo wall behind the driver/passenger seats, removing the flooring, recutting it to fit the new footprint, and building the bunks.
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Here are some pictures of Arizona’s new tour van. I’m outfitting it for use as an RV. It’s a 2004 Dodge Sprinter 3500. It’s a Mercedes that dodge re-sells in the US, it’s a Turbo Diesel engine, and empty on the drive home got 26mpg, and the previous owner claims 23mpg when it’s fully loaded. It’s a huge step up from the 8-14mpg that the typical Ford E-350 tour van gets. No plans to convert it to run on vegetable oil yet.
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I found an Akai S5000 on ebay for about $300, a piece of gear that would have cost an arm and a leg in 1997 is now obsolete, but it has a a USB port (the older S series like the s3000, seen in some of the pics is SCSI only), hot output, decent D/A, and like it’s MPC brothers has been on countless platinum records. So is it good enough for the stage?… hells yea.
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