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[wiesshund]

and here i complain about having to take a kayak from the front door to where the road is

[rickh]

And.... it's gone.

 

I lost my house and garage in the Caldor Fire in California 8/16/2021.  All the parts and pieces are now ash.

 

 

I still have the pinball machine I built as it was not home during the fire. But the video game is gone as are all my tools. I doubt I'll start over on it any time soon. Maybe I'll just buy a prebuilt one once I get a new house.

Boltbait,  

Sorry for your loss.  Although we have insurance, it can never replace the sentimental items and memories lost.  My brother and many of my closest friends lost their houses to fires up in Redding and Lake Oroville.  I hope you can get your life back to normal.

 

Sincerely,

 

  Rick 

[wiesshund]

I have a couple old couches i am getting rid of, but i doubt they are worth the shipping coast to coast.

Still comfy but they are pretty beat looking, but if you happen to have someone driving through the area

[BoltBait]

Haha. No need to send couches... positive thoughts are plenty!

 

A couple of years ago I had "retired" from my job as it had been outsourced to India. I eventually found another job that was just too far away from my house to commute everyday. So, I had rented an apartment about an hour and a half away from my house. I moved a few items there (clothes and such) and my pinball machine. Not alot--just enough to live through the week and I would live at my house on the weekends where I would work on my woodworking projects in the garage.

 

Well, the Caldor fire in California whipped through Grizzly Flats (a tiny town where my house was) and burned my house and garage to the ground.  I'm well insured, so I'll be fine.  I've just switched to living at the apartment full time.  So, the family and pets are safe. The only thing we lost was a house and garage... all full of a lifetime of stuff and memories.

 

A couple of months ago, the apartment complex I live at was remodelling their game room and decided to get rid of their video game.  I bought it.

 

So, now I have my pinball machine, this video game, and this video game.  Also, I've just ordered this video game which should be here in a few days.  The new 1Up machines are much better than the original ones... so there's that!

[wiesshund]

I dont have anything shiny and newish like that, but i have these, though i wont swear mine look as nice, and i dont presently have the correct control panels on them
cause while i have the arcade boards and some other arcade boards also, i got real tired a long time ago constantly repairing them, so the boards are boxed in anti static bags
and they have mame pc's hanging in them instead, ancient mame pc's as in the MS DOS variety LOL but they have run over 20 years like that, except that all the CRT's have officially now died and an LCD is so much cheaper and lighter

I have 1 vector tube that works, but it has bad burn marks and that costs too much to have the tube cut open and repaired and then have the neck melted back on

 

 

 

[BoltBait]

....and, I'm back!
 
It's been a while, but I finally moved from a temporary apartment into a house.  Once I built shelves in my garage and replenished my tools, I started on my arcade machine again.
 
This time, I decided to build a dedicated racing sim.
 
Here's what I built:
 

 
And, here's my build log: boltbait.com/racecar/
 
I still need to get Pole Position going, but in the mean time, I'm having lots of fun with the racing simulators!
 

BoltBait's Racing Simulator (youtube.com)