Saturday, September 26, 2009
DELETE * FROM WHITEBOARD;
A quick note. Today I:
- Finally made the titles on my super8 box;
- Finally copleted all the tasks on my whiteboard, so I could erase it completely! yay!
Saturday, August 22, 2009
More Pierina
A nice morning of train-work! Many new details:
I had to make a small modification with the cabin:
I had to rework the chimney:
This is a commemorating image of my messy workspace:
Monday, August 3, 2009
Loco Digi and more Pierina
Thursday and Friday where train work days. And I forgot to put up the photos. Oops!
Well, first of all I digitalized the Roco V200 of FP. I found and interesting quote in the little manual that accompanies the loco (freely translated):
After 30 years of trustfully work the V200 series locos where to be decommissioned, useful only as spare parts. So they where brought from the italian FP to be put on regular service.
And then one wonders why local train service quality is err… questionable.
Well., on to the digi process! This loco is yery easy to open, but internally contains no space at all. Nothing. Nada!I decided firstly to remove the internal PCB, but then I realized it is part of the structure (!) so I decided to cut a hole in te pcb, which will not be used:
This is with the decoder in place:
I tried to wire everything in an orderly fashion:
And this is the loc almost finished:
The decoder is wrapped up in insulating tape, since it will be enclosed in metal:
This is the decoder closed in it’s enclosure:
Saturday was Pierina day. This time nothing special, just drilled some holes and made new handles (which where destroyed by me - oops!)
And these are two of them mounted:
I added some missing pipes:
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Dremel drug!
Yesterday I brought a set of Dremel accessories so today I tested them over my Pierina. I libe the results:
Thursday I also mountend my third spool of super8 film, this time only 90m:
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
3.3 x 4.5
I found in a closed a slide film duplicator. Since I was struggling to photograph some 8mm frames for my title project, I had the idea to utilize the duplicator to digitalize the frame.
The results are really stunning! Using AL’s Nikon D40 I can get (almost) all the information on the frame! And it is only 3.3mm x 4.5mm a regular 8mm!
Setup with scratch film
The duplicator
And the result:
And this is full resolution:
