[sdiy] The things one sees..

[Kevin Lightner]

>David Brown wrote:
>>I got my first car back in 1996 (after 20 years) and found a 
>>screwdriver on the cross member that I had lost in 1972.  Probably 
>>stayed there for ~150k miles as far as I can tell.
>
>One time I lost a really nice Fluke meter. I went out and bought 
>another one thinking some knob stole it, and 3.5 years later, after 
>opening up one of my pinball machines, there was the original meter. 
>It had been entombed in the body for almost 4 years before I noticed 
>it.
>
>-->Neil

Wow.
Here's one that's both pinball and synth related.

I had a Black Knight 2000 pinball in the early 90's.
Fixed it up ("shopped it" as the pinball gurus call it).
Sold it to a pinball broker and didn't see it again.
Or so I thought.
About 4 or 5 years later, I decided I wanted one again.
I went to a different place, bought another BK2K machine and had it delivered.
I was told it had just come from New Orleans, LA, several thousand miles away.
When I opened it, I was amazed to see it was the same machine I had earlier.
The very same 6/32 screws that I had put in... taken from an Arp 2600 
and still with their red colored screw lock paint. Other items such 
as the bulbs which were actually 280ma types instead of the common 
pinball 250ma types, the same non-stock heatshrink (purple and 
green!) on the power supply wires, etc. Same machine.
Unfortunately, I ended up selling that machine again and I think it 
wound up at Rob Zombie's.

But here's a thing that I've always wanted to do and is (somewhat) 
synth related.
Why not touch sensetive flippers? None of the makers ever did this 
and even the leaf switches they used have enough contacts. Would make 
the machine more controllable than a simple on and off solenoid 
control.

-- 
Regards,
Kevin Lightner

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