Well after the surgery this early morning I rectified the issue and I am back at 100% Operation capability..

Glad I was able to fix this on the cheap..

Good job. Now, back to enjoying the fruits of your labor!

Yes, I did learn a valuable lesson that is to take pictures of these things during taking it apart.. as to see the placement as my memory is not what it used to be

Well I did try and jump on the early band wagon that is Win 10, but it did not turn out so good.. But I did get a weird little occurance in my games. now the Colors seem more rich and Vibrant for some odd reason..

I was playing Star Wars and noticed the colors did not seem faded and dull but rich and vibrant I was totally shocked and am curious to why after a reinstall of Windows and the same drivers my colors ingame seem more alive??

Very curious indeed, I noticed the colors where off last time before installing Win 10. But when I installed SW but just thought it was my Warping Software causing the issues but I don't think it was.. The Desktop colors seem the same just ingame so far the colors are very vibrant it is almost like I got a new monitor from a Black and white one..

I am going to check DCSW and F4 BMS and see if those colors seem better too.. I hope so that would be great or maybe it was just the game but LOTRO seems more colorfull too.. Weird..

Well I had a Minor malfunction of my Flight Chair.. It had broke where I welded it.. Well as I thought but did not want to fix it properly when I did the initial fix.. but this time I am going to rectify that problem and weld it up solid this time..

What I did was just use the original tube the chair sat on and it had a thinner 1/8th" Wall really not too good to weld too and the fact that inside that was some plastic goo that seemed to have melted into the weld causing not such a permanent bond..


WEll this time I am going to sleeve the center pedestal with I am thinking 1/4" thick with an ID of 2" length 3.5".. I am just going to sleeve it and then weld the main part of the chair to the sleeved section.. I am thinking of renting a 220V Stick welder and get it done right vs using my 110v mig welder..

here are some pics of it in its current condition..

Well Early this morning I went to the Steel shop to get a Schedule 40 Pipe. I needed 4" but it was cheaper to buy a foot of it in the bargain bin.. You pay buy the pound for some steel..

I had to goto the Storage shed to get the welder and other gear but I could not find the Reciprocating saw or Grinder.. So I found a Hacksaw and becn grinder which did the trick nicely. Alto it took me near an Hour to hack through the pipe..

I cleaned the guts out of the stem on the seat where the hydraulic function was and took out the plastic on the inside so when I welded it I got a good bead. I had to scrape off some of the paint from the previous fix on the plate..

I then hooked up the Mig Welder to the Generator and grinded down the round stem where the previous bead was and the schedule 40 fir like a glove.. I then welded the iner piece to the schedule 40 piece and it was althe way to the bottom so it was just a holding bead not so much a structural weld..

I then welded the Schedule 40 to the Flat plate and did 2 passes.. I cranked it up for all it was worth and I did get some decent penetration this time.. Other then the piece on the inside failing I don't see this breaking this time as this is how I should have fixed it in the first place..

I then let it cool off and Primed and painted it, then let it finish fumigating outside and let the paint dry.. I went and had dinner and did a few things then brought the piece downstairs and hooked it back up to the chair and it seems like a good fix.. I don't feel crooked and I also adjusted the legs spacing to my liking as to not get in the way of my feet I offset it a bit ..

here are some pics and I am glad I am done this. it was rather hot today and Im finished for now going to go play some games or something I guess and I am sitting in the chair as I typed this up..

On a Side not I managed to get my Overclock back to 4.5ghz on my I5 3570K @1.31v.. runs pretty hot but it is designed too so should not be a problem.. I am seriously considering a Water loop for the CPU Only..

Well the Chair has not Broke yet hehe!! but Whilst I wait for the chair to break again I went out and bought sone memory I know have 16GB of that and I also added another 980 GTX in the mix in hopes of DCS 1.5..

Well so far it seems to be working ok but the main reason was for DCSW 1.5 and the hopes they do utilize multi GPU;s well enough to justify 2 cards...

I will have to do some testing but I did finally manage to get a SLI Bridge at a local PC store thank god they had 1.. I do need to get a better power cable for the 2nd video card as I am running of 1 split tooo two..

I thought the adapter I bought was going to fit into the PSU not on a cable coming out of it.. but so far it has been ok but I have not really ran through some gaming time to be sure..

I could run Furmark and see how that goes.. but so far the coolness factor of my rig just went up

Well I had a small malfunction this morning.. I was sitting here looking on the web when I hear d a pop and pieces came fliying out and I hear a really bad noise I was instantly up and turning the projector off..

I took it down and began the operation immediately. upon opening it I seen some parts and it looked like the bulb so I pulled the bulb out that looked fine.. so I opened the case up and looked at the color whell it was destroyed..

I am unsure how it malfunctioned but it was quick and nothing I could do.. So I put some stuff up on ebay and hopefully I can get enough to but the new wheel..

here is a pick of the broken color wheel:

Well having a run of bad luck this week. my 1st 980gtx card just died.. it is being recognized in windows it just don't work when I run MSI Kombuster it registers 0% usage.. it is not the slot cause I have a 2nd card and it is in there now and it works fine so it definitely must be the card that is kaput

You are having a rough week. I'll cross my fingers for you that the bad things don't come in threes.

Wizard

Well I am not complaining but it was kinda some bad luck the video card as it just died like that.. I kept getting errors like a TDR error but the computer would not generate a crash log.. it was a bit confusing to what was going on but it was all clear when I ran MSI Kombuster and saw the 0% on the 1st video card I knew then it was broke..

Well luck shines my way yet agin.. I am having issues with the center lens on my Projector.. IT has a dark spot and that would explain the smell I smelt last night whilst gaming.. I am unsure how much longer it will last but I am glad I am getting some money on Tuesday

Well I found out what might be going on.. I posted a thread over at fixyourDLP.com and the guy there mentions they have 2 different types of bulbs an E22 and a P22. well the E22 is more a direct ray light and the P22 is more non direct to any 1 point..

The P22 are parbolic.. So I think the guy I been buying off has the E22 instead of the correct P22's.. So I found a new comaopny I will call tomorrow to find out which of the 3 bulb choices they have are the P22 types.. hopefully the 45 dollar barre bulbs are good for my Projectors and the P22 type..

I am glad I solved this =or at least I think I have we will find out when I fix the 2nd projector and install the new bulbs.. I am going to recycle these old ones as they are no good now..

I had made a decision to build a new PC chair for my simulator as this one is getting really uncomfortable.. So I decided to use a car seat this time..


I went to the junkyard early this morning and bought a seat. I believe it was from a PT Cruiser not sure the year.. but all in all it just had a small tear in it which don't bother me too much I could always get a seat cover..

I bought a base and with some welding about I can mount the car seat to the chair base and have a really comfortable PC Chair.. I spend a lot of time just sitting here and my butt gets sore form the current chair..

I will have to wait a few days to get the base delivered to my house but I don't think it will take too long.. I had also vacumed the chair and cleaned it off with some cleaner and hot water. then I let it sun/air dry outside all day..

I did not get any after shots of the cleaned up chair perhaps tomorrow I'll take some more shots of it.. all in all it doesn't look to bad..








Brushed Aluminum Chair Base

here is the seat after it has been vacummed and cleaned off.. looks much better and darker irl tho??

here is the almost finished product. I need to lower a few inches as it is too high as it stands.. but seems stable..

That came together nicely!

Looks great Nephalim!

thank you guys.. I did lower it 3" it is now perefect.. I replasced the steel with a 3/4" piece of wood..

Well this Christmas day I am thankfull.. I did learn a valuable lesson tho when using Display port stuff, use a Certfied Display stuff as the port adapter I bought was a junky one and now does not work.. I found a list here:


http://www.displayport.org/products-database/


So I would double check those Displayport cables and such and see if they where tested by DP... I will never buy another adapter for DP unless it is certified..