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Quoted from zerbam:they are both for sale on ebay
Would you care to share a link - I haven't seen them. Thanks.
A cheap diy building light mod.
I recently picked up a Flintstones and wanted to add the building light mod so here's my diy approach.
I used 1W leds that come mounted on aluminium plate, these are cheap, a few dollars for ten from ebay and the like. To make them easier to mount I superglued them to thin pieces of metal cut from an old pc case.
Each led is about 3 volts and they are polarised, so if you arrange two in series and then a parallel string of another two arranged in the opposite polarity they suit being fed from the GI.
Bad ascii art schematic shows it below!
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I drilled 20mm holes to mount the leds into the buildings. I drilled from the bottom for the residential side because I thought this would look better with the flat roofs. I drilled from the rear wall for the shops.
the wires can be concealed inside the buildings, working your way along.
when all is down and tested I used a smear of neutral cure silastic to hold the back plates in place
I made up little up little tails to connect to GI sockets, this makes it easily removable.
On the building end is the mating connector and the cable is run through the playfield holes
so it all plugs together
and from the top
The whole thing cost a few dollars and an hour or two for those who like to tinker.
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Quoted from DougAUS11:Hi All,
Try to co a clean up of my flintstones which includes new decals.Can anyone point me to the direction of the above mentione file ?
Cheers Doug
PM me your email address and I'll send them to you and the contact for a fellow in Sydney who printed mine that came out very nicely.
Quoted from McPin54:I like that
What did you use, paint? if so what kind? Or marker?
Just acrylic craft paint and a fine brush.
Quoted from Rat:.. does anyone know what value diode I should put with it? ...
Pretty much any diode will be ok. 1N4148 or it's equiv 1N914 were used originally but 1N4001 will work if you have them on hand. They aren't critical.
Edit - you shouldn't have problems with a lamp socket. Have you tried soldering the nipple to the wire tag - sometimes this connection becomes iffy.
Rat, on type 44 sockets the centre nipple is riveted to a tag to which the wire is soldered - sometimes this connection is flakey because it's only pressure holding it in place - so you can put a blob of solder over the rivet and tag to ensure good electrical connection - doesn't sound likely now from what you've described.
How's it behave in single lamp test? Any problems with other lamps in the same row or column? Run through the test routine for all in single lamp and this may reveal something.
Quoted from RB0135:Need some help with the Round Stand Up targets, .... Thanks, Rob
Rob, run through the switch test and individual lamp test modes. This may reveal something for you.
Quoted from Williampinball:Looks great ,where did you get them from ,decal ?
Yep a decal that I had printed on sticky paper - size 297 x 210 mm
FS-sheet.jpgQuoted from little-italy:Hey anyone here try painting a Flintstones apron? If so looking for some good advice. Thanks
Checkout a technique called "dry brushing". Good luck.
Here's how it looks applied to a Dirty Harry safe house.
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