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Road Trip – Monitor Run First road trip for the blog and this one is one I’ve been wanting to go on for some time. If anyone in the arcade community knows, the place marked in the sign above plays a great importance in arcade cab manufacturing for a very well known gaming company, but which. Welcome To County Tipperary So up early this morning, with a quick breakfast and a load of goodies...

Workshop Build 3 Well, it’s been a while since my last post regarding the workshop and the main reason was getting my back hurt and being out of action for a number of months. Nothing to do with the build, thankfully, but other reasons. At least there has been progress and now that I’m on the mend, hopefully this and the updates will progress quicker. Grand Central So last time I...

Workshop Build 2 Seems the snowing season is here to stay for another while. It might look cold, but if you keep working, you’ll be okay. Nothing frozen and falling off just yet. Them walls After a couple of weeks of shifting stone and letting the foundation harden it was time to start to lay the concrete block wall. All the outer walls will be dwarf walls and only the central wall being full...

Workshop Build 1 I have finally managed to get planning permission to build a proper workshop. This will mean so much more space and the ability to get a number of larger machines in. Can’t wait for this to get completed. It will mean that the various storage units/garages/sheds, for the arcade cabs can finally be moved into a single location, and give me time and space to get stuck into restoring...

Big Shed Update – 02 Tis winter and a bit more work has been done to the shed. Apart from the snow, you can see the double glazed windows have been installed and a lot more of the log effect wooden lengths have been added. The great U.S.A. The inside of the shed has a raised platform which is the, “Up Stairs Attic”. This is to be turned into a storage area and a place to house...

Big Shed Update – 01 About some 20 years ago, we built a shed/workshop out in the garden. It was a fair size and took some time to construct, but over the years it had been neglected and used to store any old rubbish. So it’s about time we done something about it and brought it back into proper use. A rotten exterior The side of the shed gets the worse of the weather and as such it has been...