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Workshop Build 11 Okay, just a quick update. As was forecast, the weather was indeed snow. It looked like a wonderful winter wonderland. Even so, I managed to sneak in a wee bit of work on getting the wood bolted to the top of the steel beams to enable the rafters to be screwed into place. The first set of rafters was added, around 20 needing to be...

Workshop Build 9 So a fortnight and over 14 tons of concrete later, the dirty deed has finally been done, and I do mean dirty. The workshop floor is now complete. This took way more effort than I had initially thought. It’s surprising just how quickly sand, stone and cement disappear. Working it out, if I had ordered the concrete pre-mixed and...

Workshop Build 8 So here we go again. After what seems like an age of family and health issues, yet again, I’m starting the second half of the workshop. YAY! This section hasn’t been touched in a year and a half, and it’s surprising just how quickly nature can take over. It was like a jungle out there, so the first thing was to clear...

Workshop Build 7 Have been down with the cold, but getting better, and as such, time for what was done last weekend. As you can see from the last post, there are cabs in the workshop. Oh dear! Had given the concrete some time to go off and harden. It created an awful lot of condensation in the workshop. The underside of the roof, rafters, beams and...

Workshop Build 6 So with Storm Babet now out of the way, and looking for dry spells in amongst the wet, it was time to get back to the build. More of the front panelling went up, finished off the framing and installation of the electric box. Next up was to tackle the roof. The 8’x4′ ply boards are heavy enough to lug around at the best...

Atari ‘Volcano’ Cones – Repo’d The idea of PhilsArcade was to create a workshop to help the arcade community as a whole. I’m please to announce that our first product is now available to order and can be bought directly from our shop. The Reproduction Workshop I’ve been looking for something fairly easy to start...

Workshop Build 5 So the good weather has managed to hold out for a few more days, and I’ve been out at the workshop with whatever time I can spare. Unfortunately you do need food and sleep from time to time. As you can see, made good progress over the weekend. Most of the side panelling had been done, and managed to squeeze in a fair amount...

Workshop Build 4 So the weather has actually been more spring like, especially since it’s now October. Nice thing is it’s been decent for the last number of days so I’ve managed to get out to do a bit more work on the workshop. With not being out over the summer the weeds had basically taken over, with the back of the workshop...

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...

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...