Tom Booth

It's not actually thaaaaaaat bad (he says assuring himself). It's all complete/running, whatever I'd buy would want rechroming but the blue/red paint has saved it to some degree. The glass marquee on the top isn't available as a reproduction, but shouldn't be to hard to have made. There's a food few companies out there making reproduction parts for them though, most of the glass/trim pieces are available and there's a few people remaking plastics for them. I've created a few moulds fore vac formed plastic, I've had a few prototypes made but need to grow a pair and order a bulk. People remove the internals and replace with an iPod, can even buy a full wiring loom ready to plug in to a few models of wallbox, but given the low production numbers of this one, I'll strip, clean and reassemble. I just need a new pricing and select glass for USA pricing to replace the home made ones that are fitted.

I bought the corresponding jukebox end of last year, just waiting for a gap in work to restore.. All that blue/red trim should be chrome Think the chromer will retire when I've paid for that little lot. If I'm 100% honest I understand how they work, but I don't know the full ins and outs. They work on 4 core cable for this model, 25v in, common(negative) and 2 signals out, because you select a letter and then number. This then translates to like a 10 point rotary switch, connected to a solenoid, so B 5 would be 2 clicks on the letters rotary, 5 on the numbers rotary. As far as I can understand it's the amps the wallbox returns that dictates the distance of movement on the solenoid. It's mega clever for its age, the whole system is. When a jukebox is on, but not playing they have a muting circuit to kill any static or hum from the amplifier. This failed on a restored machine of mine over Christmas, melted my brain trying to repair it!

Old school remote, designed for the end of the table in a diner booth or big dance halls and stuff. The model.it's designed for was only a small jukebox, so obviously they weren't in big rooms hence you were never more then 20ft from the machine so they didn't sell a great deal of them. Think there's only 100 or so in existence

There's a guy with a Voodoo fat bike round here, just uses it to get to work and the shops via the road, looks right hard work!

Upsides of self employment - Finish early on a Friday if you feel like it. Downsides of self employment - Staying an extra 2h Monday to catch up from friday Paper work when you get home 'I'm only staying another hour' he said to his other half at 9pm Constantly in communication with customers, even Sunday night bath time The honking tax bill you receive rather then trickle throughout the year in your pay packet Time off results in no wage, which turns into no time off It's always on your mind, ALWAYS Everything is on you, responsibility for work coming in, work being undertaken and work completion through to payment is all on your head, let alone responsibility when you have a customer come back with a problem The constant reminder from friends that your self employed, so you must be a millionaire that works 20 minutes on a Wednesday. It will consume you. Self employment has its ups and downs as you can see. In all seriousness though, if you are contemplating self employment whatever your situation at the garage, be 100% sure you give enough of a shit to do it. It will become everything you do, think about and talk about. If you have the drive and interest to do it self employment is fantastic. It offers good rewards for your work, you dictate your work load/flow and it gives you the freedom to refuse work that otherwise you'd be pulling your hair out at. Make sure your other half is understanding if your in that situation too. Generally people with a standard 9-5 don't understand why you don't just leave at 5, why you have issues with shutting shop for a full week, leaving you with no wage for the past week. if your not working, your not making money. You won't realise how much you value time until you do it though and just how much time you wasted before. It's an old phrase your grandparents probably say and you think is bull but other is nothing more precious than time. That 3h job you booked in on Tuesday afternoon soon becomes a 5h job, that's 2h off the next job you need to pull back in somewhere which will be the end of the day. Going SE was the best thing I ever did. I'm lucky to say I had the opportunity to dip my toe in and go part time SE before I went for it so could find my way in business before I jumped. It's given me opportunities I'd never dreamed of, I work on (in my opinion) some of the coolest stuff going, I've met people I never would have thought and made some fantastic contacts/friends, but you've gotta value it enough when your still chipping away at 10.30pm on a Saturday.What happened with fifty6 @JD ?? I know you've moved on but what lead you to that??

I'm not starving myself to loose weight, my old habit was to constantly snack and drink coke. I'm eating 3 set meals, drinking water and nothing inbetween which is working pretty well so far, but I'm used to the biscuit snacking inbetween meals so that leaves me feeling hungry.

On a diet and I'm f**king starving, like 3rd world hunger levels

Certainly did, Turned up about 2 days after I filed a PayPal case against the seller as he bullshitted quite alot. That's on going still as I'm waiting for a reply from him but Atleast I got the item as described. It's a pretty rare piece, it's designed to work with the 100 selection jukeboxes rather then the popular 120 selection models. I've never seen another nor seen another one for sale, pretty chuffed with it and had some insane offers to buy it

Cheers Mark. I downloaded an app called aftership which let's you track anything from about 300+ different services. Unfortunately it's still in Italian but it saves upto 4 shipments you can view and label etc. Handy little app! Apparently it's arrived at the international sorting in Milan, hoping go get it early next week, too excited!

Yeah I guessed the last bit was the post office address but I couldn't figure out the parcel in charge bit, worried me that the bell end hasn't paid enough post and it's sat there waiting for charges to be paid or something.

I've bought an item from a guy in Italy, after weeks of nagging the son of a bitch he's posted it and given me a tracking number. Unfortunately I can only track it in Italian. Can anyone make sense of this? On Google Translator it equates to.. 'Taking Charge Office PostalePoste Italian Post Office Oderzo Via Arturo Martini' I cannot figure out what it's on about for the life of me. It hasn't changed either for a day or two. Anyone make any sense of it or know how to track it through a British site? It's with Poste Italiane.

Chode friend

At £400 per inch it was a steal!

Took a punt on something at auction yesterday at £55, spoke to a bit of a collector this morning and sold for £900. Today was a good day

I'd agree with you on the streaming quality JT, it's awesome and doesn't miss a beat.

Very wrong. I didn't understand the celebrity dying part last week, and was surprised when they carried on with it.

WTF was this week all about?!

Cod piece?

Jesus that's incredible I saw a Suzuki splash with those b*****d things on a few days ago, Aswell as some JDM 4eva sunrise decals and a massive status error sticker in the back window. Most bitching looking car ever

Yeah I'd agree looking at that picture, but in the flesh it's pretty subtle. Usually it sits in its case safely tucked away.

The amount of extra series getting watched because of the grand tour must be ridiculous. We're only watching walking dead to get more out of prime haha

I'm only on ep3s1 bit I've quite enjoyed it. I hope the sfx get better, that half dead bitch in the first episode littered the ground with Lego bricks from her brain haha.

Started watching The Walking Dead, it's alright.

They aren't thousands of pounds worth but still nice in there own right. Tissot T race I had for my 21st, it's lovely and light, most of the aesthetic pieces are carbon/titanium. Tissot PRS330, lovely heavy watch. I'm not much of a dress up/fashion piece person so that suits me down to the ground when I want something abit fancier. I did fancy a Tissot from last year that was fully automatic, based on some of the older racing le man's cars but missed the chance to buy one, they released the new model that isn't as nice.