I would like to see your skills video also, I was pretty good in the late 80’s and early 90’s but was mostly self taught. Growing up in central BC we didn’t get the experts like in bigger cities and of course we didn’t have TH-cam either 😮. Love your videos
i am constantly astonished by the tooling made by the mad fuckers that make crimp tooling as i unreel a few hundred more tiny tiny tiny complexities, crimp tool in my hand
Hey Quinn - you really took me back in time with this one. My first real engineering job was as the only electronic engineer at a company called Displays Inc. from 1987 to 1993. We made DC plasma displays, and Williams was one of our largest customers. That dot matrix display may be one of ours, but we had a competitor, Cherry, that also made many of those. I don't know if there are any identifying marks on the display, but we had a unique way of doing the gas fill on them that gave a totally flat front and back glass. Cherry filled theirs through a glass nipple on the cathode (back) glass that remained after it was melted and twisted off. We did ours hundreds at a time in a gas vacuum/gas chamber oven, with a little gap in the edge seal with a low melt point glass sliver to seal it up. I designed the drive electronics and the test and aging systems that we used in the factory in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. The DC plasma technology's time passed as other display methods improved, and we folded up shop in '93. The company right across the street took me in and I've been designing ultrasonic flaw detectors and thickness gauges ever since.
Dig around for old telephony films/videos as well as western electric, bell core, nortel,and AT&T standards and practices documentation they are generally very good in explaining how to do things which very often can be translated into doing lots of other things as long as you let your mind wander if you know what I mean
I have watched your intro over and over and finally got to see the famous soldering iron get a leading part in the video. So often left in the shadow of General Lathe and Major Mill. A welcome addition to the front line. 😀
I'd love to see you do a pinball skills video! And I'll take this opportunity to say a big thanks for sharing your projects in your very own style - honest, entertaining and with tremendous bandwidth of knowledge and skill transfer!
Quinn - now I know how you and Sprocket spend some of your quality time together! That was a great introduction for me to the world of pinball machines, and how to diagnose and repair some issues they may have. Fascinating!
That is one of the best diagrams I have ever seen for the Western Union splice. As someone who has enjoyed your blog for some time, yes, I would enjoy seeing the additional content.
I love pinballs, which suggests a much mis-spent youth, and have always wanted one for the rec room. I always enjoyed watching the repair guy work on them which ended in his treating us to a few freebies. So much so, that my last visit to Vegas included a day at the pinball arcade of fame, armed with a large bag of quarters (childhood fantasy fulfilled). Enjoyed the video Quinn, take care, cheers!
Nice to see you spending quality time with Sprocket :D I've always loved pinball machines, from the electro-mechanical ones I played in the arcades in the 70s to the modern ones with multi layers and electronic controllers, they really are works of art. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing some pinball content on your channel, especially information about how the various features work.
We had the same machine in the office when I worked for a trendy tech company in the noughties. I spent many hours trying to maintain and repair it, and vastly more playing it despite my weak skills. I never got on top of the power supply issues though, which didn't get fixed until I'd moved on to another job. So much nostalgia watching you play!
"They are made to be worked on" Indeed. I was a route mover for an amusement company in the Twin Cities who had to occasionally service machines (especially on Saturday rotations) If you need to work on them don't be afraid! I was paid to move heavy objects but even I could effect repairs on most pins. Have service mode will travel. For folks who don't know, if you are not on free play and you see the display for the number of credits currently in the machine, look to the lower right of the display digit. If there is a dot, it means you have something that needs to be serviced. For example if you see "credits 0." its time to check that service mode and run a test! 90% of the time it was just a lightbulb that had gone out, but being told which one it was saved a lot of time vs having to find it by sight. Thanks for the video!
Love this! I’m happy to see more pinball videos from you. I’ve played pinball machines since I was a child in the 60’s-70’s. I enjoy learning how things work.
I haven't played pinball since the early eighties, but I lived on such machines in the seventies. Seldom seen the insides, really enjoyed watching you beeline straight to the problem and provide an elegant repair. I worked on avionics in the Marines, 76-97, similar harnesses, not near as much room to work. That cable repair wasn't much different than what I did forty years ago. I really enjoyed the short bit of "sprocket play". Thanks!
I would appreciate more pinball and other non-pure machining content. I can totally see a long term project akin to the steam engine, but that uses your electrical, programming, and machining skills all as one, being a great series.
Hi Quin I do lots of engineering , classic car restoration and machining and I really enjoy all your machining videos, but what I do more of is restoring Pinball Machines, so I was stunned when I saw you working on a pinball machine too! We really do have a similar skill set - Shaun
Quinn, I'd love to watch something on the skill of pinball, I'm so grateful for everything you put out, you are a wonderful teacher and a joy to watch work.
God bless Blondie. Never fails to impress me with her skills. I’m 66 years old and have never played a pinball machine in my life but I still found this repair interesting. Cheers
@@gvet47 No actually I don’t. I grew up in country Australia. There WERE no pinball machines and we never went to the big towns where they were because towns were fucking boring. No sheep no cattle no dogs no horses to ride no creeks to swim in no guns to shoot. You can take your cities and your large towns and stick them where the monkey hid the macadamias. I still live in a small country town and to this day I’ve never even played a computer game. I have a workshop where I build things instead of mindlessly staring at a screen.
Quinn, yes please, help me learn how to improve my nonexistent pinball skills! And thank you also for a video that was not purely machining related 💪🔧🥂
Your videos are a pleasure to watch. Thank you for taking the time to keep us entertained. You also sneak in enough information and techniques to make us learn as a bonus!
Nice to see you with a soLdering iron in your hand for a change. I know that you know the right way to say it, and I know too that your from the continent that says what the 'L'. I often wonder if Merkans and Canaderians get freaked out as much as we do when they hear British engineers say solder. Always enjoy your content, especially with bonus cat extras.
opening the back gave me flashbacks... I spent nearly 4 years fixing this range of machines (from The Getaway and Addams Family) as the road tech for the local distributor. This machine came out while I was working that job.
Love the 'deviant' content! Would love to see more like it. A little bleed from the blog to the video world, reminiscent of your 'original' vision would be super welcome. Perhaps a bit of melding the machining and 'other' worlds you dabble in? How to machine your way out of problems, vis a vis the shower door? I love the way you explain your process and the underlying theory in your thinking. Thanks for being awesome!
@Blondihacks OOfft, you've just opened my mind to the fact that there are named skills for pinball. I would be super interested in some pinball videos, skills, more repairs or whatever. And as always, thanks again for your consistently good quality, enjoyably educational and entertainingly funny videos.
Cat mode! 😹 I enjoyed this one, and I would be happy to see pinball creeping back into your delightful and informative channel. I think you are a good teacher.
She does quite well in teaching. A bit of a natural there I think. The one advantage that she has over so many is that she is not afraid to look a bit silly or fun. Back when I taught AutoCad, I used that to keep the people engaged. Otherwise, things can get so dry so very fast.
I definitely want to see more pinball content. Owning a machine has always been a dream, but very intimidating. This video alone helped push me toward getting my own machine.
Sprockeeeet! Nice to see her! Good to see you too (and yes, I’d happily watch more pinball content!) (I was about to complain about the cut at the end of the zip-tie but then I remembered that it is your machine and you can do as you like with your own blood so that’s fine)
I'm thrilled to see you branching out in terms of content! You have so many talents, all of which I'm interested in -- I'd love to see some software engineering content and some electrical troubleshooting and repairs even if you had an alt channel for them. But if you want to stick with machining, I'm always happy to watch just that too. Thanks!
Thanks Quinn, i enjoyed the look behind the "Back Glass". That's what it was still called when left the industry more than 30 years ago. Two kinds of batteries, Those that have leaked and those that will leak. I would enjoy some more pinball related content.
Im totally ok if you did pinball or arcade machine vids whether it be skills or rebuilds etc. I never realised how much stuff was in them holy. Plus just seeing you do something you really enjoy with your amazing teaching skills might teach some of us some electronics basics
I would love to see a pinball series, especially if there are some special techniques for beating the game on Sprocket mode! Also, thank goodness someone else uses Western Union splices when extending wire harnesses. I've never watched a TH-cam soldering tutorial (I learned before YT existed), but I'll recommend this video as the "wire splice how-to" if anyone asks.
It's so great to see a video on Johnny. I've loved all the blog posts on him over the years. Would totally watch the heck out of a pinball skills video.
I used to play a lot of pinball back in my Uni days. 2 machines really stuck in my brain, Star Wars (just because it's Star Wars) and Apollo 13 with it's 13 ball multiball...it was insane. Cheers!
Would definitely love to see more pinball related videos - repair and skills! Guess those are both skills aren't they? :) I really enjoy all your videos, Quinn! Excellent content with wonderfully clear explanations of the how and why.
I'm not particularly interested in pinball, but the way you explain things tells me that pretty much anything you describe will be great to watch. And since variety is the spice of life, pinball skills sounds like a great idea!
Another pinball enthusiast! I know about Jeri Ellsworth loving them as well (as I'm sure many others especially when grown up in the 80's and 90's). :) Great stuff
Thank you. I've learned two soldering techniques from this video. Tinning and a mechanical splice before soldering. Also, 12:11 shows Sprocket looking like "Ya wanna send some of that heat my way?"😁
I used to play a LOT of pinball back when every town had a pinball parlor or two. I still prefer them to video type games. I would really like to see a "pinball skills" video. Thanks for the excursion Quinn!
Love your usual content, but this was also really nice to watch. I think in general just making videos about your projects is a good idea and I would love to watch them
I would absolutely watch a pinball skills video.
I would like to see your skills video also, I was pretty good in the late 80’s and early 90’s but was mostly self taught. Growing up in central BC we didn’t get the experts like in bigger cities and of course we didn’t have TH-cam either 😮.
Love your videos
Honestly, same
Ditto
Absolutely interested - never had a chance to spend real time playing on one.
Would be so cool to watch! 👍
Fun fact: I was the stamping toolmaker responsible for the Molex SL Header Pin dies for about 10 years.
Always nice when a fun fact IS a fun fact
Thank You! I crimped and installed many Molex connectors for the RWI/iRobot research robots in the early aughts. I Love them!
You may have recognized the TriFurcon pin Quinn used as a demonstration. Those pins are not made for .100 connectors.
Yeah, a guy named Mark made those. Way harder of a die to maintain in my opinion. Lots of forms and coins.
i am constantly astonished by the tooling made by the mad fuckers that make crimp tooling
as i unreel a few hundred more tiny tiny tiny complexities, crimp tool in my hand
Hey Quinn - you really took me back in time with this one. My first real engineering job was as the only electronic engineer at a company called Displays Inc. from 1987 to 1993. We made DC plasma displays, and Williams was one of our largest customers. That dot matrix display may be one of ours, but we had a competitor, Cherry, that also made many of those. I don't know if there are any identifying marks on the display, but we had a unique way of doing the gas fill on them that gave a totally flat front and back glass. Cherry filled theirs through a glass nipple on the cathode (back) glass that remained after it was melted and twisted off. We did ours hundreds at a time in a gas vacuum/gas chamber oven, with a little gap in the edge seal with a low melt point glass sliver to seal it up. I designed the drive electronics and the test and aging systems that we used in the factory in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. The DC plasma technology's time passed as other display methods improved, and we folded up shop in '93. The company right across the street took me in and I've been designing ultrasonic flaw detectors and thickness gauges ever since.
Cool! Thanks for sharing your story!
This was my favorite sidebar yet. And I am a huge fan of your sidebars. But William Gibson and Johnny specifically?! *Swoon*
I love that your 60 second soldering explanation was better than most 5 minute videos on YT.
Dig around for old telephony films/videos as well as western electric, bell core, nortel,and AT&T standards and practices documentation they are generally very good in explaining how to do things which very often can be translated into doing lots of other things as long as you let your mind wander if you know what I mean
Always good to see a channel post something different then the normal. I really enjoyed this one.
I have watched your intro over and over and finally got to see the famous soldering iron get a leading part in the video. So often left in the shadow of General Lathe and Major Mill. A welcome addition to the front line. 😀
Your commentary/ teaching voice is so easy and pleasant to listen to. 👍🇦🇺
I'd love to see you do a pinball skills video!
And I'll take this opportunity to say a big thanks for sharing your projects in your very own style - honest, entertaining and with tremendous bandwidth of knowledge and skill transfer!
The timing on that "and I also like to play in the more advanced ~cat~ mode..." was sublime
Helpful pinball cat!
Quinn - now I know how you and Sprocket spend some of your quality time together! That was a great introduction for me to the world of pinball machines, and how to diagnose and repair some issues they may have. Fascinating!
That is one of the best diagrams I have ever seen for the Western Union splice.
As someone who has enjoyed your blog for some time, yes, I would enjoy seeing the additional content.
I love pinballs, which suggests a much mis-spent youth, and have always wanted one for the rec room. I always enjoyed watching the repair guy work on them which ended in his treating us to a few freebies. So much so, that my last visit to Vegas included a day at the pinball arcade of fame, armed with a large bag of quarters (childhood fantasy fulfilled).
Enjoyed the video Quinn, take care, cheers!
Pinball skills video? YES! Thanks Quinn.
I love Sprocket in the background just checking out what you’re doing. Just a curious little kitty ❤.
Bring on the pinball content!
Fixing pinball machines was my high school job. Launched a fun engineering career.
Finally we may have found one of the few practical use cases for vertical video: filming pinball machines 🙂
Nice to see you spending quality time with Sprocket :D I've always loved pinball machines, from the electro-mechanical ones I played in the arcades in the 70s to the modern ones with multi layers and electronic controllers, they really are works of art. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing some pinball content on your channel, especially information about how the various features work.
Sprocket during the heat shrinking segment was so precious 💜 curious baby!
Enjoyable, with many bonus Sprocket sightings!
You always amaze us with depth of skills on your channel. 90% are one trick ponys. You have so much more.
We had the same machine in the office when I worked for a trendy tech company in the noughties. I spent many hours trying to maintain and repair it, and vastly more playing it despite my weak skills. I never got on top of the power supply issues though, which didn't get fixed until I'd moved on to another job.
So much nostalgia watching you play!
Love seeing Sprocket!
Great video! I am one of those 1970's pinball players and would absolutely love to hear more about the newer games. Shalom
That pinball skills video would be amazing, Quinn. Actually, anything to do with pinball machines gets a thumbs up from me, too!
Hi Quinn. Sure glad you are on our side.I enjoy all of your videos, you are a great teacher. Thanks
Nice splice! 😊 I don't know how many times I've forgotten the shrink tube but it's a lot 🤣.
Cheers 🍻
I almost never remembered the shrink tube. :)
Pinball! Sprocket! Tinkering! 😀
"They are made to be worked on" Indeed. I was a route mover for an amusement company in the Twin Cities who had to occasionally service machines (especially on Saturday rotations) If you need to work on them don't be afraid! I was paid to move heavy objects but even I could effect repairs on most pins. Have service mode will travel. For folks who don't know, if you are not on free play and you see the display for the number of credits currently in the machine, look to the lower right of the display digit. If there is a dot, it means you have something that needs to be serviced. For example if you see "credits 0." its time to check that service mode and run a test! 90% of the time it was just a lightbulb that had gone out, but being told which one it was saved a lot of time vs having to find it by sight. Thanks for the video!
Your cat is so typical, love it. Also like the pinball machine 😊
Love this! I’m happy to see more pinball videos from you. I’ve played pinball machines since I was a child in the 60’s-70’s. I enjoy learning how things work.
Gotta love a video with this much Sprocket.
Pinball machines are one of the great marvels in my opinion. My favorite is a Williams named fun house.
You peeked my interest saying that pinball machines can be tuned! I was shocked! I do want to know more!
Pinball machines are the pinnacle of electro-mechanical design in my book, love them!
This little lady gets my vote. Outstanding
I haven't played pinball since the early eighties, but I lived on such machines in the seventies. Seldom seen the insides, really enjoyed watching you beeline straight to the problem and provide an elegant repair. I worked on avionics in the Marines, 76-97, similar harnesses, not near as much room to work. That cable repair wasn't much different than what I did forty years ago. I really enjoyed the short bit of "sprocket play". Thanks!
I would appreciate more pinball and other non-pure machining content.
I can totally see a long term project akin to the steam engine, but that uses your electrical, programming, and machining skills all as one, being a great series.
Hi Quin
I do lots of engineering , classic car restoration and machining and I really enjoy all your machining videos, but what I do more of is restoring Pinball Machines, so I was stunned when I saw you working on a pinball machine too! We really do have a similar skill set - Shaun
I would watch the heck out of a pinball master class.
I would have never guessed you possessed this talent also!!! You are a remarkable lady.
Today’s video is a refreshing change 👍
Quinn, I'd love to watch something on the skill of pinball, I'm so grateful for everything you put out, you are a wonderful teacher and a joy to watch work.
God bless Blondie. Never fails to impress me with her skills. I’m 66 years old and have never played a pinball machine in my life but I still found this repair interesting. Cheers
@@gvet47
No actually I don’t. I grew up in country Australia. There WERE no pinball machines and we never went to the big towns where they were because towns were fucking boring. No sheep no cattle no dogs no horses to ride no creeks to swim in no guns to shoot. You can take your cities and your large towns and stick them where the monkey hid the macadamias. I still live in a small country town and to this day I’ve never even played a computer game. I have a workshop where I build things instead of mindlessly staring at a screen.
Love that machine gives proper tribute to William Gibson right at the start. Re-reading Virtual Light now 😊
I would absolutely love to see more of this kind of stuff.
Yay!! it's Blondihacks time!! Oh, look! it's Johnny!
Love Pinball❤️
I peaked in 1984-85, during my first two years in college, WHO cassette in my Walkman.
Simple times😎
Yes please. Love pinball machines. Used to play them in my mis-spent youth, >60 years ago!!!
Yay! Sprocket!!
I am impressed with your over all knowledge of so many things! I really appreciate that! You are one smart young lady!
Quinn, yes please, help me learn how to improve my nonexistent pinball skills! And thank you also for a video that was not purely machining related 💪🔧🥂
I agree, I would love to see a pinball skills video featuring Johnny, as well as the robot arm rebuild!
Your videos are a pleasure to watch. Thank you for taking the time to keep us entertained. You also sneak in enough information and techniques to make us learn as a bonus!
Nice to see you with a soLdering iron in your hand for a change. I know that you know the right way to say it, and I know too that your from the continent that says what the 'L'.
I often wonder if Merkans and Canaderians get freaked out as much as we do when they hear British engineers say solder.
Always enjoy your content, especially with bonus cat extras.
More of Blondie Hacking things, please!
That’s a great trick with the foil as a heat shield! I’d watch more pinball content, fun stuff! 👍
Wait, "SWITCH MATRIX" on a machine featuring Keanu Reeves?
opening the back gave me flashbacks... I spent nearly 4 years fixing this range of machines (from The Getaway and Addams Family) as the road tech for the local distributor. This machine came out while I was working that job.
Played, but never worked on/repaired. Always enjoy learning something new.
Love the 'deviant' content!
Would love to see more like it. A little bleed from the blog to the video world, reminiscent of your 'original' vision would be super welcome. Perhaps a bit of melding the machining and 'other' worlds you dabble in? How to machine your way out of problems, vis a vis the shower door?
I love the way you explain your process and the underlying theory in your thinking. Thanks for being awesome!
@Blondihacks OOfft, you've just opened my mind to the fact that there are named skills for pinball. I would be super interested in some pinball videos, skills, more repairs or whatever. And as always, thanks again for your consistently good quality, enjoyably educational and entertainingly funny videos.
Cat mode! 😹 I enjoyed this one, and I would be happy to see pinball creeping back into your delightful and informative channel. I think you are a good teacher.
She does quite well in teaching. A bit of a natural there I think. The one advantage that she has over so many is that she is not afraid to look a bit silly or fun. Back when I taught AutoCad, I used that to keep the people engaged. Otherwise, things can get so dry so very fast.
Amazed at the knowledge encapsulated in that head of yours. I'm having an acute case of brain envy, thanks for sharing.
I definitely want to see more pinball content. Owning a machine has always been a dream, but very intimidating. This video alone helped push me toward getting my own machine.
Sprockeeeet! Nice to see her!
Good to see you too (and yes, I’d happily watch more pinball content!)
(I was about to complain about the cut at the end of the zip-tie but then I remembered that it is your machine and you can do as you like with your own blood so that’s fine)
I love your content. The last time I heard "western union splice" was over 40 years ago in school. It's a great splice. I've used it ever since.
Pinball skills? Hell yes.
I'm thrilled to see you branching out in terms of content! You have so many talents, all of which I'm interested in -- I'd love to see some software engineering content and some electrical troubleshooting and repairs even if you had an alt channel for them. But if you want to stick with machining, I'm always happy to watch just that too. Thanks!
Yay for more Blondihacks blog topics making it onto TH-cam. Congratulations on a successful repair. I’d happily watch more pinball videos.
Thanks Quinn, i enjoyed the look behind the "Back Glass". That's what it was still called when left the industry more than 30 years ago. Two kinds of batteries, Those that have leaked and those that will leak.
I would enjoy some more pinball related content.
Im totally ok if you did pinball or arcade machine vids whether it be skills or rebuilds etc. I never realised how much stuff was in them holy. Plus just seeing you do something you really enjoy with your amazing teaching skills might teach some of us some electronics basics
I would love to see a pinball series, especially if there are some special techniques for beating the game on Sprocket mode!
Also, thank goodness someone else uses Western Union splices when extending wire harnesses. I've never watched a TH-cam soldering tutorial (I learned before YT existed), but I'll recommend this video as the "wire splice how-to" if anyone asks.
Pin ball skills? yes please, lots more pinball and arcade machine stuff.
Good timing! I just watched Johnny Mnemonic last week
It's so great to see a video on Johnny. I've loved all the blog posts on him over the years. Would totally watch the heck out of a pinball skills video.
As for sprocket, all cats are supervisors, making sure that one is doing quality work. I too, have had cats supervise my work.
I used to play a lot of pinball back in my Uni days. 2 machines really stuck in my brain, Star Wars (just because it's Star Wars) and Apollo 13 with it's 13 ball multiball...it was insane. Cheers!
Would definitely love to see more pinball related videos - repair and skills! Guess those are both skills aren't they? :) I really enjoy all your videos, Quinn! Excellent content with wonderfully clear explanations of the how and why.
Sprocket - "Oh, am I in the way?" 🤣
I'm not particularly interested in pinball, but the way you explain things tells me that pretty much anything you describe will be great to watch. And since variety is the spice of life, pinball skills sounds like a great idea!
Wow talk about over my head, good for you, still watching
Thanks for a view of antique pinball machine repair.
Another pinball enthusiast! I know about Jeri Ellsworth loving them as well (as I'm sure many others especially when grown up in the 80's and 90's). :) Great stuff
Would love to see you do a pinball collab with Ben and Jeri.
BigClive has a few pinball machines too! 😊
Thank you. I've learned two soldering techniques from this video. Tinning and a mechanical splice before soldering. Also, 12:11 shows Sprocket looking like "Ya wanna send some of that heat my way?"😁
Fun! It takes be back to the late eighties. I repaired pinballs for a living.
A real fire for next year's Q&A!
Get the stoker ready!
I used to play a LOT of pinball back when every town had a pinball parlor or two. I still prefer them to video type games. I would really like to see a "pinball skills" video. Thanks for the excursion Quinn!
Yes please for more pinball stuff & skills :)
Love your usual content, but this was also really nice to watch. I think in general just making videos about your projects is a good idea and I would love to watch them
Variety is the spice of life. Great episode!
and the bane of the algorithm 🤣
Holy crap. Please more of this.
I think a pinball skills video or two would be super interesting.
I never knew I wanted a pinball 101 but since you asked, yes please! 😊
Love the video. Nice departure from the norm. Wish everything was built to be repaired.
Yeh! More pinball! Plz.
Another vote for the advanced pinball video!
Definitely interested in more pinball content, especially skills!
Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball... Definitely yes on the PB skillset vid.