It made sense to compliment the roof with a set of doors. I had rebuilt a set of door frames previously, oxy blackwire welding up the cracks and welding hidden corner reinforcing inside the frames. These had been galvanized and waiting patiently for me under a pile of sawdust in the basement for quite some…
After having driven the Land Rover around for quite some time, the impracticality of not having a roof started to take its toll. I would often find myself ducking into undercover car parks during summer rain showers, or dressing up in winter jackets on chilly evenings. Thus I felt it was time for the roof.…
A little while ago I decided to install a heater tap onto a Holden 161 red engine that was in a 1950’s Land Rover. After a few ebay searches I discovered that these were a rather expensive item so I decided to make one out of parts that I had access to. Unfortunately there was…
Some years a go I went searching for a small caravan that I could tow behind my Land Rover but also my little Subaru sedan and any other medium sized car that I happened to be driving at the time. I was after something small with plenty of head room which was wide enough to…
I saw a cardboard pinhole camera in a shop window on the way home one night, for some reason the thing really appealed to me. After some googling I saw the Dirkon pinhole camera and found the design to be insanely cute, however cardboard seemed insanely flimsy and in no way painful enough to construct….…
After some fiddling around I managed to modify my trusty old nomad to output a true PAL 50hz signal so that I can play my Australian and European games on it. This was done by firstly changing the pins on the CXA1645P/M so that it outputted PAL colour this was done by changing pin 7…
After playing my Sega Nomad for a little while with my modified lithium battery I started to become quite annoyed at the screen quality, in particular the edge bleeding and motion blur. I’m sure that anyone with a Nomad will sympathize with this problem. So I’ve taken the plunge and am performing a screen mod…
I was getting tired of the worn zero force insertion cartridge slot never seating properly on my old NES. I also quite like using the game genie on insanely hard games like Contra to give myself more lives and such. One day with far too much time on my hands I thought that It might…
I’ve seen a few mods around for converting the Sega Nomad rechargeable battery to a Li-ion battery, the advantages are the higher capacity, low selfdischarge and lower price. Most if not all of the old NiMh that you will get your hands on will be rubbish with a very low charge capacity, if any at…
I used to work part time as a car audio fitter and auto electrician back when I was studying and needed a part time job. Somehow I ended up with a whole heap of warranty returns and ex demo gear given to me for free or at very low cost which I just couldn’t say…