Well in the first recipode, I mean episode, of this two-parter
I started creating a Fairlight inspired Commodore Music Maker workstation
It was sort of like a Fairlight had a baby with IKEA
We built a light box for the CMM station and powered the Press Play Moniker from the C64 itself
using some spare amps
I say this two-parter
Part 2 is going to be split into two or three parts, so it's four or five-parter
Anyway.
It's so lovely to see the C=MM2 Red that I built generating some buzz out there in Retro World.
"It's worth checking out, Perfractic's Retro Recipes"
"And he did a really good video, which is worth checking out,
he resprayed into this really lovely red color a bit like an 80s Korg synthesizer"
"Not only did he do that. He actually wrote a tune on it that's in the video, and it's a really good tune!"
"It's not just plinky-plonky. He made a really good tune!"
Not just plinky-plonky indeed
Let's see if we can generate some more buzz!
Hopefully, not from the SID Chip.
In Part-two of 17 or so!
Welcome to Retro Recipes!
So when I went live and broadcasted at the sad news of this case
A lot of the comments from you guys you said you know, glue it back together
It's essentially powdered.
Oh no. Wait!
Didn't even noticed that. Where is that from?
So, it looks like that's come off the top of another resistor
Very strange!
We'll keep that to one side.
Well, let's see!
We can put some of this together.
Just repair what we can with a little bit of super glue
See, I glued myself to.. I'm now part Commodore 64
So luckily I've got a reference Commodore 64. Okay, there
And the one that we refurbished in Part 1
Well, after a valiant piece of dumpster-diving that would have made my mother oh so proud.
I've been able to locate these three main pieces
I'm going to see what I can find online for plastic repair
For now, I've got to conduct a little clean-off a bit
I'll bury them at Sea.
But while we wait for that PlasticWeld to arrive, I think the wise thing to do is
Wash this
Wash all of this. I'm gonna get started by taking out this oh, so dusty keyboard
Gross
One hiding there under the cable
Sorry Buddy, we'll put you back in
Sorry! I hit you on the head.
Well you guys have all seen a million videos where they pop all the keys off, wash it in some soap, and put them all back
Instead, I'm just going to do this
Hm. That's better!
Now, back on the case, we're going to just take out the LED here
Would you believe I've never actually done this before
And I think..
This ring pops off here
Leave that off
That should just slip out now
Nice!
You pull it toward with your fingers as you slice
Now what it does, it prevents it from bending up and creating any permanent bends. So keep it nice and straight
And just slice it away
It's a cool thing isn't it
That that gives me so much happiness just seeing this logo with those colors
And of course,
as I discovered recently, the smiley face!
One more to go
We did it!
That has fallen apart, my gosh
Yeah, it's a shame
Think I love it!
Time to give these guys a bath. You coming?
Half an hour later
In today's episode of Retro Recipes, how to wash after you've cooked your recipe
I'll get in there.. nah
That would be weird.
Well I don't wanna do any more damage here, it's still fragile
Might end up just sanding that down just so you know, it looks right
Well, I did everything we can
Well, look what I've got here!
PlasticWeld!
(American accent) Drinking water safe!
How do we use this? Instructions!
Cut, remove required amount of putty, mix, thoroughly need party with fingers
Apply, press putty firmly to the surface to be repaired
Don't stick in eyes
25-minute work life
Functional cure occurs in two to three hours
When cured, can be sawed, drilled, carved, sanded, and painted
(clanging and breaking noise) Oh shoot!
Well, how much do we need?
Ooohh
Mmm.. candy!
(coughing) Jeez, don't do that!
I warn you!
Bleh!
Okay, stick that back on there
Oh, it stinks!
Let's stick that back in there
What do the instructions say?
And put that back on there
and put that on eBay
Okay, unwrap the candy
Let's get kneading
Clock is ticking. We have 25 minutes
It's very tacky, so it kind of pulls away when you push on it
It's hard to actually mold it
But I think the key point and now is get it roughly right and then you know we can sand it down after
And if you watched my How To Solder DIN Plugs video I said I had a phobia against soldering those things
I think I found my new phobia
What a mess!
It's going look better at the end
Trust me. Have I ever let you down?
Okay one a little bit left. This is getting really hard now
Nearly up on time
Thought I asked you guys to keep count
Okay, I think we would be foolish to do any more while it's wet
So we'll let this set this three hours, come back to it, and sand it up
Nice.
I say nice but it looks appalling!
But just wait
That's for that mmm. I'm a bit hungry
(nom nom nom)
(sound of being sick cut off suddenly)
Okay, it's been two hours. This putty..
It's now really hard
I think it's quite a good state to sand it in
So yeah, let's see what happens
You can see here. We've got a really smooth finish
Now the downside is, of course, this whole thing is smooth
I'm going to sand out the other side a bit to match
That's a small price to pay considering this was complete trash.
You can also see that I managed to keep some of the detail
that's gonna be visible through the gap in case
Also, here's some of the detail on that edging and same here
So now, it's time to get it all looking uniform
If this camera would stop focusing
Ahh, if Commodore only made cameras.
If only...
Well they didn't make cameras but they did make calculators
And by my calculations, we are now well over the magical 10-minute mark
So, I'm going to wrap things up but speaking of wrapping things up
In the very next episode, I'm going to attempt to vinyl wrap this Commodore 64 case
We'll also do some very special things to the TV itself and that will all lay the groundwork
for a special dedicated episode where I refurbish the main board and put everything in the brand new finished product of this case
And of course, in time, I'll make another brand new song on the CMM Station itself
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