Disco Inferno

[pasithea]

So.. Yesterday I picked up Lori's animation disc and table. She had told me the disc was in bad shape and not to expect much.

It's an early-model acrylic chroma disc. The person who'd had it before her had used an incandescent bulb as a backlight so the milkglass (made of plexiglass) was slightly warped and the pegbars were jammed and one of them was broken in 2 pieces.

So I heated up the back plexy with my hair dryer then reshaped it using my trusty 1960 Websters Unabridged Dictionary. (I swear I use that thing more often as a tool than I do as a dictionary) Next I sanded down the good pegbar and half of the broken one, then pulled the cap on my 2mm drafting pencil sharpener and dropped some grapphite in the tracks and got the pegbars sliding properly. Put the desk back together, changed the lightbulb, and as soon as I get a new pegbar. (~$12 from Chroma) it'll be good as new.

So now I have 2 full 2D stations at my house plus an animation stand, plus all the computer stuff (digital ink and paint) I'm practically a studio. ^_^

Comments

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

As long as there is space, I don't mind. It's only a one-car garage though. Worst case though, we'd discussed making you the room of Earthquake Death in the House instead. (Basically pulling the bookshelves out from the walls and making room by sectioning off part of the living room with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a curtain. However, if there were an Earthquake, you'd be killed bout 300lbs of GURPS and Dungeons and Dragons. O_O

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Well, I have about fifteen cubic feet of books... I can certainly contribute to a Wall of Earthwuake Death, and be crushed under a lot of sciencefiction and fantasy, an assortment of art books, and ten years of old sketchbooks...