Warning, long post
Today started as a good day... My jamma adapter arrived nice and early, I got to finally see the fruits of my labor in glorious 25 inches. The monitor looks beautiful! The sound was perfect! Everything was good to go. I went to home depot to buy some casters for when it is in the house, making it easy to move around if necessary.
But then everything changed...I was home alone, my wife, busy all day, I feel that I can get the beast into the house myself. Its been on one of those mover's dollys since I got it, as to make it easy to move around the garage, but I had wondered how to get it off of the dolly. Rolling up to my font door, its too tall to make it through the archway on the dolly, looks like im getting it off here. I have a collection of small roadside jacks for cars, so I use these to raise it up enough to roll the dolly out, and figure i will lower it all the way and take them out one at a time, they are only a couple inches high when lowered all the way... as I begin to lower them, one suddenly has no force on it, the balance is off... and right in front of my eyes...it falls over. it hits the faucet where the garden hose attaches to....water everywhere...
I jump for the shut off valve, but everything is already wet. I stand over the cab in disbelief, is this a dream? It felt like one, the whole event playing out infront of me in slow motion. It takes me another few minutes to even do anything, had all my work, and money put into this been for nothing? I remove the glass that sits in front of the monitor, nothing looks broken... I figure being genital with it at this point is useless, so I get my work gloves, and with a mighty lift, get it back onto its feet. I dont even remember looking at the damage at this point, I just wanted to get it back in the garage first.
I slowly roll it back into the garage (those casters I installed worked great btw) and begin to take it apart. The initial inspection looks promising, the control panel is intact, the monitor is ok, the marquee looks good (this flung open during the fall since I didnt have it locked) everything is wet, but im not worried about the electronics, I know that as long as they are fully dry before powering them on, water will not hurt them. Time to look at the side that took the fall. It really was not as bad as I was expecting, the paint got completely scuffed up, some cracks in a couple areas, and a couple choice gouges in the wood. Back to square one, sand it all down, fill in the blemishes, and repaint...damn. I thought the other side was fine, but it seems that the water caused a weird reaction to the red in some areas, so I might just redo it all.
But the real problem at hand, was I needed to quickly learn to become a plumber! I had to fix that valve stat! Even with the shut off valve closed, it still was a slow steady stream of water coming out.Good thing home depot is about 3 minutes away from my house. Repairing the valve took me a good couple of hours, soldering copper pipe is nothing like electronics. I finally got it done, and it was time to check the condition of the electronics in the cab. I put the board in and hold my breath...the monitor didnt turn on
... oh wait, I forgot to hook it back up
In a blaze of glory I see metal slug roar to life again! My spirit is rejuvenated! I can rebuild it...again... better, faster, stronger.
