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more family stuff

April 26, 2006

So I have finished forming and welding the stands for the tv's being used in this project. The tv's have been taken out of their cases and I took some round stock and welded two 1/4" nuts on each end and ran a bolt through the tv mount that is strapped to the screen itself. Once those were in place I welded and formed more round stock to encase the screen an welded legs to it so the big tv sits about 2' off the ground.  There are two other smaller tv's representing the kids, one of the tv's has the same type of casing as the larger but is slightly undeveloped (missing parts that the big one has) and sits about 10" off the ground, the last tv is representing the youngest of the kids and has a different stand than the others and sits about 6" off the ground.

I ran into some problems with the big tv, I had been using an old tv/vcr combo that I had stopped using because tapes kept getting stuck.  Well when I put the stand all together the tv kept acting like a tape was stuck and kept shutting itself off.  So I disconnected the cables connected to the tv, didn't work, then I took the entire vcr component off, didn't work either, finally I took the stop/eject button off, thinking maybe there was a short, nope that didn't work either so I had to go out and buy another tv, which when I got it back it was one inch to big for the casing I build, so I had some adjustments to do to make it fit.

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