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CaptainFluoro

Locality: Success, Western Australia

Phone: +61 407 241 529

Address: 5 Jubilee Ave 6164 Success, WA, Australia

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25.01.2022 Mostly before and after, but hey, there's exceptions.

23.01.2022 How effectively is your team working during CoVid-19? Could this help your business? When a cafeteria employee fell sick with CoVID-19 this WA business abruptly... shuttered, evacuated the building and bolted the front doors within 2 hours. The IT system was old so the staff had no access from home. The business was crippled. But a simple creative solution allowed 44 employees to be fully operational within days. My team run a data centre in the Perth QV.1 building which has loads of spare capacity. We created a VPN connecting the customers office with our data centre where we spun up a Microsoft Terminal Server. QV.1 simply became an extension of the company’s network acquiring the user accounts, security, etc. This small project killed two birds with one stone. (i) The employees were fully operational working from home and embraced having the latest software. (ii) The organization skipped a major network upgrade without touching a single device. It was so successful they decided to run everything from QV.1. We set up the system to replicate their data back to their old office network for redundancy. What's remarkable is that that our team did this completely by remote control. We never stepped on site once and everyone worked from home. #covid19 #workfromhome #remoteaccess #ITupgrade #cloud

21.01.2022 Thanks, Everyone for the shares! I'll try to keep on top of Facebook, but remember it's best to contact me via [email protected] :)

20.01.2022 And here's the Strat I mentioned in my last post. It scored a Martin A Smith HB bridge "Eruption" pup - a hot hot beast but sounds like silk! facebook.com/MartinASmithPickups The last pics show some of the plastic coating left on the perspex scratchplate, and a rough as guts screwhole not lined up with the plate. Oh, Mr Fender, you aint got perfect finish on the mass production line, but you sure can still make a factory machine that sings!... The original bridge pup was a perfectly serviceable and sonically beautiful Shawbucker, but my friend had heard the Martin A Smith pup and WANTED on it. The challenge became how to get two into three. Check the Shawbucker - it's got a, unique to Fender, hole pattern of 3 mount points. There's no way I was going to drill the new scratchplate, and we didn't want to buy a new scratchplate and use 2 screws, as the 3-mount system is a Really-Good-Idea. It stops that annoying tilt relative to the strings that 2-screw mounts can get. Incidentally, I try and stop that tilt by always replacing pups with a washer (stainless) under the screw-head to give it something more like a parallel surface to seat on. It also stops that awful (to me) thing where the screw-head cuts into the plastic. So, back to the problem. Turns out I drew a blank after thinking there would just *have* to be something like this off the shelf I could buy... Found just one - and not the right size. So I had to make an adapter plate with two threaded holes and a central mount. I think the photos probably tell the story, but it was an interesting challenge - it's only about 5x15mm, and the bit of stainless I grabbed out of my junk box turned out to be pretty hard to drill and tap. And the tap was a challenge to track down, too. Seems that particular thread was common in the 50's or earlier, but is pretty well extinct, now, apart from oddball things like pups, and hobbyists into model trains. And I'm guessing those long screws are probably only made now in that length for pups and nothing else. And so on... One little detail was that there was no way around having to file into the new pup mount, so the new screws would fit. After blinking a few times to try and avoid that, inevitability was faced up to, and the new pup got snuggled up, so no filings could get into it, and the job was done. During this epic, I seriously thought of just using an M3 tap and easily obtainable long M3 stainless screws, but hey, I'm a masochist, right?? If I have to do it again, at least I've got a couple of the oddball taps as an option, or for specific thread repairs, but there'd be absolutely nothing wrong with going metric, like the rest of the civilised planet ;-) It all went together, beautifully, and I get to hear the amazing sound my friend gets out of it every week at rehearsal :) And after agonising over all the details, do you think I took a photo of it fully assembled??

18.01.2022 I really needed something to do bass practice in 'silence'... shhhh, so got one of those (really quite good) Vox AP2-BS gadgets. Great - I can hear myself. But where's the track I'm supposed to be learning? Of course it has a line-in jack, but (me being me) I'm not going to run a cable from the PC (running RiffStation) as it seems to defeat the purpose of having such a teeny-weeny gadget plugged in directly, with no strings attached. Of course this little engineer then spends... the next hour or five taping together and testing various combinations of bluetooth receiver and battery pack. Yep, the idea basically works - I'm wireless. And of course, it has to have a thumping big battery because, just because. The principle is that the instrument is free from delay/latency, as it's an analogue feed. Because the BT feed isn't a live signal, it's latency is irrelevant for the purposes of practicing. I'm not tracking it to anything on-screen - just listening. A few more days, in-between jobs and visits to Altronics, and lots of frustration from discovering just how NOISY bluetooth and power-banks are, even with regulation, I finally twigged that I needed to isolate the power-supplies for the BT and AP2, and they HAD to be pure battery only. So maybe 3 AA alkalines for the BT to ensure 3.6V when run-down, and 2 for the AP2. The battery pack started to look pretty imposing, then I found you can now easily get hold of AA size lithium rechargeables. Boom - all problems solved. Two-off AA lithium (3.6V) - one for each device in one little holder. Both devices are rated for that, so everything works. Except... for the BT still having digital artifacts and whistles, but I'll ignore that, until I get around to designing something that is fully integrated. Now, after that distraction - back to practice... ;-)

16.01.2022 I took this photo at one of the local sports centres, and just had a thought that it might go down well posted up in all Parliament houses, and maybe as a preamble for the 'right' to post online (I'm lookin' at you, Farcebook ;-) ) (Oh, the image background has been edited out, so you can actually read it, now!)

15.01.2022 Just spent the weekend at Groovin the Moo, down Bumberry, with the usual suspects. What a blast!

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14.01.2022 Hi, World. I've just delivered a nice Samick restore job to a friend, who I'm now twittipatedly waiting for him to string up and test (received sans strings). It's got a new spray shielding that promises to have an extra level of EM (electromagnetic) shielding for hum noise - more than copper tape or carbon paint. Stay tooned! :D Also note... - Extra shielding wires added to the pickup cavities (after spraying). - Central earth bar added, instead of huge gobs of solder on eve...ry pot. - High quality 200,000 rated-turn Bourns guitar potentiometers used all round. (Super-grade conductive plastic pots can be ordered) - And the silver looking stuff around the selector switch cavity is silver (actual silver) conductive paint, to ensure electrical shielding connections are solid at key points. See more

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11.01.2022 Here's some 'pre' photos from the Samick restore just finished. Thought I should show the before's of the pup cavities without shield paint, and a few other things. And something that just irks me - the huge gobs of solder on the back of all the pots, which is why I'll setup a brass or copper central earth post, if possible. Else just a small wire from the case to the pot terminal and actually use the pot terminal to solder to! I know that the presentation (and I'm sorry, pur...ists - the type) of the cabling does absolutely nothing for/against the sound, but it's nice to see it tidy, people! And it does actually help in trouble-shooting for me or anyone else. Cabling type is a whole bucket of fun. I'll post some links up, sometime. It's your caps and pots that will make sonic differences inside the guitar. The lead to the amp then becomes the critical item for passive guitars. I do make bespoke leads, btw ;-) Not that it's obvious on any photo, but as a matter of course on older machines (or when needed), when the screws come out, they get any schmeg picked out of the heads, then go in a de-rusting bath for a bit. Brings them up a treat, and gives a phosphor coating (like a firearm) that will resist further rusting. You get to keep the original screws, which are possibly (probably) better than any I can source easily, and are guaranteed to fit the existing threads cut in the wood. I have a particular penchant for re-seating wood-screws properly - yes, there is such a thing. If you just spin the screw, it could cut a new thread in the timber, and we just hateses on that. It has to be back-turned until you find the original thread, then seat it. If some cluck has multi-threaded your timber, (uups, maybe that was you.... ;-) ) I'll drop a microlitre of wood-glue in it, or a sliver of matchstick if necessary, so it forms a new clean thread. Oh, and I bet not many of you will have checked your tuners for tightness when you restring?? Pretty much every machine I've picked up seems to have one or more (in this case, all) tuners loose. I suspect the mass-production factories just barely nip up all the nuts and screws to save time, or whatever, and they come loose as a matter of course, after a bit of time or use. I was recently upgrading a pup on a brand-spankin' new Strat, and couldn't believe they hadn't even taken the protective plastic off the scratch-plate, before assembling - complete with parts that you had to unscrew before the plastic would come off cleanly! Anyhoo, in the old Samick, the loose tuners have led to some pretty nasty corrosion (schmeg, to be precise) getting inside the peg holes, and on the internals of the pegs. The tuners don't go in any cleaning baths, btw, as I don't want to mess with the bearings! They get the polish rag, like the holes.

09.01.2022 My Cuz runs 'Perth's Tiny Tours' and he sure knows where to go!! :D

06.01.2022 Very late notice, but I'm off for the annual LifeCycleWA for Canteen charity fundraiser ride, again, next weekend! As per last year, I'm not able to ride (bunged up feet, still) but doing the catering. This is a communal catering fundraiser link (not a personal one for me) Donate awaaaaaaay, my peeps :D https://www.raiseit.org.au//LifecycleCate/lifecycle-onroad

04.01.2022 Hello, World :) As all my family and friends know, there's been a lot going on, but life goes on, so I've been busy getting the workshop ready for all those poor sore guitars that need attention. I'll get some pics up and you can see some of what Damon was referring to. I guess that's marketing - you do actually have to blow your own trumpet! Or turn up the Marshall ;-)

04.01.2022 No surprise but Pauline Hanson made another claim about trans youth that is wrong.

02.01.2022 Wow... I've finally found something from Sky News that's worth sharing!!! https://news.sky.com//coronavirus-pc-gamers-asked-to-donat

02.01.2022 The Events Industry Association, needs your help. We are seeking the services of PR Professionals, Publicists, Media influencers,etc that have the time and ener...gy to help us formulate and deliver, proactive communication and advocacy to both State and Federal Governments on behalf of everyone involved in the Events Industry. Thousands of people in our industry, now find themselves with no income, or face unemployment, as a result of the Government's decision to ban events over 500 people and encourage social distancing. The Events Industry Association has been in contact with the Prime Ministers office last week and has written to him, expressing our concerns, on behalf of those in our industry who are affected. We have also engaged with selected members of State Parliament. Whilst we support the Government's leadership and actions in controlling the spread of the Covid19 virus; to cease someone's income overnight, without recourse in the form of an assistance package, is literally sounding the death knell to our industry and the thousands of people it supports. As a small not for profit association, our resources are limited, when it comes to undertaking a multi channel sustained advocacy campaign to State and Federal Governments. We need the help of PR / Advocacy / Media professionals, who want to join the fight for a fair go for our industry. Tomorrow afternoon at 5.30pm WST, we will be holding a strategy meeting at Gloucester Park and would welcome anyone that believes they have the skills and energy, to join our team and help us develop the communication agenda. Please message us if you are interested in helping our industry and it's people, survive the bleak future ahead. We need your help and support, to help others.

02.01.2022 Here I am... keeping safe and working in lovely sterile surroundings. So time to think about getting that old guitar fixed ;-)Here I am... keeping safe and working in lovely sterile surroundings. So time to think about getting that old guitar fixed ;-)