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Construction of the house continues. The roofing panels have been ordered and the roof trusses are almost finished.

This is a few second clip of our house construction progress.

People working hard mixing cement at the house construction site.

This is a moderate rain storm in the Philippines on June 2023. It signals the rainy season will begin soon. It will eventually rain like this day and night for weeks on end. The Philippines rainy season ends around the last of November/December.

This is a very short (14 second) video showing the operation of a tuning indicator on an antique radio. They are often called tuning eye for the resemblance. The video is very dark because otherwise the brightness of the indicator washes itself out and you can't see it. This is on the 1939 Zenith 7S363 tuning on the shortwave band. The tuning eye is not a light bulb or LED. Electrons strike a surface coated with phosphorous causing it to glow, similar to how the face of a TV picture tube glows. These eyes come in many different shapes and colors. This round green is the most popular of the period. It is not neon technology but I consider the color and luminescence very close to a green neon light. Radio manufacturers used these eye tubes because mechanical meters were very expensive at the time. How did it work? Radios have an automatic volume control (AVC). It automatically turns the radio up to full sensitivity on weak stations, and turns the sensitivity down on strong stations to keep it from blasting and distorting. The tuning eye reacts to the level of AVC. The stronger the station, the more AVC is applied which closes the tuning eye. More technical: A constant high voltage is attracted to the circular plate that is coated with the phosphorous, causing the whole round plate to glow. A wire is present inside the tube that causes a shadow on the bottom of the round display. It's the shadow you see on the bottom of the display. The stronger the signal is, the more negative that shadow wire becomes, making the shadow smaller.

This video scans across the regular broadcast band and most of the shortwave bands on a fully restored 1951 Hallicrafters radio. It was done early in the morning in a rural part of Georgia USA. The antenna was just a 10 foot wire tossed out and dangling out of the window.

Scanning across the broadcast and shortwave bands of a newly rebuilt 1938 Delco model R-1128 table radio. The antenna is a MLA +30 active loop antenna located outside about 15 feet high. It receives a lot of stations even though it is within a very high interferance area.

Just a fun compilation of gaffs by Joe Biden

This is a recording of my Tecsun PL-990 receiver scanning across the shortwave and medium wave (Broadcast) bands on July 7 2023. It was not a particularly great reception night, around 8PM as we prepared to depart back to the USA. The antenna was a MLA+30 active loop antenna. Location was near Nasugbu as marked on the map.

Flying down the road in Nasugbu, Philippines. 4K UHD upload DJI Mini 3 RC UV/ND filters used.

2001 Wedding and reception of the Arvin matrimony in the Philippines.

This is rendered in 8K video so it's best viewed full screen.

Area encirclement

I had restored this about 5 years ago. I wanted to make a video before it's prepped for storage.

Pinto Family car

This is my attempt to uncomplicate and extremely complicated and misunderstood reset sequence of a typical 4 player Gottlieb electro mechanical pinball machine made from 1971 through 1977. It may be helpful to pause the animation from time to time and review to understand a particular sequence of interest. Countless people have found this information very helpful in repair of their own games. Copyright © 2013 Steven Turgeon. All rights reserved.

This is my attempt to uncomplicate an extremely complicated process of a Williams 4 player electro mechanical reset sequence. Copyright © 2013 Steven Turgeon. All rights reserved.

The technical operation of a Nishijin recycler Pachinko (Model A, recycler) machine can be confusing. Here is my offering of a simplified explanation of the operational flow of each process. Copyright © 2014 Steven Turgeon. All rights reserved.

This is my attempt to simplify the operation of a typical electro mechanical pinball flipper. This process spans virtually all major pinball manufacturers within the electro mechanical machines. It does NOT apply to electronic pinball machines. Copyright 2013 © Steven Turgeon. All rights reserved.

This is how to properly clean contacts on an electro mechanical pinball machine. It also applies to most electro mechanical arcade or vending machines. This process DOES NOT apply to electronic pinball, arcade or vending equipment. Copyright © 2013 Steven Turgeon. All rights reserved.

This is my most extensive pinball restoral project. A 1947 United Singapore electro mechanical pinball machine. This machine may be for sale. NOTE: I had incorrectly stated the machine will not award a free play. It actually does via high scores.

This animation attempts to demystify the technical operation of a Crosman Power Master 66 air rifle, with a simple modification and disassembly

Playing a 1976 Space Mission pinball machine that I had restored a long time ago.

Playing a 1976 Spirit of 76 pinball machine that I had restored a long time ago.

Playing a 1971 Nishijin pachinko machine, model A (Recycler) that I had restored a long time ago.