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Know those peeper viewers to look out your front door? Here awhile back I ended up with one from the old front door of my Eureka apartment no one else wanted; which now is just behind the passenger side window about eight inches above the sheet metal of the door under the window glass.
I've already tested three different high-intensity key-chain colored lights; green, blue & red...whichever nationality I've forgotten to check on if I want to use three at once assuming I can find a couple more peeper viewers; but, the effect is startlingly vivid and classy already with only one. Next is the other side of the car anyway.
Perhaps in the future fixing the multi-voltage converter which uses the cigarette lighter, to be able to draw from that rather than the tiny batteries the little lights come with? There is likely more than enough juice to run a whole light-show, say three on each side; or if really seriously rabid on the plan, do a few behind the rear windows too.
Though just a single on each side like the original on the right could be an effective little dash of class in brass to begin with nao. No?
the width of these is pretty deep so you can go through a thick door, so making the little key-chain lights sort of trimmed to go inside as far as practical is what the current evolution calls for experiment with. Wish there was a computer camera as the twenty less change nearly, to get a roll developed has me waiting until there are some several shots; and less expenses exteriorly to this, to see to.
When you see the thing in broad daylight they don't produce much of an unusual sensation; where there is little to hint at their origins either, unless a person already knows: Which is nice as otherwise people would be tempted to look into the thing to see if there is some sort of special view to be had.
The impetus was to have the view looking inside to begin with, really; but, then when installed that was reversed from the idea, so that one would look from inside the car for a wide-angle shot just as if in a normal "dwelling."* This makes the light from the key-chain flashlights disperse beautifully, and the orange one comes out a vivid/prurient red for reasons unknown except to those most intimate with my personal philosophies-one might suspect?
What is now coming to mind is finding some flashers which would cause the lights to flicker, but there one has to make sure not an impossible distraction in these days of cell-phone slaughter let alone the piercing icy white headlights of millions of candle power.**
long ago all the interior plastic got removed; which is carcinogenic to begin with...that "new car" smell turns out to be bad for a person, ouch in many ways, eh? without the plastic in the way drilling the hole was pretty simple, then a rat-tailed file to open that to the larger dimension from the size aperture the drill bit left.
well, when the roll of film in the camera gets developed there will be some good pics to share...
another neat/nifty idea, to lift from the '66 vw "square-back" which got me around here and there for a dozen years from '82-'94; is finding commercial/laundromat style dryer "start" buttons, to make a keyboard set-up to use with scavenged horns, to play like musically percussive effects. hard to imagine where to place these on the dash, or there might be a few already; as there is already a j. c. whitney "tarzan yell horn" in the space which used to be the plastic of the grille opening. tarzan ain't bein around jane for a coon's age seems to have an anemic effect. wish the bugger'd end up road kill that is so discouraging...
*I sleep often when traveling in the back seat; where even hauling my april '72 Fender Rhodes stage 73 & Behringer K/A 2000 amp, there is enough room to lay down on the rear seat lodge diagonally in back.
Part of on-going R & D is to make a wholly enclosed area behind the front seats; to block the view from any passer-by knowing there is a sleeper inside...that rat motor, eh? NO, i mean me snoozing around noon of course! What seems most logical is to have window shades which roll up and down like the kind people always use for slap-stick humor; though there are probably many ways to fillet the feline, from furry to fat. my imagination has stalled out on this for years?
**Anyone, like me; believe that using those makes for reduced visibility, as the eyes choke their admission due to the increased glare: so that were everyone to return to the weakest possible illumination, we'd all see both better and easier? Sorta "thunder road" w/o too much noise...
post script: the two photos are ones handy, me with the shelving built for my eureka garage in the front room of the apartment here a couple winters ago...the bridge in the background of the vw photo is over the spokane river; the front seats are '50 gmc panel van ones, with a jump seat on the right...like sitting in a water-bed; nice since the rearr shocks were monroe-matic loadlevelers made for a bus...way coolest!
see ya all later...
Know those peeper viewers to look out your front door? Here awhile back I ended up with one from the old front door of my Eureka apartment no one else wanted; which now is just behind the passenger side window about eight inches above the sheet metal of the door under the window glass.
I've already tested three different high-intensity key-chain colored lights; green, blue & red...whichever nationality I've forgotten to check on if I want to use three at once assuming I can find a couple more peeper viewers; but, the effect is startlingly vivid and classy already with only one. Next is the other side of the car anyway.
Perhaps in the future fixing the multi-voltage converter which uses the cigarette lighter, to be able to draw from that rather than the tiny batteries the little lights come with? There is likely more than enough juice to run a whole light-show, say three on each side; or if really seriously rabid on the plan, do a few behind the rear windows too.
Though just a single on each side like the original on the right could be an effective little dash of class in brass to begin with nao. No?
the width of these is pretty deep so you can go through a thick door, so making the little key-chain lights sort of trimmed to go inside as far as practical is what the current evolution calls for experiment with. Wish there was a computer camera as the twenty less change nearly, to get a roll developed has me waiting until there are some several shots; and less expenses exteriorly to this, to see to.
When you see the thing in broad daylight they don't produce much of an unusual sensation; where there is little to hint at their origins either, unless a person already knows: Which is nice as otherwise people would be tempted to look into the thing to see if there is some sort of special view to be had.
The impetus was to have the view looking inside to begin with, really; but, then when installed that was reversed from the idea, so that one would look from inside the car for a wide-angle shot just as if in a normal "dwelling."* This makes the light from the key-chain flashlights disperse beautifully, and the orange one comes out a vivid/prurient red for reasons unknown except to those most intimate with my personal philosophies-one might suspect?
What is now coming to mind is finding some flashers which would cause the lights to flicker, but there one has to make sure not an impossible distraction in these days of cell-phone slaughter let alone the piercing icy white headlights of millions of candle power.**
long ago all the interior plastic got removed; which is carcinogenic to begin with...that "new car" smell turns out to be bad for a person, ouch in many ways, eh? without the plastic in the way drilling the hole was pretty simple, then a rat-tailed file to open that to the larger dimension from the size aperture the drill bit left.
well, when the roll of film in the camera gets developed there will be some good pics to share...
another neat/nifty idea, to lift from the '66 vw "square-back" which got me around here and there for a dozen years from '82-'94; is finding commercial/laundromat style dryer "start" buttons, to make a keyboard set-up to use with scavenged horns, to play like musically percussive effects. hard to imagine where to place these on the dash, or there might be a few already; as there is already a j. c. whitney "tarzan yell horn" in the space which used to be the plastic of the grille opening. tarzan ain't bein around jane for a coon's age seems to have an anemic effect. wish the bugger'd end up road kill that is so discouraging...
*I sleep often when traveling in the back seat; where even hauling my april '72 Fender Rhodes stage 73 & Behringer K/A 2000 amp, there is enough room to lay down on the rear seat lodge diagonally in back.
Part of on-going R & D is to make a wholly enclosed area behind the front seats; to block the view from any passer-by knowing there is a sleeper inside...that rat motor, eh? NO, i mean me snoozing around noon of course! What seems most logical is to have window shades which roll up and down like the kind people always use for slap-stick humor; though there are probably many ways to fillet the feline, from furry to fat. my imagination has stalled out on this for years?
**Anyone, like me; believe that using those makes for reduced visibility, as the eyes choke their admission due to the increased glare: so that were everyone to return to the weakest possible illumination, we'd all see both better and easier? Sorta "thunder road" w/o too much noise...
post script: the two photos are ones handy, me with the shelving built for my eureka garage in the front room of the apartment here a couple winters ago...the bridge in the background of the vw photo is over the spokane river; the front seats are '50 gmc panel van ones, with a jump seat on the right...like sitting in a water-bed; nice since the rearr shocks were monroe-matic loadlevelers made for a bus...way coolest!
see ya all later...
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