http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/partsman/ Halloween Discussion Forum, Haunts and Home Haunt Community. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:29:34 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.halloweenforum.com/fusion/misc/rss.jpg http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/partsman/ http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/partsman/44-pnumatics-replacements.html Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:58:36 GMT Well, since Seymore was stolen, I've started work on a replacement dummy called Vince the Vandel, a desicated body tied up by the arms in ragged clothes with a descriptive sign explaining that Vince was the last vandel/thief I caught on my property, and doesn't he look good as a part of the display!! HE-HE!!
Also I've taken my wolfman pop-up out and have started a conversion from gear-motor to pnuematic. I can't wait to try him out tomorrow, I'm using the watervalve from a dishwasher as mt solenoid valve for the air. It seems to work much better than a washing machine valve and uses standard pipe threads so I can thead a quick connect right into it without having to make an adapter to fit onto a garden hose fitting.
If every thing works out well with the wolfman, I'll try to post a vid or at least pics to show him off.
Only 5 more days to go and a ton of things to do yet!! ]]> partsman http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/partsman/44-pnumatics-replacements.html http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/partsman/42-theft.html Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:43:08 GMT You know it's really sad sometimes, you spend time thinking of new ideas, time and money creating those ideas and bringing them into being! You know in your heart, that it's not the money or time that counts when you do this, you do it to bring the smiles to children's faces, your not doing this for yourself. I've been decorating my yard now for 11 years, I've had my share of minor vandalism as I believe we all have. But this is the first year that I've had a major theft. Last night after I went to bed, the center piece of my display,(a 6 foot tall static prop I built), "The Demon Priest," was stolen.
Now like I said in the above paragraph, I don't do this for myself, I do this for the children that trick or treat at my house, we've become known as the "Scarey House" with the kids in our town. The saddest part is that there is some thought on the part of the police in town, that it may be some of the older children in the area behind this theft, as there were several break in's in to cars in the area the same night and some people noticed children carrying something "bulky"
I don't harbor any illusions of getting the prop back before halloween, so now I'm faced with what am I going to do about my display, I change it every year, and spend half of my off season planning it out, and the other half building it, now the center piece of the whole thing is gone, there's a big hole where the demon priest is supposed to be sacrificing a victom. Maybe I'll just take the whole thing down for this year. ]]> partsman http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/partsman/42-theft.html