Electronic House "Best of 2008"

Just landed back in the Tahoe basin and unpacking the rig from the show I found our latest award. We received an award for our VideoGiants service at this years CEDIA expo. Pretty neato!

http://www.electronichouse.com/slideshow/products/4591/735

CEDIA 2008 Denverado!!!

This year we decided not plant the trailer on the show floor, this allowed us to use it for evening festivities around town. During the day I posted up across the street from the convention center as a base camp for HDGiants team. The crew spread out through the show floor supporting our hardware partners that were demonstating their use of our content and our HD store that is built into their media servers. We recieved very positive feedback from both our hardware partners and many dealers during the show. Much thanks to our partners for their patients in working through last minute tradeshow kinks and for their continued support and promotion of HD entertainment! You guys RULE!!! It was a great show and we are looking forward to planning our trip to Atlanta next year. Thinking about keeping the trailer out of the show floor again and setting up a base camp with other vendors. But we definitely need to add a few lawnchairs, cold beer and a grill into the mix next time though! Big thank you to Violet and crew at Tryst for providing such a great intimate space for our press event! Big thanks also to ADI for helping us promote our HD content and store at the Saturday evening event at Mile High Station, it was a great event for us, the Airstream has never had so many folks loungin on the mumfy mohair couch at one time! As always they threw a rockin'party with great food and awesome music! Towards the end of the show I was able to venture out to catch the tail end of STS9's colorado stop on their fall tour Saturday night at the Gothic theater at their official after party. Bassnectar showed up and played a super thumpin' set to get everyone movin'. David Murphy of STS9 sat in with another group for a fun set of grooves. STS9 played 1 night in Boulder and 2 nights out at Red Rocks Ampitheater. super sweet show and great way to finish off the last of three great years in Denver for CEDIA!

Happy Trails!

KurtB.

Time to get buffed

This summer I was able to do some maintenance on the Airstream while off the road. I tried my hand at polishing the aluminum shell to a mirror like finish. I used two tools, a makita variable speed angle grinder with a polishing pad and a Cyclo dual head random orbit polisher. It was quite the adventure! I started out tackling the project full on and quickly realized that no matter how "in shape" I am feeling this job was gonna kick my butt. After a few hours of very repetitive motion with the machines and polish my shoulders were already feeling the burn! Think Daniel San from Karate Kid but with power tools! I switched it up to hitting the trailer early in the am for a few hours and then in the evening until the sun went down. I went through all the advise I have received over the past few years and got down and dirty to bring the bubble to a fine shine! Overall the trailer looks alot better than it did before, however lot's of valuable knowledge was gained through the process and it will be perfected in the coming polishing sessions! Compunding proved to be the critical step. Once you start removing the swirl marks you can start to see the areas that you didn't go deep enough into with the compounding step. Once you are at this point however, it is very difficult to back track as you will be undoing the many hours you just spent removing swirlmarks, and your arms feel like they are going to fall off, yikes! Not an easy task and altough the trailer is only 23 feet long it begins to look like 123 feet long once you start sectioning it off into 2 foot by 2 foot squares (which is your workable space at any one given point in time)knowing you will need to pass the buffers over these spaces repeatedly no less than 3 times each, ususally more like 5 or 6 times! All this said the trailer looks amazing when it is buffed out and it was a great project but glad to be done and have the rig back on the road! The Cyclo tool is amazing at romoving the swirls and I highly reccomend using ti with the Nuvite polish. I compounded and cyclo'd with F7 and then used the S grade to finish. Good luck to anyone out there looking to polish your trailer and in the end it is soooo worth it.

In this picture I am coming out of the fourth turn and headed towards the finish line on the port side of the trailer, yayyy!