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Today I saw a marked down Wilson K145 racket and couldn't resist to buy it. It's one of the top rackets from Wilson. Also I bought a dunlop double yellow ball. I'm interessted how different it is from the one dot one which we usualy use.

Here a picture of the new racket:

Update: My friend just called me, no Squash tomorrow :(( But I realized that my grip tape is white (and not black as on the picture) which looks ways better :)

Yesterday I found my old RC car and tried to get it running again. The transmission doesn't sound so well, the dampers are completely not working (I hope I have only to refill some oil) and the tires are death too.

After some hours of cleaning and try and error I managed to start the engine again. I hope we can do a little test drive today after spending some love to the dampers.

The 48h trip to Hamburg was very nice and ways too short. Züri didn't manage to advance in the uefa cup but that was somehow a expected result since they would have needed a 3:0 victory.

Our hotel room door:

Aaand then I found the source of all gadgets:

We were in a bar called "Goldfischglas" they had a nice interactive table. On the upside was some kind of display (I think they used a beamer under the table) which was covered with water. If you touched it the elements moved like that:

Today I got back from Hamburg (some pictures from there will follow later or tomorrow :)) and managed to get my new Neutrik plug from the postal office.

First impression: Very very nice plug :)

Second impression: WTF! http://www.musik-produktiv.ch where I ordered the new plug charged me 15!! CHF for paying via CreditCard (that was NOWHERE! mentioned) and another 9 CHF for the shipping. That makes a total of 30 CHF for a little plug which is about half of the headphones cost, but I saw a lot of people getting ripped-off in St. Pauli so nothing new here :(

About the actual replacement job. First thing I burned away the paint isolation of the sound wires. I did it with the torch function of my gas-soldering iron which work very well.

Then I soldered it to the plug. First time I messed up left an right so I had to resolder :( (Actually I realized my soldering skills do really suck so this does probably look very weak to you)

The last step is to put evrything inside the case. Somehow I can't completly close it but the winding should be long enough to keep it together nicely as it is.

A nice new Weller WP2 Pyropen Jr. I never had my own soldering iron but sometimes it comes in handy :) This one runs with butane gas and is completly cordless, which means it can easily be taken outside to do repairs on the bike (I sould rewire my light system for a long long time).

I bought it to repair my Koss Portapro which has a defect plug. I will replace it with a nicer and more resistant one from Neutrik. If someone is interessted I will organize a digicam (not from the mobile) and take some shots of the repair (but will only be published if I succeed ;)

Here is a picture from the pyropen after unpacking and filling with gas:

I wanted to tweak my blog a little... As you can see - I messed up and go with the new (2008) standard Theme. A new customized one will come soon :)