by Ken Fox on Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:24 pm Now that I've got it set up and functioning in my kitchen, I thought I'd post a few pictures so you all can oogle it and otherwise eat your hearts out.
Here's a back view to give you some idea of how it looks in my kitchen
This is a frontal view taken from a slight angle
And another frontal view from a different angle.
Actually, I decided not to buy the Speedster since it is too wide for my kitchen plus I'm reasonably happy with what I already have. The lights came from an IKEA store. I don't get into IKEA stores very often since there aren't any located anywhere near I live.
The astute reader will notice that this is a blatant rip off of a modification that Mark Prince did years ago on his Linea (which he is now hoping to sell since he wants to replace it with a Speedster). Rick Knowlan and I ran into Mark P. at a cafe in Vancouver 2 weeks ago, and Mark offered to show us his modified Linea in his new apartment, which is not far away from this particular cafe (the Elysian Room on Broadway, near Ash).
There is actually a functional benefit to this mod, which costs around $45 for the LED light set, in that it allows you to better see the extraction coming out of the bottom of the PF. If you wire it in a convenient way, you can have the on-off switch somewhere that you can turn it off when you don't want it lit up. There are 4 light strips, of which I am using 3. You can choose between 5 different solid colors (including white), or have them cycle every couple of seconds through all of them. I personally find all the colors except white and blue to be very garish; cycling through the colors is very much over the top unless you want your kitchen to look like a traveling circus.
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