Sunday, July 19, 2020

Toy Program Update - 7-20-2020

As you may have already guessed:  July 2020 Events are cancelled until further notice:  All events planned for July 2020 for RCWA are cancelled until further notice.  Updates will be announced if they occur.


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We have been given a key to the building adjacent and south of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.  This is the former location of the Black Hills Lutheran School, which closed its doors in June of 2019.  We can meet there on our regularly scheduled meeting nights if we so choose.  

We are discussing the subject of using the Club for Boys for our workshops with Mark Kline.  The Club opened its doors to a limited number of boys on July 6, 2020.  This will continue until August 13th, when the boys go back to school in whatever form it will be.  After that time, we will be continuing our discussions with Mark about what changes will need to be made to be able to use the Club for Boys to do our Toy Workshops.

We are discussing the possibility of a RCWA Picnic in the end of August.  We are also discussing with Knecht Managers the possibility of holding our Annual Woodworking Show and have tentatively set September 26, 2020 or October 3, 2020 as the show dates.  So pull out those "Things That Fly" and get them finished up, if you haven't done so already.  We will keep you posted as the date is finalized.

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Our Toy Program is continuing as members are getting out of their homes and bringing and taking toys to and from my shop.  I will detail many of the activities that have taken place since June 3, 2020 in the eye chart table below.  




Detailed Notes on Toy Activity

June 4, 2020
Rick talked with Knecht’s managers and set target date of Sept 26 or Oct 3 for Woodworking Show.

June 5, 2020
Ralph picked up ten boxes of toys for wheels, plus a box of wheels, and ten trucks and truck wheels.  Lon picked up crayon whales to cut.  Rollie picked up box of critters to cut. Kathie made cookies.

June 7, 2020
Bob sorted/re-organized the physical pattern files

June 8, 2020
Paul Douglas picked up 4 boxes to hand sand, plus pegs to spray (6000).  Paul delivered 6000 other pegs to Ralph last week.

June 9, 2020
Jerry picked up a box of firetrucks and pegs and ladders to assemble.

June 10, 2020
Mary Jo brought 4 boxes ready to finish.  She took two boxes home to sand.
Ralph brought toys ready for inventory (228) and picked up two more boxes to install wheels.  Bob prepared them for movement to Inventory at Rick’s.

June 11, 2020
Rick picked up the toys to take to inventory (228).  Rick brought a box of sprayed wheels (800 to 900).  Rick picked up SLIM toys to put on wheels with special axles.  Bob picked up four boxes of toys hand sanded and ready to spray from Bel.

June 15, 2020
Ralph picked up wheels (450).

June 16, 2020
Bob spray finished 243 toys.

June 17, 2020
Bob picked up 2 box of toys hand sanded from Mary Jo.  Rick delivered toys to WAVI, but they couldn’t accept them at this time.

June 18, 2020
Bob boxed up sprayed toys, worked on caravans, and worked on pickup tankers (30).

June 19, 2020
Jerry showed his latest projects on video.  

June 23, 2020
Delivered Fire Bell to Station No. 1
Danny gave me 3 boxes of toys ready to seal.  Paul and Danny talked blocks:  Paul has 120 blocks of each size ready, Danny will rough cut 180 more of each size.

June 24, 2020
Picked up boxes of recovered toys from ICU – Gary Graves.  Dropped off a box of ICU toys.

June 25, 2020
Small SS SIG at Rick’s – cut critters, exchanged items for inventory (62), picked up a box of sprayed wheels (900), bought two gallons of Finish.

June 26, 2020
Ralph and Bert brought wheel install tools by, and two boxes of toys ready to be inventoried.  Ralph might be out of commission for a few months with back issues.

June 28, 2020
Tony brought boxes of done and some not done, as is having bandsaw blade issues.  Paul brought 4 boxes of  toys hand sanded and ready to spray.  Bob has two boxes ready for inventory.

June 29, 2020
Kathie sealed 167 toys.  Ken brought backboards milled and ready and bases, some for ICU.  Ken picked up 80 more back boards to mill and 80 launchers to mount on bases. 

June 30, 2020
Bob made a wheel install kit for Paul (400 wheels + pegs +100 toys).  Paul picked them up on July 1.


July 1, 2020
Bob took 3 boxes of toys to Bel for hand sanding.  Also 3 boxes of toys to Mary Jo for hand sanding.  R&D:  made prototype of safari tour van.

July 2, 2020
Ken brought finished assembled basketball game bases and extra launchers.  Darwin and Lauree brought two boxes of heart boxes with felt inserted; also, one box of helos cut and drilled.  Lauree took one box of double hearts for inserting the felt.  We watched Air Force 1 fly over the front yard.

July 7, 2020
Bob finished Tanker Trucks (30), now ready to spray.

July 8, 2020
Rollie brought back box of critters cut to shape.  Rollie took box of tugboat bases to cut and box of toy cars.  Rick called:  WW Show still scheduled for late September of early October.  Lauree brought out box of double hearts with felt inserted.

July 11, 2020
Lon picked up 4 boxes to work at home.  Rick picked up two boxes for Inventory.  Rick brought 3 boxes of critters ready to put in bags.  Bob picked up 3 box of toys hand sanded from Bel.  Alos picked up 3 boxes of toys from Mary Jo ready to spray.

July 14, 2020
Rollie brought back two boxes cut to shape.  He took home 3 more boxes to cut.  Rick added ten slim rabbits to inventory.

July 15, 2020
Bob stopped at Club for Boys to retrieve some wood parts and talk to Mark Kline.  Toured the new remodel.  Plan to talked again after August 13, when boys go back to school.

July 16, 2020
Held small toy workshop for Special Toys.  Completed 171 toys, packed and sent to Inventory.  Lon brought 3 boxes ready to seal.  Grant brought tugboat cabins ready to install, and a router table with an improved Plexiglas surface.  Jerry brought box of completed Firetrucks ready for inventory.  Patsy brought 21 completed bags for critters.

July 18, 2020
Bob exchanged the church key for a key to the old school building.  Met with Ted Rafledt at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.  Got a tour of the school building and we were invited to use any room that would work for our meetings on 2nd Monday of each month at 7 pm. 

Baseball will be starting soon.

July 19, 2020
Bob milled basketball bases and backboards and launchers.

July 20, 2020
Blog with updates.


For more information about the Woodworkers, click here:   RCWA