The day was dry but cloudy and 40 degrees at 9 am; it warmed up to 50 degrees with lots of wind by noon. The sanding/routering tent was flopping around, but stayed on the ground and lots of sawdust was made.
Attending today (17): Mary Jo, Bel, Jim, Gary, Rollie, Ken, Al, Harley, Grant, Bob, Rick, Frank, Mary G, Don, Darwin, Lauree, and Tony.
Activities today included tugboat cabins to tugboat hulls assembly, ball/string to paddle game assembly, Love Bug wheel installs, cup and ball to handle assembly, wheel installs on about 223 toys, hand sanding of toys and blocks, filling block bags with 10 large blocks, 10 small blocks and some large dowel shorts, routering of critter edges, sanding of shark cars, and others 2" cars, and drilling of critter eyes.
Carts purchased at the RC School surplus auction this week were evaluated for use as tool carts, and repurposing plans put in place. This will be an extra curricular activity we will do when not making toys.
Next week, we look foward to adding stacks to tugboats, ball/string assembly, hand sanding blocks and sealed toys, finishing up cup and ball games, wheels installing on toys, more work on basketball games, tractor building, more critter routering and sanding, crayon whales sanding and routering, rotors installing on helicopters and caravan sanding. Critter bags will be filled when we complete the last few boxes of critters in the coming weeks.
Rocking chair parts are completed and will be assembled soon in home shops and then sealed and finished. Basketball game parts are completed and are being assembled this week in home shops. The "in-work" shelves are slowly being emptied and the "finished" shelves are filling up.
Keep up the good work!
Results of today's workshop: 223 toys were finished and put into inventory.
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