Saturday, October 30, 2021

Toy Workshop 21 (TWS2021-21) 10-30-2021

The day was sunny and 52 degrees at 9 am; it warmed up to 54 degrees with lots of wind by noon.  The outside work tent was flopping around, but we tied it to the new carts, so it stayed on the ground and much sanding/routering progress was made.  

Attending today (23):   Mary Jo, Bel, Jim, Gary, Rollie, Ken, Al, Harley, Grant, Bob, Rick, Frank, Mary G, Don, Darwin, Lauree, Lyle, John, Jeff, Julian, Lon,  and Tony and his friend.

Activities today included attaching tugboat cabins to tugboat hulls, stacks installed on tugboat cabins (102),  ball/string to paddle game assembly, Love Bug wheel installs, cup and ball games fitted with ball and strings, wheel installs on wheeled 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, hand sanding of shark cars, and other  2" cars, drilling holes in wooden balls and attaching strings, attaching strings to basketball games with 1/8" pegs, adding 2 spoons to each basketball games for packing in boxes for delivery, and inserting heart necklaces into heart boxes.  A total of 320 toys we're put into inventory today.

Wheels were installed on several different types of toys that were put into inventory for Christmas giving.  Wheels/rotors were installed on helos, oldie bugs, small bugs, and small cars, puppy dogs, and dauchsunds.

Results of this workshop

Two boxes of wheeled toys (shark cars, small cars) are ready to spray final finish.

Tugboats (102) are ready to spray final finish.

Batman cars, caravans, PT cruisers, oldies, plus recovered ICU toys are ready to be sealed.

One box of critters ready for inventory.

One cradle (#25) is ready to be sealed.

Items placed in inventory (320) today:

Block bags (5)

Helicopters (58)

Paddle games (58)

Love Bugs (84)

Heart boxes w/necklaces (48)

Puppy dogs (22)

Basketball games (45)


Photos from today's workshop:

 




















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