We held a Toy Making Workshop at the Club for Boys on May 22, 2021. The temperature at 8 am was 43 degrees with dense fog everywhere. Once again, it was too damp for sanding and routering outside.
Attending (18): Rick, Jim, Maggie, Al, Lon, Bob, Kathie, Dennis, Tony, Gary, Frank, Ken, Bobbe, Danny, Mary, Darwin, Lauree, and Grant
Activities:
- Unload tools.
- Set up tools and work stations.
- Router edges of 3/4" thick critters.
- Cut toys and critters to shape on 3 Scroll Saws.
- Drill axle holes and windows in 2" thick toys.
- Hand-sand (final before finish spraying) hippos, rabbits, busses, locomotives, rotors for minor helicopters, rotors for standard helicopters.
- Toys for home shops - Several boxes of toys were taken home for work by individual members in home shops.
- Bob brought in about 200 finish sprayed toys ready for wheels, and about 200 toys to be handsanded after sealer was applied.
- Install wheels on Love Bugs (34),
- Install small rotors on mini helicopters (62) and larger rotors on standard helicopters (29).
- Inventory, label, count, and package completed toys: 207 toys
- Tear down workstations; clean up the area.
- Load up tools.
Photos from today:
Completed today
Rain in the Forecast
Installing Rotors on Helicopters
Installing Wheels on 2" Toys and Handsanding Toys
Inventory Process
Cutting out toys using scroll saws
Setting up the Drill Press for Smoke Stack holes
Darwin (texting break)
Cutting Critters
Trading Techniques
Modifications to Comic Helicopter
Working on Critters and 2" Toys
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