Preparation for TWS (week of 9-26-2022)

 Sealing Toys

Spraying Toys

Turtle Banks

Rick has completed the drilling of the center section of the banks with a 3" hole saw.  He is almost done with cutting the bank to its final turtle shape.  Next will be sanding., routering, sealing, spray finishing , and finally nailing down the CNC-cut plexiglass circles.

Planned Tasks for TWS on Oct 2

1. Drill rotor axle holes in helicopters (several types)
2. Hand-Sand edges of rotors
3. Handsand sprayed toys with wet/dry sand paper.  Then Install wheels on wheeled toys
4. Install rotors with black axle pegs on several types of helicopters
5. Sand tugboat cabins
6. Mark holes for airplane wing screw.
7. Drill and countersink holes in airplane wings
8. Handsand sealed toys
9. Handsand sprayed toys with wet / dry sandpaper
10. Install strings in 1" wooden balls for basketball games and paddle games
11. Drill holes in hull of tugboats
12. Begin assembling tugboats
13. Begin assembling airplane wings to fuselage
14. Install wheels on helicopters and airplanes
15. Cut, sand, router and sand again on toys
16. Handsand backboards slots.
17. Drill holes for available “stacks” in Locomotives.

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Summer Family Picnic/Potluck 9.25.2022

Members of the Rapid City Woodworkers Association gathered today on one of the most pleasant days of the summer/fall for a family potluck picnic.

Attending (26):

Jerry and Patsy, Rick, Ron, Al and Jeri, Grant and Mary, Darwin and Lauree, Julian, Stu and Mary, Jim and Maggie, Jim and Linda, Larry and Linda, Don and friend, Jeff and Celi, Bob and Kathie, and Harley 

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Toy Workshop (TWS2022-16) 9.24.2022

We held our 16th Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2022 on Saturday September 24, 2022, from 9 to noon.  This was held at the Wood Shop at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City.  The shop is in the basement of the annex to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.

The attendees at today's workshop (18) included Harley, Bob, Kathie, Jerry, Patsy, Stu, Rick, Gary Graves,  Julian, Bel, Grant, Paul Douglas, Mary Jo, John, Al, Ken, Jim Brown and Maggie Brown.

Today Jerry, Nick , and Rick cut toys using scroll saws.  Nick drilled holes in Love Bugs.  

Patsy, Mary Jo, Kathie and Maggie hand sanded various 2" and 1" toys that had been sealed with shellac.   Six boxes of toys were handsanded and are now ready for spraying.  Additionally, airplane wings were sanded today with the objective being to "ease the edges".

Harley, John, Julian and Bel installed wheels on over 180 toys.

There was power sanding and round-over routering outside under the tent in 72 degree weather.  Many boxes were finished, moving them to the next operation of sealing with shellac.

At the end of the day, there were 6 boxes of toys ready to be sprayed with finish, and 5 boxes needing to be sealed.  There were 180  toys packed, recorded and placed into inventory today.

Paul Douglas delivered over 3,000 pegs painted with the 2022 designated color - orange.  This amount is expected to allow us to finish out the year.

Gary Graves dropped by to pickup items designated on the production line as needing some intervention to bring them up to our expected standards.  We refer to this as " ICU".  Gary uses special techniques to revive the ailing toys and bring them back to life.  This includes a special putty and a few select dyes.

Photos from the workshop:

Ready to be spray finished with a water based polyurethane.

Ready to be sealed with shellac.

Today's inventory record.

Jerry

Nick

Rick

Hand Sanders and Wheel Guys:

Patsy - Mary Jo - Maggie - Kathie

Harley - Bel - Julian - John

A new addition to the equipment pool is a shorter work table for using router tables and the oscillating spindle sander.  We set it to its lowest position today (This picture shows it in a higher position.). This was found to be much  more comfortable for the more height challenged members of the group.

The Dowels rack was "surplused" this week as well.  Ie, it was recycled/ scrapped/demolished on 9-23-2022.

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Preparation for next Toy Workshop (week of 9.19.22)

What does it mean when the cookie boxes are empty?

(It’s Saturday afternoon?)

QC:  check your sander for square?

 Sealing Toys

Toys at Wood Shop ready for Hand sanding at next TWS

Working on Tugboats 

Planning Paddle Games 

Making Blocks

Milling Basketball Game parts

Building Wings for Airplanes 

Spraying Toys

Spraying Pegs - Paul Douglas - orange for 2022

Milling Parts for Helicopters - CNC by Rick

Turtle Banks 

Insert some pics here showing turtles in process.

For more information, go to www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com.

RCWA

 

Toy Workshop (TWS2022-15) 9.17.2022

We held our 15th Toy Workshop (TWS) for 2022 on Saturday September 17, 2022, from 9 to noon.  This was held at the Wood Shop at 910 Wood Ave in Rapid City.  The shop is in the basement of the annex to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.

The attendees at today's workshop (18) included Harley, Bob, Kathie, Jerry, Patsy, Stu, Jim Burk, Russ, Rick, Dennis, Mary Jo, John, Al, Ken, Jim Brown and Maggie Brown, Lon, 

Today Jerry, Russ, Nick , and Rick cut toys using scroll saws.  Nick drilled holes in Love Bugs.  

Patsy, Mary Jo, and Maggie hand sanded various 2" and 1" toys that had been sealed with shellac.  

Harley, John, and Kathie installed wheels on toys.

There was power sanding and round over routering outside under the tent in 72 degree weather.  

At the end of the day, there were 10 boxes of toys ready to be sprayed with finish, and 5 boxes needing to be sealed.  Rick sprayed the airplane fuselages earlier this week.  They need some light sanding before wings can be installed.  We will do it next TWS if needed.

More tops were completed by Dave Maude;  we packed them (33) and placed into inventory.  There were 257 toys packed, recorded, and placed into inventory today.  This included 112 tractors made by a team in home shops headed up by Rick.

Photos from the workshop:

Wood collection continues.

For more information, go to www.rapidcitywoodworkers.com.

RCWA