Trish Graves is working on chalk boards (60).
Chalk Board Production Line:
Kathie sealed toys (192) today 9-25-2023.
Bob worked to prepare tanks for installing on pickup bodies.
Drilling a half inch hole to insert a dowel to look like an access port on the tanks.
Here's a little fixture that will save your fingers when sanding a flat spot on a short piece of 1 1/2' dowel.
These tanks were made from a piece of reclaimed "Pew" wood from Edgemont and a nose piece cut from an auction find of pre-finished locker seats.
Here are some test plugs. I decided for safety reasons I should use a longer dowel for the cap on the tanks. His is much more difficult for a child to remove than a short plug.
Note: use drill bit size "F" for Locomotive smoke stacks.
Here's the tanks with the reclaimed dowel shorts installed.
and trimmed shorter. Here's the only waste.
Here's the setup for drilling a hole in the round tanks.
Tanks with dowels sanded flush.
The ends of the tanks were routered and some burn marks sanded off.
Holes were drilled in crayon whales (28). They are now ready to be cut to shape using scroll saws.
Stacks were installed in 32 more locomotives.
Rotors for helos were sprayed with a finish.
Rotors were made by Rick on his CNC Router.
More work on launchers
Stacks glued into Locomotive
Boxes of toys ready for Workshop
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