Orange County Woodworkers Toy Workshop April 6, 2024 Anaheim, CA

 Bob,   As you requested, attached are ten photos I took at our most recent toy workshop party.  Hopefully they are still attached when you get this email.  Let me know if they didn’t all make it, and I’ll re-send them in smaller groups.  Hopes things are well with you.

 Regards,     --Alfred J. Missbrenner    m: 562-652-5876

Ed Smet’s keepsake boxes, and his team.

Earl Horstman and assistant adding wheels to his simplified race car.

Grasshoppers 

Logging trucks.

Assembling the Boogie Coaster, car and its track.

A new design, of a 2-seat flivver (needs wheels).

From stair handrail to steam locomotive.

Attaching legs to the articulated frog.

 Attaching wheels to a dump truck.

A big wheels type monster truck. We typically give just one to each organization.

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RCWA 

Repair Center Status 1.1.2024

 All repairs are currently finished and will be returned to YFS soon.

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RCWA 

Parts Fabrication: Helos, Airplanes, Tugboats, Chalk Boards, Basketball Games

Most of the toys made for the Toy Program in the Rapid City Woodworkers Association consist of one main part supported by axles and pegs.  But some of the toys have as many as 8 parts.  The complexity level of each toy is multiplied by each additional part.  Each additional part must be made separately before final assembly.  Here is where some of those parts are fabricated.

Parts for Helicopters

Rotors for helicopters are made by Rick using a CNC router.

Parts for Basketball games

Basketball hoops were made by Jim and Dick at J&D Wood Works in Black Hawk, SD from 2008 thru 2022, using their big bed CNC router on 5' x 5 ' Russian birch plywood.    In 2022, Stu Kellogg did a test run on his CNC router and made 36 hoops. This year, Stu fired up his machine again and made what we need for 2023 (100).

Parts for Airplanes

Airplanes consist of a fuselage, a wing, and two wheels.   Rick traces the fuselage on 1" thick poplar and cuts them to shape on his scroll saw (s).  Bob cuts the wings from 1/4" pine when available.  He cut the strips to width, routers a 1/8" roundover on the long sides, then cuts each strip to length.  Then he routers the ends and corners of each wing.  The edges are then hand sanded before finishing.

Parts for Chalk Boards

Chalk boards are made by Gary and Pat Graves.   The board is first cut to width, then to length, then the handle hole is traced onto the board.  The hole is cut out using scroll saws.  Then Gary sands the board, and the corners and routers the edges of the board and handle.  Then Pat takes over, and adds chalk paint, and cutsies.

Parts for Tugboats

Tugboat are made up of the hull, and a cabin and tieoffs.  The hulls are traced on 3/4" shock, cut to shape on bandsaw or scroll saws, routered and sanded.  The cabins are made of two pieces of wood, glued and pinned together.  Then they are drilled to accept the 1" poplar dowel stack.  Then the cabin is screwed and glued to the hull.  The stack is then glued in place.   Lastly before sealing and finishing, the two tie offs ate installed.

Parts for Rocking Chairs and Cradles

Some parts for the Rocking Chairs and Cradles are cut using Scroll Saws and some parts are made using the CNC router.

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RCWA

Preparation for next Toy Workshop 6.3.2023

Preparation efforts  for our next workshop included sealing toys and spray finishing toys.  Approximately 14 boxes of toys were ready for spray finish and twelve boxes were ready for sealing.  Sealing always raises the grain of the wood, so these toys will need hand sanding before applying a spray finish.  Most of the time, a spray finish is the last operation before installing wheels on the toys.  Occasionally, a little hand sanding is needed after a spray finish is applied.  It all depends on the condition of the wood before spraying.

Toys sealed:  298 (12 boxes) 6.3.2023

Toys sprayed:  309 (10 boxes) 6.3.2023

                                                      176 toys, 120 rotors (6 boxes) 6.5.2023

Two boxes of helicopters will need rotor axle holes drilled on top of helicopters.  One box needs additional sanding before sealing.  All hoops need sanding.  Some ladders need sanding before sealing.  All sealed toys will need sanding (about 300).  One box of bears will need sanding before wheels.  About 485 toys are ready for wheels.  

Sealing Setup

Ducks 22

Puppies 18

1930 Toy Cars 20

Racers 20

Golf carts 18

Thin ones 30

Mixed 20

Back Road Car 20

Love Bugs 100

Ice Cream Wagon 30

Total :  298

Spraying Setup

Shark Cars

Bear Pull Toys

69 VW Bug

Hippo Pull Toy

Race Cars

Old English Taxi

Firetrucks

Firetrucks

Airplane Fuselages Ready for Wings and wheels

Golf Carts (new in 2023)

6.5.2023

Spray Finish:

Helicopter Rotors

Airplane fuselages

Previously Sealed and wheeled  but not Finished Love Bugs

Small. Poplar Cars

Dauchsunds

Fire trucks

Basketball Game Parts Inventory 6.5.2023

BB game inventory 6.5.2023

Bases with Launchers:  30+30+27+7= 94

Back boards ready for Hoops: 65+69= 134

Bases (cut to size only): 41+39= 80

Hoops (need sanding):  maybe 100 (not counted)

Airplane Wings on Hand:  40

(will need 110 more)

Tugboat cabins:  10 (need 90 more)

Chalk boards - stock located (need 60)

Sunset in the Black !Hills

We brought all boxes to the Wood Shop on Tuesday 6.6.2023.  Lauree dropped by to help us position boxes at the proper work stations.  We also located more basketball back boards and tugboat cabins.  Might need to spray some truck wheels.

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RCWA