2016 Toy Making Marathon – Week 3 – Sept 24, 2016

Toy Workshop 9-24-2016 at CFB Shop – 9 to noon

Attendees (14):  Al Oines, Jerry Hood, Ron Fisher, Grant Coffin, Ed Pike, Danny and Mary Green, Paul Douglas, Bob Buchanan, Lauree and Darwin Buus, Julian Wigen, Lon Gose, Harley Schmadeke and Rick Weisbeck.

Tasks to prepare for workshop:  Sealer on wheeled vehicles, spray paint axles, finish wheels.  Fabricate basketball backboards.  Fabricate Helicopter Rotors on CNC.  Sand Wings for Airplanes.

Tasks completed:

  1. Wheels installed on 139 Wheeled Toys
  2. Toys received ready for sealing
  3. Toys rounded over on router
  4. Toys rough sanded on RIGID sander
  5. Traced-toys cut to shape on scrollsaws
  6. Windows drilled in toys
  7. Axles drilled in toys
  8. Eyes drilled in push toys
  9. Basketball backboards milled – routered edges, drilled post hole, and drilled hoop screws
  10. Critters sanded and routered
  11. Wheeled toys sanded by hand after sealing and now ready for final spraying.

Toy Program Status. Toys completed and in inventory at the beginning of the workshop:  793.
There were 139 toys moved to inventory after this workshop, bring the total completed to:  932.

Tasks to complete for next week’s workshop:

  1. Final Spray on 35 jewelry boxes made by Mary and Danny Green.
  2. Final Spray on several boxes of wheeled vehicles/wooden toys.
  3. Sealer on several boxes of wheeled vehicles/wooden toys.
  4. Final spray on helicopter rotors.
  5. Bring jig for drilling holes in airplane wings.
  6. Spray wheels for the several boxes of wheeled vehicles and wooden toys that will be ready.
  7. Mill the basketball back boards with a 1/16″ deep x 3/4″ groove for positioning the hoops during assembly.

JERRY HOOD
BIG TOYS AT CFB PARKING LOT PROJECT

PAUL DOUGLAS AND LON GOSE

RON FISHER

AL OINES

DARWIN BUUS

DANNY GREENE

ED PIKE AND DARWIN BUUS

MARY GREEN 

ACE WHEEL SETTERS:
HARLEY SCHMADEKE AND JULIAN WIGEN

HARLEY SCHMADEKE

WHEEL SETTERS

GRANT COFFIN

LAUREE BUUS AND THE WHEEL SETTERS

LAUREE BUUS AND THE WHEEL SETTERS

DANNY AND MARY GREEN

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