Sept 8, 2020

Our Toy Program is
continuing as members are getting out of their homes/shops and bringing and taking
toys to and from my shop.  Many of the activities that have
taken place since August 3, 2020 are noted in the paragraphs below. 

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July 22, 2020

Lon dropped off Tugboat hulls
cut/routered/sanded.   Lon also dropped
off a box of toys ready to be sealed. 
Bob prepared the spray room for spraying. 

July 23, 2020

Bob sprayed finish on 108 toys.

July 24, 2020

Ken brought a box of milled backboards,
picked up a box of bases (65) and more backboards (10) to mill.  Carol brought 6 quilts ready for cradles.  

Bob sprayed finish on 105 toys.

July 25, 2020

Bob sprayed 117 toys.  Toys now ready for wheels:  327

July 26, 2020

Prepare area for sealing toys.  Box up toys that are ready for wheels.

Mill launchers:  Cut 5 degree slot in long launcher
stock.  Router the two top edges. Cut the
long stock in 2” long pieces (total of about 300 pieces).

July 27, 2020

Paul brought toys ready for
inventory:  91

Inventory List:  add 1016-112 (30), add 1016-107 (33), add
1016-113 (28)

Kathie sealed 176 toys. 

Paul picked up about 300 toys ready for
wheels (about 15 boxes).  Rick will spray
wheels tomorrow.

July 30, 2020

Rick brought a box needing hand
sanding.  Rick picked up the three boxes
ready for inventory.  Rick gave Paul
about 1,200 sprayed wheels.

July 31, 2020

Patsy brought critter bags (32) ready
for filling.

Patsy took a box of critters home for
Jerry to sand. 

 August 1, 2020

Critter bags stock:  74; 
Block bags stock:  32

Access ball/string stock.  Need 250 ball/string sub-assemblies for basketball
games, cup and ball games, and paddle games.

Access string/ring stock.  Need 50 ring/string sub-assemblies.

Bob finished routering edges of
launchers; next step is sanding all edges.  Milled some hardwood down to 1/8” thick for pendants for heart
boxes.

August 3, 2020

Status of toys in work: 

Frank – almost done with 27 baby
cradles.

Mary Green – has jewelry boxes ready for
finishing (37)

Danny – has cup and ball games made
(25).  Will need ball/string
subassemblies.

Ed – has two boxes of critters that will
need Routering.

Jerry – dropped off two boxes of
critters completed.

Rollie – bring several boxes of cut out
toys tomorrow.

August 4, 2020

Paul returned 301 toys ready to be
inventoried. 

Rollie dropped of two boxes of toys that
need drilling and router and sanding: 2 boxes need sand/router, 1 box of tugboat
hulls need edges to be rounded over.

Rick, Buus’s, Frank and Julian emailed status.

Danny has four more boxes (2400 each) at
the RV Barn.

Gary Graves is working on 30 small
helicopters.  He returned a box of toys after
recovering at ICU.  Kathie gave sample
quilt to Pat for making cradle quilts.

August 5, 2020

Rick picked up 14 boxes of toys packed
and ready for inventory.  Rick finished
the “Thin” Toys and put them into inventory.  
Total toys into inventory today: 
361

Moved a large number of boxes of
critters onto new storage shelves in new shop.

August 7, 2020  Rally Begins

August 8, 2020

Frank brought 27 cradles assembled and
ready for seal/sand/spray.  Frank took home
two boxes of toys to router and sand.

Bob moved all patterns into one four
draw file cabinet, and swapped bases from two drawer file.  Rick added/keyed the lock on the file
cabinet.

Bob cut names of four new folks for the
WW Show. 

Bob updated the Main Menu of the Webpage
announcing the revised date of the 12^th annual WW Show will be on Saturday Oct 3,
2020.

Kathie made 8 cradle quilts.  Bob labeled the shelves on the toy sample
display.  He prepped the pendants
patterns for the necklace/pendants to cut on the Scrollsaw.

August 10, 2020

Al dropped by and took rings. strings,
wood balls, paddles, and spindles home to finish.  He also took two boxes of critters that need
to be sanded and routered. He will pick up a small sander from Rick.

August 11, 2020

Kathie had cataract surgery.  Check up on Aug 12, 2020.  Also on Aug 18, 2020.  Bob cut pendants for the heart boxes (~70).

August 13, 2020

Bob sprayed a lacquer finish on the
Pendants

Rick put plastic on the turtle banks.  He bagged and tagged them and put turtle
banks into inventory (53).

Inventory of tugboat parts:  Cabins (100+), Stacks (100+), Hulls (70 done,
30 need sand/router)

August 14, 2020

Rick fixed trigger mechanism on my spray
gun.  Kathie sanded the pendants after
first coat of finish.  I deposited a
check inside the Credit Union lobby today!  Bob
got new phone.

August 15, 2020

Bob sprayed final coat of finish (lacquer)
on the Pendants.

Aug 18, 2020

Picked up toys after hand sanding by Mary
Jo and Bel.  Picked up toys from Gary
Graves, both from ICU and new toys made by Gary.

Aug 19, 2020

Rick picked up 200 wheels for tractors
(2” with ¼” Holes)

Rick delivered a display stand made by
Lon – has 4 shelves and folds with a carry handle – designed by Lon and Grant.

Aug 20, 2020

Dan and Mary brought:

Blocks –
large and small – 190 each, sanded and routered

Cup and
Ball (25) needs ball/strings.

Box of
finished toys ready to seal

Jewelry
Boxes – 37 – ready to seal/finish/Felt inserts.

Ken brought
back boards and bases – milled and sanded. 
Ken picked up a box of launchers to drill.

Aug 21, 2020

Bob sanded and routered tugboats hulls
(48). 

Basketball Bases:  count is 80. 
Basketball Backboards: count is 80

Aug 22, 2020

Rick finished tractors and packed them
for inventory:  p/n 1011 (Qty 113)

Aug 23, 2020

Identify Tugboat Jobs for workshop:

1.    
Install pegs with spacer/sand
flush

2.    
Apply glue to cabins

3.    
Install screw for cabin (1 ¼”
long – small square head)

4.    
Install stacks

5.    
Pack for spraying

Locate extra hoops for sanding/Routering.  Locate extra stock for tugboat cabins,  prep for cutting to length.

Aug 24, 2020

Ken brought box of bases – milled with
launchers installed, also brought launchers (50) drilled and ready to install

Bob cut tugboat lower cabin parts (48)
plus some upper cabin parts to length.

Aug 26, 2020

Gary and Pat Graves finished the chalk
boards (64);  will keep at his shop until
December distribution.

Aug 30, 2020

Setup router for routering groove in
back boards. Setup drill for drilling 1” angled hole in lower cabin part. setup
for Routering basketball hoops and

Aug 31, 2020

Bob: 
Router 1/32” deep x ¾” wide groove in back boards (100)

Drill 1” angled
hole in lower cabin parts.

Sand edges
of hoops on disc sander.

Router edges
of basketball hoops (109)

Sept 1, 2020

Met Ted at School to get new key for
school doors

Went to Rick’s shop to do inventory
check – specifically looking for Firetruck No. 1 and for the Locomotives – did not
find.

Brought home 40 rocking chairs to sand
and spray last coat.

Brought home box of sprayed wheels
(900).

Dropped off box of back boards to Ken
for drilling holes for hoop attaching screws. 
Ken gave me a shop tour of his Shop.

Sept 2, 2020

Jerry can donate 20-25 chairs for our
meeting room at the school.

Need to look at CFB for missing
locomotive blanks and Firetruck #1 blanks

Sept 3, 2020

Linda Deibert brought six block bags
with strings completed.

Patsy bought fabric for most of next
year’s supply of critter bags.  Harley
called to check in.

Sept 4, 2020

Kathie sanded rockers (8), sealed
cradles (27) and 3 full boxes of toys

Bob made 21 necklaces with pendants.

Sept 5, 2020

Bob worked on gluing hoops to backboards
(100).  Then boxed up toys that had been
sealed and are now ready to be hand sanded.

Sept 6, 2020

Bob sprayed finish on toys cars and 8
rockers.  Then attached more hoops to
backboards (25). 

Sept 7, 2020

Box up sprayed toys – ready for Paul to
put on wheels.

Rework some hoops on sander, router.  Make more necklaces

Drop off four boxes of toys to Bel for
hand sanding.