Today?
Today was a mixture, really. First of all, I found this
These are mushrooms at the entrance area to my
workshop. They grew out of my saw dusts!
Then, I went on my bicyle to the shop N,
to hand over the chopstics container. She was
very pleased.
She told me that she was very shortly resigning
from the shop and look for another job elsewhere.
At the same time she wants to introduce me to yet
another shop, which newly opened in our area. In fact,
hers are already on display there!
I will see what this implies for me...
Also, she is very keen to get involved in my
chopstic conteiner business. We talked a little about
our strategy.
She is going to produce, essentially, cloth
wrappings, which will double as luncheon mats
(or, table cloths), which, then, will have
a slot to insert my container.
That means, I no longer need to use magnets and instead,
do something like what folows.
Again, I will see what might come out of all this
.
Only yesterday I was talking about making gaps with
my little forks. I tried my idea and it did not work!
Vibration at the top was so violent, and I had to
introduce improviesed jig pieces, as shown bellow!
Although the following image relates to my container
fabrication the machine used is the same. In the course of
trying to make gaps in my little forks a tragedy happened!
My milling machine stopped dead! My heart sunk very deeply.
Because, having the whole thing repaired costs a lot of money
and time!
It has to be done, though, if I am to go ahead with my
container business. So, I removed the motor, shown bellow.
This and the power unit together will have to be sent to Osaka
for repair work and they are extremely heavy for normal transport!
I naturally checked the fuse in the power unit and the dammn
fuse was OK with my tester, meaning that there was a fault somewhere
in the electronic circuit of the motor itself...
I was about to pack the motor and the power unit for
transport, but just in case, I switched on the whole system.
It came back alive!!! It had been simply playing dead!!!
I am now refelecting on the reason. My guess is that
it was due to a very sudden local overheating, somewehre...
Otherwise, the whole thing could not have come back alive.
So, not wanting to reoperate the thing, I turned my
attention to chopsticks. You see them bellow.
Top left is one prototype, down bottom is another
prototype, much smaller in the stem cross section.
Between them is a complete pair, somewehre between
the two extreme ends. I am torn in two minds, even, three, four
minds about the stem cross section.
The issue is this. My instinctive view is that
they should be thin, and yet the diameters of my tool
bits are limited...
On top of that, the whole thing should be as compact as possible.
One solution must be to have an intermediate bit.
However, I cannnot find one at the DIY shop I frequent.
I will have to try some netshops for one.
I have decided that the eventual length of my "My Chopstikcs"
will be 190 mm in length. Next issue was this. To date,
I have produced two containers, one given away today and the
other also to be given away, shortly.
Take a look at the following image and I will talk about
these, tommorrow, I think...
So much for today!
Today was a mixture, really. First of all, I found this
These are mushrooms at the entrance area to my
workshop. They grew out of my saw dusts!
Then, I went on my bicyle to the shop N,
to hand over the chopstics container. She was
very pleased.
She told me that she was very shortly resigning
from the shop and look for another job elsewhere.
At the same time she wants to introduce me to yet
another shop, which newly opened in our area. In fact,
hers are already on display there!
I will see what this implies for me...
Also, she is very keen to get involved in my
chopstic conteiner business. We talked a little about
our strategy.
She is going to produce, essentially, cloth
wrappings, which will double as luncheon mats
(or, table cloths), which, then, will have
a slot to insert my container.
That means, I no longer need to use magnets and instead,
do something like what folows.
Again, I will see what might come out of all this
.
Only yesterday I was talking about making gaps with
my little forks. I tried my idea and it did not work!
Vibration at the top was so violent, and I had to
introduce improviesed jig pieces, as shown bellow!
Although the following image relates to my container
fabrication the machine used is the same. In the course of
trying to make gaps in my little forks a tragedy happened!
My milling machine stopped dead! My heart sunk very deeply.
Because, having the whole thing repaired costs a lot of money
and time!
It has to be done, though, if I am to go ahead with my
container business. So, I removed the motor, shown bellow.
This and the power unit together will have to be sent to Osaka
for repair work and they are extremely heavy for normal transport!
I naturally checked the fuse in the power unit and the dammn
fuse was OK with my tester, meaning that there was a fault somewhere
in the electronic circuit of the motor itself...
I was about to pack the motor and the power unit for
transport, but just in case, I switched on the whole system.
It came back alive!!! It had been simply playing dead!!!
I am now refelecting on the reason. My guess is that
it was due to a very sudden local overheating, somewehre...
Otherwise, the whole thing could not have come back alive.
So, not wanting to reoperate the thing, I turned my
attention to chopsticks. You see them bellow.
Top left is one prototype, down bottom is another
prototype, much smaller in the stem cross section.
Between them is a complete pair, somewehre between
the two extreme ends. I am torn in two minds, even, three, four
minds about the stem cross section.
The issue is this. My instinctive view is that
they should be thin, and yet the diameters of my tool
bits are limited...
On top of that, the whole thing should be as compact as possible.
One solution must be to have an intermediate bit.
However, I cannnot find one at the DIY shop I frequent.
I will have to try some netshops for one.
I have decided that the eventual length of my "My Chopstikcs"
will be 190 mm in length. Next issue was this. To date,
I have produced two containers, one given away today and the
other also to be given away, shortly.
Take a look at the following image and I will talk about
these, tommorrow, I think...
So much for today!