Today, I had to take my wife to Kamakura.
On my way back I collected some composts from
a public facility for our plants. Immediately upon returning,
I had a visitor and that took up something like 30 minutes
of my time.
I will be going into "MY chopstics" business in some way and all
of the afternoon was spent on finding procedural matters.
Take a look at the following.
Can you see that there are holes at either end of the pieces?
Can you also see that chopsticks are placed anti-paralell?
Above is showing you the bottom of one of the lids. This is
nice and round. How you best form these was also one of the
issues for today.
With the above, can you see a dark patch, from the left, about
one third of the way towards the right? This, I will talk about
in relation to the illustration as shown bellow.
In any event, the top two photos are showing you I am almost
there, in terms of producing "My chopstics" containers.
There were discoveries, not expected. Hitherto, I have
been thinking of these containers being made as small as
possible.
From today's experience, these are probably the optimum,
in size, containers and the chopstics therein.
I am going all over the place, but let me tell you that
inner surfaces of the container are satin smooth. It so happened that
the side profile and the diamter of the rooter bit is
the same as the diameter of my ruby tip, which is spherical.
Why is this so important?, although it is coincidental.
When you have formed a ditch you will find that it is full
of scars. You must somehow remove them. I have a range of bits
for this kind of scars, but the only bit that fitted into
the ditch was this ruby spherical sander bit, and it does its job!
Just incredible, how smooth the inner surfaces become!
So, I am stuck with it, because I do not have any other
combination of rooter bits and spherical sander bits.
In a way, I am happy the way it is... After all my
chopstics are smaller in diameter at their holding ends.
I have means to erradicate the scars. Containers are not so
bulky and long... and nice and round, outside...
So, in order to go into full production, the only
remaining obstacle is the steps formed in the trench.
Please refer to the third image of today and A in the illustration.
These are talking about the same thing.
The fundamental problem is that my milling machine is not
capable of forming the trench in one go down the whole length of the
containers.
On top of that, you cannot just dig in your bit, in one go,
to the final depth you want. That will lead immediately
to overheating
So, my rooter bit will have to traverse about two thirds
of the length, each time increasing penetration depth. That is
how you do two thirds of the trench.
You can see by the vertical scale, how deep you are into
the trench, numerical, that is. Now, you may think and
I would have thought, too, that you go to the same depth with
the remaining one third!!!
It is not to be! Because, the whole end of the piece bends,
as illustrated in A! Conseuently, the whole thing suddenly
becomes one of dexterity and visual confirmation and
feeling the inner surface by your finger! It is a very messy
business, but then what else can I do?
B is showing you a typical result of going by the vertical scale.
You go deeper than what you really want! What follows is showing
you that going deeper, simply by the scale, may lead to
a tragedy
C and D are showing you another of procedual matters. Unless
you want to use magnets about the only way you can
make the containers to close bang on
would be to use short sicks, now shown here.
You have to create holes before you begin the whole process of
making the trenches! With today's prototype I tried to make
holes after the whole thing had been shaped, and I found
that there was not enough space, etc, etc! But, that is life, is it not?
You learn things from failures?
Bellow, yes, I wanted to take them to K's shop, but,
she did not respond to my phone call, so, perhaps, tommorrow?
You know something? Making things is not that easy!
No matter how small they are!
On my way back I collected some composts from
a public facility for our plants. Immediately upon returning,
I had a visitor and that took up something like 30 minutes
of my time.
I will be going into "MY chopstics" business in some way and all
of the afternoon was spent on finding procedural matters.
Take a look at the following.
Can you see that there are holes at either end of the pieces?
Can you also see that chopsticks are placed anti-paralell?
Above is showing you the bottom of one of the lids. This is
nice and round. How you best form these was also one of the
issues for today.
With the above, can you see a dark patch, from the left, about
one third of the way towards the right? This, I will talk about
in relation to the illustration as shown bellow.
In any event, the top two photos are showing you I am almost
there, in terms of producing "My chopstics" containers.
There were discoveries, not expected. Hitherto, I have
been thinking of these containers being made as small as
possible.
From today's experience, these are probably the optimum,
in size, containers and the chopstics therein.
I am going all over the place, but let me tell you that
inner surfaces of the container are satin smooth. It so happened that
the side profile and the diamter of the rooter bit is
the same as the diameter of my ruby tip, which is spherical.
Why is this so important?, although it is coincidental.
When you have formed a ditch you will find that it is full
of scars. You must somehow remove them. I have a range of bits
for this kind of scars, but the only bit that fitted into
the ditch was this ruby spherical sander bit, and it does its job!
Just incredible, how smooth the inner surfaces become!
So, I am stuck with it, because I do not have any other
combination of rooter bits and spherical sander bits.
In a way, I am happy the way it is... After all my
chopstics are smaller in diameter at their holding ends.
I have means to erradicate the scars. Containers are not so
bulky and long... and nice and round, outside...
So, in order to go into full production, the only
remaining obstacle is the steps formed in the trench.
Please refer to the third image of today and A in the illustration.
These are talking about the same thing.
The fundamental problem is that my milling machine is not
capable of forming the trench in one go down the whole length of the
containers.
On top of that, you cannot just dig in your bit, in one go,
to the final depth you want. That will lead immediately
to overheating
So, my rooter bit will have to traverse about two thirds
of the length, each time increasing penetration depth. That is
how you do two thirds of the trench.
You can see by the vertical scale, how deep you are into
the trench, numerical, that is. Now, you may think and
I would have thought, too, that you go to the same depth with
the remaining one third!!!
It is not to be! Because, the whole end of the piece bends,
as illustrated in A! Conseuently, the whole thing suddenly
becomes one of dexterity and visual confirmation and
feeling the inner surface by your finger! It is a very messy
business, but then what else can I do?
B is showing you a typical result of going by the vertical scale.
You go deeper than what you really want! What follows is showing
you that going deeper, simply by the scale, may lead to
a tragedy
C and D are showing you another of procedual matters. Unless
you want to use magnets about the only way you can
make the containers to close bang on
would be to use short sicks, now shown here.
You have to create holes before you begin the whole process of
making the trenches! With today's prototype I tried to make
holes after the whole thing had been shaped, and I found
that there was not enough space, etc, etc! But, that is life, is it not?
You learn things from failures?
Bellow, yes, I wanted to take them to K's shop, but,
she did not respond to my phone call, so, perhaps, tommorrow?
You know something? Making things is not that easy!
No matter how small they are!