With the current lot I am very nearly there!
What is below has just undergone their 8th coating and
drying. Two more mat coatings to go tommorrow and
they will be ready for delivery.
It has been a busy day, really, with me taking my wife to her
regular despite the extremely heavy traffic on the coastal road.
What took up a lot more time than I had imagined was
the improvement on the pipe clump. This, I thought was going
to take up only 30 minutes or so, but as it turned out
it was nearly two hours of my time.
There were two main reasons. First of these was that the
U shaped bolts cannot be turned (rotated) so that I
had to turn the nut.
It is just that I had never worked with U shaped bolts
before... The only thing you can do is to rotate the nut,
but then that requires a hole, a big one, as you can see above.
There are two holes each to one end of the U shaped bolt.
One to allow the bolt end to go through and the other
for accommodating a larger diamter nut.
The order of making these holes is important. Ideally,
you might start with the larger diameter hole, but then
you want to be precise about the position of the
smaller hole. So, I made the smaller holes first.
This tunred into a nightmare as I lost the axis for
the larger bore dril bit...
In addition, I had to lift the whole arrangement by
inserting a small piece of wood so that moving members
of the clump are free from friction with the base plate.
I would be rambling on!
All in all, I did make what
I wanted to see, in the end..., leaving the way clear
for me to do other things.
For instance above, more dinasours, in their roughest
state. See their bellies and chests? They are all ragged
at this stage.
I then snatched a little time to do my bean curd dessolver.
The idea here being that some people want longer stems
so that they do not feel the hot steam while using one.
Actually, inspired by their comments I am making some
additional improvements. Previously, all of them were
short and thin and flat.
Here, I am trying to make the smasher area curved so that
pot curvatures can be followed better. It means thicker
starting materials, and two stage milling of
the trenches, instead of one.
Not only that! I am trying to add side bars!
Here above, you may see comparative elements in my
thinking.
Here above, side bars are being fixed.
Above is really today's highlight. It is still
experimental and I am using only 4 of these.
I am happy, I think. Turing the handle is a delight,
and you get adhesive aqueezed out from the gaps.
This is a good sign.
One important question here is whether the potential
gaps down the whole length of the handle portion
can be completely closed.
That remains to be seen, but I am being optimistic...
What is below has just undergone their 8th coating and
drying. Two more mat coatings to go tommorrow and
they will be ready for delivery.
It has been a busy day, really, with me taking my wife to her
regular despite the extremely heavy traffic on the coastal road.
What took up a lot more time than I had imagined was
the improvement on the pipe clump. This, I thought was going
to take up only 30 minutes or so, but as it turned out
it was nearly two hours of my time.
There were two main reasons. First of these was that the
U shaped bolts cannot be turned (rotated) so that I
had to turn the nut.
It is just that I had never worked with U shaped bolts
before... The only thing you can do is to rotate the nut,
but then that requires a hole, a big one, as you can see above.
There are two holes each to one end of the U shaped bolt.
One to allow the bolt end to go through and the other
for accommodating a larger diamter nut.
The order of making these holes is important. Ideally,
you might start with the larger diameter hole, but then
you want to be precise about the position of the
smaller hole. So, I made the smaller holes first.
This tunred into a nightmare as I lost the axis for
the larger bore dril bit...
In addition, I had to lift the whole arrangement by
inserting a small piece of wood so that moving members
of the clump are free from friction with the base plate.
I would be rambling on!
All in all, I did make what
I wanted to see, in the end..., leaving the way clear
for me to do other things.
For instance above, more dinasours, in their roughest
state. See their bellies and chests? They are all ragged
at this stage.
I then snatched a little time to do my bean curd dessolver.
The idea here being that some people want longer stems
so that they do not feel the hot steam while using one.
Actually, inspired by their comments I am making some
additional improvements. Previously, all of them were
short and thin and flat.
Here, I am trying to make the smasher area curved so that
pot curvatures can be followed better. It means thicker
starting materials, and two stage milling of
the trenches, instead of one.
Not only that! I am trying to add side bars!
Here above, you may see comparative elements in my
thinking.
Here above, side bars are being fixed.
Above is really today's highlight. It is still
experimental and I am using only 4 of these.
I am happy, I think. Turing the handle is a delight,
and you get adhesive aqueezed out from the gaps.
This is a good sign.
One important question here is whether the potential
gaps down the whole length of the handle portion
can be completely closed.
That remains to be seen, but I am being optimistic...
