Toast beds, my chopstics, panda looking dinosours

Conchita, I am bothered about something...
It is the new IE. When the message came in I was
watching YAHOO USA and that may be why...

I have since convereted to YAHOO JAPAN, but I still get
some of the messages in English! Not only that,
parts of the URL are not highlighted!

I hope I still managed het my photos in the right manner...

Anyway, wet sanding photo below. I think I will
blow this up and take it to my department business,
just to show how much is actually involved in my coating.



Most of my time today was spent on my toast beds.
I have decided that I will not go for more than
30 of them. So, I am relaxed now...

Fine tuning has started and you may see the status
from the following image. Bits and pieces from my
earlier milling operation have been removed.



Even the bottoms have been taken care of. I still have
a smimilar number of these beds to take care of, but
these are now under control.



So, I moved my attention to"My chopstics" sets. See this big
chunk of wood here? This came from my earlier operation, long time
ago by now. It is birch, of some sort...

Very irregularly shaped, cannot help it as it is a left-over.
I need slices from this chunk to make them into square-cross section
bars before I make ditches.




Here are the slices. Tommorrow, I will be further slicing them
into bars, square bars in cross-section. Actually, if things go right
I might be tempted to contract out these tiring processes

to China or Vietnam, or whereever. I have some contacts...


My giant belt sander is back from repairs. I will have to be
very careful in its use. Because it is so heavy at
25kg, I thought that it was invincible, but it was not.

Accoring to the repair people even bearings were shatterd,
not just the belt! I cannot believe it! It set me back by
JPY 13000! Almost 23% of my last month's gain was lost!



All this makes me think... After all, I am not gaining
any pure profit from my operation. What comes in simply
goes out in consumables...

I just feel like crying on somebody's shoulder!!!

パエ－リャ ２４７

Conchita, muy buenas tardes y como estas?
Estoy bien y muy ocupado!

Me complace decir que no era muy frio hoy.
Creo que el clima va a ser estable
durante los proximos dias y que me ayudara!

Ahora entonces, vamos?

忍者の煙玉を使って（副詞句）
a lo bomba de humo ninja

（パ－ティ－の出席の話）
出ていたなんて誰も覚えてもいないのに（そのまま）
消えちゃうなんて嫌よ！

No quiero irme que nadie se de cuenta siquiera
de que yo he asistido!

驚いたことには
por sorpresa!

理想的な行動は(アクション）は何なのさ！？
Cual es el comportamiento ideal!?

私だけ（こんな）外にいる訳じゃないのよね！
私だけ部外者っていう訳じゃないのよね！

No estoy solo ahi fuera!

ベチャクチャ話さないでじっと聞くのよ！
Mas escuchar y menos hablar!

自分の言った事、全て自分に跳ね返って来る
こともあるのよ！(悪い意味で）

Todo lo que digas puede volverse en tu contra!

Conchita, bastante para ahora, no?
Vamos ingles aqui!

彼女、彼の事は何でも嫌いなのよ！
She hates everything about him!

秘密って、何なのよ！？
What is your secret about!?

あの人達ったら、みんな、お互いにやり込めあってるのよ！
They are all having a go at each other!

私、怖気づいたの！
I got a bit windy!

そういったプロジェクト、全然軌道に乗らなかったわ！
Those projects never got off the ground!

ハロッズで夏物セ－ルやってるわよ！
There is a summer sale on at Harrods!

子供達を怖がらせること
to frighten kids away

午後は晴れる予報よ！
A brighter afternoon is forecast!

私って、一体何を期待して(望んで）いたのかしら！？
I do not know what I expected!

Conchita, enough for now? take care and vaya con Dios!

Enough is enough! My chopstics sets to begin

Conchita, today was not too bad...

Coating continued and the first image below is
just before protective coating was applied.

Quite when to proceed to the next step of coating
does depend on the surface status. You have to have
a good and long look at them before you decide...



In the meatime toast bed work continued and halfway
through I was beginning to think that I was perhaps
trying to fabricate too many of them...

There are nine here, those I made today, and combined
with earlier pieces I now have close to 30 of them.

Quite realistically, I do not believe for a moment that
people will be buying these at the constant rate of
5 or 6/day for the duration of the department thing...



So, what is seen below will be left untouched for the
time being. They will sell, yes, eventually, as earlier
pieces have been sold out!



Today, I was bored of making the toast beds, and I decided
to go out by car to buy a soft iron bar, and I came across
a smaller sanding bit, as shown here.

If you are into this kind of work as I am you need
a variety of sanding bits, and I immediately bought this!



The 5 mm soft iron bar was sliced into something like 5 mm
length. What is seen below is just a confirmation test,
with the neosium magnets and the sliced out soft iron counterparts.



I made 5 mm holes and they were just about right, and
what I did subsequently was to glue them in the holes
so that I can verify my theory of tow halves of my

chopstics covers sticking together with enough force.

Without bonding these pieces will shoot out from the
holes and I will see for sure that I am right,
only tommorrow, or later this evening.



The schematic above is in relaton to precise
alingnment of the covers. Magnets and their
soft iron counterparts are only meant for

closing the gap between the covers. Actually,
with the presence of the magnets they are
intrinsically self-alligning (mis-spelling!).

However, an idea was put forward that we need
something more to ensure an exact contact. A very
naieve solution would have been to have

protruding pegs and counterpart holes to accept them,
as in A here.

My instinctive solution is to make the soft iron
itself to protrude as in B. Of course, tips will have
to be rounded and in the worst case bore diamtre may

have to be altered, but the basic idea is there,
I think.

Anyway, these are the thoughts which emerged today
during the boring process of groove cutting.

Tomorrow, I will be working on the chopstics containers
in earnest!

パエ－リャ ２４６

Conchita, muy buenas tardes y como te va alla?
Bien? Espero que shi...

No fue demasiado frio el dia de hoy.
Soleado y sin viento suficiente
para la mayor parte del dia.

Flores estan saliendo muy bien ...
Vamos?

ドウノコウノしたっていうのが私だって事に
感謝もしないで！

Lejos de agradecer que fuera yo el que DOUNOKOUNO!

私、それに全力を捧げたのよ！
Me preste a darlo todo!

男なので。。。
Siendo un hombre...
（Ｂｅｉｎｇ　ａ　ｍａｎ．．．）

ナニナニの日のように
como el dia que NANINANI

話さなければいけない時には話していたわよ！
Si habia que hablar yo hablaba!

ドウノコウノと言う他、私には思いつかなかったわ！
No se me occurio otra cosa que decir DOUNOKOUNO!

(彼は）次回には別のアパ－トを探してあげるよと
言って（副詞句）

diciendome que al siguiente me podria buscar otro
apartomento

本当は役に立ったのよ！
La verdad es que funciono!

Conchi, desde aqui vamos ingles!

あの人達が(一切を）取り仕切っているのよ！
They have the control over the way these are
hundled!

行って見てみなさいよ！
Go and have a look!

（それはそれとして、その一方で、それとは別に）
私達、何かやりましょうよ！
Meanwhile, we will organise something, shall we?!

この映画はナショナル・ベルベットの続きになるのよ！
This film is a sequel to National Velvet!

彼、頭に来て出て行っちゃったわ！
He stormed off!

(映画や舞台）観客にこびるのはダメよ！
We must not play down to an audience!

Conchita, this should suffice for now, no?
Take care and vaya con Dios!

Toast beds, holes in spheres and how

Conchita, you may say "Not again!", but that is exactly
what happened yesterday. I did add my comments on the photos,
and even gave titles, but somehow the whole thing never got

uploaded. Suffice to say that the main topic was about
working with spheres. I will talk about it today as well.

Anyway, the first image today is the dinosours immediately
after wet sanding and drying.

Coating by polyurethane A is such a crucial step
towards the quality of my works and I take my utmost care
in ensuring the right surface conditions for subsequent

coatings.



Here below, 2nd application of polyurethane A and
they are drying. They will be subjected to 3rd coating
by A, and surface saturation will occur.

That is when they are ready for polyurethane C, surface
protecting glossy coating. You will be seeing
the result soon...


Most of my time today was taken up by these toast beds.



I　actually measured the time it takes to make grooves
with each. It is about 22 minutes. It certainly is such
a boring job. I need to computerise my milling operation!



Just showing you how messy groove making operation is!

Anyway, the following schematic is about bore making
in spheres.



Spheres are funny creatures, unlike other basic elements
of the universe. Terrestially placed, they stand vertical,
automatically.

This is because they do not know which way is up
nor which way is down, let alone which way is horizontal.
I may be the only person who is amazed by this fact...

This actually is a follow-on from yesterday's, how to make
a cylindrical bore in a given shpere. My wife is calling for me,
so I will have to cut short my story here.

The idea is to make a flat top by a rotating bit,
and that is easy, because the tip motion is horizontal.

However, making concentric bores is more of a problem. Here is
a secret. Do nt remove the shpere from the clump
with which the flat top was created.

Use anything you want to create the first circular bore,
and at the end of the day you want a circular step
as seen in yesterday's image.

Just simply change the bit to what you want. Do not move your
shpere from the clump, because if you do that the centre
will be sfifted!

Just only chnage the bit for the right diamtre and
dig in! Ifyou do anything else you will find that
you will be digging a hole off-centred!

パエ－リャ ２４５

Conchita, como estas? Estas bien? Creo que si!

No llovio hoy, pero no estuvo tibio cualquiera.
Las plantas deben estar sintiendose la primavera
ha llegado y puedo verlo en mi jardin...

Vamos?

助言しようと思うときにはいつでも
(whenever...)
Siempre que intento dar consejos

私、何馬鹿な事したの！？
Que es lo que he hecho mal!?

その正反対の事が出来るように
para que podrias hacer just lo contrario

私、カキ(貝の）みたいに退屈してたわ！
Me aburri como una ostra!

その会話は私は上の空で聞いていたの！
La conversacion me pasaba por encima!

で、私、何も判っていなかったのよ！
..., y no me enteraba de nada!

なので、だから夕食の間中（ずっと）黙っていたの！
asi que me tire toda la cena callado!

Conchi, bastante, no? Vamos ingles!

２０００かな？、直ぐに思いつくのは。。。
2000?, of the top of my head?...

それって、(本音を言いたくなくて）モゴモゴなのよね！
It is a tongue in the cheek thing!

流動的な状況では
in a fluid situation

私って、誰からも一度も手紙貰った事ないのよ！
I have never had one letter from anybody!

ええ、その話、言ってたわよねえ！
Oh, how you told me the tale!

目的地に着けると思ったら大間違いよ！
You will not have the remotest chance of getting there!

(子供達を)静かにさせて置く事、一つも思いつかないわ！
I cannot think of a single thing to keep
them occupied!

Conchita, enough for now. Take care!

La primavera esta aqui!

First coating by A polyurethane here.



Nuts and bolts also coated for structural strength
re use as stoppers



Toast beds being prepared



salt containers schematic and multiplying
nuts and bolts



here on, trying to make a sphere gripping jig







here below, trial piece sitting on neosium magnets

パエ－リャ ２４４

Conchita, muy buenas tardes y como estas? Estas
bien y feliz? Creo que si!

Estoy seguro de que la primavera ya esta aqui,
pero hoy en dia la temperatura no era elevada ...
Me alegro, sin embargo, que no hay lluvia como se predijo.

Entonces, vamos?

でも、皆が皆、そんなに幸運だと言う訳じゃないわよ！
Pero, no todo el mundo tiene la suerte!

幾つかの物語
un par de historias

（それって）本当の事よ！
Prometo que es real!

（だって）ママにそれ、約束したんだもん！
(Es que) se lo prometi a mi mama!

もし（それが）うまく行けば（行かなければ）
Si sale bien (mal)

一年中後悔することになるわよ！
Te vas a arrependir todo el a-nyo!

（飲み物の話）彼、一息で飲み干したのよ！
Se lo bebio de un tiron!

Conchi, bastante para hoy, no?
Aqui vamos ingles!

自分の納得のいく事になっているの？
Have you got to where you wanted to get to?

全然寝てないんだ！
I have not got any sleep!

丁度物事が良い方向に向かっているのに（いる時に）
Just as things are easing up for me

（聴力試験とかで）
ほら、また聴こえるわ！
There it is again!

彼女は王室の家族に会えるのを楽しみにしていると
打ち明けた

She (Tatum O'Neal) admitted looking forward to
meeting the Royal family!

彼等は一斉に繰り出した！（お祭りとか示威行動）
They turned out in force!

Conchi, these should suffice for now?
Take care and vaya con Dios!

La primavera que esta aqui, slimmer dinosours

Conchita, I do realise that I did not upload my
comments on yesterday's. No way I am going to
reproduce what I might have said. (I did write)

That is all history now and life goes on.

The first picture today is the neosium disc
magnets which arrived this morning. I did touch
on the magnets in yesterday's.

There are 130 disc magnets, and in theory I should be
able to fabricate 65 "My chopstics" sets with these
small magnets.



I took them out from the plastic bag and toyed with
them. See how strong they are? They are forming two
magnet sticks and are standing still as seen here!



I have a problem here, though...

I need counterpart iron discs. Using two of these
will not double the magnetic density, only an increase
by 10% of the nominal value.

So, far btter to prepare similar sized discs.
The only way to get them is to slice out these
discs either by my milling machine or by my

metal bandsaw. I have not yet decided which to use.



Anyway, today's output is seen here and below.
I did count them and I seem to have just about 70
of these dinosours. These above in the shift are

more or less coating ready.



These here in the box are yet to be refined, actually,
by hand-sanding. It is a messy process and time consuming...
No wonder I am asking for JPY 2000 for each of these.

Here below, bean curd disolvers resurrected from
an earlier lot. I am not exactly sure why, but,
these inocent pieces are selling well at A's.



I am already lagging behind the schedule by half a day.

I am hoping that by close of the morning tommorrow
I will have finished with my dinosours and move on
to other things...

Conchita, la primavera Japonesa ha llegado aqui! Esta aqui
por fin! Lo mismo en Mexico! Creo que si!

Hasta luego, entonces!
Ciao!

パエ－リャ ２４３

Conchita, muy buenas tardes y como te va?
Todo bien?

Hoy en dia no fue demasiado malo.
Solo salio a dos lugares, muy brevemente.
Ha sido soleado y no demasiado frio.

Espero que manya-na sera lo mismo! Vamos?

（ＰＣの話）
実行時のエラ－が出たわ！
Se ha producido un error al ejecutar la accion!

後でまたやってみなさいよ！
Intentalo de nuevo mas tarde!

太陽の光をプリズムに通しましょう！
Dejamos pasar un rayo del sol por un prisma!

ドウノコウノの結果として
como resultado de dounokouno

だからナニナニなのよ！
De ahi que NANINANI!

（否定の後で、むしろの意味で）
ナニナニ１でなくて、ナニナニ２なのよ！
naninani1, sino que naninani2

（隕石とかが）
地表に到達する前に
antes de alcanzar al suelo terrestre

クリスマスって、家族と一緒に過ごす時って
決まっているわ！

Se supone que es la epoca de la familia!

Conchi, desde aqui ingles!

彼は照準器を目標に合わせて極短い射撃をした
(戦闘行為の話）
He centered the blade foresight on the target
and squeezed off a short burst

秘密話って何なのさ！？
What is your secret all about!?

あの人達、お互いにやりこめあっているんだわ！
They are all having a go at each other!

私、怖気づいちゃったのよ！
I got a bit windy!

ここの仕事につく前に私的な事を片付けることね！
You have to wind up your personal affairs before
you take up the job here!

そんな事、言うには未だ早すぎるわ！
It is too soon to say!
It is too early to say!

（道路状況）
（途中で）道がそこらじゅうで塞がっていたのよ！
The roads were all clogged up everywhere!

Conchi, bastante para ahora, no?
Vaya con Dios!