6-27-08

6-27-08
12:00-4:00
Another day of grinding fun! We unloaded and reloaded the tumbler for the first time. It’s basically a larger scale version of the studio’s tumbler. That was jazzy. Then we went on to grinding the scale off the assembled tabletop clocks. We have been cutting and grinding the pieces for said clocks since day one so it was nice to see them put together, The weld marks, unfortunately, are at some inconvenient places and grinding these took quite a while. I hate to be a downer, but it seems I can’t show all of you pictures of us welding because the light may kill my camera so you’ll have to imagine the shinny green light. Picture our oxy-acetylene torches times 100. Dave showed us more with welding as well. We learned what not to do when welding different thicknesses of metal. Mainly, don’t be a weenie. I finally got a delightful pool of metallic goodness and connected it to the thinner piece sans weenie-ness. Hooray molten metal!