The Move Pics and Updates!

[fsn]

That's not creepy at all.

[DecemDave]

I love the smell of laser-cut MDF bases. I truly do. Sometimes I open a bag, take a deep inhale. It brightens up my day. Maybe someday I'll stand outside your building at at the exhaust port (when cutting bases) and enjoy.

Might be a bit dodgy that.  I know breathing in dust when you sand them is a very bad idea as it will take formaldehyde into the lungs.

[Leon]

We got the machines and more moulds over to Pendraken HQ today but everything's a bit chaotic until we get the moulds onto the racks and the machines screwed into the floor, so no pics today!  The BT engineer got our phone line in so we've got a phone now, but it'll be a day or two before our number comes over to the new line.  We had a bit of good news today when the security fencing people rang and said that they can come a day earlier so they'll be onsite for 8am on Friday to start on the first section of new fencing.

Might be a bit dodgy that.  I know breathing in dust when you sand them is a very bad idea as it will take formaldehyde into the lungs.

I'm not sure if our MDF contains that?  The formaldehyde is usually in the resin that binds the material but the laser grade stuff that we use is held together with some kind of natural glue I think?  You can tell the difference if you run your finger along the edge of an MDF base/building.  If you get a line of black dust/soot on your finger, than it's been cut from regular MDF.  The sides will be a much darker black as well.  If there's almost no residue on your finger and the sides of the MDF are a more caramel colour, then it's the laser grade material instead.  The costs are higher on the proper laser stuff but it's much nicer to work with and doesn't give off as much smoke/soot.

[Orcs]

They should all be called Mandu.

You will invoke the wrath of M'lady with that one.

[Orcs]

I love the smell of laser-cut MDF bases. I truly do. Sometimes I open a bag, take a deep inhale. It brightens up my day. Maybe someday I'll stand outside your building at at the exhaust port (when cutting bases) and enjoy.

Yes its a wonderful smell.

[Techno II]

Definitely not an unpleasant smell !

(Unlike petrichor...which I can't stand...Almost everybody else that I know has said that that's a lovely fresh smell.....Not to me it's not....Yuk !!)

Cheers - Phil.

[DecemDave]

I'm not sure if our MDF contains that?  The formaldehyde is usually in the resin that binds the material but the laser grade stuff that we use is held together with some kind of natural glue I think?  You can tell the difference if you run your finger along the edge of an MDF base/building.  If you get a line of black dust/soot on your finger, than it's been cut from regular MDF.  The sides will be a much darker black as well.  If there's almost no residue on your finger and the sides of the MDF are a more caramel colour, then it's the laser grade material instead.  The costs are higher on the proper laser stuff but it's much nicer to work with and doesn't give off as much smoke/soot.

I stand corrected.  Thanks for the Info and the tip on how to tell the difference.  I've found one item (that will teach me to buy from other suppliers) of the black and sooty type so I will defo avoid sniffing that. 

[steve_holmes_11]

Yes its a wonderful smell.

You know that small. Smells like ... A new army 

[John Cook]

Camera angles can produce some very interesting results.

If the camera is lower (pointing up) or higher (pointing down) than the object the lines of perspective will converge or diverge respectively. 

[Leon]

On Thursday we'd got the machines over and then the tables and edging strips were done on Friday.  The machines need to be fixed into the floor so that's the priority for Monday.  Today we also sealed up the gaps around the partitions to stop any dust/grime/artillery wheels from disappearing under there forever!

CastingMachine by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

SealedPartitions by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


We've also got the tables for the melting pots all painted and ready to go into place on Monday morning.

MeltingTables by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


The mould making room is now all fully setup with the machines in, racking fixed to the wall, and wiring complete.

MouldingMachines by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


Upstairs we've completed most of the plasterboard work and also moved the original doorway down the wall by 6ft!  This door leads into a small storage room but we wanted to free up the left hand corner for my desk to fit in, and make it slightly easier to get the wiring/sockets installed.

OfficeNewDoor by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


And then today we got the extraction sorted out for the laser machines so that they can be up and running on Monday.  It took quite a while to get the circular drill through the metal cladding but we got there in the end!  For now we've just put a bit of extending hose on the outside but we'll get a proper cowl fitted up there next week.  

RoofExtraction by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr



So, we've got about an hour's work on Monday morning to get the machines fixed down and then we can restart casting.  We've got all of your pending orders stacked up here ready for the machines so we'll hit the ground running and start getting these out to you as quickly as we can.  With the laser machines working now as well there's no delays on anything really so it's nice to finally be 'open' again!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Brilliant news sll.

[paulr]

 

Well done all, a huge achievement, in a very short time

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

All I can say is "WORK FASTER"

[fred.]

Looking really good now with everything in place.

Can't believe how much you have done so quickly

[Techno II]

HUZZAH !! 

Great news, Leon.

As soon as you're up and running...and have caught up with orders.....Can I have a few spins of my last load/mould of dollies ??.....I'm running out of some poses, even after recycling lots of the Korean 'greens'.

Cheers - Phil