Quote from: Raider4 on 10 April 2021, 06:46:48 AM
$DEITY, yes! Flashbacks to my first proper job, with a room full with racks containing >2k 2400' mag tapes.

Only 2000 ? We had over 10000 at JM Centre, and horrible things they were.

Anyone else spot the can of coke halfway down the stairs?

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 09 April 2021, 11:23:31 PM
I'm incredibly bad at visualising the innards of hollow things.

Don't worry, Steve....I'm sure I said this YEARS ago.

When I was 'Miniatures coordinator' at GW I was sent on a crash course of 'how to make moulds'.....So I had some idea of 'what would work...and what wouldn't'..

I was making one of the half dozen, or so, moulds that I did that week, when some visitors walked in.

At that point I was cutting into the rubber, ..to make a rough shape of where the Green Stuff masters would go into the mould.

The 'visitor' thought I was making a negative in the rubber to produce a model.

Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: Techno II on 10 April 2021, 09:15:16 AM

The 'visitor' thought I was making a negative in the rubber to produce a model.

Cheers - Phil.

Quite a skill if you could do it!
Talk about cutting out the middle man.

Quote from: Gwydion on 10 April 2021, 10:19:16 AM
Quite a skill if you could do it!
Talk about cutting out the middle man.

It'll be the future when the 3d printers get their act together.

Nah....There still needs to be a truly huge leap, before that happens......It'll be 10-20 years after I'm pushing up the daisies before that becomes a commercial reality.

Cheers - Phil. 

Quote from: ianrs54 on 10 April 2021, 07:53:08 AM
Only 2000 ? We had over 10000 at JM Centre, and horrible things they were.

Don't know how many we had but there was a member of full time staff permanently assigned to fetching tapes on demand for transfer to the machine room.

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 10 April 2021, 11:26:51 AM
Don't know how many we had but there was a member of full time staff permanently assigned to fetching tapes on demand for transfer to the machine room.

From memory we had 3-4 for that. Used to get ape like arms on night shifts shifting the bloody things from library to read use racks.

Quote from: Techno II on 10 April 2021, 10:59:13 AM
Nah....There still needs to be a truly huge leap, before that happens......It'll be 10-20 years after I'm pushing up the daisies before that becomes a commercial reality.

Cheers - Phil. 

It did occur to me that printing the negatives would reduce the need for all those supports and risers.
But that doesn't answer the many questions about castability in the printed medium.

Quote from: fsn on 09 April 2021, 02:36:50 PM
That's how I started.

Such is the Way of the Lead.

Wow.  Just caching up with the move.

Great work guys. Coming on nicely 

Cudders

This weekend we've down there getting the laser machine room plastered and painted, as well as doing another chunk of the workshop floor.  I've just caught up on all of the emails as well so the orders are in the system and we'll have them out to you asap.

We'd plastered and base coated the laser machine room over the weekend...

LaserPlastered by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

LaserWhite1 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


... and then today it got another two coats of paint to finish it off.  I completely forgot to take a picture though!

We also managed to get the grey workshop floor finished off today which is looking quite nice!  Shame that it'll never look this good again once the machines, dirty boots and casting powder get all over it!

FloorGrey2 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

FloorGrey1 by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


Tomorrow we've got the electrician back to finish off the sockets in the laser room, put the lighting and sockets into the office, wire in the sockets for the casting machines (that black cable in the middle of the workshop pictures) and also move a light switch in the moulding room.  We should have the majority of the plasterboarding done in the office as well so that's getting close to needing a coat of paint now.  Wednesday the laser machines are coming over and then Thursday we're hoping to get all of the casting machines and moulds over from the old place.  So all being well, we'll be back in production by Monday 19th!

Bottom piccy...

Is it me, or does the wall with the door in the top right corner look like it's at strange angle ?

(The plain white door..not the stripey one...with a cat flap.......If that IS a door.)

Cheers - Phil.

Yes the plain white door with the window does look to be leaning forward....