Honing new skills

Honing new skills

Daisy learns how to use a router and successfully cuts out the circles for the former (i.e. the forming template).

Later I taught her how to make bolts using screwed rod.

After having cut out all the component parts for the former, the edges of the wood were lightly sanded to remove all the hairy bits, then both parts were offered together face to face for final measuring and fettling. I think we made not too bad a job of this as the circumference of the two parts needed vey little work. The formers were then turned around to face the correct direction (back to back) and mounted onto the shaft and stand. They were then joined together using ten 4x2 block to complete the job. We are now ready to start building the duct around the forming  template

Face to Face

Back to Back