Tuesday 8 October 2013

Optima - cold smithing


Debadged and ready for cleaning

Aluminium: 90mm x 9mm x 2.5mm
First bond
Second bond an hour later - masking turned out to be a good idea
Left paint removed using a wire brush, the right with a sandpaper flap-wheel, each attached to a drill
What crack?


Monday 7 October 2013

Optima Elite 3


What I see when I hear 'fuzzy logic'

Furry segment
Type cleaned up
Tab action
The toast rack
The Red Arrows



Thursday 3 October 2013

National Poetry Day

Footnote: Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son of the admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the Battle of the Nile), after the ship had taken fire, and all the guns had been abandoned; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.

Tuesday 1 October 2013

Lexi-Graphi-kon: smokin' tabs

The carriage brake and the arm that releases it

The link which trips the carriage brake to OFF and the escapement to ON when a tab stop is reached

How the link pictured above looks like when removed from another Graphika.