Twitter Updates for 15-02-2012

• @jackalesque Happy birthday jackelbutt! :) in reply to jackalesque 00:04:03, 2012-02-15
• @Scapponess Curious; have you looked into the UKFur community/meets yet for your upcoming visit? 00:05:27, 2012-02-15
• UK SOPA has started taking down .com music blog domains over copyright claims. http://t.co/rZoV5eI4 00:09:14, 2012-02-15
• This is serious. Seizing foreign domains, arresting promoters for linking to other peoples files & lying about consequences for users. 00:16:22, 2012-02-15
• @sevenhelz @TWITTER Weird. Maybe it's glitching? in reply to sevenhelz 00:27:10, 2012-02-15
• @ZeroShiBlue *rolls all over it for you* in reply to ZeroShiBlue 00:38:13, 2012-02-15
• @Scapponess The London meets also happen every 3 weeks. :3 in reply to Scapponess 00:47:55, 2012-02-15
• @Moshiicake Paper, plastic or ceramic? in reply to Moshiicake 11:59:39, 2012-02-15
• @julesmattsson Just think how the computer feels. You should conference-call it with the suicide hotline. It might let you through faster. in reply to julesmattsson 12:02:30, 2012-02-15
• @Moshiicake Try http://t.co/VgJtuDE5 they were good to me for T-shirts. in reply to Moshiicake 12:27:04, 2012-02-15
• @GraafenBlackpaw Considering only 200 or so people out of 2000+ attending on the facebook group turned up to protest ACTA, who'll notice? in reply to GraafenBlackpaw 12:28:03, 2012-02-15
• Tape-gun arrived! For only 50p more, I got one that's actually made of metal. 13:08:59, 2012-02-15
• Starting to realise the isolation I feel talking about current news is because everyone is literally asleep when it actually happens. 13:56:12, 2012-02-15
• @FlowerAssassin Awesome! :D in reply to FlowerAssassin 16:27:47, 2012-02-15
• MSN's not sending messages at all today. 16:43:23, 2012-02-15
• @johnrobb Cute idea, but why solar & batteries? Surely simple pedal-power would be far cheaper & simpler to implement? in reply to johnrobb 18:32:36, 2012-02-15
• 6 new spam-bots following me. 2 use the same profile photo. All use the same URL in description. 23:44:41, 2012-02-15

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.

Progress report

Maybe I should do these weekly? What do you think?

Anyway it’s warmed up a little. Workshop’s averaging about 10c when I get down there. Done a couple of test-casts and they look alright.

Will be casting up some from the still-intact moulds tomorrow with a view to ship on Saturday. Others are in progress.
The first couple of layers of filler have gone down to get the new moulds sorted. Another couple of days of that and they should be built up and finished enough to start laying on fresh silicone. After that I make up the new fibreglass jackets. So all being well, should able to cast the full range again by the end of next week.
Only potential delay I’m aware of will be if I run short on silicone or fibreglass resin. Should have enough of all regular resins and foam to fill current orders.

That said I know I’ll need more silicone to account for some more new items, but I don’t want to do piecemeal orders and get charged a tonne on separate shipping. Since TOMPS can get it to you in 2 days, it’s not worth it. I can just find other things to do in the meantime.

Webshop prep has stalled a bit again, but I’m aware we may be loosing internet here for a short while near the end of the month as our phoneline has to be physically dug up and replaced. Launching only to be unable to receive orders would not be good, so it’s not a huge concern. I would still like it to tie in nicely with a complete set of new moulds though, plus some stock on hand.

New soldering station also arrived on Monday, so with the donated oscilloscope and a repaired multimeter, I’m good to start work on the mecha-ears project again, as well as a few other ideas people may be interested in.

Also a complete fluke-find has gifted me with a LOT of leather in a texture that’s almost identical to vinyl leather I’ve previously used for texturing paw-pads. There’s enough I should be able to revamp the whole range and keep the distinctive look as well as push the foam-filled prototypes to a standard item.

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.