[Nfb-krafters-korner] Please Introduce yourselves

[David Evans]

Dear Terry,

I love to do lots of different things.
I do wood working, metal working, plastic, leather work, wood burning and 
Styrofoam and clay .
I have made some of my own tools for working with some of the crafts such as 
a Plexiglas bender for bending and folding Plexiglas in to aquariums and 
terrariums.
It used a piece of nichrome wire laying in a notch of transite strips and 
connected to a switch and electric cord.  When it is plugged in and the 
switch turned on, the wire gets red hot and heats the Plexiglas in a strip 
about an inch wide.
The Plexiglas gets soft and you can bend it.
You can cut and sand the Plexiglas just like you would shape or sand wood.
There are special glues you can get to glue the   pieces together.  It comes 
in many colors and can be used to make many useful items, like napkin 
holders, planters, boxes etc, etc, etc.
I have also used a piece of nichrome wire to make a Styrofoam and urethane 
foam cutter.
I made a metal frame and insulated the ends so I could fasten the ends of 
the wire to them.
The top arm is hinged and loaded with a spring that always keeps the 
nichrome wire tight as it expands when it gets red hot.
The wire passes through a piece of wood with a long slot cut in it.
This lets me set different angles between the line of the wire and the 
wooden table surface.
This makes cutting angles easier and more precision.
I use it to cut out foam shapes for airplanes and other things I want to 
make using foam.

I have used  some of the things I have cut out to make cast aluminum parts 
by the "lost wax" method where the foam part is placed in a special metal 
box called a cope and drag, packed with "green sand" and red hot metal 
poured in to the cope and drag.
The hot metal gasifies the foam and the metal takes the place of the foam 
part.  After it cools, the cope and drag are split apart, the sand removed 
and the metal part recovered.  The extra metal is cut off and the part is 
shined and finished.
I make parts for cars and airplanes in this way as well as parts for other 
things.

Well, I have bent your ears enough for now.  Talk to you later.

David Evans, NFBF



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <powerst at dcpcepn.nci.nih.gov>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Please Introduce yourselves


> Welcome David!
> It is nice to find out that this list is not all females.  Men also have
> crafts to shair.
> Chris Hallsworth;
> You got us started on this list, now what is your craft?
>
> Terry Powers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Evans [mailto:drevans at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 10:14 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Please Introduce yourselves
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I am new to the list as of today.  I had no problem signing up for the
> list.
> I am on about 10 NFB list and this is just one of them.
> I was on most of these list before, but because Bell South's Spam
> filters were mistaking the NFBnet.org addresses for a spammer, my
> messages were bouncing and I did not know it.
> The automatic software would kick in and unsubscribe me.
> I hope that it is fixed now or Bell South and I are going to have a go
> around  they are not going to forget.
>
> Now as to who I am.  I am David Evans, a long time NFB member who has a
> wide range of interest.
> I was a Nuclear/Aerospace Materials Engineer for many years, but now I
> work in Public Transportation.
> I have been a scratch model builder and artist.  I have built cars and
> planes both as models and the real things too.
> I was a machinist, welder and have done allot of different crafts along
> with my wife.
> She and I have built doll and bear houses and I make all of the wooden
> stands for her bears and all of their props.
> I look forward to hearing how other people creat crafts and I hope I can
> add to the discussion.
>
> David Evans, NFBF
> Nuclear/Aerospace Materials Engineer
> Builder of the Lunar Rovers and the F-117-A Stealth Fighter
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:36 PM
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Please Introduce yourselves
>
>
>>I have noticed a few new members joining us.  Please take time to
>>introduce
>> yourselves.
>>
>> Have any of you had any trouble signing up for the list?  I know one
>> person
>> had trouble, but I need to know if anyone else did.
>>
>> I had always wanted to learn how to decorate cakes.  Really I love the
>> frosting that a friend of mine used that was into decorating.
>>
>> Is there a special recipe for that?
>>
>> I know this is a craft and art place, not food.
>>
>> but...the vanella frosting and chocolate cake was to die for.
>>
>> Joyce
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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