Thursday, September 07, 2006

BLOCK SHOP


This after I stopped by the block machinery shop with my colleague to fix his glasses.

It sounds a little weird, doesn't it?? Anyway, I finally saw how they do the block from the very begining.
1. According to the prescription by physician and the information provied by therapist, they setup the machine to line up the divergence.
2. Cut the styrofoam block.
3. Pour the liquid metal into it. The melt point of this alloy is quite low, around 180F. Wait for cooling down, then the block is ready to put on the block tray.

So you can do any shape of block you want. Something like this,



Or something like this,



Oh, I am sorry there is a typo there. My bad~

Yabee~~