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?

Optima Elite 3

What I see when I hear 'fuzzy logic'

Furry segment

Type cleaned up

Tab action

The toast rack

The Red Arrows

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.

These fruits of Alba

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.