BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

MAKING A TOY WINDMILL. ■. I

Here is ,a simple working toy which you can make for your, young brother, '.who,will be with it. ...... . The mill house is made from fretwood,, the front and back being sawn to the sizes-given in Diagram A. Cut put the doorway in the front only, and mark put a window on both-parts; the windows are to be painted in when the •toy is finished. At a distance of one and a quarter, inches from the top of each part,- on the' centre line, make a hole which will be an easy fit for the .wooden knitting needle that is to form the shaft." , ’/' I For the sides of the mill house, cut two pieces of wood six and a half inches Wide. Nail, these between the front and back parts, as shown in the first diagram. Now cut a piece ,of' wood, eight inches long and six inches wide, for the baseboard, and fix the walls of the little house to it by fine brads driven in. from .underneath. Cut the four sails out of plywood, one-sixteenth of an inch thick,, to the sizes given at B. The two . sail arms consist of . pieces of quarter-inch stripiwood, seven inches long. In the centre of each arm cut a slot half way through the wood as shown at C. Press the parts together after glueing .the point. Fix the sails to the ends of the. armsiby fretworkers’ fine brads as indicated in sketch B. , . r . .- Now obtain an empty cotton reel, •saw it in halves and fix the sail arms to the flanged part of one half by wire brads, as shown at D. From , a thick wooden knitting needle cut a piece dour and a quarter inches long, for the shaft, and -fix one’end in the half cotton reel.with a small.screw, as shown in sketch iD. Pass the. end of the shaft through 1 ithe> hole in front of the mill house, ,slip on . another cotton reel, and then pass the shaft end through the other

hole. Glue on a small wood washer. Fix the cotton reel pulley to the centre of the shaft with a small screw. The driving ehaft E is another piece

of wooden knitting needle, with a small .wooden pulley glued in the centre, and a wooden handle at the rear end. Tie a piece'of thin, string round the pulleys to form a driving, band, and then glue the roof of the house in place. This consists of two pieces of one-eighth-incb .fretwood, three inches, square. The finished windmill can now be painted in two or three bright colours The Hut Carpenter.