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Table Building Party 2003

Attendees

  • Scott Sanburn
  • Tony Hedglen
  • Stefan Garcia
  • Victoria Garcia
  • Amy Hughes
  • Mark Tylus
  • Milo Olson

Report

We had a table building party, in preparation for our first show in Fort Wayne, which is GATS. We had the building session in Flushing, Michigan, at my in-laws house, who was nice enough to let us come and build some tables. Milo Olson, my wife's father, is about as interested in tools as I am to LEGO products, so it was a perfect fit. : )

Table Building

The club decided to build the tables according to the MichLUG Standard, since most of the clubs around Michiana are using this standard. We agreed to 9:00AM on Saturday morning. Due to some car troubles, I had to pick up Stefan and his mom Victoria in Kalamazoo, and rounded off the pickups with Tony in Lansing. We arrived in Flushing late Friday night. Stefan and Victoria slept over Milo and Nancy's house, while Tony and I stayed at my parents house, so everyone could get some sleep, because it was going to be a long day!

Saturday

Tony and I drove to Milo and Nancy's house around 7:30AM, and everyone was up by then. Milo, Tony, and I took Milo's Suburban and the plans we printed out, and headed towards Home Depot. We spent a good amount of time getting items, as we were not 100% sure of what materials we needed, but we eventually got everything, and packed everything in, even if Tony had to ride on top of the wood. Sorry Tony!

We got back about 9:00AM, and Amy pulled in. My step dad, Mark Tylus, also came, and we started. The first thing we did was to cut the 2x6's into the corresponding 2x3, and then we started cutting the table tops. We went on, and got the supports cut, and then attached the 2x3's to the tops, and continued on. Milo, Mark, and Amy worked on the table tops, while Stefan, Victoria, and Tony worked on the 2x3's. We stopped for lunch about 1:30PM, where we had some Cottage Inn Pizza delivered. We ate, and got back to work. Our next big thing was to start drilling the holes for the bolts, and we had a lot of holes to drill. Tony got some hard Oak, and made some templates for us, so we could clamp them down and just drill. Stefan and I worked on those holes, while the others worked on assembling the tables tops. After they assembled them, Stefan and I drilled holes into them. We had a nice flow to it, and once we got the larger tables done, we started the smaller ones. We eventually got the table tops done, and started on the braces for the legs. I measured them, Tony cut them, and then Mark cut out the 1.5" square. We made all of those at once, and then had another jig to put those on. Meanwhile, Milo and Amy worked on the table legs. We eventually got to dinner time, and Nancy and I drove to get some Big John Subs, the best subs on the planet. Sorry, no website! We had some subs, and Stefan worked on the drop section for his area in this upcoming layout. We wrapped up the 8 sets of tables in about 10 hours, so that was pretty good. However, we were all tired, so we decided to stay over night. Amy left soon after, and we just relaxed the rest of the night. Stefan completely wasted me playing Goldeneye and Mario Cart 64, so Tony and I took off to my parents house, and got some sleep.

Sunday

Our plan was to get up, and head off to U-Haul to get a trailer, so we could take the tables home, and still have everyone in total comfort in the Tahoe. However, U-Haul had nothing to rent, and it was getting to be pretty late, so I decided to leave the tables up there and go home. We left about 10:30AM, and I dropped both Tony and the Garcia's home, and got home to Osceola about 3:30PM. It was a long weekend, but we did well, and we have a bunch of nice tables for our upcoming shows.

Thanks

Christa and Mark Tylus - Thank you for housing Tony and I for two nights!

Milo and Nancy Olson - For housing Stefan and Victoria, and hosting this building party for us.

Mark Tylus - For your hard work in building the tables on Saturday, it is appreciated!

Bonnie Lannin - For buying us dinner from Big Johns!

Members of Michiana-LUG - For assisting in building these tables!