Chapter 7 Rocky Cabinetry
Geodon and Nansella continued to develop ways to make things using the sand slurry adhesive ultrasonics process, both building up layer by layer, and laying on a casting surface for more bulk parts. They finally used it to make a mold for casting a small cupboard with shelves, and doors to go on it; the hinges were more difficult but finally they were able to cast them into the various cabinet sections and doors with tubular holes for metal pins to go through. They made a few of them, putting them up in their cave room, developing methods of attachment. Finally they were ready to see if others would like to buy them; and now their trips up to the lake area were carrying buckets of sand, but carrying back empty buckets and finished cabinets.
Nansella took one of the cabinets to show the others at her singles group, and there were many admirations said about it and she sold that one on the spot, and got orders for a dozen more of them. Some of them came from the ones saved at Geodon's home; he using only one of them in his home at this point, so the half dozen of them were sold. They now seemed to have a thriving business, and each day's trip to the lake with buckets of sand enabled them to bring back one cabinet each, which would go toward the orders they already had for them.
They made a few more of the casting molds, and soon were using all the sand and adhesive they could bring up, just to make cabinets for sale. In a few days, there were cabinets stacking up in the cave room; they could not carry enough of them back to fill the demand for them. Word got out and one of the shops in town wanted to buy a supply of them; then its parent company in the busy industrial cities of the planet wanted to order a thousand of them right away. They could use some help in the project, it seemed; yet they like their cozy relationship and hideaway. So they brought back a couple of the molds and set up shop in Geodon's house, and spent some time there building them and several days went by when they did not get to make their trips to the lake area. But they got another dozen of the cabinets made, using half of them for the singles group orders and the other half went to the store in town.
Geodon's small home was not big enough for much of a manufacturing plant, but they used its second bedroom area for the workshop, in which they were able to make a half dozen cabinets while there, and then take buckets up to the lake facility and began using two buckets of sand for more landscaping again and only one bucket for making cabinets; they could make two cabinets out of one bucket of sand, so they would carry back one cabinet along with the empty buckets each trip back.