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MATERIEL
CHAPTER ELEVEN VOLUME TWO BOOK THREE
MATERIEL – GLOBAL
MA.TE.RI. EL – N
The equipment, apparatus, and supplies of a military force or other organization. – The American heritage dictionary
The illustration on the chapter title page of this chapter named “materiel” only scan- captures a minute excerpted selection from the embarrassing variety of materials enumerated in this overview of Wrye’s “inventaire”, in this book three’s consideration of tools and their supporting peripheral adjuncts.
These pages do not attempt to profusely illustrate nor to even pretend to exhaustively attempt to list the totality of the multiplicity of all the stuff necessary for Wrye’s sundry wry operations, but these pages do attempt to at least list many of them as a flagrant testimony to the scope and extent of the kind of stuff conspicuously necessary in attempting to do any stuff at all. It proffers up the attempt in two separate categories:
- The global materiel – materials which are applicable in wide variety of applications in mixed fields -those supporting electrical machinations, -those abetting machine shop explorations, -and those contributing to automotive bliss. That’s the first bunch.
- Exposes the materiel which is specific to Wrye’s primary focus of endeavor -art, and that materiel has been relegated to the following page three, where it belongs.
The global materiel group is here divided into seventeen categories:
- Fasteners,
- Electric equipment,
- Welding,
- Soldering,
- Feed stocks,
- Abrasives,
- Adhesives,
- Lubricants,
- Fluids,
- Cleaning materiels,
- Coatings,
- Sealants,
- Polishes,
- Solvents,
- Resins,
- Hardeners,
- Bearings,
- Tubing/ Hose.
FASTENERS
- Machine screws
- N.C.C. and coarse
- U.S.- metric
- Capscrews
- Hexhead
- N.C.C. and coarse
- U.S.- metric
- Socket head
- N.C.C. and coarse
- U.S.- metric
- Metal screws
- Phillips –slotted
- Wood screws
- Phillips –slotted
- Self-tapping
- Taper pins
- Helicoils
- Cotter pins
- Nails
- Washers
- Lock washers
- Flat washers
- Fiber washers
- Star washers
- Thrust washers
- Spacers
- Bushings
ELECTRIC
- Terminals
- Connectors
- Insulation
- Receptacles
- Switches
- Wire
- Transformers
- Solenoids
- Lamps
- Boxes
- Conduit
- Solder
WELDING
- Steel rod
- Brazing rod
- Brazing flux
- Oxygen
- Acetylene
- Arc weld rods
SOLDERING
- Silver solder flux
- Wire solder wire flux
- Bar solder
- Flux paste technical rosin
FEED STOCKS
- Steel lathe stock
- Keystock
- Steel plate
- Angle iron
- Channel iron
- Steel tubing
- Shim stock
- Brass lathe stock
- Brass plate
- Brass tubing
- Aluminum sheet
- Lathe bar stock
- Aluminum tubing
- Shim stock
ABRASIVES
- Sandblast
- Flint sand
- Valve grinding
- Compound
- Sandpapers
- Sand disks
- Sanding belts
- Grinding wheels
- Polishing wheels
ADHESIVES
- Rubber cement
- Weatherstrip
- Sand disk cement
- Epoxy cement
- 3m super 77
- White glue
- Wood glue
- Gasket cements
LUBRICANTS
- Automatic transmission
- Motor oil 10W-40
- Wo 40 spray lubricant
- Multi-purpose grease
- Gear oil bow-90
- Oil treatment compound
- Brake lube
- Silicone compound
- White lube
- Alemite grease
- Flake graphite
- Powder graphite
FLUIDS
- Brake fluid
- Starting fluid
- Freon 12
- Power steering fluid
- Engine tune up
- Anti-freeze
- Soluble oil coolant
- Gasoline
CLEANERS
- Plastic
- Carburetor/choke
- Plexiglass cleaner
- Windshield de-icer
- Windshield cleaner
- Naval jelly
- Muric acid
- Aluminum cleaner
- Waterless
- Hand cleaner
- Silicoil brush
COATINGS
- Rubber dressing
- Cold galvanize
- EZ weld primer
- Alum i-prep
- Lacquer primer
- Auto lacquer
- Finish coats
- Machinists dye
SEALANTS
- Windshield
- Window seal
- Smooth-on
- Cooling-system
POLISHES
- Auto body polish
- Chrome polish
- Carnauba wax
- Metal polish
- Compounds
- Valve grinding
- Compound
SOLVENTS
- Mineral spirits
- Turpentine
- Kerosene
- Lacquer thinner
- Alcohol
- Hexane
RESINS
- Polyester
- Epoxy
HARDENERS
- Kasenit
- Surface
- Hardener
- M.E.K. peroxide
- Epoxy catalyst
BEARINGS
- Thrust bearings
- Tapered roller
- Bearings
- Ball bearings
- Bronze sleeve
- Crankshaft bearings
- Camshaft bearings
- Wheel bearings
TUBING / HOSE
- Air lines
- Water hose
- Oil line
- Vacuum line
- Fittings and
- Valving
MATERIEL – ART MATERIALS
The art materials group is here divided into several categories: 1. 1. Colors, 2. Drawing materials, 3. Supports, 4. Brushes, 5. Artist chemicals, s. Art devices, 7. The computer
Leo Wrye, long ago had simplified and purified his colors selection in the name of purity of color, not of soul. He mixed all the colors for his oil paintings from colors nearest the purest basic hues of the color wheel. He eschewed black, but allowed white to join the team, as it was bruited about that white was in effect the reflection of all hues combined. The pigments Wrye selected as the closest matches have been most recently named by the Winsor & newton company, their makers, “cadmium scarlet.” “magenta.” “Winsor violet.” “French ultramarine.” “Winsor blue.” “Winsor green.” and “cadmium yellow pale.” with these seven colors, and white, Wrye would mix the whole spectrum in its purest and most subtle reflection.
[ see volume three, book one, chapter thirteen “colors,” page two for a detailed description of the Wrye color-mixing process.]
As for drawing materials, Wrye was never bent in the direction of producing drawings as finished work. Drawing was always the discovery process leading toward a painting. Any decent no. 2 1/2 pencil with a pink eraser would work well. Wrye did find a panel of white plastic in France that had enough tooth to take graphite and was still smooth enough to erase completely. Saved a lot of paper over the years.
Support is the fancy trade name given to whatever surface the art is accomplished upon. Aside from mural walls, Wrye worked exclusively on primed, canvas, either coarse threaded jute material or linen stretched on commercial stretcher bars, or later, on Wrye built frames.
Of the many sizes, shapes, and kinds of brushes out there, Wrye worked with a small selection of white bristle “flats” in size from one quarter to one and a quarter inches wide.
Chemically, Wrye settled on his own medium discovery soon after returning to the states. A new synthetic varnish named “alkyd” had appeared in the commercial paint market which had excellent qualities to recommend it, and was so recommended to Wrye by the chief chemist at the devoe and Raynolds paint company. It was light fast and dried quickly in a fine semi-gloss finish. The silicoil brush cleaning fluid concocted by Wrye and his lion company ought be mentioned here, also, in this art-chemical paragraph as being a winner nationally, keeping the brushes of American artist clean for more than forty years.
Under the heading of art devices, the silicoil brush cleaning tank accepts the same honors. Other Wrye devices would include the precessing elliptical progressive radii drafting machine, c which see volume two, book three chapter nine, page nine. (and probably should include the whole gamut of special devices and machine designed and built by Wrye for the five-year slu ball project, which see [ volume three, book one, chapter three.)
The apple computer is last included on this short list of Wrye art materials, but certainly not least by whole long shot. Wrye had no words strong enough to express his absolute joy and awe and marvel when he was hooked up to the keyboard and the screen of the Quadra. A whole new world opened unto him like never before and he never looked back.