Acquaviva recounted for Wolansky a conversation she had had years earlier with her mother, who was dying of cancer but nevertheless had a question about sex, one that her doctor wasn’t answering. Life is good.” That emphasis-that life could still be good, even when it was ending-is part of what drew Wolansky to the couple’s story. About a week before Brandt died, Acquaviva posted a picture of her, with the caption “She’s still smiling when she wakes up and sees me. individuals and their families, decided to document Brandt’s decline, and their family’s last days together, through frank and frequent social-media posts.īut they also had another, more personal goal, which was to enjoy what little time they had left, with each other and with their young-adult son. Brandt was a hospice and palliative-care consultant and an advocate for high-quality end-of-life care when she received her diagnosis, she and Acquaviva, a professor of nursing at the University of Virginia and an expert in end-of-life issues for L.G.B.T.Q. The film tells the story of Kim Acquaviva and her wife, Kathy Brandt, who died of cancer in 2019, at the age of fifty-four. It is also one of the themes of “Documenting Death,” a new, short documentary directed and produced by The New Yorker’s Sara Joe Wolansky. That the good things in life may be savored even by the dying is, in American culture, a quietly subversive idea. But his larger point also holds: savor the good things in life while you can. so prepare a work area with some newspaper or similar.Every now and then, the advice that the singer-songwriter Warren Zevon issued to the living, while he was dying, pops into my head: “Enjoy every sandwich.” Most often this happens when I am enjoying a literal sandwich. Once it’s cured it can be a bear to remove. Uncured glue can be cleaned up with isopropyl alcohol. Once you mix, the clock is ticking, so make sure you have everything prepared in advance. Like epoxy one of the components is more viscous than the other, just something to be aware of. You can always try blobbing out a bit of A and B on a card, or other clean surface like you would epoxy. I have been using the mixing cups to pour out 5ml of each, which is a lot for a couple tires, but any less and it might be tough to get proportions right. It has a pot life of 5-10 minutes, depending on temperature, and a cure time of 24 hours. The glue is Smooth-On Ure-Bond III a two part flexible urethane adhesive. Some measuring cups, stirrers, and toothpicks for application of glue. Please help yourself but don’t be piggy, and please let me know when supplies run low.Īlong with the tires, are some mounting supplies. I have left a supply of Thunderslot tires (not legal for racing, but good for practice) in the club room on the same shelf as the power supplies. Taped together flat like this, so the walls can be folded up and taped for a re-useable mold box. Remember to tape them up, though, or the silicone will run out.ĪBS sheet is used for mold walls. I drilled some vent holes in the base in hopes it will ease de-molding. Here is the printed part on the build-table stl file, and set up for printing on my resin DLP printer I gave the tire a little standoff and placed it on a base, so that with any luck the back side of the tire won’t be to hard to tidy up. I thought I would lay out the steps of how the patterns and molds were made.įirst step was to measure the Thunderslot wheel and tire, and then make some 3D files for printing. So tires get run last thing, and sit under pressure overnight (16 hour cure time). I did learn you need to let the rubber fullly cure before relieving the pressure, or you get some odd little balloons on the tire. I do need the pressure pots to fill orders, so there is a bit of a bottleneck there, but it looks like both vacuum and pressure is best. Doing some tests to see what combination of vacuum de-airing the uncured rubber, and pressure casting gives the best results. Urethane is in, and I am beginning to run tires.