February 7, 20196 yr Here we go gentlemen, drafting tools of a bygone era, 20 short years ago. Bonus points if you know what the slim, rectangular, black and gold tool is with the erasing shield laying across the top of it
February 7, 20196 yr 8 minutes ago, Lobo said: Well joke's on you Trey, you're no longer eligible to attend PencilCon '19, we erased your nametag Dammit
February 7, 20196 yr re: onboard.... The supercomputer in ArmyBrat's basement? Edited February 7, 20196 yr by Lobo
February 7, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, Lobo said: re: onboard.... The supercomputer in ArmyBrat's basement? Sort of ... yeah......
February 7, 20196 yr 22 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said: Here we go gentlemen, drafting tools of a bygone era, 20 short years ago. Bonus points if you know what the slim, rectangular, black and gold tool is with the erasing shield laying across the top of it Some sort of drug paraphernalia?
February 7, 20196 yr 30 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said: Here we go gentlemen, drafting tools of a bygone era, 20 short years ago. Bonus points if you know what the slim, rectangular, black and gold tool is with the erasing shield laying across the top of it Is an old timey calculator.
February 7, 20196 yr 3 hours ago, Llano Estacado said: Lulz. You couldn’t handle the Rollamech 1000. For a quick moment I thought that you had broken into my office.
February 7, 20196 yr 25 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said: Is an old timey calculator. Think Chinese calculator of sorts.....
February 7, 20196 yr 14 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said: Think Chinese calculator of sorts..... A mechanical abacus, perhaps a Rychlo Poctar?
February 7, 20196 yr 35 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said: For a quick moment I thought that you had broken into my office. hp11c best ever.
February 7, 20196 yr 2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said: A mechanical abacus, perhaps a Rychlo Poctar? Addfeet junior. You can add up dimensions from thousands of feet down to 1/8" increments. It's how we used to verify dimensions on a floor plan so it would close for the civil engineers before they sited them. I remember working in my first architectural firm, and the head guy would come around with one and check your work as you were dimensioning plans, by hand of course. The slots are all increments in thousands, hundreds, tens, one feet and fractions. You'd use a stylus to add dimensions into the thing, and it would add them upon or subtract them depending on how you slid the stylus up or down in the slots with a corresponding number. Great little tool I still keep it handy when contractors try to tell me their isn't room for something I've dimensioned, usually it's they've been less than accurate in their framing layouts.
February 7, 20196 yr 16 minutes ago, B1G said: hp11c best ever. Yes it is. You can see the trig function keys don't get used much anymore. CAD has turned it into a regular calculator, I'm afraid. It is the first calculator I bought as an engineer and it will retire with me later this year. I get a kick out of handing it to guys on the floor and watching them try to get an answer.
February 7, 20196 yr The Niji 500 was the hot shit when I was an engineering student about a jillion years ago. Typical .7mm lead but it had a cool feature. You push in on the pocket clip part of it, and it retracts the whole tip inside itself. Push on the ass end like a typical ink pen and it comes back out and locks in place. Even better this made a click going in and out, so you could sit around clicking it in and out and annoying everyone else while doing so. Some other company was making them about 10 years ago, yasutomo or something like that. The Pentel click eraser, mentioned earlier in the thread was also the hot setup.
February 7, 20196 yr 46 minutes ago, Lobo said: Chinese calculator? Won't you get disoriented? Pun intended? Or was it an Occident.
February 7, 20196 yr 26 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said: Yes it is. You can see the trig function keys don't get used much anymore. CAD has turned it into a regular calculator, I'm afraid. It is the first calculator I bought as an engineer and it will retire with me later this year. I get a kick out of handing it to guys on the floor and watching them try to get an answer. I had an HP 48SX from 1992 until 2011 when it finally croaked on me. Thing had been dropped off balconies, dropped into mud pits, even run over by a car and kept on ticking. I wound up replacing it with an HP Prime but never got used to it; felt flimsy and never liked the way the keys felt. I eventually went on Amazon and got a refurbished 48 SX which I still use today.
February 7, 20196 yr I use a 25 year old solar powered calculator (add, subtract, multiply, divide and sometimes Pi). I only need basic math functions for my work unless I'm doing some complex form that might require higher maths.. Then I call my engineer, and get him to help me make that shit do what I want it to do.
February 7, 20196 yr Author May I kindly remind the forum that this is a post dedicated to all things pencil? Thank you.
February 7, 20196 yr On 2/6/2019 at 2:56 PM, Sparky said: I'm always ready for a good game of pencil break if anyone wants to go. When the pencil didn't break.... ouch.
February 7, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, Asithappens said: May I kindly remind the forum that this is a post dedicated to all things pencil? Thank you. I’m starting a hipster group in Austin for abacus and slide rule aficionados. It’s so fucking pure man!
February 7, 20196 yr I have a sensory issue with normal pencils. The sound of lead on paper is far worse than nails on a chalkboard. By the time I was in high school, I'd switched to Papermate #2 mechanical pencils, the ones that look like real pencils and where you twist the tip to extrude the lead. These days the only pencils I use are colored pencils for ticking and tying small sets of hardcopy workpapers.
February 8, 20196 yr A bunch of old ass dudes on here with good penmanship no doubt! Reverse Polish Notation calculators for the win! I don't use pencils, but the Pilot Varsity pen is my writing utensil of choice. It's a disposable fountain pen. Edited February 8, 20196 yr by Doze
February 8, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, Doze said: A bunch of old ass dudes on here with good penmanship no doubt! Reverse Polish Notation calculators for the win! I don't use pencils, but the Pilot Varsity pen is my writing utensil of choice. It's a disposable fountain pen. Got a damned scribe in our midst.
February 8, 20196 yr I’m a pen guy. Zebra F-402. I’ve had the same one for 20+ years either in my shirt pocket or in the whiskey glass I use for a pen holder on my desk. Been through a few refills but it’s the same pen. A close second, and don’t judge me on this, is those fat red and silver pens they give you at the Marriott. I fucking love me a Marriott pen. Pure comfort in your writing hand. Couple years ago I got a Cross pen as a gift. What a piece of shit. Skinny little thing is awkward to hold and very unstable.
February 8, 20196 yr I used a pencil at your momma' house last night!! Ha Ha!!!!!Out!AaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaPencil dickHahahahahahahahahahahaha
February 8, 20196 yr 11 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said: For a quick moment I thought that you had broken into my office. Get with 90s & upgrade to 17B.
February 9, 20196 yr Pencils are for losers and fuck ups. Winners write with ink.Yup. Especially if you’re left handed.
February 10, 20196 yr 19 hours ago, Jkwellborn said: Yup. Especially if you’re left handed. One of the main reasons I switched to Rapidograph / Ko I nohr ink pens for drafting.
February 10, 20196 yr 18 hours ago, Llano Estacado said: Get a smudgeguard. Ladies can’t resist a pencil toting man in a smudgeguard. Pussies......
February 10, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, Onboard 2.0 said: One of the main reasons I switched to Rapidograph / Ko I nohr ink pens for drafting. Yeah but if you smudge one of those, you're fuct like chuck. Sinister bastards.
February 11, 20196 yr Gold Cross mechanical. Graduation gift in 1975, still got it and it works great.
February 11, 20196 yr Anybody use Retro 51 Hexomatic or rOtring 800? Went to school for a while with some German exchange students. They had mech pencils that were hexagonal along the barrel. I can't remember what brand that was. Any recs for pencils like that? Preferably in 0.7.
February 11, 20196 yr Pilot vanishing point, hp32sii and hp35s (with easycogo program) Had the pencil and 32sii for 22 years of surveying greatness and not so greatness
February 12, 20196 yr That 32sii takes me back. I used one in JR high on the math and science team. Broke a 32s the school had and had to pay for it. My grandmother took me to this little po dunk electronic store in Daingerfield and bought me a 32sii for like $120. Used the heck out of it.
February 12, 20196 yr 32 minutes ago, mulletpelini said: Pancel talk not going away Pancel, penile, parcel...all samey same.
February 12, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, mulletpelini said: Pancel talk not going away I like your shirt. I really like your pance, why don’t you take off your pance? /bornineastLA Edited February 12, 20196 yr by Lobo
February 12, 20196 yr I remember seeing a post on the old site where someone etched a really detailed train and bridge out of the lead in a carpenters pencil. Thought it was pretty cool. That's all I got.
February 12, 20196 yr I drafted up a sketch of your mom like one of my French girls. Wearing a necklace...only a necklace.
February 12, 20196 yr 18 minutes ago, Mr.Hovis said: I remember seeing a post on the old site where someone etched a really detailed train and bridge out of the lead in a carpenters pencil. Thought it was pretty cool. That's all I got. Edited February 12, 20196 yr by retread
February 12, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, retread said: Well, I have partial recall. Train but no bridge, thanks for keeping things on track.
February 12, 20196 yr No, you were right. She has a lot of them on her web site. I just posted the first one I found. http://cindychinn.com/fine-craft/hand-carved-pencil-leads-by-cindy-chinn.htm
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