I assume since it's summer we are all out hunting the fairs, bazaars, garage sales, estate sales, and the like, or just maintaining our family and career (both...
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eocostello@...
Jul 2, 2001 12:50 am
Well, I just got a new 37th edition catalog, and the interim wartime catalog, which I've been playing with. I'm also due to get a MINUSA set from eBay...
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DrawingInstruments@ya...
Jul 6, 2001 7:11 am
The following DrawingInstruments poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What do you collect related to drawing instruments besides the...
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DrawingInstruments@ya...
Jul 6, 2001 7:11 am
The following DrawingInstruments poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What country(s)/region(s) producing instruments are you...
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DrawingInstruments@ya...
Jul 7, 2001 7:13 am
The following DrawingInstruments poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What time period(s) of instrument making are you primarily...
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tjstanton
tom.stanton@...
Jul 10, 2001 10:48 am
I am one volume away from a complete collection of Thomas French's "Engineering Drawing" from the 1st Edition (1911) to the last one I know of (12th in 1978)....
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tjstanton
tom.stanton@...
Jul 10, 2001 10:55 am
Anyone have a definitive answer? Keuffel and Esser I tend to say "Keff-El" (like "kettle") but think it is "cuff-el" or "koof-el" so any help would be...
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Dick Rose
rarose@...
Jul 10, 2001 9:18 pm
Hi Tom and Group, I believe that it is Koy'-full. And I think that the popular opinion in the slide rule group is that it's Deetz'-gen, though there was some...
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Dennis B. Smith
shockbeton@...
Jul 10, 2001 9:52 pm
... I think these anecdotes will further confuse the issue, but I just have to tell you what I know... My wife is reasonably fluent in German, although more at...
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Dennis B. Smith
shockbeton@...
Jul 10, 2001 10:12 pm
As some of you may know, my area of interest is drafting pencils. I recently found a Theo. Alteneder & Sons leadholder from the 1930's stuck in an otherwise...
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Michael O'Leary
mpsoleary@...
Jul 10, 2001 11:33 pm
Greetings, In conversations with Joseph Soper, former plant manager for K&E's Salisbury Products Division, he told me Keuffel was pronounced "Koy'-full". He...
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FultzPens@...
Jul 11, 2001 2:36 pm
Dear Mr. Smith et al: Congratulations on finding the Alteneder leadholder. These are indeed scarce items. One note, however, Alteneder's catalog indicates...
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Prsncop
prsncop@...
Jul 11, 2001 2:41 pm
Anyone have any info. on drafting sets made by A. Lietz Co.?...
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wayne
wef@...
Jul 11, 2001 4:12 pm
Hi, Although I have never seen the Reifler fountain style pen, I have two other fountain style ruling pens in my collection. One is Smith's Fountain Drawing...
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Dennis B. Smith
shockbeton@...
Jul 11, 2001 4:35 pm
On the subject of pens... I have one very odd ruling pen that I'd be happy to let someone take off my hands if they're interested. It has no thumbscrew, rather...
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Dennis B. Smith
shockbeton@...
Jul 11, 2001 10:29 pm
Announcing: leadholder.com, the online drafting pencil museum (formerly the Smithtwins Leadholder Collection) Leadholder.com is a website devoted to the...
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Michael O'Leary
mpsoleary@...
Jul 13, 2001 5:24 am
Dennis, I just looked over your site, and I am amazed at the detail you have been able to pull together. Well Done! Regards, Michael ... From: "Dennis B....
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Dennis B. Smith
shockbeton@...
Jul 13, 2001 7:28 pm
Thanks Michael, If you or anyone else has any drafting tool catalogs of any age I would like to hear from you. I'm trying to date many items and there is just...
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Michael O'Leary
mpsoleary@...
Jul 14, 2001 1:43 am
Dennis, I would be more than happy to send you pages from the K&E catalogs, except that I am burned out from making about 300 pages of scans from the slide ...
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tjstanton
tom.stanton@...
Jul 14, 2001 10:38 am
Do you run OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on any of your scanned pages? I would be curious to know your scanning parameters, such as resolution in DPI,...
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tjstanton
tom.stanton@...
Jul 14, 2001 11:07 am
Just got what I believe is an original announcement catalog for Minusa Drawing Instruments from K&E. It's 7 x 9 and has great looking cover printed on heavier...
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Dennis B. Smith
shockbeton@...
Jul 14, 2001 5:23 pm
Below is an edited exchange I had with Patrick Ingravallo, a member of this group. I'd like to invite others to contribute anything they might know about...
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Dennis B. Smith
shockbeton@...
Jul 14, 2001 5:37 pm
Tom, you should start a Minusa website! I frustrated with how little information there is on the web about drafting instruments. I'd be happy to give you...
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Robert Gainer
gainer@...
Jul 14, 2001 6:15 pm
They call it Lofting from the old days of ship building. The full size drawings were done in a loft above the shop on a painted wood floor. The floor will not...
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R.C. Blankenhorn
rcb@...
Jul 14, 2001 6:26 pm
We have a large quantity of printing blocks used once for a catalog of engineering instruments - we think it is possibly a 1940s vintage Bruning or similar...
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Michael O'Leary
mpsoleary@...
Jul 14, 2001 7:22 pm
Greetings, Here is how I do my scanning. I use an UMAX Astra 1220U, which was cheap, and probably fairly slow. I also use Microsoft Photo Editor, which was on...
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tjstanton
tom.stanton@...
Jul 14, 2001 7:55 pm
Years back I worked for an imaging firm that specialized in archiving engineering drawings. Someone at Boeing approached us about a scanning project for what I...
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philstan@...
Jul 15, 2001 12:30 pm
I have a fairly large collection of protracting T squares (Drafting T squares with a protractor head, allowing the blade to be set to any desired angle),...
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eocostello@...
Jul 21, 2001 10:09 pm
I realize that others may have the same things, but in the event some don't... I have the 36th (1921), 37th (1927), 39th/Interim War (1943), 40th (1944) and...
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Michael O'Leary
mpsoleary@...
Jul 23, 2001 9:28 pm
Greetings, Just saw this site, and thought I would pass it on: http://calcampus.com/stapler/INDEX.HTM Regards, Michael...
