related to the 60's, drafting tables
related to the 60's, drafting tables
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I have in my possession a Hamilton Standard drafting table and a Vemco "V" track drafting machine. I use this occasionally, but most of my drafting work these days is done by computer, either Auto cad or Solid works.
I decided to get rid of it, since I can lay out a drawing on a door to use as a reference table.
To my surprise I found that nobody wanted it. Is this the fate of these old workhorses that once graced every design office in several nations, relegated to the scrap heap as obsolete?
B.E.
I decided to get rid of it, since I can lay out a drawing on a door to use as a reference table.
To my surprise I found that nobody wanted it. Is this the fate of these old workhorses that once graced every design office in several nations, relegated to the scrap heap as obsolete?
B.E.





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old field guy
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Have you tried to sell it on craigslist? I think there are probably quite a few people who would be interested. I miss drawing by hand with a drafting machine. Always include photos with your ad as well.
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"
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I was going to give it away, even then nobody wanted it.
B.E.
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They are popular with artistic types.
If you live in LA. Seattle etc. where there use to be thousand of them they may be harder to get rid of. If you could get it to the flyover zone there would be a big demand.
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So this is an advanced artists easel with height and angle adjustments and a set of adjustable straight edges to assist you in your perspective rendering :)
B.E.
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You may get even more bucks for it if you throw in something like "High-quality, hi-tech, solid, retro feeling, artist's board"
I once gave such a board away to an artist that stayed in Sweden for some years. He loved it so much that he took it with him when he moved over to Albuquerque, NM.
Gunnar Englund
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I have one that I spent a number of hours hovering over hung in my study, computer room. It is somewhat of a conversation piece. Mounted on the the board is a a picture of one of the aircraft drafting rooms of the Late 50's with several hundred boards in play.
In the same vain last year while taking my grandson to school I drove by the tech education build while they were having a house cleaning. There was pile of old drafting equipment, small boards, tee squares and several hundred plastic templates. I stopped and asked about getting a couple of the boards and a tee square or two. The answer was take anything you want. I took all the small drafting boards, a couple of tee squares and a mess of templates. I've made sevral items from the boards, very good wood.
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You have given me an idea.
If I remove the base, I can hang the board on the wall,
complete with the drafting machine still on it, and use it as a conversation piece.
I earned my living with machines like that for many years. but as hokie66 said, "The jockeys that rode them are being put out to pasture.", and I guess that includes me since I am now past 65 years old.
The base is the major problem right now. It dominates a 9'-0" X 10'-0" room and my wife ( Bless her) wants to do other things with that room. I have to watch that woman, she is now making noises about my Draft Pro plotter, but that goes over my dead body.
B.E.
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Now all I have to worry about are earthquakes and forest fires.
B.E.
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No build-up, just a wham-bam, off-you-go.
Of course, we're still waiting for the one that's going to turn western AZ into beachfront property, but until then, it's just the occasional 30 seconsd of terror.
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Collating, looking at paper drawings made by CAD, temporary and permanent storage, break room lunch table.
The extra 10" in height gets my cactus up over the window sill for more good sunlight time per day and it shows!
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I've just been made interim checker and a table would be great for helping do mark-ups/red-lines.
In practice I've no way of getting it so maybe not.
We held on to one at my last place because we did a lot of amendments/revisions to old drawings even though new stuff was CAD.
Just before I left we had an office re-organization and it got put outside, then into the factory where it got vandalized. I complained to the Tech Director who said it should have got put back in the office once the moving was finished, not sure what happened in the end.
I regret that I was just too late to ever really use one in anger, I felt the people that learnt on the board seemed to make better drafters than we that didn't, although some of that may have been the extra experience.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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My sister returned to college and has graduated with a masters degree in architecture. Apparently, a lot of architects continue to use drafting boards. Check out the appropriate schools in your area.
JHG
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I am located in southern California near San Diego.
If you can use it I will give it to you. all you have to do is come and get it. You will need a van or large pickup truck.
Let me know if you are interested.
B.E.
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None the less I'll make my manager aware just in case.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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We're looking to get rid of stuff ourselves.
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I've been looking for a Hamilton with a Vemco. Found several but distance has been the deal breaker...
until now, that is.
I'm in Palm Springs, have room in the Land Rover and room in my studio.
The way I look at it, when the "long overdue" big one hits the valley the computers will hit the floor. I'll ride it out under the Hamilton and with a few strokes of the drafting brush tucked in my GO BAG (also under the Hamilton, naturally) I'll be set to go in no time.
Seriously, this is exactly what I've been looking for and can guarantee it won't gather dust. Not even when the big one hits.
I'm available at your convenience.
Alec
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The table is currently out on the front porch.
You may have a hard time getting it into a land rover.
I could drive it out there if you would pay for the gasoline. I have a pickup truck.
B. E.
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My first job between semesters in eng school was on the board in a large architectural office doing HVAC. The boards were placed over saw horses, and we had large T squares.
We really graduated when the parallel rule came along.
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I started that way too with a large T square and plastic 30/60 and 45 degree triangles and a protractor.
When I first got my hands on a Bruning drafting machine in the very early 1960s I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
B.E.