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OLD DRAFTSMAN
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OLD DRAFTSMAN

OLD DRAFTSMAN

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(OP)
You know you are an old Draftsman when...

1.  You know how to control line weights by rolling your pencil.

2.  You know that a French curve isn't a grade change on a language
exam.

3.  You've erased sepias with chemicals.

4.  You've had a roll of toilet paper on your drafting board.

5.  You remember when templates were plastic and not a type of
electronic file.

6.  You know what sandpaper on a stick is for.

7.  You know that a compass draws circles and not used to find the North
Pole.

8.  You remember the head rush from the smell of ammonia.

9.  You own a roll of masking tape so dried out, it will never be tape
again.

10. You've done cut and paste with scissors and sticky back.

11. You've etched your initials into your tools.

12. You have had a brush tied to your drafting board.

13. You've come home with black sleeves.

14. You've made hooks out of paper clips to attach to your lamp.

15. You know an eraser shield isn't a Norton program.

16. You've used "fixative" spray.

17. You've had a middle-finger callous harder than bone.

18. You have a permanent spine curvature from bending over your table.

19. You could smoke in the office

20. You could put the 'page 3' calendar up in a prime location with no
one complaining

21. There were a lot of 'cowboys' but now it's all Indians

22. You'd change jobs for an extra 25 cents

23. You'd be able to speak to the engineers in English

24. They'd be more than one way to sneak back into the office after
lunch

25. You learned to fold a drawing to get the title on the front

26. You also were accurate from 100 paces with an rubber band.

27. You got your check on Friday before lunch and didn't come back ʽtil
Monday!

28. There used to be contract work whenever you wanted it

29. The work week was 56 hours and you had to work 6 on Saturday to get
it.

30. You have draftsman elbow.

31. You extended your brush with a used cardboard tube.

32. You knew you were working on the original because it was Mylar.

33. The Boss would call from the Bar to lay people off.

34. Linen sheets were stolen to use as pillow cases....

35. You actually drew something without a computer.

36. A detailer wasn't waxing your car for $50 he was filling the tank
and getting it washed for you on the clock.

37. You know what onion skin is.

38. The runners worked at Tycoons on Eight Mile Rd. at night.

39. You moved to a new shop because it had Board-co.

40. You didn't need a resume.

41. You were interview at a bar, got a raise all at the bar at 2:00 in
the afternoon.

42. A Douche bag was not the guy in the next cube.

43. On Holiday weekends you wouldn't get paid on Friday until after
lunch.

44. You know that a scale isn't something in your bathroom to weigh
yourself....

45. You know that body rings aren't for piercing....

46. You've actually stayed at work all night to get a job done....

47. You know how to cut a section without a computer....

48. You actually know how to apply trigonometry....

49. You know that electric erasers actually do exist....

50. At one time you owned a mertz-o-matic....

51. You've been hired over the phone....

52. Tel-Way was a Saturday ritual (like white castle)

53. Papercuts didn't hurt

54  You could read someone's printing and knew who it was....

55. Programs you worked on in the past are now part of the Henry Ford
Museum !

56. GD&T was not used except at the Best Company's.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Brandy7,

Quote:

7.  You know that a compass draws circles and not used to find the North
Pole.

   I do not need to find the North Pole, anyway.  It is cold enough where I am at the moment.

Quote:

10. You've done cut and paste with scissors and sticky back.

   I used an Exacto knife, scotch tape and a light table.  I could make a clean blueprint from the results.

Quote:

44. You know that a scale isn't something in your bathroom to weigh
yourself....

   I still have my drafting scales.  I still print drawings off to scale and hang them on my wall.  I would still like to get my hands on the idiot who came up with the 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, 1:50 metric scale, the ideal gift for engineers too dumb to multiply and divide by ten.   

Quote:

49. You know that electric erasers actually do exist....

   I used to use an electric erasor to clean Sun SparcStation keyboards.  Today, with keyboards being as cheap as they are, I am not sure I would go to the trouble.  

   You missed all the templates hung on your cubicle barrier with bent paperclips, and the scribble paper taped to the top right corner of your drafting board.

   I miss having a cubicle big enough to hold the E size drafting board.  There was so much more room for bookshelves.

               JHG

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Thanks for making me feel so old!  I remember 90% of them.  The rubber band wars were great, everybody busy hunched over their boards until the first one shot out.  Then it was a good 5-10 minutes of mayhem.  It seemed my bosses always looked the other way when these would break out.  
I've also got a couple of templates with cigarette burns in them from tossing them aside to land on the ashtry.  I think I still have that ashtray somewhere too.
  A couple of them seem geographically specific, though.
You missed the arthritis in the hand from squeezing your pencil too hard.

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Thanks for that Brandy7 cheered me up no end on an otherwise bad day.

I remember all of those except 3. 27 was different, we had to queue up outside the office and were given a small brown envelope with cash in it, always on Friday afternoon to ensure you didn't nip off early, well to be more exact to make sure you came back from the pub.

Also never heard of Mertz-o-matic or tel-way, what are they?
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

A drawing board in a cubicle?  Man, what luxury!  Ours were butted up back to back, one next to the other.  I used to get the guys behind my board (facing me) angry when I would carelessly brush my drawing off in their direction.

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Great list!  Let's not forget:

You used an eraser shield as a scraper on mylar prints.

You used a Leroy for ink lettering.

You know what a blue print actually looks like.

On Fridays you were the junior and were sent out to by beer for the all-nighter.

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."

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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

And...
-Your chair was a stool.
-You go out on a date after work and pencil lead is smeared on the side of your hand.
-Your picky about how your children hold their crayons.
-Your fingers are stained blue from folding blueprints.
-The new "CAD" designers were not "real" designers.
-You became a drafter because you had some type of art talent, but little or no college.
-Every odor reminds you of ammonia.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

:-The new "CAD" designers were not "real" designers."

And many of them today are still not "real designers."

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

What about the rotary sharpeners for our mechanical pencils???

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

The new "CAD" designers were not "real" designers."

That was never going to matter it was only a flash in the pan, it was never going to take off in a serious way was it?

Also what are mertz-o-matic and tel-way I cannot find anything on a search engine?
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

One I forgot... using spit when erasing ink on mylar

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Melting a mylar drawing with your electric eraser meant breaking out the Koh-l-noor radiograph pens.

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."

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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Hey, I still use my electric eraser. It's great for erasing red pencil when you wish to change a mark on a check print.
I don't get mertz-o-matic and tel-way either, but I did all of the other.
We never had cubicles. We had bull pens of rows of drawing boards.
Also...
* 3 rubber bands stretched on your triangular scale for retaliation when you got shot at.
* The guy in front of you on his knees on the stool and stretching to the top of his board to draw then cutting a big f@rt in your direction.
* Scratching the line work off the back side of a reverse printed mylar with the round edge of your erasing shield to make changes.

HAPPY DAYS

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

How about the lamp's hinges going bad and slowly falling onto your drawing, making you lift it up each minute until the drawing is finished.
The next day you rig rubber bands or string to hold it up.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I actually went out and purchased a new electric eraser (little battery powered one, not one of the real mains versions you guys are talking about) when I got handed the checking role.  I was quite impressed at the amount of hand drafting supplies the local Staples had.

KENAT,

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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

KENAT,

Doesn't the electric eraser mess up the monitors LCDs?

cheers

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

In 1978, I took a new job as a pressure vessel/piping designer/checker in a small engineering Dept. and asked my curmugenly British Engineering manager for an electric eraser.
 An hour later he dropped on my drawing board a brand new Pink Pearl eraser with two wires of a connecting cord and plug bored into it.

Next week he got me the real thing.  









 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I took a few board drafting classes back in college in the late 90's.  I can relate to more than I thought that I would.  I never did any board work outside of college though, though I wish that I could have.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

CheckerRon,
your <small engineering Dept...> with a <curmugenly British Engineering manager> reminds me of William (don't call me Bill) Dean. He is quite a character, not many good ones like him left smile .

Tobin Sparks
www.nov.com

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Tobin:
My crumugenly British boss had a gruff, stern exterior, but a good heart, as his electric eraser joke on the new guy showed.
 He was Joe Lennon, but insisted on being called "Mister Lennon"---heavy on the Mister.
  I kept that electrified Pink Pearl eraser for years after. I may still have it in one of my boxes of engineering stuff.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

CheckerRon,
That's so funny. That sounds so much like MISTER Dean. Must have been part of there culture. Not that there is anything wrong with that smile .

Tobin Sparks
www.nov.com

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Most British Engineers, except some of the real analytical ones, think we're comic genius's.  A lot of the older guys are real characters too.  No offence but American Engineers just aren't as colorfull for the most part, at least from what I've seen.

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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

KENAT,
If you're a US citizen, you're an American Engineer, regardless of your birth place (no offense).
thumbsup2

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

KENAT,
I totally agree. MISTER Dean used to get invited to travel around and speak at engineering conventions. He could get even the stuffiest old fuddy-duddy rolling on the ground laughing smile .

Tobin Sparks
www.nov.com

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Ctopher, for KENAT, I think that is no offence.
Are we of the subject yet?

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Ammonia!  I'll never forget opening large rolls of prints and collating them into packages.  I remember ordering prints days in advance so I could leave them to air out in the open for at least a day.

Different colour print paper: one company I worked for used hot pink paper to denote internal check prints.

Back to back drafting boards, phoning your board neighbour to distract him.

Non-repro blue / purple leads.  One old boy drafting manager forbid me to use them: "You're doing the same drawing twice!"

I recently saw a mechanical pencil with internal lead rolling mechanism.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

"You're doing the same drawing twice!"

Not when you use them to guide your text!

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Colored pencils don't keep a good point, so I used a 4 or 5H lead to lay out my views.  That manager probably wouldn't have liked that, either.

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I used plastic leads on mylar, loved that stuff.

"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."

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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

EWH,

I could never see the non-print blue lead because I used the blue grid vellum. So, I found that a very sharp, light pressured RED lead was very visible, but never printed.

Drove more than one manager nuts to see a complete drawing laid out in red, then done in H or 2H for the finished drawing. Laying the lead was like a plotter: all the workwas done, it just had to be darkened. It stopped a lot of smearing too.

And red looked so pretty!

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Howdy,

We had our own ammonia blue print machine. Sometimes as I was watching the drawing feed the into the machine I would noticed a mistake - so I would try to tug it back out before it went all the way thru smile . That didn't happen very often though - Yeah smile .

Tobin Sparks
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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Regarding doing the same drawing twice.
 In the early 70's I worked on a navy contract where all drawings had to be ink on mylar.
 This required laying out the whole drawing, dimensions and all with a 6H or 9H pencil, then getting out your rapidograph pens and inking it all in. End result was beautiful.

This was because a big previous job of mylar drawigs with plastic lead failed 4th generation requirements and the Navy rejected ~40% of the drawings.  

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I almost past out once carrying ammonia 5-gallon containers to a blue-print machine. I sat it down a bit too hard, it splashed out a little. Enough to send fumes throughout the room.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

OOHH! That explains a lot about you Chris smile .

Tobin Sparks
www.nov.com

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

CheckerRon, you didn't have dedicated tracers?  We still had one at my place in the UK, well actually she was the receptionist now but her original job was tracing drawings in ink.

KENAT,

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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

CR*P! ...Now I do feel old. I know most the answer! ...Bummer :D-=-=-

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

A few of years ago I needed to find a place in San Antonio Texas to get some AutoCAD files printed full size. I went to the only place in the phone book. When I walked into that place (can't think of the name right now - American something) I felt like I had just stepped into the twilight zone. It must have been built in the 50's/60's and nothing had changed. It still smelled like ammonia and the sales case was still loaded with Staedtler-Mars, KOH-I-NOR and Bruning drafting equipment. The place was even really busy. I could see the big industrial printers and automatic paper folders working away. They did have a digital printer over in the corner, but, it wasn't bring used. That experience left me with the feeling that San Antonio was a little behind the times smile .

Tobin Sparks
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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

We aren't necessarily behind the times, just slower to relegate the old to the trash bin of history while we take advantage of the new.
I wish you could remember the name, as I could really use some 3" triangles, and the regular office supply stores here have little to choose from.

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Could it have been National Blue Print Co. Inc.?

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

OOPS! Didn't mean to offend anybody. You might be able to find triangles in a local museum smile . OOPS - I may have done it again smile .

Tobin Sparks
www.nov.com

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I still can't draw a straight line without one, and I have a lot of drawings to bleed on, so...

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

<Could it have been National Blue Print Co. Inc.?>
Could be - I remember it was near the airport.

Tobin Sparks
www.nov.com

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

That is probably it then, just SSE of the airport.  Claims to be the oldest full service blueprint company in town, opened in'69.  I'm suprised there aren't any 100 year old companies like that around here winky smile

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

As Ken said a few dozen entries ago, I still see triangles, curves, templates and scales in Office Depot and OfficeMax, if you got one of those in your area. Also Art supply stores.

Paraphrase: "I love the smell of ammonia in the morning"

...least I "youst" to. Cleared the head. 'specially for the guys who came to work with a hangover.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

My first job—Junior Drafter. Main duties: make coffee, service the blueprint machine, do drafting in between the first 2 important tasks.

Our blueprint machine was old and high capacity and didn't use bottles of aqueous ammonia—it used a 5 foot tall tank of gaseous ammonia to develop the prints. The first time I had to change it out I followed all the directions, closed the valve, unscrewed the coupling and proceeded to disengage it. Nobody thought it was important enough to mention that there was still a small qty of gas in the coupling which would puff out when the o-ring seal was broken. The bottle was big enough that I had to wrap my arms around it to lift it and that put face right near the coupling...

My eyes and nose took awhile to recover!

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I've check at the Office Depot and OfficeMax, but the triangles that they offer start at 6", too large for my purposes (marking up B size prints).  I've several of those and larger at home.
Have we wandered far enough off topic yet?

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

can you imagine the troubles if you had a 5 foot tall tank of gaseous ammonia at your desk now?

OSHA would be all over you
Fire department inspections
Where are your MSDS
Industrial hygienist
ISO inspectors would want to see that your gaseous ammonia training logs were up to date
shunning by all others
wierdo's coming up to you, hey man wazinnatank?

and you'd have to file your TPS reports weekly!

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

ewh:
A 6" triangle wouldn't be bad for marking B-sizes. I use an 8" orange 30/60 for that purpose.
 My absolute faavs however for marking B-sizes are a matched pair of 4" high orange 45 and 30/60 triangles that I got years ago as freebees from a Ridgeway tool salesman. And yes, I have my initials carved on them.

Now this is definitely Old Draftsman talk---right on the OP topic.
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

My favorites, and what I am searching for, where a pair of 4" clear K&E triangles.  Perfect size for what I need.  6" triangles do work, but I already have those and am trying to improve my tool kit.

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

   You are an old draftsman if you have printed something off from SolidWorks, pulled out your old squares, sharpened your 5H pencil, and sketched on the printout.  

               JHG

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

How about that! All you have to do is wish, and someone like MadMango comes through

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Thanks Mango!
Unfortunately, they don't let you know haw much shipping is until you give them your cc info.  In my past experience, it has always been more than the total cost of the triangles alone.  Interesting site though.  Maybe I can find a few more items to make it worthwhile.

"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George Bush, Washington DC, 27 October, 2003
 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

You know you are an old draughtsman when you still need a pencil to spin around in your fingers or chew on in order to be able to think.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Just found this thread by accident and it's really made my day.
There are one or two I don't understand but I relate to most of them (so the kids are right, I am old)
When I started work (sound like my dad now) I had to change the ammonia bottles in the printer, and do most of the printing. When we moved office I found an old WW2 gas-mask that I took to wearing to do the job.
Also...
Spending your first week learning to print (write) correctly.

The number 8 had to be written as two 'ovals'.

Sharpening your REAL pencils to a chisel point.

Wearing a white lab-coat.

Some in the office wore those bands to hold their sleeves up.

No pre-printed drawing sheets - you had to cut your sheet
off a roll, draw the border and use a rubber stamp for the title-block.

Drawing board clips or masking tape to hold the paper on.

You couldn't use I, O or Q for callouts or revisions.

Pushing 3 desks together to play table-tennis at lunchtime.

Sticking a drawing to a window to draw an opposite hand.

And I still have all my drawing equipment because 'it might come in handy one day'.

bc.
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Quadro FX4600.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

The "two-oval" 8, I still write them that way, along with an oval 9 looking like an upside-down 6.  This sparked a memory for me.

My first "real" job was with an architectural office at 16yrs of age.  I was the blue printer, plan set folder, gofer, etc, etc.  When I wasn't doing these things, I had to practice my lettering.  It was not your average block lettering, I suppose due to the style of lettering being almost like brand identity of today.  Our letters were made with a triangle as a guide for the vertical components of the letters, and we had a lined guide to keep us horizontal.  My "practice" was copying a D-sized print full of standard notes.  I did this for months, and was on the verge of quitting.

My boss asked me to write my resignation letter, but to do it in the offices style of lettering.  I did, and probably put a little bit of extra effort into it to make "my point".  My boss looked at the letter, and compared it to some lettering he had on a print.  He asked me, "Why do you want to quite when you have a stack of plot plans and elevations to do?"  I wish I had kept that resignation letter.  I worked there for 3 great years, great place.

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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

OK Beachcomber, sounds like your as old as us.

 Incidentally, the no I,O,Q,is still in effect per Y14.5 for datums and also S,X,Z for sections per Y14.3-2003.

Also taking your Post mechanical pencils apart and making a lead shooting cannon out of it by scraping match heads into the push button top, taping it to an ash tray, and heating the top with a match. We could blow holes in paper window shades from 20 feet away.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

We used to make darts out of #2 pencils.
Remove the eraser with the metal ferrell. Stick a pin through the eraser from the inside. Remove a 'clean' filter from a cigarette, fluff it a little on one end and stick the other end into the metal ferrell, then pinch it into place.
Blow through a tube for a accurate and dangerous dart!

Redline drawings on walls make perfect targets!
hehehe

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I can remember when we used whale bones in the drawing folding process.  Also using green covering paper which had to be wet and stapled in place on the board for covering.

 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Madmango - "plastic leads...."
They came later !!!
I remember when we got our first board with a drafting head on it - one of the guys did a GA drawing and never noticed that the vertical ruler had slipped, so it was all leaning over about 2 deg.
Now I sound like Cyril, the Chief Draftsman -
"You're late Bernard"
"No I'm not, I'm on time"
"Ok, but you're only just on time"
Those were the days.
(By the way I'm not Bernard!!)

bc.
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Quadro FX4600.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I remember when we had the "new guy" change the ammonia out on the blue print machine for the first time, we always had someone standing behind him as a "catcher" when he started to pass out from the fumes.  

Ah, those were the days.... Burning acetates and using ink on mylar. Anybody still have a Leroy Lettering kit?

Later,

Steve

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

You knew the difference the between HB, F, H, 2H, & 4h leads.

Your hand ached if you spent the entire day lettering.

It was really cool when they came out with those triangles with the flourescent edges.

You got really pissed off if your drawing got smudged.

You could draw a special sized ellipse using a compass and several arcs.

 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

A few more ...

You remember when you got your first powered drafting table to control the height, damn that was cool.

You remember when there actually were drafting standards.

There actually was a department called "Blueprint Room"

 

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

I handed off 'all' of my drafting templates to my son last night.
I day to remember...sadeyes

I had them since 1981. I now feel much older.

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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

another from the memory vault:

Those cardboard drawing tubes, slamming the tube-tops down caused enough compression to launch said top across the room with satisfying POP sound.  Guys experimented with aero-fins to get an extra foot or two of distance.

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Speaking of old---I still have and use my original drafting brush (circa 1959) for brushing eraser shavings, food particles, and other junk off my desk.  

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

CheckerRon,

   My drafting brush still hangs by my desk.  It only dates to 1973 though.

               JHG

RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN

Mine's still new!  Dates from '78.

"Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor." - Robert Hunter
 

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