OLD DRAFTSMAN
OLD DRAFTSMAN
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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.
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
Usually on these things I come out much older than my actual age.
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I do not need to find the North Pole, anyway. It is cold enough where I am at the moment.
I used an Exacto knife, scotch tape and a light table. I could make a clean blueprint from the results.
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.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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-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.
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RE: OLD DRAFTSMAN
And many of them today are still not "real designers."
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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?
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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
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The next day you rig rubber bands or string to hold it up.
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Doesn't the electric eraser mess up the monitors LCDs?
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The Tip Ex does make the screen a bit of a mess though.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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If you're a US citizen, you're an American Engineer, regardless of your birth place (no offense).
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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
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Are we of the subject yet?
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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.
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Not when you use them to guide your text!
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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!
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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
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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.
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I can smell the fumes now.....
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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.
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"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
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Could be - I remember it was near the airport.
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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.
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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!
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Have we wandered far enough off topic yet?
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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
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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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
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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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Ah, those were the days.... Burning acetates and using ink on mylar. Anybody still have a Leroy Lettering kit?
Later,
Steve
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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.
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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 day to remember...
I had them since 1981. I now feel much older.
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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.
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My drafting brush still hangs by my desk. It only dates to 1973 though.
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