Pencils, Mechanical or Otherwise

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

 

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

[ztejas 43,499]

11 hours ago, Bullneck said:

We've hit rock bottom).

[Trey3216 15,349]

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

[Guest Lobo]

re: onboard....     The supercomputer in ArmyBrat's basement?  

Edited February 7, 2019 by Lobo

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

1 minute ago, Lobo said:

re: onboard....     The supercomputer in ArmyBrat's basement?  

Sort of ... yeah......

[High Plains Drifter 11,050]

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?

[Fudge Nuggets 19,208]

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.

[Shoxthemonkey 1,982]

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.

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

25 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Is an old timey calculator.

Think Chinese calculator of sorts.....

[Guest Lobo]

Chinese calculator?  Won't you get disoriented?  Or is it the Occident?  

[Fudge Nuggets 19,208]

14 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Think Chinese calculator of sorts.....

A mechanical abacus, perhaps a Rychlo Poctar?

[Humpy 112]

35 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

For a quick moment I thought that you had broken into my office.

hp11c best ever.

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

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.

[Shoxthemonkey 1,982]

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.

[Robin Masters 122]

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.

[ztejas 43,499]

46 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Chinese calculator?  Won't you get disoriented? 

Pun intended? Or was it an Occident. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19,208]

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.

 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

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.

[Humpy 112]

I had the 48GX with a TDS COGO card but it died and went to HP heaven.

[Asithappens 974]

May I kindly remind the forum that this is a post dedicated to all things pencil?

Thank you.

[Kennythetiger 9,398]

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.

[Guest Lobo]

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!

[NWBuck 8,571]

I typically use pens, but will default to one of these on occasion:

[Apep 645]

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.

[BlueGreySky 1,020]

I have the same sensory issue with pencils. Especially dull wooden ones.

[Doze 1,322]

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, 2019 by Doze

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

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.  

[Your Mom 4,822]

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.  

[Hugh G. Rection 156]

I used a pencil at your momma' house last night!! Ha Ha!!!!!

Out!

Aaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha


Pencil dick


Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[tfoolry 8,220]

11 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

For a quick moment I thought that you had broken into my office.

Get with 90s & upgrade to 17B. 

[Jkwellborn 6,713]

Pencils are for losers and fuck ups.  Winners write with ink.

Yup. Especially if you’re left handed.

[Llano Estacado 1,257]

Get a smudgeguard. Ladies can’t resist a pencil toting man in a smudgeguard.

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

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.

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

18 hours ago, Llano Estacado said:

Get a smudgeguard. Ladies can’t resist a pencil toting man in a smudgeguard.

Pussies......

[TwiceHorn 31,509]

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.

[SHOOTER12 8,811]

Gold Cross mechanical.

Graduation gift in 1975, still got it and it works great.

[retread 2,951]

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.

[Buck Strickland 380]

Pilot vanishing point, hp32sii and hp35s (with easycogo program)

Had the pencil and 32sii for 22 years of surveying greatness and not so greatness

[Jkwellborn 6,713]

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.

[mulletpelini 5,214]

Pancel talk not going away

[SHOOTER12 8,811]

32 minutes ago, mulletpelini said:

Pancel talk not going away

Pancel, penile, parcel...all samey same.

[Guest Lobo]

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, 2019 by Lobo

[Mr.Hovis 70]

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.

[Llano Estacado 1,257]

I drafted up a sketch of your mom like one of my French girls. Wearing a necklace...only a necklace.

[retread 2,951]

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, 2019 by retread

[Mr.Hovis 70]

1 minute ago, retread said:

Well, I have partial recall. Train but no bridge, thanks for keeping things on track.

[retread 2,951]

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

 

[mulletpelini 5,214]

t-t-t-t-t-t-t-ticking away.....I've got

[Nivek 16,946]

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