RE: DBUG> OLD STYLE DRAFTING -AND FLOATING POINT ERRORS

[Wayne Allen <allenarchitect@optusnet.com.au>]

               Ian,

I had all but forgotten my misadventures with pincer attachments until reading your postings 

I worked as a student in my first office in 1978 ,  but was trained to draft using some of those older methods. My two bosses were twenty years older than me and were trained in all those tools (one now runs hands on a high tech Autocad  practice - who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks) and decided ( with some degree of deferred and twisted revenge on their own mentors) what was good enough for them would be good for me.  

At first I was only allowed to do kitchen details and practice my lettering using various sizes of rapidographs.They made me print drawings for council's BA's on the old style dyeline printers. I remember taking the prints out into the sunhine to dry. When the prints were dry they never dried quite flat and then you had to use a sable brush to work a bubble of water colour across the sheet without scrubbing the surface and yet stay inside the lines. Rendering elevations and perspectives was another story.

I also remember finding a couple of drawings the bosses had done on linen. And to think we complain about floating point errors!

Do you know what you were supposed to do with graphite ?  Someone gave me a tube of the stuff a few years ago and I threw it into an old timber cigar box with few old ink quills, an old air raid kit ,air raid ear plugs, and other curious things.



David Bergman wrote:
> 
> ...... Even after the
> "newer" pens came into use, they didn't at first have adapters for
> compasses so you had to use pincer attachments. Now that was a place where
> we need multiple undos.

YESSSS!!!

True and you could have the best of them - it didn't make any
difference. Mine was the biggest Wild set you would ever see. I still
needed multiple undo's. My ageing mentor, just said that I had not kept
them well enough honed. The old blighter never let me catch his own
botches and blotches. 

Regards

ian


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