Random Object Photographs

[bigwheelzip]

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Did you ever notice how many of the once valuable things you owned are now obsolete, and just taking up space? I got rid of my full-sized drafting table thirty years ago, but I still have boxes of mechanical design tools that will never be used again, but can't seem to part with.

The switch to computer-aided design (CAD) began for me in 1981, and by 1985 all my designs were done on computers. My cheese loving ways got me the nickname "Mouse", but I wouldn't have guessed that all my work tools would so rapidly get replaced with a computer mouse.

There were unique skills for ink and pencil drafting on linen, vellum, and mylar, which are now a thing of the past. Random design drafting objects:

 

[red14]

Random pictures from my TV

Weird stuff on TV sometimes.

 

[PALADIN85020]

I took this shot in the red rock country near Sedona, Arizona at the start of summer monsoon season. It rained cats and dogs later in the day.

John

 

[bigwheelzip]

Age of Discovery

Vintage Pocket Microscope:

 

[kraynky]

American Ingenuity at it's finest.

Is it a "Chopper Chopper"?

 

[rubiranch]

My Fire King peach luster glaze coffee cups arrived yesterday.



This green Fire King came from my ex's grandmother's coffee shop. Its the last one from her coffee shop.




This is where my green coffee cup came from.

This was my ex's grandmothers little coffee shop in Ferron Utah back in the 40s and 50s.




Here's my everyday green Fire King coffee cup.

I bought this one off ebay so I wouldn't break the one given to me.

 

[rubiranch]

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Well its kind of a picture.

 

[chuckie]

I still have my drafting tools and a slide rule from drafting school in the late 60's.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Today in my garage I found a Slide rule while looking for something else.
I first thought it was mine, but wrong brand! Mine is a K&E and its in a front room.
Probably one one of my kids stored it there!

 

[xring33]

I bought this plastic hammer at the hardware store for about $1.85 in the mid 1960’s. It was to use with my Lee Classic Loader. At the time I was lucky to get $2.00 to mow a lawn. My mother scolded me for wasting my money on this useless item. Sadly my mother has passed on but, I still have and use this hammer. Every time I varnish a project before I clean up I put a coat of varnish on the handle.......and think about my mom.


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[BLUEDOT37]

At the time I was lucky to get $2.00 to mow a lawn.

LOL, I remember the "cheap" neighbors would only pay $1.75 & their St. Augustine grass was a pain with a push mower.

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[Protected One]

Did you ever notice how many of the once valuable things you owned are now obsolete, and just taking up space? I got rid of my full-sized drafting table thirty years ago, but I still have boxes of mechanical design tools that will never be used again, but can't seem to part with.

The switch to computer-aided design (CAD) began for me in 1981, and by 1985 all my designs were done on computers. My cheese loving ways got me the nickname "Mouse", but I wouldn't have guessed that all my work tools would so rapidly get replaced with a computer mouse.

There were unique skills for ink and pencil drafting on linen, vellum, and mylar, which are now a thing of the past. Random design drafting objects:

I too posses that unique set of skills for ink and pencil...or even stick aluminum drafting on all mediums. The transition to CAD began in 1981 and was complete by 1989.

However, as recent as 2012 when we experienced system-wide software issues I was the ONLY designer capable of transitioning to doing "red-line mark-ups", so that projects could still be issued for construction.

All the jokes about me being "old school" ceased at that time.

Hold on to your tools, if for no other reason than nostalgic. You'll be glad you did.

 

[Protected One]

A vacant bird house, seen from my window today.

 

[ladder13]

Hillbilly77 will like this one.

 

[Salty RI]

LOL, I remember the "cheap" neighbors would only pay $1.75 & their St. Augustine grass was a pain with a push mower.



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When you said push mower, was it a reel type with steel wheels, I remember cutting our grass with one, you had to get a running start, hoping you would make it to the end of the row. [emoji46]

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[Hillbilly77]

Hillbilly77 will like this one.

Yes. Yes he will.

 

[Salty RI]

This looks about right.

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[swsig]

Great sunset in North Texas tonight.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[rubiranch]

This looks about right.

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The gun is facing the wrong direction.