anyone want to buy a slide rule?!

 

yes, i have one.  a vintage K&E log log duplex.  fancy!

1 hour ago, DAB said:

anyone want to buy a slide rule?!

 

yes, i have one.  a vintage K&E log log duplex.  fancy!

If you can find a sucker... er.. I mean buyer, let me know. I've got at least three, plus a shirt-pocket model.

John

I've got all of them and even have the lockdowns for setting up framing square for stair layouts. I read the manuals and only look at them in extreme stress ( Jack rafters). The rest is so ingrained I can do it in my sleep.

8 hours ago, HARO50 said:

I've done manual labour. Does THAT count?

John

no

dating his sister might...

7 hours ago, p_toad said:

Yeah, as long as you don't go into labour.    That's when you've upped your game. 

think of the money we could make off of that...

5 hours ago, HARO50 said:

If you can find a sucker... er.. I mean buyer, let me know. I've got at least three, plus a shirt-pocket model.

John

I have a few to add to the kitty...

Never bought a new carpenter's square so, what's in the blue book has been a mystery to me. But, reading these posts has made me realize that it may be quite beneficial, not to mention interesting, to read one. Same for the speed square. 

Thanks to Bill for those videos. I'll start my journey there, and see where it goes. I see a few? hours of education in the future.

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

to read one.

 

Or several... which ever is easiest for you...

 

 

 

97_RafterInstructionManual.pdf

Mathematics of a Carpenter’s Square.pdf

Framing Square Instructions.pdf

FRAMING SQUARE MANUAL.pdf

RAFTER BOOK.pdf

RAFTER SQUARE.pdf

Edited February 8, 20179 yr by Stick486

Wow. Thanks Stick.

The "fun part" was using the framing square to form up for a flight of concrete stairs......BTDT....

 

Every job site I have ever "started" on, the first thing was always the  front "porch" for the jobsite trailer/office.    And the set up steps.   Seems the set I made for the last jobsite, either went to another site, was run over by a trackhoe, or they just tossed them in the dumpster....Grrrr

2 hours ago, steven newman said:

The "fun part" was using the framing square to form up for a flight of concrete stairs......BTDT....

 

Every job site I have ever "started" on, the first thing was always the  front "porch" for the jobsite trailer/office.    And the set up steps.   Seems the set I made for the last jobsite, either went to another site, was run over by a trackhoe, or they just tossed them in the dumpster....Grrrr

You too? thought it was only me. Seems like I always got the stair cutting detail.

Herb

49 minutes ago, Dadio said:

You too? thought it was only me. Seems like I always got the stair cutting detail.

Herb

same here...

and compound angled sawhorses...

3 hours ago, Stick486 said:

same here...

and compound angled sawhorses...

Yup, them too.

If you really want to screw your day do jackrafters. My friends and bosses bring me coffee and cigarettes and never ask me " how's it going" when I get that " easy" job.  And nothing, I mean nothing is 90° cut the whole day.

so where are the templates, french curves, and various right angles, and drafting set(s) to go with the sliderules?

39 minutes ago, p_toad said:

so where are the templates, french curves, and various right angles, and drafting set(s) to go with the sliderules?

hanging next to the slide rule...

1 hour ago, p_toad said:

so where are the templates, french curves, and various right angles, and drafting set(s) to go with the sliderules?

On a shelf in a re-purposed kitchen cabinet in my shop. I actually still use then now and then!

John

When I was in vocational school (a long time ago) we spent a half semester on the framing square tables. At the end of the semester you had to pass a test on them or you didn't pass. I passed easily because my dad had already drummed them into my head. Today I would really have to think about how to do it. Another thing if you don't use it you lose it.

The one I have in the shop?   So old and worn, you can't read a thing on it.    I may have to fork over some "Moldy Green" and buy one I can read.    Speed square?   Don't have one, other than the big wooden one i made.    Have a couple of the older Stanley PowerLoc 25' tape measures sitting around.   Don't use them in the shop, but they come in handy around the house...

i have an old 35' tape measure that lives with the miter saw, so i always have one there when i need it.  noticed this morning that the tape is splitting at the 0-3" area.  i may have to break down and buy a new one.