Hi Steve, Thanks for your observations. I haven't had the opportunity to have another go at disassembly. I'll let you know when I have made any progress. ...
Hey Matthew, I'm new to the group, but I have some experience with Picketts. I have a 515 in pristine condition and it is as white, if not whiter than my two...
Hello, For those of you interested in buying circular slide rules from Concise, please see message #28934 and threads concerning my order and shipping costs....
There's a Pickett N500-T on ebay that has two cursors on it. I assume that the second cursor is an after market add on by a previous owner. So my question to...
Greetings, There are a lot of things we do on this list which may not be obvious to newcomers, and some of us veterans need reminders from time to time, too....
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I have recently read an interesting item in that the Chinese Central Bank seemingly always adjust their interest rates by a factor of 0.27%. This is,...
Matthew, You are right about the numbers coming off of a Pickett. I wrote to the group some time ago about friends I had in a couple of engineering groups who...
Hi Folks: Here's the past week's top 40 completed eBay slide rule auctions (as of today). Have a good weekend, Dave For direct links, go to this page and...
The Oughtred Society Swap Sheet The swap sheet has been updated for Nov 2008, and is now available for viewing. Go to : www.oughtred.org and on the left side...
Hi everyone, I just joined the group and I wanted to introduce myself. I am a physics professor and I have had a long time fascination with slide rules....
Hi Kyron, Welcome to the group! There are many resources in our files section to check out and many sites online which talk about slide rule use, care,...
Hi all, I noticed today that when looking at an auction item on eBay that has closed, you can no longer even see who the winner was, only the code name. Has...
Hi Miles, Ebay announced that they were doing that. They do everything they can to keep people from communicating with each other. They, of course, always...
... eBay and PayPal are rip-offs. Often times they freeze accounts without cause, and sometimes confisicate funds. Anyone who does business with them is being...
Hi All, Sorry Folks! Now that ebay have "improved" their system so that ebay.com and ebay.de no longer display the winner's login names, I have no means of...
Sounds like a typical commercial venture to me ;-) Remember: they are in business to make money, NOT to please collectors, although I too hate the way their...
I have nothing against businesses making money. If they don't make money, they go out of business. What I don't like is they do so in an immoral manner- they...
Hi Rod, Are you sure they are not changing the login names with each auction? I have bid on several items since you began collecting this data, and my user...
Craigslist seems to deal in real estate. Any sites where we can find auctions for slide rules and other collectibles? I sure don't know of any remotely...
Google for slide rule auction online and you'll get a long list. _____________________________ Google for auction online and you'll get a long list. ...
So I did and apart from many references to eBay auctions all I get is the slide rule universe and some other (non-auction) sites of members of this group,...
Do leather slide rule cases tend to become hard over time or are some of them made that way? Has anyone any experience with restoring them, in particular...
I regularly treat the leather cases of the rules I use with dubbin. (Cf. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbin>.) This definitely softens them, so I guess a...
Hi Folks: Here's the past week's top 40 completed eBay slide rule auctions (as of today). Have a good weekend, Dave For direct links, go to this page and...
Hi Steve, More explanation is given in the help file: http://sliderules.lovett.com/feedback/help.html However, to answer the points you have raised. 1. Ebay...
Hi Rod, Thanks for the detailed reply. As you say, it's all redundant now, but I do appreciate your effort on this. Your web site is one of the first I turn...
Howdy, I have a Pickett 800T with the old style eight screw cursor. Unfortunately, it's now a seven screw cursor... I assume that I'll have to pick up another...
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