Hello Phil, thank you for identifying this Durer 5876 as a Faber-Castell. Are there any more Durer or Berger slide rules made by Faber-Castell out there? ...
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cowtown_eric
Jul 2, 2010 2:19 am
By way of introduction, I'm a tool junkie who works in the finer details of home reno work. Learned to use slide rules, as the 'lectric calculators on the...
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Michel Boulmé
michel.boulme
Jul 2, 2010 2:23 pm
Hi all, Is somebody knows the use of 2 marks on ST scale at 1.18° and 1.97° of UTO Studium 930 slide rule? See attached pictures. Best regards. Michel ...
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Cyril Catt
newcastleewc...
Jul 2, 2010 2:27 pm
Michel Boulme asked about the use of 2 marks on ST scale at 1.18° and 1.97° of UTO Studium 930 slide rule. From Panagiotis Venetsianos’ POCKETBOOK OF THE...
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David
weymouthdavid
Jul 2, 2010 4:08 pm
Hi Eric. There is a similar group for drafting tools. It is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DrawingInstruments/ Someone there might be able to answer your...
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Hans E. Hansen
dino_and_sta...
Jul 3, 2010 2:44 am
Check out this Ebay auction for an Otis King Model K: 320556306761 What's curious - aside from the high start price and shipping - is that a photo shows scale...
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Paul Hirose
paulhirose
Jul 3, 2010 2:52 am
... Your photo didn't get through, but there's a picture of a Studium at the International Slide Rule Museum site: ...
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Paul Hirose
paulhirose
Jul 3, 2010 5:26 am
... The symbol is the Unicode "double prime" character, which resembles the " (quotation mark). If it's messed up, manually select UTF-8 character encoding in...
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Michel Boulmé
michel.boulme
Jul 3, 2010 9:19 am
Thank you Cyril (and all other persons) for your prompt reply. Michel ... De : sliderule@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sliderule@yahoogroups.com] De la part de...
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sliderulenut
Jul 3, 2010 5:15 pm
I an still curious why some makers insisted in placing gauge marks for conversion to/from radians on the trig scales instead of placing them on the fundamental...
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sliderulenut
Jul 3, 2010 5:17 pm
Paul is correct when using Yahoo Groups "emails". They still insist in using ASCII encoding instead of UTF-8 which is used by nearly all email providers in...
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Mark Armbrust
cadet1620
Jul 3, 2010 5:21 pm
... Welcome to the group! These sound like they may be intended to engrave printing plates. In the Intaglio process ink is held in the engravings of the...
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Cyril Catt
newcastleewc...
Jul 4, 2010 7:51 am
I recently bought a 150 mm diameter plastic protractor with four concentric scales. The outermost and innermost scales are in black and show, respectively,...
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Eriugena
eriugena2002
Jul 4, 2010 6:54 pm
My kids told me. This happens in episode, "Patrick Smartpants." The mentally challenged starfish somehow becomes smart. He handles a slide rule at about 10,...
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Bill Robinson
gerwkr
Jul 6, 2010 2:51 am
In the "Scientific Glass Apparatus Co., Inc.", 1969, 1,519 page, catalog were Pickett Slide Rule pictures and prices. The ES and T prices were the same. They...
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wshawlee2
Jul 7, 2010 12:58 am
I have often wondered if K+E ever made a version of the 68-1130 pocket Deci-lon (or Deci-lon 5) to match the eventual appearance of the full sized final...
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Paul Hirose
paulhirose
Jul 7, 2010 4:55 am
... Maybe those manufacturers thought in terms of finding the sine or tangent of an angle in minutes or seconds, rather than converting the angle to radians. ...
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ianl25
Jul 7, 2010 9:33 pm
Does anyone out there have a Deitzgen 1745 duplex with a serial number? If so, could you please advise me of the serial number. Thanks Ian...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jul 7, 2010 10:41 pm
I upgraded my program: http://www.forth.org/novice.html Now I'm working on upgrading from gcode to PostScript to allow for photo-lithography --- have that done...
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Paul Hirose
paulhirose
Jul 7, 2010 11:25 pm
... Also see the following article quoted in "The Compass," a Keuffel and Esser publication from 1892: "It is well known that for simple multiplications, or...
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Paul Hirose
paulhirose
Jul 7, 2010 11:26 pm
"The Engineer," December 1893, says, "If the indices of the rule and slide are made to coincide, a mark will be noticed on the scale of sines coinciding with...
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Zvi Doron
zvidoron@...
Jul 8, 2010 5:31 am
I have one, but cannot spot a serial number. Going over it with a magnifying glass I have however discovered faint owner initials or name etched on the slide -...
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sliderulenut
Jul 11, 2010 6:53 pm
Any one know any thing about this ThinkGeek slide rule reproduction? m moon...
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j_weiner@...
weiner_j_a
Jul 12, 2010 2:21 am
Yep. A for effort, D for execution. It's an overpriced copy of the Micrfoline 125, with too-loose fit between the slide and stators. The only good thing about...
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Terry Smithwick
tinyallen
Jul 12, 2010 2:26 am
This has been reviewed here before. For the price, it was a rather mediocre student's rule. With the lower price, it isn't that bad - especially if you get a...
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sliderulenut
Jul 12, 2010 7:26 pm
Thanks, guys, for the comments. Given my current state of affairs financially, I'd rather put my $ on things I want. Marion Moon...
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Hugh Aguilar
hughaguilar96
Jul 13, 2010 1:57 am
In the book, "Here's Looking at Euclid," the first chapter discusses Pierre Pica's visit to the Muduruku in Ecuador. These people only have words for numbers...
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JohnA
also_nc
Jul 13, 2010 4:04 pm
This morning, THIS TV network ran a 1963 episode of Outer Limits, "Controlled Experiment". Two Martians, disguised as humans, were preparing to observe and...
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Bill Harris
bill_harris_fs
Jul 14, 2010 3:45 am
I received a note today about "Wild computing devices from the late 1800s and early 1900s" on TechRepublic ...
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pugh_ed
Jul 20, 2010 3:25 am
ThinkGeek have had their slide rule on sale recently for half their previous price. (In fact, it seems to be marked down as a "clearance item": it was about...
