Chuck Harris wrote:

Joerg wrote:

Fred Abse wrote:

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:52:52 -0700, Joerg wrote:


I still use it. It's the Aristor-Scholar 0903VS



I still use my Faber-Castell 1/54 Darmstadt.


Why were they all made in Germany? Ok, I came from there myself so in
my case that's different. But even in the US 95% plus of the slide
rules I saw were Aristo, Boettcher, Faber-Castell, Nestler but rarely
a Pickett oder Fredericks Post.


Around here in Maryland, they were all Picket, Sterling, or K&E.

The Picketts were very popular, but being aluminum, easily damaged.
The Sterlings were cheap plastic trash, and the K&Es were a true
piece of art.


I think many of the German ones were melamine resin. My Aristo is really
sturdy. But yeah, in school I had a simple one that always got stuck
when it was warm and the old trick with "soap greasing" didn't work. I
don't dare to do that with a piece that cannot be replaced but I always
wonder what Teflon spray would do.

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