On 10/22/2009 8:21 PM Gordon Shumway spake thus:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:42:17 -0500, Steve Turner
wrote:

In spite of having used CAD programs for many years (TurboCAD is my
most recent tool, and let's not have this degrade into a Sketchup
war, shall we?) I still resort to (and enjoy!) using pencil and
paper for many of my design activities. I used my Dad's drafting
board, T-square, and triangles for many years, and I still have
fond, fond memories of taking drafting class in high school, one of
the two most useful classes I ever took (typing being the second;
and man was that Mrs. Utz a hottie!). Unfortunately, I no longer
have a decent drafting table, the T-square is long gone, and all I
have left are a few triangles and my drafting pencils and a
sharpener. I'd like to rectify that, but then again ever since
taking drafting class I always had a hankering for one of those
fancy drafting machines (like this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zeichenmaschine.jpg). Does
anybody own one? There are lots of them for sale on eBay; any
recommendations?

We used Vemco drafting machines at Caterpillar until the early 80's
when the digital age was upon us. I would highly recommend Vemco.

Mine's a Bruning (same difference, I guess): I love it. Traded a
parallel rule machine that my company discarded for it. Fitted it with a
couple Vemco rules and it's right purty.

A picture of a similar machine:
http://www.worthpoint.com/pmimages/i...3a6f20bb22.jpg


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