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Nice.

Checking the exif data for those images shows that they have actually been rotated through a total of 360 degrees...

Distances along wiggly lines on maps were generally done with this sort of thing.

A planimeter is for measuring areas.

Mine is an Aristo.

24 minutes ago, WaYSidE said:

Gb antique shops have heaps of them,  Irish ones not so many

Technical Drawing was a specific subject in most secondary schools on the Big Island up into the 1980s.

I still have all my old stuff, flexicurves, French curves, stencils, adjustable set square, trammels, Rotring pens, etc.

I finally got a planimeter a few years ago - always wanted one...

1 hour ago, David Holman said:

First picture is of the drawing set I found on a general stall at a local antiques fair. Don't often attend these, but have been on the look out recently, just in case, as such things are not readily available anymore in these days of computer aided design. The set, in its original box [sadly no maker's name], was on sale for £28, but in best 'Bargain Hunt' tradition [you can see how I spend my lunchtimes], I offered the lady a £20 note, which was accepted. Given my second hand bow pen cost me £12 on its own, this set looks an absolute bargain and the bow pen that is part of it looks better quality too.

 

That has the look of a British Thornton style set - although Hellerman used to sell German-made unbranded sets of a very similar type. The clasp fastening, rather than the later 'sliding bar' catches, would imply an earlier date.

Sometimes, there was a bit of gold-blocked printing in the centre of the lid lining, with some sort of identification on it, but this often wore off quickly on the satin linings, more so than the 'velvet' ones.

I still have my original set, bought for thirty bob in 1971, and a few more, picked up at boot sales...

I blame @murrayec

8 minutes ago, David Holman said:

Was sure I'd posted that what Eoin has created is his own version of the R L Moore lining pen, but doesn't seem to be here.

You did - I thought I was going mad, too - but, it was here.
 

... from the Air Corps today.

21 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

IRM boyos designed the poster for CIE, when they were very, very, very, very young.....

That is not strictly true, of course.

They weren't that young.

In the 70s, I used to park my old Honda 400 in the some place every Saturday and then pop round the town to get my few bits and pieces. One day, I arrived back there to discover no bike. Ah, well, it was bound to happen, things were a lot easier to steal back then. It was only a few yards to the cop shop and I had to wait for a couple of people to sort their business out before I could burden the desk sergeant with my situation. As he was filling in the details, I suddenly had to admit that I had remembered where I had really parked it, as my usual spot had been full that morning...

At my last school, we had an even-more-obnoxious-than-usual teacher and he had an old white Mini. Someone had the bright idea of playing a trick on him. We got some red poster paint from the art room and a load of us moved his car across the car park and painted it red. I was walking across there at home time and it became clear that he had reported it stolen. He was talking to two coppers in the middle of the car park as I went past - "What was the registration number, Sir?" - "K365RFE, Officer" - Really, Sir? Is that it over there?" I nearly died - I had to walk a good hundred yards before I was out of sight, with the tears nearly rolling down my legs....

When I had a 'real' job, we had a manager who was staggeringly inept - one of his many events was to report his car stolen because he had driven to the canteen in the rain, but it had stopped and was quite sunny when he came out, so he walked back - and couldn't find his car to go home..

12 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I’ll take ten!

Definitely a growing market...

It's worth giving it a good bit of thought - including just how physically large a device you would be prepared to carry about regularly.

Some of the smaller mirrorless things are optically excellent these days.

A professional that I know speaks highly of the Sony devices.

This is the thing - it's all about you.

I got a DSLR with the intention of doing some old-fashioned 'manual' stuff - but I find that use it on auto most of the time.

I like the idea that so much more care went into a picture years ago, not just because each one cost a few bob, but because the technology caused you to think more.

A lot of what I do know is just 'record' stuff really, and the 'artistry' side doesn't seem to be important enough to me for me to bother - one day...

For years, I just had a 'medium' digital camera, which turned out to be absolutely ideal for certain situations, when I got a 'proper' DSLR, it was definitely less useful in exhibition situations, particularly.

So I currently run a full-size DSLR ( which accounts for 80% of the pictures ), a "packet of twenty fags" pocketable camera and now, also, a smart phone, which I only use as a "small bar of chocolate" camera for certain situations.

I do keep the 'middle' camera in the car  - for when somebody hits it...

It's all about what you want to do and what you can spend.

I have recently reorganised my pictures into better defined subject areas in the 'main' computer, but have left them in time order in the 'laptop', so that I have a bit of a back-up and two ways of trying to find a particular one.

I do a separate back-up every few months - and leave that on another premises.

If there's anyone who was involved with O'Connell Street you may get an answer, if theirs is Magnorail, of course.

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There was a slight oddness earlier, when Latest Posts was only showing the first three letters of each - back to normal now.

On 2/22/2019 at 2:04 PM, Broithe said:

You could get 'somebody' to knock up a brass one?

It looks like it is a close-coupling cam type thing...

9 hours ago, murrayec said:

Hi Heirflick

Do a sharp pencil sketch around the edge of the part on white paper- as close to the edge as you can get it, also measure the overall length, the thickness of the part, the diameter of the pins, the height of the pins and include them on the sketch, scan the sketch to a jpg and send it by pm to me .... and we'll see what can be done!

Eoin

See....

12 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

More boring railcars...........!!   185, 80 class, ICR, 2700, CAF......wadddever... Like Leslie, I'm a steam person!

The thing that strikes me above is the "transdev" word. The idea of Irish railways going down the chronically inefficient and costly privatisation path as in the United Kingdom of Brexit.........  doesn't bear thinking about. watch reliability plummet and process soar, as the money is generated from fares to pay fat cat bosses and boards of directors in other countries, with fat salaries. If fares don't cover it, sure the generous taxpayer will assist.

The subsidy was only as high as it was at privatisation in '95 as a sweetener for the "buyers". It would have been around a billion otherwise

You could get 'somebody' to knock up a brass one?

It looks like it is a close-coupling cam type thing...

30 minutes ago, WaYSidE said:

 signs ripped off from closed lines

On a train from Holyhead once, I had a couple of crews on a transfer in the seats behind me, they were discussing redundant signage that they had spotted and how to access it for removal. There was a sign over a tunnel mouth that was going to involve some abseiling...

Proper hard-core modelling.

Anybody got a drone to check if the dodgy slates are in the right places?    

These people will sell you moulds, in many styles, to produce your own sheets.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cotswold-Stone-Sheet-Mould-Model-Railway-Walling-in-OO-Gauge-CM04/153366955461?hash=item23b56205c5:g:~7MAAOSwJTNbvr3X:rk:1:pf:0