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Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-)

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On 2020-09-18, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:14:49 -0000 (UTC), Jason Evans
><jsevans@mailfence.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:09:16 +0100, gareth evans wrote:
>>
>>> 4H = A chisel for doing metalwork.
>>
>>I remember using a 4H pencil in drafting class in High School. I'm not so 
>>old that CAD wasn't around. My school district just didn't have the money 
>>for it.
>>
>>Now that I think about it, I would love to have a drafting table, a 
>>T-square, and a set of triangles again.
>
> If you have the room, go for it.  Everything you need can be had from
> Dick Blick for under 150 bucks. 
>
>
> Don't. I am at an age when I have buried many friends and executed
> their estates. one of them I used to call on every week, and when it
> was coming to the end, 'friends' used call and remove stuff like that.
> He had a small anvil I used to love, but it was taken like that.
>
> Stuff like that was easly sold at Sunday Markets. I burned boxes of
> photographs that nobody rmembers, After my wife died, I stopped taking
> photos. 
>
> I remember a test for a coating on propeller blades involved verifying
> that a pencil wouldn't scratch it.  I don't remember though whether it
> what H number the spec called for.  I suspect the coating is still in
> use--it was really good stuff--but I wonder if they've updated the
> spec to account for Mexican-made pencils not adhering to the same
> standard?

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OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-13 11:09 +0100
  Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-18 10:14 +0000
    Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 06:29 -0400
      Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-18 16:53 +0000
        Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2020-09-18 15:26 -0500
          Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 15:50 -0500
        Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-09-19 11:47 +0000
          Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-09-19 19:03 +0200
            Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-19 13:10 -0500
              Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-09-19 19:01 +0000
                Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-20 07:26 -0400
                Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-09-20 18:02 +0000
                Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-09-20 20:20 +0200
              Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-19 12:34 -0700
    Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2020-09-18 23:59 -0400
      Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-19 00:27 -0400
      Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2020-09-19 06:36 +0000
        Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-20 10:05 +0000
  Re: OT : Pencil Tutorial ! :-) Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2020-09-19 11:04 -0700

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