Did Leroy produce any templates smaller than 80? (ie: 0.08")
>Did Leroy produce any templates smaller than 80? (ie: 0.08")
I remember seeing leroy 60 and perhaps even 50. That was sooo long ago.
I have a L40 template... EBay is the place to look.
I just found a 50 on ebay and I think I remember using a 60, but if I recall correctly, there was no such thing as a 70 or a 40.
Seems like the standard sizes were
80 - 0.08 inch
100
120
140
175
200
240
290
350
425
500 - Half inch
I have a 60 in my desk drawer. I didn't leroy much so I didn't get really all that into it. They probably make smaller. Just look at a Tobin map.
Yep
Size 80 used a 00 pen and Size 60 used a 000 pen. You needed a gentle hand and a pen in good condition.
What a bunch of old farts we are, six responses in ten minutes on a piece of obsolete equipment.
I remember (and used) the open style pens that were necessary prior to the pens with an ink revisour(sp). I also remember a stylus for use on a SCRIBECOAT There's another oldie you don't see any more.
I used that in High School...I was so proud of my pens....sigh
I could fill those suckers up with ink and not spill a drop!!!
Believe it or not but there was also an electronic leroy device. You type in about a paragraph on a screen into the little computer, set it on the plat and it would draft in on for you. You had to be sure that the pens were working really well and the plat was nice and flat. I can't remember how small it would go.
Brian
Well, if I told you I was 33, would that make much of a difference in the context of your post? 🙂
My dad taught me to draw by hand and I loved to do it, but it's not nearly as productive as CAD, and I'm nowhere nearly as good as my old man.
We had the electrocuter (what I called it when I was a kid) that shook the tips clean, all kinds of scribes and templates. A hand drawn map is a work of art, CAD drawn aren't so much, ya know.
Mine sucked, I'm glad to have Carlson. 🙂
> Believe it or not but there was also an electronic leroy device. You type in about a paragraph on a screen into the little computer, set it on the plat and it would draft in on for you. You had to be sure that the pens were working really well and the plat was nice and flat. I can't remember how small it would go.
Mutoh made one, but that was cheating...
I got in at the tail end of hand drafting. But there are many conventions and standards established in hand drafting that still apply to CAD drafting. Won't hurt the new guys to learn some of the conventions.
I liked the drop bow compass with the open pen. You could get those circles just where they needed to be every time, still have mine in usable condition, never liked the templets for finished drawings.
jud
Cad-liner
Still have one sitting in the closet.
Hmmm- wonder if it still works----Later Guys
Now where did I put that ultrasonic pen cleaner fluid?
CADLiner. Still have my pens (pretty much all dried up, like me!) 🙂
-JD-
There sure was a 40 size template. I have one in my set.
Brian
> Well, if I told you I was 33, would that make much of a difference in the context of your post? 🙂
I'm 42, but I get ya.
> My dad taught me to draw by hand and I loved to do it, but it's not nearly as productive as CAD, and I'm nowhere nearly as good as my old man.
Ditto, and some school, I'd call mine "Utilitarian" at best
> We had the electrocuter (what I called it when I was a kid) that shook the tips clean, all kinds of scribes and templates. A hand drawn map is a work of art, CAD drawn aren't so much, ya know.
I probably threw 3 of those away cleaning out the basement... along with untold numbers of koh-i-noor pens... I mean possibly 150~200
> Mine sucked, I'm glad to have Carlson. 🙂
meeeeeeee toooooooooooooooo!!
I agree with you Andy. When I started civil/surveying drafting, my boss taught me the leroy sizes and what we used for text sizes. I use that as a general rule of thumb now on every drawing that I do.
Cad is the great drafting equalizer. Now I can draw maps as pretty (almost) as my favorite hand draftsmen.
If you have an eye, and if you have seen enough of the the works of the good ones, you can still make survey art with cad.
This 80 is the smallest I have in my set. I used a 60 A LOT in the 80s our office practice was record dimensions were 60 with 000, new measurements were 80 with 00. and NO slope. I really miss having a roll of toilet paper and a scribble sheet on my desk..... not - and another thing- I can have more and STRONGER coffee when I'm using cad than I ever could when using the Leroy. 😉
