Another blast from the past. Many probably do not know what the word "pounce" means when it comes to the surveying profession. You had to sprinkle this on mylar before you started inking with pens.
I remember having the little cloth bag of it to clean up drawings!
> I remember having the little cloth bag of it to clean up drawings!
That wasn't Pounce. It was a different compound.
:'(
We never used it on Mylar - gave it too much "tooth".
Always used it on vellum or bond and sometimes on linen (remember that stuff??)
The brand I remember had a felt ring around the top about 3/8" thick so you could rub it into the surface rather than having to have the seperate little sack.
Do y'all remember cleaning up your mylar drawings with a cotton pad and rubber cement thinner?? Kept mine in a squeeze bottle labeled "WATER" just to freak out the new guys that had not yet learned that trick!!:-P
Interesting! my boss must have used the term "pounce" and I never knew any different. Any idea what that was actually called??
I believe the one in the photo had a ring at one time, it just fell off. Our mylar came "pre roughened" to accept ink. If you erased (electric eraser) too much in one spot it would remove the surface and have to be "Pounced" to accept ink in that spot. Another use of electric erasers was to remove rust from a steel pocket knife blade (grin).
Andy
I wish I could remember. We used it to pick up graphite dust from the vellum and mylar. It did a good job and was easy to clean off of the drafting medium.
Pounce was not near as easy to clean off. It has a tendency to really cling.
I still have a can of Pounce. I still use it when I have to put an ink seal on mylar.
> I remember having the little cloth bag of it to clean up drawings!
I always thought that was eraser dust. It looked like little bits of rubber to me, but then I never did any hand-drafting.
That is what it looked like to me also, Jim. Little bitty bits of eraser.
We still have a thing of it here, but I've only used it once, and that was many years ago.
> I believe the one in the photo had a ring at one time, it just fell off. Our mylar came "pre roughened" to accept ink. If you erased (electric eraser) too much in one spot it would remove the surface and have to be "Pounced" to accept ink in that spot. Another use of electric erasers was to remove rust from a steel pocket knife blade (grin).
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> Andy
Yeah, they had a thick felt ring around the top, the one in the photo is missing. That will hurt the originality of it and it won't sell on e-bay as high, its probably only worth $3. With the felt pad on top, it might command $5.
We also called the bag for cleaning pencil drawings pounce.
I miss India Ink.
Back in the early 1960s, once an inked, mylar map was completed, we would then re-pounce the entire mylar and leave a thick coating on it for delivery to the client. This was a "standard" custom practiced in the Oil Exploration industry back then. Also, we always used 7-mil double-sided mylar. Preferred brand was Herculene by K&E.
Instead of plain water or alcohol to remove ink from a film drawing, have you ever tried Formula 409? With 409, you can spray a ink on film drawing and take a paper towel and completely wipe the ink off! The best way to remove an ink line is to spray a small spot away from the drawing and dip the tip of a vinyl rub pencil eraser and erase it that way. Be careful using an eraser shield with it though - it will wick up underneath the shield and melt away all the ink lines you were trying to protect.
I remember using the can with the felt too - we used to sing a little jingle we made up: pouncy pouncy, clean you sheet; pouncy pouncy, nice and neat.
seems weird I remember that after not even thinking about it for 25+ years, yet I can't remember a new password I created a week ago....
> Another blast from the past. Many probably do not know what the word "pounce" means when it comes to the surveying profession.
I still have a can of K&E pounce (with a thick felt ring) somewhere in my office. Who knew that when I bought it thirty years ago it would be a lifetime supply?