It's State property.?ÿ I guess I'll have to keep it and make up my own stories. ?????ÿ
Those dome-head drive spikes are unique!?ÿ My wife would appreciate it if no more random metal was in our garage. ?????ÿ
Engineer lobotomizing tool....?ÿ
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I have seen one form of plan storage where the plans are held vertically in the cabinet.
The front of the cabinet is hinged at the base. Inside are four prongs, two mounted on the door, two on the rear.
There is enough length on the prongs that when the cabinet is part open the plans can be slid to find the one you want.
After sorting/selection the cabinet is opened fully and the desired plan can be removed.
The prong diameter is a around an inch or so.
Given the sharpened end, maybe your engineer lobotomiser is actually a hole punch?
Found a pic that shows what I mean...
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Have worked with something similar but the front slid horizontally in and out.?ÿ There were maybe a total of eight pairs of rods/receivers as the sheets were something like four feet wide or close to it.?ÿ There was a handy dandy divider that you would insert between the sheet(s) you wanted and the ones before it so that you could use it to help uniformly slide the sheets horizontally along the rod or receiver.?ÿ If the desired information was near the back of the cabinet you would slide every thing ahead of it down the receiver pipes and onto the smaller rods as you slowly pulled the front of the cabinet forward.?ÿ Then you moved the sheets you wanted to the gap that now existed between the receivers and the rods and pulled them out.?ÿ Once you put them back you had to start pushing the receivers/rods back together but carefully slide the remaining sheets off the rods and onto the receivers as you were reclosing the cabinet.?ÿ It took practice to get really good at doing this without damaging the sheets.?ÿ It helped if the sheets were mylar.
Hush your mouth, Sinner!?ÿ Engineers are wonderful people.
@Holycow, it might be?ÿa tire knocker.... Like truckers use, but for Injuneerz!
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He did.
But I've seen plenty of these hanging file cabinets. The sheets are attached to a plastic or cardboard strip that comes with the holes already punched. You can see said strip in the posted?ÿ photo of the cabinet.?ÿ?ÿ
Back in the dark ages we made our own edge binders by cutting paper of the correct width then folding it in half lengthwise and then folding that in half again lengthwise.?ÿ Then staple or use similar fasteners to attach the binder to the?ÿ proper edge of the set of plans.?ÿ Some sort of hole punch was required if the fastener was a small bolt/nut device or a brass spreader-type fastener.?ÿ This would work up to maybe a twenty-sheet set.
The holes for the sheets/sets of sheets hanging in the big hanging files as shown must be about one-inch diameter or larger to fit easily over the rods/receivers.
We have a ton of old hanging plan sets that have wooden strips about 3/4 inch wide by maybe 1/4 inch thick on either side of the set and then bolted together.?ÿ The ends of the twin strips rest on small boards on either side of the cabinet.?ÿ The oldtimers found ways to take care of business in the simplest, most economical approach possible.
Back in the dark ages we made our own edge binders by cutting paper of the correct width then folding it in half lengthwise and then folding that in half again lengthwise.?ÿ Then staple or use similar fasteners to attach the binder to the?ÿ proper edge of the set of plans.?ÿ Some sort of hole punch was required if the fastener was a small bolt/nut device or a brass spreader-type fastener.?ÿ This would work up to maybe a twenty-sheet set.
You are not that much older than me. The paper we used for the purpose was usually a spoiled sheet of that yellow treated blueline printer paper that was run through the developer, making it all dark blue to purple. I haven't put together a set of full sized prints for some years now, but if I did, that is how I would do it.?ÿ
I don't know what the tool in the pic is used for.?ÿ For everyone that thinks it is some kind of hole punch, answer me this:?ÿ How to you get the paper residuals out of the punch?
I have probably seen (and used) most of the paper/reproduction equipment used in the 20th. century.?ÿ All paper punches have some way of removing the waste.?ÿ If it is a punch, I don't see any way to clean out the cylinder.
Exactly.?ÿ Thinking back to 1978-79 time frame.?ÿ It's a wonder we didn't all die of ammonia poisoning.
The cap is stamped PROPERTY CORNER.
It's a monument or a sample cap fixed to a sample pipe is my best estimate.
One or two at a time will come out easily.?ÿ It's a bigger hole than the standard hole punch devices make.?ÿ I visualize holding down and rotating it a bit to saw through the paper to some extent as opposed to a straight down shearing process as is the punch method.
Of course, I've been wrong before, according to my spouse.
Exactly.?ÿ Thinking back to 1978-79 time frame.?ÿ It's a wonder we didn't all die of ammonia poisoning.
My first (and last) brush with a sexual harassment complaint stemmed from a blue-line machine.?ÿ No kidding.?ÿ?ÿ
Our office had a "print room" way in the back with no phone extension in that room.?ÿ The ammonia fueled blue-line machine had this crappy little exhaust fan that really did almost nothing for the fumes.?ÿ If I turned on the fan while I was running prints I could not hear the telephone.
I was running prints at lunch while everyone else was out of the office, with the fan turned off.?ÿ Our receptionist came back from lunch, and as she walked by she "hussied" in the print room to turn on the exhaust fan.?ÿ She made a snippy remark to me wondering "why I never used the exhaust fan"...
I replied with an off-the-cuff remark, "Men have the ability to turn off their smeller at will if they want".?ÿ It was an innocent remark.?ÿ Really.?ÿ I was referring more to my ability to breath shallow out of the corner of my mouth when making prints...and nothing else.?ÿ She left the room in a huff which wasn't uncommon.?ÿ I left the fan on for a few minutes and then turned it back off.
When I was finished I came out of the print room.?ÿ The only other person in the office came up to me and asked what I had said to our receptionist.?ÿ It seems she had grabbed her purse and left abruptly.?ÿ I told him she had come in the print room, turned on the fan and then left.?ÿ We were clueless, but trying to analyze "Crazy Kathy's" behavior was usually pretty low on my hierarchy of tasks.
The next day I got to work and the boss had driven down from Tulsa.?ÿ He was waiting for me in the office.?ÿ He was tippy-toeing around the subject of sexual harassment and it took a good half-hour for me to realize what he was talking about.?ÿ Apparently Kathy the receptionist had laywered up.?ÿ Trying to explain that something I had said in an innocent manner had been misinterpreted was really useless.?ÿ It turned into a big deal.
After wasting way too much time on meaningless remarks Kathy quit.?ÿ Apparently things went nowhere with her claim of sexual harassment.?ÿ
I probably still haven't learned how to keep my mouth shut, but I do mumble a lot more.?ÿ?ÿ
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"My first (and last) brush with a sexual harassment complaint stemmed from a blue-line machine.?ÿ No kidding."
Tell us about all the times in-between. ?????ÿ