old draftsman
 

old draftsman
you know you are an old draftsman when...
1. you know how to control line weights by rolling your pencil.
2. you know that a french curve isn't a grade change on a language
exam.
3. you've erased sepias with chemicals.
4. you've had a roll of toilet paper on your drafting board.
5. you remember when templates were plastic and not a type of
electronic file.
6. you know what sandpaper on a stick is for.
7. you know that a compass draws circles and not used to find the north
pole.
8. you remember the head rush from the smell of ammonia.
9. you own a roll of masking tape so dried out, it will never be tape
again.
10. you've done cut and paste with scissors and sticky back.
11. you've etched your initials into your tools.
12. you have had a brush tied to your drafting board.
13. you've come home with black sleeves.
14. you've made hooks out of paper clips to attach to your lamp.
15. you know an eraser shield isn't a norton program.
16. you've used "fixative" spray.
17. you've had a middle-finger callous harder than bone.
18. you have a permanent spine curvature from bending over your table.
19. you could smoke in the office
20. you could put the 'page 3' calendar up in a prime location with no
one complaining
21. there were a lot of 'cowboys' but now it's all indians
22. you'd change jobs for an extra 25 cents
23. you'd be able to speak to the engineers in english
24. they'd be more than one way to sneak back into the office after
lunch
25. you learned to fold a drawing to get the title on the front
26. you also were accurate from 100 paces with an rubber band.
27. you got your check on friday before lunch and didn't come back ?til
monday!
28. there used to be contract work whenever you wanted it
29. the work week was 56 hours and you had to work 6 on saturday to get
it.
30. you have draftsman elbow.
31. you extended your brush with a used cardboard tube.
32. you knew you were working on the original because it was mylar.
33. the boss would call from the bar to lay people off.
34. linen sheets were stolen to use as pillow cases....
35. you actually drew something without a computer.
36. a detailer wasn't waxing your car for $50 he was filling the tank
and getting it washed for you on the clock.
37. you know what onion skin is.
38. the runners worked at tycoons on eight mile rd. at night.
39. you moved to a new shop because it had board-co.
40. you didn't need a resume.
41. you were interview at a bar, got a raise all at the bar at 2:00 in
the afternoon.
42. a douche bag was not the guy in the next cube.
43. on holiday weekends you wouldn't get paid on friday until after
lunch.
44. you know that a scale isn't something in your bathroom to weigh
yourself....
45. you know that body rings aren't for piercing....
46. you've actually stayed at work all night to get a job done....
47. you know how to cut a section without a computer....
48. you actually know how to apply trigonometry....
49. you know that electric erasers actually do exist....
50. at one time you owned a mertz-o-matic....
51. you've been hired over the phone....
52. tel-way was a saturday ritual (like white castle)
53. papercuts didn't hurt
54 you could read someone's printing and knew who it was....
55. programs you worked on in the past are now part of the henry ford
museum !
56. gd&t was not used except at the best company's.
well thanks for making me feel young, i think i only count 7 10 15 25 32 44 47 48 & 49.
usually on these things i come out much older than my actual age.
kenat,
brandy7,
quote:
7. you know that a compass draws circles and not used to find the north
pole.
i do not need to find the north pole, anyway. it is cold enough where i am at the moment.
quote:
10. you've done cut and paste with scissors and sticky back.
i used an exacto knife, scotch tape and a light table. i could make a clean blueprint from the results.
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44. you know that a scale isn't something in your bathroom to weigh
yourself....
i still have my drafting scales. i still print drawings off to scale and hang them on my wall. i would still like to get my hands on the idiot who came up with the 1:1, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, 1:50 metric scale, the ideal gift for engineers too dumb to multiply and divide by ten.
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49. you know that electric erasers actually do exist....
i used to use an electric erasor to clean sun sparcstation keyboards. today, with keyboards being as cheap as they are, i am not sure i would go to the trouble.
you missed all the templates hung on your cubicle barrier with bent paperclips, and the scribble paper taped to the top right corner of your drafting board.
i miss having a cubicle big enough to hold the e size drafting board. there was so much more room for bookshelves.
jhg
thanks for making me feel so old! i re
i don't get any of those. how do you draw circles with a compass? why would i tie hair care products to my, what did you call it, "drafting board"?
;)
matt lorono
cad engineer/ecn analyst
silicon valley, ca
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thanks for that brandy7 cheered me up no end on an otherwise bad day.
a drawing board in a cubicle? man, what luxury! ours were butted up back to back, one next to the other. i used to get the guys behind my board (facing me) angry when i would carelessly brush my drawing off in their direction.
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great list! let's not forget:
you used an eraser shield as a scraper on mylar prints.
you used a leroy for ink lettering.
you know what a blue print actually looks like.
on fridays you were the junior and were sent out to by beer for the all-nighter.
"art without engineering is dreaming; engineering without art is calculating."
and...
-your chair was a stool.
-you go out on a date after work and pencil lead is smeared on the side of your hand.
-your picky about how your children hold their crayons.
-your fingers are stained blue from folding blueprints.
-the new "cad" designers were not "real" designers.
-you became a drafter because you had some type of art talent, but little or no college.
-every odor reminds you of ammonia.
chris
solidworks/pdmworks 08 3.1
autocad 08; catia v5
:-the new "cad" designers were not "real" designers."
and many of them today are still not "real designers."