What you’re liable to find when you’re looking for something else…
One ‘old’ box of .45 ammo…
I think it was made around 1953… and it’s a full box! π
And another piece of personal history…
I bought this thing back in 1973 or 74 to use on the airplane. Β It’s the ‘mini’ version and fit perfectly into the old blue flight manual books we carried. Β It was a lot quicker to do the math on this than to try to do it on a notebook in a bouncing airplane…
And no, I never did find what I was looking for… sigh…
While digging through misc. old “good stuff” I came across an old circular slide rule and asked my daughters if they knew what it was. They didn’t believe me when I told them that it was a pocket calculator.
It got the astronauts to the moon – and back, but it’s lost to the merciless march of time.
LL- I have one of those I STILL use! π It’s STILL faster than using a calculator! LOL
Have an engineer friend who retired from Boeing. Started on the B-47 and retired from the 777 program. Slide rule to CAD CAM. Carried a slide rule in a hip holster his entire career. Said it left the “young people” bemused.
I had to learn to use them my freshman year of college then forced to buy a calculator for $100 (1973 dollars) the next semester.
I have a friend who still wears a circular slide rule tie clasp. He’s a retired submariner so it out of character.
I still have Two! ( a large & a compact). My son-in-law (a scientist)was in town a while back and somehow I mentioned slide rules. He didn’t know what I was talking about, so I dug them out. He was actually interested. I admit I have gone so long without using them I was pretty rusty! I guess the day is coming when young people won’t know about manual transmissions, or “recip” engines.
Re: the thing you were searching for … not to worry. It’ll turn up, the next time you’re looking for the slide rule. π
I had the same experience as Gerry. I also ran across my old drafting equipment (T-square triangle, etc.) the other day while looking for something else.
Didn’t find it, either…
WSF- You run what you know… π
Gerry- ONLY if he wasn’t a nuke, then it’s perfectly IN character… LOL
Woody- Good point! Apparently now the best way to prevent a carjacking is to drive a stick! π
Rev- Probably… sigh…
Tim- So it’s NOT just me! ;-D
Wish I had held on to mine. Not that I would remember how to use it…
What is this “slide rule” you speak of? Some sort of diving rod?
I kid, I kid.
Nice old ammo box, my future grand kids are gonna wonder what I was worried about when they get around to digging through my gun stuff.
I keep my old map templates and goohor stick on a peg above my desk. You just never know when they’ll come in handy.
PH- LOL, heard that!
SPEMack- LOL
DB- Good point!
I’m gonna have to learn how to use my slide again.
It’s been forty years, but it’s still in my sock drawer.
Hey Old NFO;
I remembered those old slide rules and circular calculators. We used them in JROTC and it was facinating. But I couldn’t remember how to use it now. It is fun finding “old” stuff then having “short and noisy” A.K.A. my son asking “Hey Dad..What is that…?”
Heh! Good finds though!
Bob- Heh, oh yeah…
keads- Yep, now to put them where I CAN find them again… sigh
Okay, so I’m young enough that I missed slide rules in school.
But….
They don’t take batteries and I know that in competent hands they can be damned quick.
So does anybody have a reference on how to run one for somebody that interested?
BGM
BGM- Yep, check the web… π
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Proportion wheels – they’re pretty much obsolete now that we have computers – but I still use mine when I work! Old habits die hard I suppose.
Mrs.C- That they do…
Cleaning out our desk again???? Ha Ha
Senior found a “Weems wheel” and a pair of dividers the other day. All he needs now is a chart and the world is our oyster..lol
Keep looking no telling what you may find.
JUGM- You need charts? Those I have… somewhere… π
Rick- Sigh… I know…
That’s really good ammo. Bullseye shooters will be green with envy. At 50 yards in a tuned 1911 with a world champion shooter it should print inside a 1.5″ circle. Save it for a very special occasion. (It will be a stiff shoot!)
Slide rulers? Yep, gotta circular one with a Motorola stamp, and a 10″ yellow Pickett. Both say 3×4 is about 12.
Ed- I actually have a bullseye gun to shoot in in too… π LOL yep, 12…