Other Interests?

[daveh]

I had a slide rule at school. As I never deliberately throw anything away I might have it still in a box somewhere.

I collect screwdrivers. I never seem to have the right one for the job in hand, so I go and buy another, You know, it's always the case: you need a cross-head driver, so you look in the box - fifty flat-heads. You need a flat-head and the box is full of cross-heads. You have both, and you find you have a screw with hexagonal or square slot.

[PeterW]

My first slide rule was called a Unique. It was a dreadfully cheap affair with the scales printed on paper and covered by strips of celluloid held by small brass nails at each end.

It certainly was unique. It's the only slide rule I've come across on which you could multiply 2 by 2 and get the answer 3.995.

I threw it away and went back to five-figure log tables.

PeterW

[photax]

I also had one of these, mine was called “Aristo Scholar”. I have completely forgotten how to use such things. Back then fortune was on my side, because in this year Texas Instruments developed a calculator ( I think it was a TI 59 ) which I could afford. So my Aristo went straight into the waste bin, not shedding any tears.

MIK

[daveh]

Before the electronic calculators there were little mechanical affairs that were operated with a stylus. as the one column clicked on to 'ten' the next one up, the ten column, would increase by one unit.

Mind you electronic calculators do run out of steam. Try multiplying by 2 umpteen times and see how far you get. Don't have zero as your starting point though.

[grenouille]

Apart from photography and camera collection, I'm into 1/43 diecast cars, HO trains, plastic models (WW II Planes) since the age of 12. Had to start all over again when my Mom gave away all my collection as well as all my comics when I went overseas for studies.
For the last 35 years I've been slowly collecting trains and cars, promising myself that I will build me a train system when I retire. I have been retired for the last 10 years but my all my trains are still in their boxes. Cheers

grenouille

[Doug T.]

Hi!
Have you ever checked out N scale train stuff?
It's amazing how much detail they put in to the little ones.

Doug

[Randy]

Check out my other forum. dieseldetailer.proboards.com

[Deleted]

I had model trains off and on over the years. Now I've got a Trainz 2010 layout I built from scratch with about 30 scale miles of track. And the whole thing fits on the computer hard disk!.

W.

[grenouille]

I have a programme for building railway system on my PC, so I guess all my trains will still stay in their boxes, Regards

grenouille

[brucesallen]

Vintage British Motorcycles. I used to vintage race a BSA 500 and a Norton Commando as well as the occasional featherbed Manx. I still have 2 BSA racers and 3 street Commandos as well as a 1963 Atlas plus 3 modern BMW's. (Need something reliable don't I?)

Bruce

[Wahoo]

Dec 14, 2011 11:56:35 GMT -5 brucesallen said:

Vintage British Motorcycles. I used to vintage race a BSA 500 and a Norton Commando as well as the occasional featherbed Manx. I still have 2 BSA racers and 3 street Commandos as well as a 1963.

Bruce, you're definitely a glutton for punishment with all that british junk in your armoury.

Here's a photo of me on my little duke at a nearby track in 1971 . and the lower photo is my '54 T110 (iron head) complete with Amal TT carb. during a (nother) rebuild.




Danny

[grenouille]

Talking about a slide rule, I went through my studies with a Faber - Castell slide rule, d'ont ask me how it works now, I'm lost. I still have it and I'm using it as a ruler.

Hye

[keith201]

What a diverse lot we are!
I was very much into motorcycling when I was youngerm my first bike was an Wxcelsior Talisman Twin then I went to Ariels and my best bike was a 650cc verical twin Huntmaster Then I moved to New Zealand where I had mostly Hondas and Suzikis. I am now down to an old Honda Civic which is economical and reliable!

I enjoy reading almost anything and everything, listen to trad jazz and classical music, I do a lot of voluntary work and am secretary of the local masonic lodge which keeps me pretty busy. I'm a member of the Taupo Camera CLub which gives me an outlet for my photography.

[Steeler Fan]

Feb 3, 2012 10:14:46 GMT -5 grenouille said:

Talking about a slide rule, I went through my studies with a Faber - Castell slide rule, d'ont ask me how it works now, I'm lost. I still have it and I'm using it as a ruler.

Hye

I still have my circular slide rule from Technical school. How cool were they back then. But when I use it as a ruler I haven't been able to draw a straight line with it.

[mickeyobe]

Mar 12, 2011 3:03:42 GMT -5 daveh said:

I collect screwdrivers. I never seem to have the right one for the job in hand, so I go and buy another, You know, it's always the case: you need a cross-head driver, so you look in the box - fifty flat-heads. You need a flat-head and the box is full of cross-heads. You have both, and you find you have a screw with hexagonal or square slot.

Mar 12, 2011 3:03:42 GMT -5 daveh said:

I collect screwdrivers. I never seem to have the right one for the job in hand, so I go and buy another, You know, it's always the case: you need a cross-head driver, so you look in the box - fifty flat-heads. You need a flat-head and the box is full of cross-heads. You have both, and you find you have a screw with hexagonal or square slot.

Dave,

I am, as usual, being chauvinistic.
What screwdriver allows you to drive a screw with only one hand?
What screwdriver allows you to determine its size by the colour of its handle?
What screwdriver allows you place the screw on it, hold it in any position, shake it and the screw will stay on the driver?
What screwdriver almost never wears out?
Right!
The Robertson or square headed or square recess or scrulox screwdriver which was invented in 1908 in Milton, Ontario, CANADA by Peter Lymburner Robertson.

Some more trivia from
Mickey