Drafting Machines

Spiffy.

Of course, I discovered after buying the machines that my drafting board (which I bought second-hand from my then-employer in 1992) should have had a vinyl cover this whole time. And that the cover will telegraph any defects in the substrate. Of which there were far more than I had previously realized. A jar of wood putty later...

Vinyl cover, unrolled and flattened, taped down, and trimmed.

Installed and ready for use.

Close-up of the vinyl

Keuffel & Esser scale tool/key for installing and removing drafting machine scales. Almost impossible to find, probably because they're so easy to lose given their size. Until I found this one on EBay, I had seen one line drawing in an online copy of a Paragon installation manual, and the one used in the Inheritance Machining videos - enough to know it was a P-shaped cam doohickey with a screwdriver tip on the end, but not enough to reproduce it for myself. And now I can...