Revenki's photos with the keyword: Vintage

Close-up of the vinyl

Installed and ready for use.

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

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...

Spiffy.

Aping Baumgartner Restoration's videos, I made a pile of the cotton swabs, cotton balls, and toothpicks it took to get the two machines cleaned. Not kidding when I say that most of the filth was nicotene. That's what the brown is. The green is from a microscopically-thin layer of degraded surface paint/plastic that wiped off the green areas (with no apparent harm).

Half-cleaned head. I ended up taking the brown knob off to get the whole thing cleaned.

Half-cleaned shoulder joint.

Looks like rust, but it's actually a naugahyde-like boot over the upper foot of the bracket, giving the head a non-marring surface on which to be parked.

Dirty.

A dim view.

Nicotene, grease, and dust. Not sure either machine had ever been cleaned.

The head of the fancier machine, before cleaning. On the drafting table, before its own cleaning.

After being reminded of these things via a video on Inheritance Machining's YouTube channel, I bought one. Then I found another one I liked (with the spyglass), and bought that, too. And then a pair of scales. And then a new vinyl mat for my table. And then a scale key. And then a circle template. And then some drafting dots. And then new triangles. It quickly got out of control...

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...