Gentlemen,
Show us your favorite pencil/graphite based marking object !
Yup, best mechanical pencil ever made IMHO.Had one of these since I was an engineering freshman in 1982.
I THINK those harder leads are HB. That's what I use too. I also had an HP-41CV calculator, and the Pentel pencil would fit in that case beside the calculator, and the rectangular Pentel eraser would fit on top (because I didn't have a card reader on it). Ah, the good old days!I'm with RF Man: the classic Pentel P205, 0.5 mm. It takes the same leads and erasers as the other Pentels that Bobby Hamill has pictured. I prefer leads one type harder than the ones that come inside the pencils (I forget what the code is for it) but the original ones are good enough so I use them until I'm nearly out and then buy my preferred replacements. (There are also models P203, P207, and P209 for those who like other lead sizes.)
Next best is yellow, hexagonal wood pencils, No 2.5. (With my pocket knife I like to get those needle sharp.)
I THINK those harder leads are HB. ...
People still use pencils?
I also have a couple Zebra .5mm, but they have a little tiny eraser.
SS Barrel w/ Plastic grip and point and SS tip.
Heck, I still have triangles, protractor, drafting compass, etc... Sometimes it's easier and/or faster to use that stuff than to haul out the PC and some CAD software!
Why, yes, yes I do Somewhere around here I have a circle template, a template for drawing schematics, and a homemade triangle with 10 divots per side for drawing ternary phase diagrams... Two tee squares... My compass is a Staedtler, and is a dream to use. I used to do impedance matching on paper Smith charts too (now I'm really going back...)But do you have a french curve? More than one?
Oh yes those too, I even have my grandfaters Architect scale which is wood with brass corners, not the blade type but actual V bent brass strips.
... I used to do impedance matching on paper Smith charts too (now I'm really going back...)
We all do different things - that one just happens to be part of my profession. I do prefer the CAD tools for that task, though!Okay. I yield. I had to look up Smith Chart. I've done phasor computation, but I've never done it graphically.
Had one of these since I was an engineering freshman in 1982.
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