Dana

Dacron IS polyester; it's just Dupont's trade name for polyester fabric. Also used for aircraft covering under the trade names...

If the ruling pen is obsolete (I still use one on occasion) then these pens are really obsolete. The single nib one is for drawing...

No, it's a ruling pen. This is the one from my set, part of one of the compasses: You set it to the line width you want and use a...

I found out too late about this set that was offered at a local auction. Even though it was quite a bit of money I still feel bad I...

Not sure which bit you're looking at but there's no metal scribe. There a couple of ruling pen tips, and the points on the dividers are...

If you are looking for whitewater in RI, the Clear/Branch is pretty much it. It's a 7-mile run with 3 easy class II rapids. My local...

Over the last couple of months transatlantic communication lines between Henri and myself have been busy the principal topic of...

This story was quoted in the 1975 Old Town catalog as shown below. Benson

Probably not a big deal here; I imagine most people are posting their own images rather than from the web... unless it's in image in...

I don't remember if it was an earlier version of Xenforo or another platform, but when inserting an internet image there was a checkbox...

I was speaking mainly of copy-pasting an image from my computer. But from the internet, if you copy-paste the image, it will then...

My new old Royalex canoe sure weighs less than the old 1960s fiberglass canoe that trashed my shoulder last fall! Re throwing canoes...

I generally just use copy-paste to upload images.

I have and often use one of those, though it's not as nice as yours. That level of technology just means less to go wrong, and it lands...

This is Dad's compass set, purchased when he was in college in the late 1940s. I used it during the first part of my own engineering...