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  • Penns Woods
    Penns Woods reacted to jdeerfoot's post in the thread Obsolete Stuff with Like Like.
    I remember using something like the above instrument in a basic cartography class. Somewhere in the basement I should have some of the...
  • Aslowhand
    Aslowhand replied to the thread Wabakimi solo trip spring 2022.
    You probably mean something like this: It is a Eureka VCS 16 tarp that I bought years ago for a canoe trip with my family. I...
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  • Gamma1214
    Gamma1214 replied to the thread Wabakimi solo trip spring 2022.
    Cruiser, How far are you from Niagara Falls? Mem's link took me to a store at 420 Vansickle Rd. St. Catharines ON L2S 0C7 Canada...
  • Neophyte
    Neophyte reacted to Cruiser's post in the thread Solo on the Light Side with Like Like.
    Time to get moving on the rest of this build ... left off with sanding the exterior to 120. Given all the curving, the hull cannot be...
  • Gamma1214
    Gamma1214 replied to the thread Trouble Closing a Seal Line Map Case.
    That's a good point. I'm planning on buying another map case but I print my maps on 12" x 16" (30 x 41cm) waterproof paper. My overlap...
  • Jontario
    Jontario replied to the thread Trouble Closing a Seal Line Map Case.
    Yeah that's weird. My large version doesn't have that problem either. I imagine there's a good reason but if you hear back let us know
  • Neophyte
    Neophyte reacted to yknpdlr's post in the thread Great Lakes ice coverage - Winter 2026 with Like Like.
    When I was in the Air Force as a KC-135 tanker air refueling navigator, on one of our missions out of Eielson AFB, I was chosen as lead...
  • Cruiser
    Cruiser replied to the thread Wabakimi solo trip spring 2022.
    One of the guys had that at our last August camp, it is near perfect... I tried very hard to locate one, but that was not to be ...
  • Cruiser
    Cruiser reacted to memaquay's post in the thread Solo on the Light Side with Like Like.
    Although our building styles are very different, your's being careful and analytical, mine belonging to the wood butchers school, you...
  • Boatman53
    Boatman53 reacted to Glenn MacGrady's post in the thread Obsolete Stuff with Like Like.
    Not photos of my father's originals . . . But when I was 12 in 1956, I was communicating with all of you at 5 WPM with this device...
  • Boatman53
    Boatman53 reacted to tketcham's post in the thread Obsolete Stuff with Like Like.
    So here's the manual... And how it sets up... And an example of how it works... Using this planimeter, which measures one square...
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    DaleS reacted to ppine's post in the thread Obsolete Stuff with Like Like.
    Yes. We used the engineers rule. And the architects rule. I have an undergrad degree in geography. When I started environmental...
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    DaleS reacted to sailsman63's post in the thread Obsolete Stuff with Like Like.
    Still use the foldable ruler, and I'm young enough that they were mostly on the way out when I was a kid. Good, solid, high-contrast...
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    DaleS reacted to yknpdlr's post in the thread Obsolete Stuff with Like Like.
    i have one of those triangular scales, as well as a couple of slide manual rules. I did not much have need to use the scale as intended...
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    DaleS reacted to Black_Fly's post in the thread Obsolete Stuff with Like Like.
    I ran across this old engineer's scale, from my cartographic drafting days. I started hand drafting maps from pencil manuscripts to...
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