[JFPNCM]

Your right, Stick, remember how we used to have to loft,or layout on the floor these things to actual size, like trusses and arches, etc.? Before calculators we used books with tables for rafters,trusses,spans,loads, trig functions,angles, numerical conversions etc.
Herb

To say nothing of a really good framing square.

 

[JFPNCM]

@Herb Stoops

The advantage to slide rules, you have to understand the problem to be solved and think. Calculators, not so much.

Jon

 

[JFPNCM]

WAIT..think...? I remember when I thunk...not anymore...:grin:

I was taught the proper conjugation was, think, thank, thumpk. 😁