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| floobydust:
I use that engineering paper, and if I can't find it I have an Excel spreadsheet that prints a faint grid on printer paper with my name and use that. It's thicker paper and can take erasing. Engineering clubs at university usually sell Eng paper for fundraising. I haven't seen the green stuff for sale in any store, who really buys drafting supplies nowadays. I have a dozen mechanical pencils and the best are knurled shanks Alvin DM05, Rotring 600. But drop one and the love affair is over, it's dead :'( Pentel 207 is a low cost workhorse. Pentel ZE22 /Berol QE-103 mechanical erasers are a great match with the pencils. They seem to be long obsoleted. Traveling on an airplane, the only way to do circuit design and a little math is with a pencil. A laptop is so much hassle and limited. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
Ink Joy |
| dnwheeler:
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on August 26, 2020, 09:11:57 pm ---And sometimes Zebra F-301 Compact Ballpoint --- End quote --- I concur. The Zebra F-301 is the best general purpose ballpoint pen I've found in a long time. I use the standard (non-compact) version. |
| ajb:
I've found I do much better with pen and paper when it comes to taking and keeping notes and todo lists. I get SUPER picky about these things, but have found a system I like. Notebook: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BBNNSTU/ It's big enough to hold the essentials but small enough that I can't go overboard stuffing it with supplies. The cool thing is the binding can be opened, so you can rearrange the pages, or add a custom combination of page types, or just remove full pages for archival. You can buy refills with the same openable binding, but the combs are a bit small. I use the pages out of these notebooks just because they're more economical: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BBNNSTU/ I added the covers from one of them to the notebook so that I always have a solid surface to write against instead of the fabric cover. I keep lined pages in the front for to-do lists, grid paper in the middle for general sketching/notes, and more lined paper in the back for journal-type entries. Being able to rearrange pages is really nice and makes this system work quite well for me. I keep a pen and pencil (both Rotring 800) in the outside pen pockets, and the flap top has a clickable eraser, one highlighter, and a couple of extra pens and markers. I keep a small ruler, triangle, eraser shield, and some post-it flags as well. The Rotring 800s are very nice all-metal construction, and the entire tip of the mechanical pencil retracts to keep it and the notebook safe from damage. They often go on sale on Amazon for ~$25, which is still expensive, but much more palatable than their normal $60 price tag. Still need to get a better refill for the pen, the stock one is ok but not amazing. Here's the contents: Eraser: Uni E-Knock(Discontinued? :'( ) Backup pencil: Uni Shift Pipe Lock Retractable mechanical pencil Backup pen: Zebra Sarasa Grand with Signo refill Alt color pen: Pilot G-2 Red Generic highlighter Sharpies Eraser Shield 3" 45/90 triangle 6" Machinists scale Post-it flags. I'll probably eliminate the sharpies since I always have them around anyway, and I'd like to replace the ruler and triangle with nice plastic ones that will be less hard on the notebook, just haven't found ones I like yet. Just to prove it all fits nicely: Edit: So we have the "expandable thumbnail in message" options for attachments now, but they don't work? |
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