Vintage work crew photos

**jackhoying** · Jul 21, 2019, 12:17 PM

My wife works at a printing company and they still do work like this. Mainly rebinding textbooks with a few page changes or a new chapter, along with new covers. Often, they will have a dozen or more skids full of identical books to do. It keeps a lot of employees busy. This photo would look good in their shop!

**Toolmaker51** · Jul 21, 2019, 08:51 AM

Books might subside, but I can't see full replacement. Like what a PITA Machinery's Handbook or Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers would be online...
Not against change, when benefit is seen by the user. There aren't good substitutes for utility.

**Frank S** · Jul 21, 2019, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Books might subside, but I can't see full replacement. Like what a PITA Machinery's Handbook or Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers would be online...
Not against change, when benefit is seen by the user. There aren't good substitutes for utility.

The book I miss is my Smolleys tables of Parallel Tables of Logarithms and Squares, Angles and Logarithmic Functions, Corresponding to Given Bevels, and Other Tables for Engineers, Architects, Etc

**Frank S** · Jul 21, 2019, 01:50 PM

all I want to know is which list I might wind up on

**mklotz** · Jul 21, 2019, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

There aren't good substitutes for utility.

I think we should make that "quote of the month".

**Toolmaker51** · Jul 21, 2019, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by mklotz

I think we should make that "quote of the month".

Chances of that being so are extremely high, provided Marv is still pursuing coronation. . .

**Frank S** · Jul 21, 2019, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Chances of that being so are extremely high, provided Marv is still pursuing coronation. . .

I think we should make that "quote of the month"
I would vote for it

**mklotz** · Jul 21, 2019, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Chances of that being so are extremely high, provided Marv is still pursuing coronation. . .

Yes, still pursuing but I'm afraid I will have to pull a Napoleon and snatch the crown from the emcee and place it (jauntily, to be sure) on my own head.

Meanwhile, work on the list of those to be incarcerated after my accession proceeds apace; volume 19 (C-D) is almost finished.

**bruce.desertrat** · Jul 21, 2019, 01:00 PM

"He's got them on the list
He's got them on the list
And then none of them be missed
And none of them be missed"

**Toolmaker51** · Jul 21, 2019, 10:03 AM

Frank S; when I get leads on reference material, like to see what turns up. In grand internet fashion [and a cool PJs trick] I copy/ pasted your "Smolley's Tables......" to see price ranges. They start at less than $4 bucks. If you follow the google "Did You Mean" of correct spelling with one 'L', pricing doubles. YMMV!

PJs gave me a site called fatfingers that compiles oft-misspelled terms; where sellers don't get bids because of t-t-typos.
http://www.fatfingers.co.uk/default.aspx A good element, that site is UK, so things like color vs colour get included.

Internet selling has different levels of sophistication; Amazon & Ebay might top the list. Somewhere lower but easier with local results my favorite is craigslist. But the funniest and highest rate of misspells [or illiteracy] is OfferUp. Willing to bet their crowd is farking phones, while other sites attract users with real keyboards.

2006 or so, I wanted a proportioning divider to help me scale items from photos at work. Brand new they run $180-200, used maybe $80~. I played with spelling and found mine for $11.
Cha-ching.