Nice, embodies the quote;
"What one man can invent, another can discover" -- Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Dancing Men.
Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us
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#12The website works like crap on Android Firefox. Scrolling is borked.
Re: Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us
#13Reminds of Mechanical Watch: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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#14It would be interesting to have further links/resources/research.
Apparently, Japan reigns supreme in the manufacture of mechanical pencil components w/ brands such as Rotring and Skilcraft importing, or contracting to Japanese companies either for manufacture (my Rotring Quattro is labeled as Made in Japan), or parts sourcing (my Skilcraft B3 Aviator multi-pen was noted as including mechanical pencil components imported from Japan).
One of my favourite mechanical pencils is a "357" imported from Japan which uses a Rotring-like gravity mechanism to select a 0.3mm, 0.5mm, or 0.7mm lead.
Wasn't always so --- I can still remember playing w/ a Norma 4-colour mechanical pencil my father had (which sadly wasn't among his effects when he passed --- just ordered a replacement off eBay...) Unfortunately, the page on this at: http://www.roger-russell.com/ is off-line.
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#15Bryan has been working on this forever! Truly a labor of love. Neat to see it pop up here. He also does illustrations of homes around San Francisco (amongst other things), which I highly recommend checking out: https://www.instagram.com/bmacomber_art/
Thankfully he also post on his website [1] which I prefer to follow here.
Re: Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us
#16Reminds of Mechanical Watch: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
I agree, that's what I feel the moment I read the post. Although the writing more shorter than Chichanowski.
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#17What a timely coincidence to this episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfY2JACiDGU
thanks for this, seems like a fun channel
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#18The website works like crap on Android Firefox. Scrolling is borked.
Weird/forced scrolling on FF desktop as well.
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#20I took a look at the pen, but it's missing an explanation of what gets the cam to rotate clockwise in the first place, such that it catches a tooth of the barrel.