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Re: Caught in A Vacuum; patterns;
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>Welch 1402: seconded!
Agreed. Some say they suck. All three of my have been great workhorses.
>When new mine pulled 2 microns in three minutes; five years later it's
>probably in the 10 micron range -- but, backing a diffusion pump as John
>notes, it doesn't matter, it's all good enough.
Doesn't hurt though to try to get it refurbished. Though I'm lazy and
reluctant to do it - every time I flush the pump thoroughly I'm amazed at
how it snaps back to life. Reminds me of a line from the Peterson Automotive
Manual which goes "4 quarts of clean oil added to 1 quart of dirty oil makes
5 quarts of dirty oil."
>As for patterns -- I'm still in the "projector" phase of it. Patternmaking
>I've always found to be pretty tedious, especially since we're cramped for
>space and the occasional big job has me clearing the kids dogs and furniture
>out of the living room and me getting grouchy until it's done...Only
>recently got Corel 4.0; still haven't used it enough to know how to do what
Assuming it's similar to Corel5, you simply choose 'print' or 'print setup'
and then under 'options' you can visually scale and tile and even choose
which pages of the tile you wish to print.
>I want to do...also just got a flatbed scanner-- VAST improvement over a
>hand-held one. I guess that theoretically I knew tiling was possible, just
>never bothered to learn the mechanics of my setup for it (using an HP
>Deskjet 500)...I'm filing John's notes for that "someday when I have time"
>time...
If you have a big important job (isn't every job?) there are many print
houses and here in NYC even some copy shops that will print directly from a
Corel file to large sized paper. This sure beats scrolling several yards
across the projector's path. I've also had access to a printer who can make
blueprint size copies. The $10 to $20 has been well worth it in many instances.
I just missed out on a plotter at an auction. It went for $650 which was
more than I wanted to pay for something that looked old and possibly
proprietary - though I guess anything with serial input can be tamed. But
of course, this is you answer in general - and many can have knives in place
of pens. Not that I'm advocating vinyl.
Kenny
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