Yeah, this and that, but I'm still a nerd under it all.

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And happily.  I have been looking for slide rules for some time.  They are expensive.  Used, these days, mostly as grotesque art, I am quite frustrated.  I just can't see shelling out a couple of hundred dollars for such a device.  I simply can't do that.  Now, there are simple ones.  There are relatively inexpensive, low functions ones (if those are still in the $60 range).  There are even ones that just look like they would work, but don't.  *le sighe*  Tonight, just about to close up shop, I noticed something while looking for instructions for my reverse polish logic notation calculator (something I never quite got around to using, but wish, now, to tinker with).  In any case, it seems that there might be a solution for my slide rule quandary.  Why, of course, do it yourself.



Now, while cute, this will not do.  Have I mentioned I don't actually believe in cute, by the way.  I have no measuring device for such a parameter in any of my tool boxes.  And if I found such a tool, would have zero means of using it.  Anyway.  While this will not work for my wants and needs, so I suppose it could be considered cute as cute often equals useless as I have seen it used, it does open the box so as to find a system that will work, and even sizing it to my wants, if I want an easier to see system.  So, there is that.

Ah-hah!  A second to type in the search and, Bingo.  I'll look at this site more, when I wake, to see if they have what I am really looking to make.  Why?  Because.  Don't be silly.  I'm not sure about fabrication.  It might end up being quite the project.  And costs have to be minded.  Why spend $300 to build what $200 could buy, even if skills are gained, they are skills that are outmoded and probably unsupportable in a grid-down so not really... worth a premium.  More on that in time.  Simply printing to paper and attaching that to wood or other material, and lamenting or such, might work.  But what I would really like to do is to see if one of the office shops could print these on clear, or even colored, plastic strips.  That would add to longevity, and perhaps even be good enough to just figure out attaching those pieces together, if they are rigid enough otherwise.  Yum!

Oh, the moldable plastic is in.  The next time I am in town, and have the energy, I will stop at the hardware store and look over various possibilities for attaching the device to the toilet seat, so as to... direct flow more advantageously.  I am still thinking a couple of springed hinges will work.  I can mold one arm right of each, and I will most likely use two, into the device, so long as it doesn't impinge upon the spring action, so that the system will flex as needed in order that it not break, or unduly rub and possibly scratch the porcelain. The other side?  I think screws would be too problematic, wood or not.  And bolts and nuts are way out.  Perhaps some sort of epoxy?  Dunno, will ask at the store.

Tinker tailor soldier sailor.  It's... what I do, when I can.  And I am becoming more able.  So...  *tinker*  I may be a nerd, but I'm a hell of a nerd.  Or... was, mostly.  *big grin*

Good night.