--- In [email protected], Bud Rindfleisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
<snip>
> If we remember, back in '51, plans were printed slightly
> oversized as copiers at that time had a small amount of shrinkage
built
> in to their design.
Bud, if I'm not mistaken, the xerographic copying process was not
yet invented in 1951 or atleast not yet commercially available. Of
course there were mimeograph machines, but that process didn't
accommodate making copies from a magazine page. There were
photostats I believe, but if I understand that process correctly,
the output could scaled to any desired size within a range.
Moreover, since most modelers in 1951 would have cut the page out of
the magazine and laid it on their workbench where they'd cut
stripwood and cardstock directly on the plan, I have my doubts that
Kalmbach would have deliberately oversized the plan.
Perhaps somebody at Kalmbach today could answer the question.
Jeff English
Troy, New York
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