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In 87-89, I did gcse tech drawing. I really enjoyed it, but I never carried on with the subject after leaving school.
About 6 months back, I was in the loft and I found my old kit; board, ruler, compasses, pens, set square, t-square. The lot. So I thought I'd dig it out and have a go.
I found my old stapler, measured it up and drew it in third-angle projection, plus orthogonal view and an auxiliary view from some arbitrary angle.
My second-born was amazed. He's just started a machine drawing module in his engineering course and is now coming to me for pointers and tips.
I suppose it's not really an obsolete talent, more of a dormant talent that I didn't think I'd ever need again.

The moral of this story is that when your partner tells you to 'get rid of old shit that we don't need and will never use again', tell them to piss off.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 18:39, 2 replies)

Brilliant..
Mrs Kavanagh saw my old drawings from years ago, and as a result of this, she bought me another drawing board for my birthday last year, because she wanted to see me create my artwork again.

It's amazing when you start doing something you used to do years ago, how quickly it all comes back is'nt it?
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 22:13, closed)

That was my favourite subject
I used to get 99% all the time as the teacher never gave 100% out of principle. So, using similar bloody mindedness, I'd show him the mistakes he had missed so he could have marked me down to 97 or so.
I don't have the gear to do it anymore and SketchUp just doesn't hold the same appeal.
Just out of curiosity, are you left handed? All the left handers in our class were good at tech drawing.
( SteamedCleaner, Sat 2 Jul 2011, 19:00, closed)