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deuce_roadster 12-22-2023 04:54 PM

Ardun sales brochure
 

After getting the 4 pages scanned at greater resolution as PDF, even the best .jpg I can convert them to doesn't look good.
Anyone interested can PM me your email address and I will send you the 4 PDF files.
I did upload new .jpg images to my MISC album, but they are no better than the first ones.

petehoovie 12-22-2023 06:07 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by deuce_roadster (Post 2278444)
After getting the 4 pages scanned at greater resolution as PDF, even the best .jpg I can convert them to doesn't look good.
Anyone interested can PM me your email address and I will send you the 4 PDF files.
I did upload new .jpg images to my MISC album, but they are no better than the first ones.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...re001small.jpg


https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...art001blue.jpg


https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...int001blue.jpg

Ronnieroadster 12-22-2023 07:11 PM

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Here's a photo of George Kudash he did the drawings in the ARDUN sales brochure. George was also the designer of the ARDUN heads the blue prints were drawn by George as well all of the drawings were done in 1947.
Ronniroadster

petehoovie 12-22-2023 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Ronnieroadster (Post 2278481)
Here's a photo of George Kudash he did the drawings in the ARDUN sales brochure. George was also the designer of the ARDUN heads the blue prints were drawn by George as well all of the drawings were done in 1947.
Ronniroadster

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...6&d=1703290131

19Fordy 12-22-2023 09:28 PM

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We need more engineers like Mr. Kudash today. Just think, all he had was a slide rule and a drafting table. No computers. Those were good days.

Pete 12-22-2023 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by 19Fordy (Post 2278512)
We need more engineers like Mr. Kudash today. Just think, all he had was a slide rule and a drafting table. No computers. Those were good days.

WOW! Someone still knows about slide rules....Keen stuff. A 6 inch one is still in use here. No batteries required....LOL

petehoovie 12-23-2023 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete (Post 2278513)
WOW! Someone still knows about slide rules....Keen stuff. A 6 inch one is still in use here. No batteries required....LOL

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xWgAA...OtB/s-l640.jpg

tubman 12-23-2023 12:22 AM

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Have you heard the one about the constipated mathematician? He worked it out with his slide rule.

Seriously, I still have the one my dad gave me when I went of to college. It's a 12 incher and is in a nice leather case. I haven't used it in over 60 years.

ms fowler 12-23-2023 07:03 AM

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One great thing about a slide rule is that no one will ever take it off your desk. Calculators were often "appropriated" by fellow technicians--but never my slide rule.

Model51 12-23-2023 07:31 AM

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The good ole slip stick got me through my Freshman and Sophomore years in engineering school. Not only were no batteries required, it eliminated the tendency of overstating the number of significant digits which many with calculators don't understand. I still have it along with my dads slide rule.

glennpm 12-23-2023 07:34 AM

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Another plus for slide rules is the skill required to determine the order of magnitude. The engineer must have an approximate idea of expected magnitude of results. I used them through my BS degree. Hand held calculators came out when I was working on an MS.

Glenn

Ol' Ron 12-23-2023 12:26 PM

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I still have one of mine, every once in a while I run across it and smile.
Gramps

glennpm 12-23-2023 12:32 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by deuce_roadster (Post 2278444)
After getting the 4 pages scanned at greater resolution as PDF, even the best .jpg I can convert them to doesn't look good.
Anyone interested can PM me your email address and I will send you the 4 PDF files.
I did upload new .jpg images to my MISC album, but they are no better than the first ones.

Mike sent the pdfs and I've combined and attached.

Glenn

glennpm 12-23-2023 01:09 PM

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And this is a pdf of a series published be Street Rod magazine, Tom Senter.

deuce_roadster 12-23-2023 01:54 PM

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Thanks Glenn, Ronnie, George Kudash and all the rest of you! I hope some people that haven't already seen these brochure pages enjoy them. They came with my coupe my late friend built and I purchased from his heirs to keep the car in the area and in our EFV8 RG.

Bill OH 12-23-2023 04:55 PM

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I used a slide rule thru college - very handy. I have one in my tool cabinet. Great memoriesI

Bored&Stroked 12-23-2023 04:59 PM

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Here is something you guys might like - I found it about 10 years ago.

It is the top of an original Ardun packing crate - king of cool if you ask me. ;)

Attachment 532761

petehoovie 12-23-2023 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Bored&Stroked (Post 2278702)
Here is something you guys might like - I found it about 10 years ago.

It is the top of an original Ardun packing crate - king of cool if you ask me. ;)

Attachment 532761

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/attac...1&d=1703368754

deuce_roadster 12-23-2023 05:23 PM

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That is WAY cool!
And thanks for Pete always willing to help.

Cool Kat with Hot Car 12-23-2023 09:56 PM

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Thanks to all who posted. I still have the R&C issues with the Ardun White Paper series which came out a year after I graduated from High School. Someday I might get to put together the set I have or fire up my old Ardun powered race car. Probably running out of time. Tom Senter could sure write, he made a technical series fun to read.


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