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55 posted on 09/06/2006 9:26:01 AM PDT by P8riot ("You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone)

Are slide rulers difficult to find? Right after I posted, I took mine out of the drawer and compared it to a picture on Wikipedia. I don't think what I have is a slide ruler after all.

Mine is a "metric converter". There are photos of metric converters at the bottom of this site:

http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/slide/slidegallery.html

Whatever it is, I can't give it away. I think it might've belonged to my father. I've been holding onto it figuring my sons can use it with their math lessons eventually... maybe they'll figure out how to use it. ;-)

56 posted on 09/06/2006 9:53:19 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (That's taxes, not Texas. I have no beef with TX. NJ has the highest property taxes in the nation.)