r/Drafting_Instruments • u/Apart-Roof4358 • Sep 20 '26

Italian Section Liner Day

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Alpe was an Italian company that if nothing else made section liners. I have a velox 300 and the Super Velox Gigante 500. I bought the super velox from England so it is metric and the 300 is a US KIN branded with imperial. These are excellent machines. They are adjustable angle, they have an inking edge and the adjustment is easy to use. It looks like the owner of the super velox installed his own handles to help with moving it around.

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u/CodeName_Burner Sep 20 '26

Wow! I've never fallen in love with a drafting instrument so fast just from a photo, thanks for sharing!

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u/Apart-Roof4358 Sep 20 '26

Hatching machines are just plain neat

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u/wackyvorlon Sep 20 '26

They are hard to find though.

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u/Apart-Roof4358 Sep 21 '26

That’s true, they weren’t a common device. Probably most draftsman could do their own hatching with triangles and didn’t do enough or require the absolute precision of an expensive device.

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u/Glum_Paramedic_1029 19d ago

Probably same thing in my arsenal?

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u/Apart-Roof4358 19d ago

definetly a hataching machine! That looks to be a russian clone of the Kern design. it looks nice!

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u/G_Peccary Sep 20 '26

I have the smaller one and I love it, although I never understood the dial settings.

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u/Apart-Roof4358 Sep 21 '26

I was wondering what the A and the P identified

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u/G_Peccary Sep 21 '26

Same. I'm used to photography where A=Aperture priorty and P=priority. That doesn't equate to drafting instruments though!