Personally Marking Your Work.

In a previous life, all our final "as fitted"  drawings had to be 100 year archive quality - there'll be a few repositories with said drawings with my signature on them knocking about in a few diverse parts of the world.


I do wonder how we would recover some of the electronic stuff a few decades down the line (VHS v Betamax as an example)


Other than that, I've never felt the urge to randomly mark up inaccessible places with my name so someone wonders who I was long after I'm gone.


Personally I've always found those ancient images of a hand quite intriguing - made by spitting or "blowing" a mouthful of chewed ochre over the hand as a stencil - proper leaving "your mark"


Did you used to be one of those yufs with a rucksack full of aerosols tagging his way across Norfolk, Z ?


Regards


OMS

Well OMS, being perpetually youthful I do not need any aerosol paint cans to make my mark, I get noticed naturally! (As you may have noticed, and even sometimes for good reasons). I have worked for a few electrical contractors of old who had very impressive metal plates made with their company name, address and telephone number on them. These were affixed at the main intake position mainly on large metal enclosures, to identify the installer for all posterity. Nice brass engraved plates are impressive. It appears that most stored information is never permanent but simply ephemeral. (Apart from the Great Creator's creations).


Z.

That's so we could track you down for latent defects when we executed the contracts under seal (12 years liability). It was pretty common in specifications for switchboards to be permanently and indelibly marked with the maker and installer


So come on then - did you used to be out and about in a hoody, tagging up the 07.15 from Thetford to Norwich with the Breckland Massive


OMS

Why sign your work when your durable paper EIC will be retained at the origin in perpetuity? ??


In fact why not stick your business card under the floor boards? Or just, "Pearson me fecit MMXIX".

customised brass labels have probably never been cheaper in real terms  I have left my intitials in a number of PCB designs, but not as many as I would like.

"So come on then - did you used to be out and about in a hoody, tagging up the 07.15 from Thetford to Norwich with the Breckland Massive"


What, and be seen by the transport police? I  preferred the overnight mineral wagons myself, less chance of being spotted. I ripped my hood on some security fencing by signal N.44, that was a shame. The officer and I never did find that injured stray dog. But if you are every driving past the new roundabout near to Aylesham on the A.140 you may see some fine artistic work. Also some marvellous hand art under the floorboards of many local houses on cables and also inside L.E.D. luminaires. Somebody will be rich in the future, after my death no doubt, when I am discovered. I just hope that the mineral wagons aren't scrubbed too hard in the automatic track-side flailing whirling brush washers.


Z.

Rather than the vanity approach, I used to save the shiny low denomination coins picked up in change that were of that year, and discard them under the floorboards as I would have liked to have found some that a Victorian chap had done!


Regards


BOD

Chris Pearson:

perspicacious:

Rather than the vanity approach, I used to save the shiny low denomination coins picked up in change that were of that year, and discard them under the floorboards as I would have liked to have found some that a Victorian chap had done!

Ah yes, but there wasn't anything much, if at all, under your average Victorian floorboards. Once they were down, they were down and I don't suppose that anybody expected them ever to be lifted.

 

Slipped through the cracks - literally


OMS