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Savanna Ordnance Depot Ammunition Ordnance Drawings Book No.1

ordman

ordman

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This is a set of engineering inspection drawings dating back to the 1940s and WWII
There are five books total in this set. (Book #3 is missing)
These books contain information from containers, packaging and markings for ordnance
also design and construction of fuzes, projectiles, mortars, rockets, flares and their component parts

Because of the large size of the file I have provided you with a file sharing download link

The rest of the set will be downloaded to this site in the near future

A big thanks to member jvollenberg and his staff at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD for scanning the set

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nm7laq Book #1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/uzmkro Book #2

http://www.sendspace.com/file/22rqws Book #4

When you are redirected to the site click on REGULAR DOWNLOAD

I have tested the downlaod and there where no problems

PM me if you have questions or problems
 
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Owesome job guys! Thank you for this!

Remarkable quality (resolution) and also in color unlike so many other scans which often really ruin scans of great docs when done in b/w and crappy resolution.
 
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Ordman, Great Work!! Thank you so very much for the time and effort!! Yeah, OK, thanks to Joe and his crew too:tinysmile_twink_t2: (Just kidding Joe) Cheers, Bruce.
 
Thanks guys I have posted books #2 and #4
I will be posting #5 and #6 soon
In addition Joe provided me a full set of drawings from Picatinny Arsenal, U. S. Air Force Material Command, U. S. Ordnance Department, Ford Instrurment Company, Franklin Arsenal, U.S. Army Ordnance corp and others
These are jpg format and black/white scans the quality on some is diminished but the majority of them are excellent
There are 14 discs in the set and very very large
I would estimate over 1000 drawings
I will post them to the file share one disk at a time 1-14
I will either start a new thread or add them on to this one
Keep a watch for them and enjoy
 
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Ditto on all the positive comments.

I would like to print some of the pages and have a couple of questions for the techies. Is it possible to download the books/sections and manipulate them in Photoshop or some such program? I would like to crop and lighten/whiten the background. The cropping for the benefit of a larger print of the subject matter; there's a huge margin that shrinks the drawings and text. And the lighten/whiten to save ink. The yellow "patina" is nice, but color ink cartridges are running $30, and, well, I'm cheap.

And also curious as to the original size of the pages. I'm using LEGAL size paper to get it all in.

Thanks.

Rick
 
Rick,

The original size of the books is "B" size, which is 11" X 17". This is a standard size of paper, and many printers handle this size paper, and could print them full size as original.

As far as being able to manipulate the image, you need to have a full blown copy of Adobe Acrobat to be able to grab the graphics. There is a function called snapshot in Adobe, which allows you to frame an area that you want by selecting the top left and bottom right corners of the area you want. The button looks like a camera. When you do that, it copies the framed area into the "clipboard" of your computer.

You can then go to any photo editor, including paint, which is free from microsoft and can be found in the accessories folder on your computer under the programs. Open your photo editor and then hold the control button down and press the V button. This pastes the captured image from the clipboard into your photo editor. You can then do whatever you want to the image.

You can also paste the image into Microsoft word, excel or powerpoint with the control V (paste) operation.
 
An easier way with better image quality would be to use a PDF image extractor software like PDFExtractTiff or some freeware equivalent. Such programs are able to grab all the images in original resolution without quality loss in one step. Copy and past grabs the selected image according to the amount of zoom in Adobe Reader which produces resampled target images as nobody knows which is the correct zoom factor to get a copy of the image in original size. But in the case of these superb documents here even copy+paste produces images good enough to print, it just makes more work :)
 
Rick,

Each page of the document has its own page number. You can print individual pages by just bringing the document up in adobe reader, and hitting print, and when the printer form comes up, you just type in the page number of the single page you want to print. Unfortunately it doesn't give you the ability to change the colors, crop, or edit the image. If you have a B-size printer, when the print form comes up, you can specify that it only prints in black and white, instead of color.
 
I'd go with Alpini. Extract the images and have them in original size. After that you can use IrfanView (free share ware) which allows quite some rendering while easy to use. That also can be done in batch conversion means all at the same time.
1. convert all images to JPGs
2. convert all images to b/w
3. set contrast higher till you get a white background
Really easy to do in batch.
Then just cut out all images as you desire, this might be the most time consuming part if you do 1 by 1.
 
Here a smaple page I treated this way to show how the result would look. Somehow I can not get it up in the original resolution, seems there are limits in file size.

If any of my descriptions above is incorrect Alpini may correct me.


z-sample.jpg
 
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All you guys, thanks much for the input on printing these pages. I had no idea about any of that.
I just came back from an office supply store who had wide format printers for sale in the $150 range. Their samples were capable of up to 13" X 19" prints, which would suffice for this project. I am seriously considering getting one.

Anyway, I've loaded up the truck and am heading to SLICS tomorrow morning. Which means the editing and printing project will be delayed for at least a day. Very anxious to get up there and get rid of some of this cash that's burning a hole in my pocket.

Rick
 
Rick
I'm always open for donations LOL :)
Hey take pics at the show and share them with us that can't make it
 
Yes the files have been deleted, sadly. I also missed them originally. Any chance of reposting them, please? The lesson for me is to look not only at Projectiles, Cartridges, etc but also at Other !
 
Oops, another one who missed Book 7. :(

If it could be uploaded again I'd be very grateful.

All the best,
PB
 
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