Thread: Salesman Sample Cannonball Safes and Other Salesman Sample Safes

So Cramer safe did do one with this type of locking?

I totally forgot about Hibbard Rodman Ely (HRE) which ushered in the manganese steel cannonball era at the beginning of the 20th century. The bodies and doors were cast by the Taylor Iron and Steel Co. (TISCO) as they originally had the sole U.S. rights to make Hadfield's patent (UK) manganese steel. HRE also made vault doors using the same basic layout and used a small cannonball size door as an emergency door. Cramer was a small regional outfit and I'm including a couple pics and patent drawing. Now that I am trying to load the pics I see that the pictures are larger than the 732KB limit assuming my pictures are jpeg. Can someone explain how to reduce them?

Originally Posted by Doug MacQueen

Can someone explain how to reduce them?

This may depend on your OS and available tools. In my case (Windows XP Pro) if I double-click on a jpeg it first comes up in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. In the lower-right is an icon "Closes this program and opens the image for editing" which opens the image in the Windows Paint utility (or of course you can start Paint and File/Open the image). Assuming Paint, click the Image pull-down menu and select Stretch/Skew; if you enter 50% for both horizontal and vertical it will be half size, and 1/4 the number of pixels. Note, if you shrink it you will lose pixels, so if you try to re-enlarge it the results will be much worse than if you start over with the original and just reduce it by a smaller amount.

I hope that helps!

Jim

Thanks. I will try experimenting with some pictures that are less important to me. I regret being so ignorant about using the computer. Doug

Wounderful pictures as always. Before editing your pictures copy them across into a new folder, that way your originals stay intact and full resolution.