Plain Lab · logbook
Machine Log Notebook
Ninety-six lined pages for a running machine log, ruled open rather than boxed into columns, with thirteen pages of plain notes behind it.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
- Rows per page
- 24
Ninety-six pages, ruled lined, twenty-four lines to a page. No columns down the side, on purpose. A column book is right when every entry needs the same five facts. A machine log is often not that: one day it is a reading, the next it is a smell nobody can place, the day after that it is a bolt that was loose and got torqued back down.
Thirteen pages of plain notes follow the log itself, for anything longer than the running entries: a fault that took three shifts to chase down, a part number worth remembering, a supplier who was slow the last time.
It will not tell you what to check or how often to check it. That schedule belongs to the machine, the manufacturer, and whoever wrote your maintenance plan, none of which a lined notebook can know in advance.
What is inside
- Machine log
- 96pp
- Lined, not columned, so an entry can be a word or a paragraph depending on what actually happened.
- Notes
- 13pp
- Plain ruled pages for anything longer than a running entry.
- Reference
- 6pp
- Pressure and temperature conversions computed from definitions, plus emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
- Last leaf
- 1pp
- A pen-test page, printed on purpose, so the real pages stay clean of it.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Calibration LogWorks alongsideshares record-keeping
- Cash BookWorks alongsideshares record-keeping
Questions
Does it have ruled columns?
No. It is ruled lined throughout, so an entry is not forced into a fixed set of fields.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, one hundred and twenty pages, 6.86 mm across the spine.
What ruling is the log?
Lined, 7.14 mm pitch, 9/32 inch, twenty-four lines to the page.
Is it dated?
No. Pick it up on whichever shift the machine needs watching.
What is the difference between this and a column-ruled service log?
A column book fixes five or six fields and asks every entry to fit them. This one is open lines, for the entries that do not fit a box.
Who is it for?
Anyone keeping a plant or equipment record where what happened does not always match the same five headings.
The calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine, sometime too piercing and corrosive.
