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Anarchist’s Gift Guide 2023: Day 10

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Aluminum Medical Clipboards
While we are on the subject of clipboards (see yesterday’s post), please check out the ones made for hospitals and the military. They are typically aluminum, and they work via a giant piano hinge that is connected to the cover of the clipboard (the cover protects the pages from fluid spills and prying eyes).

Open the cover. Press it back. The hinge opens. Let go of the cover, and the hinge grabs your papers. Perfect.

These clipboards often have other expensive details. They might have Velcro tabs that hold them closed. They might have nice slots where you can slide in a label. And they have rubber-wrapped posts that allow you to hang them from a hospital bed.

You can find these sorts of clipboards all day long on eBay or from other sellers. Buy them used, and you will pay less than $10 and end up with a clipboard that could survive a nuclear winter.

This concludes the clipboard section of the gift guide.

7 thoughts on “Anarchist’s Gift Guide 2023: Day 10”

  2. One of these ClipboardsI] saved my life back in the sixties. (1960’s that is )
    I was a cop and was on a family trouble call.
    we met the husband outside he told his old lady was in the house and had assaulted him ( slapped ) the house was dark and I walked in carrying my issued aluminum clipboard casually tucked under my arm. She thought it was him she jumped out and stabbed me in the clipboard her hand slipped down over the blade and almost severed her hand the poor dear. A tourniquet was applied, probably saved her life. She didn’t thank me.

  3. Can’t seem to find any of the aluminum type with cover. Searched eBay several times and the net multiple times. Can you suggest a source.

  4. “A smooth and fluently writing experience” and “anti-slippery” to boot? Yes, please!

    I also love the obviously photoshopped stock photos of happy users when you scroll down.

    Amazon can be such a weird place.

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