"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Cut a flourish on the cnc, then vacuum form a bunch of them...mmmmm
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4fj5h4g
>>
>> (Those guys are having way too much fun... although I absolutely
>> understand and want some of that fun..)
>
>
> Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. IIRC Matel marketed the
> toy. You had to use a manual built in pump however.
I had one of those back in the 60s. The only vacuum form experience I had
until I went to work for a place making vacuum molds (big ones) when I was
in my 30s. Being the only moldmaker in the place, I just had to figure it
out as I went. Must have done all right, got a $4.00 hr. raise the second
month.
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>
> "Larry W" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. IIRC Matel marketed
>>>>the
>>>>toy. You had to use a manual built in pump however.
>>>>
>>>
>>>It was called a "Vac-U-Form". Mine was red with a black hand operated
>>>pump handle. I made mostly litttle cars. And burned myself.
>>>
>>>-Zz
>>
>> I had one too and burned myself several times. I know I was no more than
>> 9 or 10 years old when I got it. This was a toy that plugged in to a
>> regular 120 volt socket, had a heater probably 40 watts or so, hot enough
>> to melt plastic or burn skin. Can you imagine something like that
>> being marketed for 10 year olds today?
>>
>>
>>
> How about the one where you pored the "goop" in the mold, baked it then
> puled the mold off the cooker with a wire handle so you didn't burn
> yourself. Once it cooled down, you pulled the finished product out of the
> mold. Then you used a knife or scissors to trim the flash. All kinds of
> neat ways to hurt yourself with that one. Had one of those when I was
> about 7 or 8.
IIRC you could eat those things.
On Jan 25, 8:57=A0pm, Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. =A0IIRC Matel marketed =
the
> >toy. =A0You had to use a manual built in pump however.
>
> It was called a "Vac-U-Form". =A0Mine was red with a black hand operated
> pump handle. =A0I made mostly litttle cars. =A0And burned myself.
>
> -Zz
They're still around. So are the sheets and paints. Neat-O!
On 28 Jan 2011 18:24:56 GMT, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>> I made some hydrogen (calcium carbide + water) in a clorox bottle and
>> was playing with the flame when I let go. It sucked inside and blew me
>> from a sitting position to a lying position on my bedroom floor. Mom
>> came flying in and found me in hysterics, laughing at my stupidity.
>> They didn't make me get rid of the chemistry set, but I promised to
>> avoid explosive experiments in the house any more. <g>
>
>That generates acetylene, not hydrogen. Still, a good bang can be had ...
>:)
Oops, it had been so long I forgot what a gas it was. Thanks for the
correction.
--
Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come
alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:29:53 +0000 (UTC), Larry Blanchard
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:23:26 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:
>
>>>That generates acetylene, not hydrogen. Still, a good bang can be had
>>>... :)
>>
>> Oops, it had been so long I forgot what a gas it was. Thanks for the
>> correction.
>
>You obviously don't remember carbide cannons :-).
That's one thing Dad wouldn't let me have.
--
We're all here because we're not all there.
On Jan 28, 2:41=A0pm, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Larry Jaques wrote:
> >> I made some hydrogen (calcium carbide + water) in a clorox bottle
> >> and
> >> was playing with the flame when I let go. It sucked inside and blew
> >> me
> >> from a sitting position to a lying position on my bedroom floor.
> >> Mom
> >> came flying in and found me in hysterics, laughing at my stupidity.
> >> They didn't make me get rid of the chemistry set, but I promised to
> >> avoid explosive experiments in the house any more. =A0<g>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> "Han" wrote:
> > That generates acetylene, not hydrogen. =A0Still, a good bang can be
> > had ...
>
> ------------------------------------
> Basic materials for effective fishing.
>
> A 1qt glass canning jar containing carbide & water, and a rock for
> ballast.
>
> Screw cap on jar, then drop into water and wait.
>
> When pressure builds, jar explodes which stuns fish in area and they
> float to surface for easy pickings.
>
> Oh the joys of youth.
>
> Lew
Every Friday morning, the local priests walks from the town dock, past
by the game warden's office with a wheelbarrow full of fish.
This went on for weeks, till the game warden finally asked the priest
where he caught all that fish.
"Well, I catch them out behind Jones Rock, want to come along next
Friday?"
The game warden agreed and on Friday, they both got into a small
aluminum boat and motored out to behind Jones Rock.
The priest lit a cigar and used it to light the wick on a stick of
dynamite and tossed it in the water.
After a loud bang, the priest took out his net and started to scoop
the fish while the game warden went ballistic and yelled at the
priest: "Whoa, you can't do that, that's against Rule # 34 sub 16m art
22 of the Fish & Gaming Act and, and=85."
The priest lit another stick of dynamite, handed it to the game warden
and said: "You here to fish or are you here to talk?"
"Puckdropper" <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>>
>> OH, SHIT! And the next person to step in that area loses their foot
>> to the broken glass. Broken beer bottles at the swimming holes were a
>> real problem, too.
>>
>
> When we'd swim in the creek, we'd always make sure we had some form of
> sandles or shoes on. Who knows what's under there to step on? (We also
> had to watch out for floating "sticks".)
>
I remember as a kid in Texas those "sticks".
Larry Jaques wrote:
>> I made some hydrogen (calcium carbide + water) in a clorox bottle
>> and
>> was playing with the flame when I let go. It sucked inside and blew
>> me
>> from a sitting position to a lying position on my bedroom floor.
>> Mom
>> came flying in and found me in hysterics, laughing at my stupidity.
>> They didn't make me get rid of the chemistry set, but I promised to
>> avoid explosive experiments in the house any more. <g>
----------------------------------------
"Han" wrote:
> That generates acetylene, not hydrogen. Still, a good bang can be
> had ...
------------------------------------
Basic materials for effective fishing.
A 1qt glass canning jar containing carbide & water, and a rock for
ballast.
Screw cap on jar, then drop into water and wait.
When pressure builds, jar explodes which stuns fish in area and they
float to surface for easy pickings.
Oh the joys of youth.
Lew
"Larry Blanchard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:28:19 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>
>> I used to go to the corner druggist and he'd take me down the cellar and
>> weight out bulk Potassium Nitrate and bulk sulfer into paper bags for
>> something like a quarter a pound. Add some charcoal.
>
> I never could get that mixed properly - nitroglycerine was easier,
>
> --
A buddy of mine used to mix up nitroglycerine all the time as a teenager. He
used to shoot it with a .22 pistol. Big Bang! Craters, etc.
Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
>
> OH, SHIT! And the next person to step in that area loses their foot
> to the broken glass. Broken beer bottles at the swimming holes were a
> real problem, too.
>
When we'd swim in the creek, we'd always make sure we had some form of
sandles or shoes on. Who knows what's under there to step on? (We also
had to watch out for floating "sticks".)
Puckdropper
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:41:18 -0800, "Lew Hodgett"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Larry Jaques wrote:
>
>>> I made some hydrogen (calcium carbide + water) in a clorox bottle
>>> and
>>> was playing with the flame when I let go. It sucked inside and blew
>>> me
>>> from a sitting position to a lying position on my bedroom floor.
>>> Mom
>>> came flying in and found me in hysterics, laughing at my stupidity.
>>> They didn't make me get rid of the chemistry set, but I promised to
>>> avoid explosive experiments in the house any more. <g>
>----------------------------------------
>
>"Han" wrote:
>> That generates acetylene, not hydrogen. Still, a good bang can be
>> had ...
>------------------------------------
>Basic materials for effective fishing.
>
>A 1qt glass canning jar containing carbide & water, and a rock for
>ballast.
>
>Screw cap on jar, then drop into water and wait.
>
>When pressure builds, jar explodes which stuns fish in area and they
>float to surface for easy pickings.
>
>Oh the joys of youth.
OH, SHIT! And the next person to step in that area loses their foot
to the broken glass. Broken beer bottles at the swimming holes were a
real problem, too.
--
We're all here because we're not all there.
"Larry Blanchard" <[email protected]> wrote
> You obviously don't remember carbide cannons :-).
I knew someone that had one, but I don' remember how they worked.
Do you?
--
Jim in NC
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:19:58 -0800, Zz Yzx <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>
>My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those
>electrical circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting
>with a battery and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can
>still remember the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the
>smell of burnt skin. I never told my folks though.
I made some hydrogen (calcium carbide + water) in a clorox bottle and
was playing with the flame when I let go. It sucked inside and blew me
from a sitting position to a lying position on my bedroom floor. Mom
came flying in and found me in hysterics, laughing at my stupidity.
They didn't make me get rid of the chemistry set, but I promised to
avoid explosive experiments in the house any more. <g>
--
Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come
alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman
>My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those
electrical circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting
with a battery and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can
still remember the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the
smell of burnt skin. I never told my folks though.
-Zz
On Jan 25, 8:45=A0am, Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
\
>
> (Those guys are having way too much fun...
I couldn't agree more!
But it does demonstrate what you can do with a pile of stuff and a
little head scratching.
RonB
On Jan 25, 9:39=A0pm, [email protected] (Larry W) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Zz Yzx =A0<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. =A0IIRC Matel marketed=
the
> >>toy. =A0You had to use a manual built in pump however.
>
> >It was called a "Vac-U-Form". =A0Mine was red with a black hand operated
> >pump handle. =A0I made mostly litttle cars. =A0And burned myself.
>
> >-Zz
>
> I had one too and burned myself several times. I know I was no more than
> 9 or 10 years old when I got it. This was a toy that plugged in to a
> regular 120 volt socket, had a heater probably 40 watts or so, hot enough
> to melt plastic or burn skin. Can you imagine something like that
> being marketed for 10 year olds today?
>
> --
> =A0 =A0There are no stupid questions, but there are lots of stupid answer=
s.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonesta=
r. org
My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
On 29 Jan 2011 22:20:48 GMT, Puckdropper
<puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>> On 29 Jan 2011 06:25:15 GMT, Puckdropper
>> <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>>When we'd swim in the creek, we'd always make sure we had some form of
>>>sandles or shoes on. Who knows what's under there to step on?
>>
>>>(We also had to watch out for floating "sticks".)
>>
>> Ewwwwwwwwww! You were downstream swimmers, were ya? If there were
>> floaters, it meant someone had their outhouse venting to the creek and
>> that water was all contaminated. Ick!
>
>Nah, it was just the occasional snake. We were swimming in Oklahoma where
>they have all kinds of varieties of snakes to be concerned about.
Oh, we had those on the Base lake in Little Rock. Mostly the lovely
water moccasins. We avoided moving sticks, too.
--
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,
hoping it will eat him last.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
Larry Jaques <[email protected]> writes:
>On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:19:58 -0800, Zz Yzx <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>>My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>>
>>My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those
>>electrical circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting
>>with a battery and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can
>>still remember the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the
>>smell of burnt skin. I never told my folks though.
>
>I made some hydrogen (calcium carbide + water) in a clorox bottle and
>was playing with the flame when I let go. It sucked inside and blew me
>from a sitting position to a lying position on my bedroom floor. Mom
>came flying in and found me in hysterics, laughing at my stupidity.
>They didn't make me get rid of the chemistry set, but I promised to
>avoid explosive experiments in the house any more. <g>
I used to go to the corner druggist and he'd take me down the cellar
and weight out bulk Potassium Nitrate and bulk sulfer into paper bags
for something like a quarter a pound. Add some charcoal.
scott
"Tim W" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Cut a flourish on the cnc, then vacuum form a bunch of them...mmmmm
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4fj5h4g
>>
>> (Those guys are having way too much fun... although I absolutely
>> understand and want some of that fun..)
>
>
> Really good. Really funny too.
>
> Kiwis? ("Den here there's a tep...")
>
> Tim w
>
Nah mate, true blue Aussies
ya not hearin striat
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. IIRC Matel marketed the
> >>toy. You had to use a manual built in pump however.
> >>
> >
> >It was called a "Vac-U-Form". Mine was red with a black hand operated
> >pump handle. I made mostly litttle cars. And burned myself.
> >
> >-Zz
>
> I had one too and burned myself several times. I know I was no more than
> 9 or 10 years old when I got it. This was a toy that plugged in to a
> regular 120 volt socket, had a heater probably 40 watts or so, hot enough
> to melt plastic or burn skin. Can you imagine something like that
> being marketed for 10 year olds today?
Yeah, when I was a kid if you burned yourself you learned "don't touch
that, it's hot", now you learn "let's sue somebody and get rich".
>
>
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> "Larry W" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. IIRC Matel marketed the
> >>>toy. You had to use a manual built in pump however.
> >>>
> >>
> >>It was called a "Vac-U-Form". Mine was red with a black hand operated
> >>pump handle. I made mostly litttle cars. And burned myself.
> >>
> >>-Zz
> >
> > I had one too and burned myself several times. I know I was no more than
> > 9 or 10 years old when I got it. This was a toy that plugged in to a
> > regular 120 volt socket, had a heater probably 40 watts or so, hot enough
> > to melt plastic or burn skin. Can you imagine something like that
> > being marketed for 10 year olds today?
> >
> >
> >
> How about the one where you pored the "goop" in the mold, baked it then
> puled the mold off the cooker with a wire handle so you didn't burn
> yourself. Once it cooled down, you pulled the finished product out of the
> mold. Then you used a knife or scissors to trim the flash. All kinds of neat
> ways to hurt yourself with that one. Had one of those when I was about 7 or
> 8.
How about chemistry sets with real chemicals? And an alcohol lamp for
bending glass.
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> "J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote in
> message
> news:[email protected]...
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > [email protected] says...
> >>
> >> In article
> >> <[email protected]>,
> >> Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years
> >> >>old. IIRC Matel marketed the
> >> >>toy. You had to use a manual built in pump
> >> >>however.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >It was called a "Vac-U-Form". Mine was red
> >> >with a black hand operated
> >> >pump handle. I made mostly litttle cars. And
> >> >burned myself.
> >> >
> >> >-Zz
> >>
> >> I had one too and burned myself several times.
> >> I know I was no more than
> >> 9 or 10 years old when I got it. This was a toy
> >> that plugged in to a
> >> regular 120 volt socket, had a heater probably
> >> 40 watts or so, hot enough
> >> to melt plastic or burn skin. Can you imagine
> >> something like that
> >> being marketed for 10 year olds today?
> >
> > Yeah, when I was a kid if you burned yourself
> > you learned "don't touch
> > that, it's hot", now you learn "let's sue
> > somebody and get rich".
> >>
> >>
> >
> "Why try to fix it yourself when you can bring it
> to someone
> you can sue"?
<chuckle> That does explain much.
"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> -Zz
>
> Do you remember lighting wooden matches with a magnifying glass?
> It was kind of fun. Then we noticed that if you put a match
> into a coricidan bottle, and then used the magnifying glass, then it would
> fire the plastic cap off. Two or three matches, even further.
> Well gosh, what would happen if you fill the coricidan bottle with matches
> and then use the magnifying glass. It's hard to tell, but the bottle was
> gone and we counted our blessings and quickly agreed not to try it again!
> As I recall, I was advising against that "experiment", but all too often I
> was in the wrong place at the right time like that. I guess my friends and
> I liked "action". I've got a few more stories like that, but I hate to
> give Lew ammunition.
>
> Bill
>
When we were kids we,, I had to pay neighbor kids 5 cents to make me one....
a wooden clothes pen kitchen match igniter and launcher. I never could
quite figure out how to make one but the spring ended up on the outside of
the two wooden pieces and you would cock it, insert the kitchen match head
first, and then press back on the spring. The match would fly out out about
6 feet and on fire. Mom took mine away. ;~(
"Morgans" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Zz Yzx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>>>My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>>>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>>>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>>>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>>>
>>>My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those
>>>electrical circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting
>>>with a battery and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can
>>>still remember the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the
>>>smell of burnt skin. I never told my folks though.
>>>
>>>-Zz
>>
>> Me and Wayne used to do this too: Take a bicycle spoke (or 15-20
>> spokes) and bend the wire into a handle. Then, back the head off as
>> much as you can without it falling off. Then take a whole box of caps
>> and tear off the paper so all that was left was the powder. Jam that
>> into the spoke head until full, then jam a grain of sand or whatever
>> inot the little canon you just made. Then point it at a plastic army
>> man or snail and hold a match under it. It made a perfect little "in"
>> hole and a great big "out" hole in the snail. And it could imbed the
>> sand grain in the army man.
>
> I like that one! Cannon ball sand!
>
> We would take paper matches, and tear most of the shaft off, wrap a couple
> layers of aluminum foil around the head and crimp it shut around the
> remaining paper shaft to make a sort of nozzle. Then, lay it on the
> mantle and hold a candle or lighter below it and see who could get them to
> go the farthest. All of this inside, of course!
>
> Stuppid kidds!
We made the higher performance model. Strike anywhere wooden match for more
power. Break the head off, mount match head on pin. Wrap with tinfoil and
mold tightly to pin. Pull pin out forming nozzle. Bend the center section of
a paper clip up to make a launcher.
"Zz Yzx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> >My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>
> My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those
> electrical circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting
> with a battery and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can
> still remember the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the
> smell of burnt skin. I never told my folks though.
>
I had the chemistry set. We also had a concrete building out back that it
stayed in.
Not only a metal project but two funny guys!
Nice project and presentation.
Martin
On 1/25/2011 8:45 AM, Robatoy wrote:
> Cut a flourish on the cnc, then vacuum form a bunch of them...mmmmm
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4fj5h4g
>
> (Those guys are having way too much fun... although I absolutely
> understand and want some of that fun..)
Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I made some hydrogen (calcium carbide + water) in a clorox bottle and
> was playing with the flame when I let go. It sucked inside and blew me
> from a sitting position to a lying position on my bedroom floor. Mom
> came flying in and found me in hysterics, laughing at my stupidity.
> They didn't make me get rid of the chemistry set, but I promised to
> avoid explosive experiments in the house any more. <g>
That generates acetylene, not hydrogen. Still, a good bang can be had ...
:)
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
On 1/28/2011 7:48 PM, Bill wrote:
> Do you remember lighting wooden matches with a magnifying glass?
> It was kind of fun. Then we noticed that if you put a match
> into a coricidan bottle, and then used the magnifying glass, then it
> would fire the plastic cap off. Two or three matches, even further.
> Well gosh, what would happen if you fill the coricidan bottle with
> matches and then use the magnifying glass. It's hard to tell, but the
> bottle was gone and we counted our blessings and quickly agreed not to
> try it again! As I recall, I was advising against that "experiment", but
> all too often I was in the wrong place at the right time like that. I
> guess my friends and I liked "action". I've got a few more stories like
> that, but I hate to give Lew ammunition.
ROTL ...
Ever tried to catch a guinea? Ask me about catching 'em with black cat
firecrackers.
Elegant solution about what to put in the gumbo ...
--
www.e-woodshop.net
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:35:58 -0600, "Leon" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Cut a flourish on the cnc, then vacuum form a bunch of them...mmmmm
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4fj5h4g
>>
>> (Those guys are having way too much fun... although I absolutely
>> understand and want some of that fun..)
>
>
>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. IIRC Matel marketed the
>toy. You had to use a manual built in pump however.
Ditto. I mostly made signs. The boats were too thin and always
cracked. Plastic for those was expensive, IIRC.
--
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying?
If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
-- Shantideva
"Larry W" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. IIRC Matel marketed the
>>>toy. You had to use a manual built in pump however.
>>>
>>
>>It was called a "Vac-U-Form". Mine was red with a black hand operated
>>pump handle. I made mostly litttle cars. And burned myself.
>>
>>-Zz
>
> I had one too and burned myself several times. I know I was no more than
> 9 or 10 years old when I got it. This was a toy that plugged in to a
> regular 120 volt socket, had a heater probably 40 watts or so, hot enough
> to melt plastic or burn skin. Can you imagine something like that
> being marketed for 10 year olds today?
>
>
>
How about the one where you pored the "goop" in the mold, baked it then
puled the mold off the cooker with a wire handle so you didn't burn
yourself. Once it cooled down, you pulled the finished product out of the
mold. Then you used a knife or scissors to trim the flash. All kinds of neat
ways to hurt yourself with that one. Had one of those when I was about 7 or
8.
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> Cut a flourish on the cnc, then vacuum form a bunch of them...mmmmm
> http://tinyurl.com/4fj5h4g
I want some of those cheese sandwiches. Wonder how well it cooks pizza?
>>My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>
>My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those
>electrical circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting
>with a battery and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can
>still remember the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the
>smell of burnt skin. I never told my folks though.
>
>-Zz
Me and Wayne used to do this too: Take a bicycle spoke (or 15-20
spokes) and bend the wire into a handle. Then, back the head off as
much as you can without it falling off. Then take a whole box of caps
and tear off the paper so all that was left was the powder. Jam that
into the spoke head until full, then jam a grain of sand or whatever
inot the little canon you just made. Then point it at a plastic army
man or snail and hold a match under it. It made a perfect little "in"
hole and a great big "out" hole in the snail. And it could imbed the
sand grain in the army man.
Great fun.
-Zz
Pizza would be great - then create a form over left-overs for the
freezer.
Martin
On 1/25/2011 11:05 AM, Upscale wrote:
> "Robatoy"<[email protected]> wrote in message
>> Cut a flourish on the cnc, then vacuum form a bunch of them...mmmmm
>> http://tinyurl.com/4fj5h4g
>
> I want some of those cheese sandwiches. Wonder how well it cooks pizza?
>
>
"Scott Lurndal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> I used to go to the corner druggist and he'd take me down the cellar
> and weight out bulk Potassium Nitrate and bulk sulfer into paper bags
> for something like a quarter a pound. Add some charcoal.
>
Yes,, but the bad guys weren't terrorists back then, they were communists. I
wonder what the government will use next to scare us into submission?
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Cut a flourish on the cnc, then vacuum form a bunch of them...mmmmm
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4fj5h4g
>
> (Those guys are having way too much fun... although I absolutely
> understand and want some of that fun..)
Really good. Really funny too.
Kiwis? ("Den here there's a tep...")
Tim w
In article <[email protected]>,
Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. IIRC Matel marketed the
>>toy. You had to use a manual built in pump however.
>>
>
>It was called a "Vac-U-Form". Mine was red with a black hand operated
>pump handle. I made mostly litttle cars. And burned myself.
>
>-Zz
I had one too and burned myself several times. I know I was no more than
9 or 10 years old when I got it. This was a toy that plugged in to a
regular 120 volt socket, had a heater probably 40 watts or so, hot enough
to melt plastic or burn skin. Can you imagine something like that
being marketed for 10 year olds today?
--
There are no stupid questions, but there are lots of stupid answers.
Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:11:59 +0000 (UTC), Larry Blanchard
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:19:22 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:
>
>>>(We also had to watch out for floating "sticks".)
>>
>> Ewwwwwwwwww! You were downstream swimmers, were ya? If there were
>> floaters, it meant someone had their outhouse venting to the creek and
>> that water was all contaminated. Ick!
>
>Back before water treatment plants, the best place to catch catfish in
>the river was near the main sewer outlet :-).
Ewwwwwwwww! #2. No wonder their spines are so nasty if you get poked.
--
We're all here because we're not all there.
"J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] says...
>>
>> In article
>> <[email protected]>,
>> Zz Yzx <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years
>> >>old. IIRC Matel marketed the
>> >>toy. You had to use a manual built in pump
>> >>however.
>> >>
>> >
>> >It was called a "Vac-U-Form". Mine was red
>> >with a black hand operated
>> >pump handle. I made mostly litttle cars. And
>> >burned myself.
>> >
>> >-Zz
>>
>> I had one too and burned myself several times.
>> I know I was no more than
>> 9 or 10 years old when I got it. This was a toy
>> that plugged in to a
>> regular 120 volt socket, had a heater probably
>> 40 watts or so, hot enough
>> to melt plastic or burn skin. Can you imagine
>> something like that
>> being marketed for 10 year olds today?
>
> Yeah, when I was a kid if you burned yourself
> you learned "don't touch
> that, it's hot", now you learn "let's sue
> somebody and get rich".
>>
>>
>
"Why try to fix it yourself when you can bring it
to someone
you can sue"?
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:19:58 -0800, Zz Yzx wrote:
>>My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>
> My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those electrical
> circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting with a battery
> and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can still remember
> the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the smell of burnt
> skin. I never told my folks though.
>
I remember the chemistry sets. But I also had a toy soldier casting
set. Nothing like a 8 or 10 year old playing with molten metal. If I
look closely I can still see a scar on the back of my hand where metal
splashed when I poured cold water on the mold to "speed things up." My
mother packed the 1/8" or so deep hole with bacon grease - no money for
doctors in those days unless you were really in a bad way :-).
--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:23:26 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:
>>That generates acetylene, not hydrogen. Still, a good bang can be had
>>... :)
>
> Oops, it had been so long I forgot what a gas it was. Thanks for the
> correction.
You obviously don't remember carbide cannons :-).
--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:28:19 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> I used to go to the corner druggist and he'd take me down the cellar and
> weight out bulk Potassium Nitrate and bulk sulfer into paper bags for
> something like a quarter a pound. Add some charcoal.
I never could get that mixed properly - nitroglycerine was easier,
--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw
Zz Yzx wrote:
>>> My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>> Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>> set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>> those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>>
>> My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those
>> electrical circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting
>> with a battery and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can
>> still remember the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the
>> smell of burnt skin. I never told my folks though.
>>
>> -Zz
>
> Me and Wayne used to do this too: Take a bicycle spoke (or 15-20
> spokes) and bend the wire into a handle. Then, back the head off as
> much as you can without it falling off. Then take a whole box of caps
> and tear off the paper so all that was left was the powder. Jam that
> into the spoke head until full, then jam a grain of sand or whatever
> inot the little canon you just made. Then point it at a plastic army
> man or snail and hold a match under it. It made a perfect little "in"
> hole and a great big "out" hole in the snail. And it could imbed the
> sand grain in the army man.
>
> Great fun.
>
> -Zz
Do you remember lighting wooden matches with a magnifying glass?
It was kind of fun. Then we noticed that if you put a match
into a coricidan bottle, and then used the magnifying glass, then it
would fire the plastic cap off. Two or three matches, even further.
Well gosh, what would happen if you fill the coricidan bottle with
matches and then use the magnifying glass. It's hard to tell, but the
bottle was gone and we counted our blessings and quickly agreed not to
try it again! As I recall, I was advising against that "experiment", but
all too often I was in the wrong place at the right time like that. I
guess my friends and I liked "action". I've got a few more stories
like that, but I hate to give Lew ammunition.
Bill
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:26:40 -0500, Lee Michaels wrote:
> "Larry Blanchard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> I never could get that mixed properly - nitroglycerine was easier,
>>
>> --
> A buddy of mine used to mix up nitroglycerine all the time as a
> teenager. He used to shoot it with a .22 pistol. Big Bang! Craters,
> etc.
We once put a drop on an anvil and I hit it with a wooden handled hammer
- it split the anvil and we never did find the hammer head. I sometimes
wonder how we survived our stupidity :-).
--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw
Leon wrote:
> "Bill"<[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>> -Zz
>>
>> Do you remember lighting wooden matches with a magnifying glass?
>> It was kind of fun. Then we noticed that if you put a match
>> into a coricidan bottle, and then used the magnifying glass, then it would
>> fire the plastic cap off. Two or three matches, even further.
>> Well gosh, what would happen if you fill the coricidan bottle with matches
>> and then use the magnifying glass. It's hard to tell, but the bottle was
>> gone and we counted our blessings and quickly agreed not to try it again!
>> As I recall, I was advising against that "experiment", but all too often I
>> was in the wrong place at the right time like that. I guess my friends and
>> I liked "action". I've got a few more stories like that, but I hate to
>> give Lew ammunition.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
> When we were kids we,, I had to pay neighbor kids 5 cents to make me one....
> a wooden clothes pen kitchen match igniter and launcher. I never could
> quite figure out how to make one but the spring ended up on the outside of
> the two wooden pieces and you would cock it, insert the kitchen match head
> first, and then press back on the spring. The match would fly out out about
> 6 feet and on fire. Mom took mine away. ;~(
Wow, that sound like a lot of fun! Wish I had one...maybe he's still in
business? : )
Bill
For all you over-the-hill juvenile delinquents here are movies and
all sorts of directions for making clothespin guns:
<http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=how+to+make+a+clothespin+gun&aq=1m&aqi=g1g-m3g-v1&aql=&oq=clothespin+gun&pbx=1&fp=d9008d84f286047>
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DanG
Keep the whole world singing . . .
"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>> -Zz
>>
>> Do you remember lighting wooden matches with a magnifying
>> glass?
>> It was kind of fun. Then we noticed that if you put a match
>> into a coricidan bottle, and then used the magnifying glass,
>> then it would fire the plastic cap off. Two or three matches,
>> even further.
>> Well gosh, what would happen if you fill the coricidan bottle
>> with matches and then use the magnifying glass. It's hard to
>> tell, but the bottle was gone and we counted our blessings and
>> quickly agreed not to try it again! As I recall, I was advising
>> against that "experiment", but all too often I was in the wrong
>> place at the right time like that. I guess my friends and I
>> liked "action". I've got a few more stories like that, but I
>> hate to give Lew ammunition.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
> When we were kids we,, I had to pay neighbor kids 5 cents to
> make me one.... a wooden clothes pen kitchen match igniter and
> launcher. I never could quite figure out how to make one but
> the spring ended up on the outside of the two wooden pieces and
> you would cock it, insert the kitchen match head first, and then
> press back on the spring. The match would fly out out about 6
> feet and on fire. Mom took mine away. ;~(
>
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:25:00 +0000 (UTC), Larry Blanchard
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:19:58 -0800, Zz Yzx wrote:
>
>>>My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>>
>> My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those electrical
>> circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting with a battery
>> and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can still remember
>> the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the smell of burnt
>> skin. I never told my folks though.
>>
>
>I remember the chemistry sets. But I also had a toy soldier casting
>set. Nothing like a 8 or 10 year old playing with molten metal. If I
>look closely I can still see a scar on the back of my hand where metal
>splashed when I poured cold water on the mold to "speed things up." My
>mother packed the 1/8" or so deep hole with bacon grease - no money for
>doctors in those days unless you were really in a bad way :-).
Hurray for old moms! You survived well, too, dincha?
Nowadays, the hysterical mother would have rushed their darling child
into the emergency room, costing the insurance company at least
$1,500.00, plus whatever meds they could add onto the list. <sigh>
--
Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come
alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs
is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Cut a flourish on the cnc, then vacuum form a bunch of them...mmmmm
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4fj5h4g
>
> (Those guys are having way too much fun... although I absolutely
> understand and want some of that fun..)
Used to play with one when I was 9-10 years old. IIRC Matel marketed the
toy. You had to use a manual built in pump however.
Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> On 29 Jan 2011 06:25:15 GMT, Puckdropper
> <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>When we'd swim in the creek, we'd always make sure we had some form of
>>sandles or shoes on. Who knows what's under there to step on?
>
>>(We also had to watch out for floating "sticks".)
>
> Ewwwwwwwwww! You were downstream swimmers, were ya? If there were
> floaters, it meant someone had their outhouse venting to the creek and
> that water was all contaminated. Ick!
>
Nah, it was just the occasional snake. We were swimming in Oklahoma where
they have all kinds of varieties of snakes to be concerned about.
Puckdropper
On 29 Jan 2011 06:25:15 GMT, Puckdropper
<puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>>
>> OH, SHIT! And the next person to step in that area loses their foot
>> to the broken glass. Broken beer bottles at the swimming holes were a
>> real problem, too.
>>
>
>When we'd swim in the creek, we'd always make sure we had some form of
>sandles or shoes on. Who knows what's under there to step on?
>(We also had to watch out for floating "sticks".)
Ewwwwwwwwww! You were downstream swimmers, were ya? If there were
floaters, it meant someone had their outhouse venting to the creek and
that water was all contaminated. Ick!
--
We're all here because we're not all there.
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:12:26 -0600, "Leon" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Here it is!
>
>http://deuceofclubs.com/randumb/clothespingun/clothespingun08.htm
That's the safest way to light your LOX-assisted charcoal fire.
--
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
-- J. K. Rowling
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:19:22 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:
>>(We also had to watch out for floating "sticks".)
>
> Ewwwwwwwwww! You were downstream swimmers, were ya? If there were
> floaters, it meant someone had their outhouse venting to the creek and
> that water was all contaminated. Ick!
Back before water treatment plants, the best place to catch catfish in
the river was near the main sewer outlet :-).
--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw
"Zz Yzx" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>>>My microscope set when I was 8 or 9 had a set of scalpels, an alcohol
>>>Bunsen burner, very fragile slide glass, nasty dyes etc. My chemistry
>>>set had sulpher, KClO3, charcoal, mercuric oxide, lead powder, none of
>>>those heavy metals afnetty brung flork.
>>
>>My folks wouldn't buy me a chemistry set or even one of those
>>electrical circuit kits for kids. So I improvised by experimenting
>>with a battery and an old-fashioned (then current) flash bulb. I can
>>still remember the amazingly bright flash, the searing pain, and the
>>smell of burnt skin. I never told my folks though.
>>
>>-Zz
>
> Me and Wayne used to do this too: Take a bicycle spoke (or 15-20
> spokes) and bend the wire into a handle. Then, back the head off as
> much as you can without it falling off. Then take a whole box of caps
> and tear off the paper so all that was left was the powder. Jam that
> into the spoke head until full, then jam a grain of sand or whatever
> inot the little canon you just made. Then point it at a plastic army
> man or snail and hold a match under it. It made a perfect little "in"
> hole and a great big "out" hole in the snail. And it could imbed the
> sand grain in the army man.
I like that one! Cannon ball sand!
We would take paper matches, and tear most of the shaft off, wrap a couple
layers of aluminum foil around the head and crimp it shut around the
remaining paper shaft to make a sort of nozzle. Then, lay it on the mantle
and hold a candle or lighter below it and see who could get them to go the
farthest. All of this inside, of course!
Stuppid kidds!
--
Jim in NC
"DanG" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> For all you over-the-hill juvenile delinquents here are movies and all
> sorts of directions for making clothespin guns:
>
> <http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=how+to+make+a+clothespin+gun&aq=1m&aqi=g1g-m3g-v1&aql=&oq=clothespin+gun&pbx=1&fp=d9008d84f286047>
Here it is!
http://deuceofclubs.com/randumb/clothespingun/clothespingun08.htm
"DanG" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> For all you over-the-hill juvenile delinquents here are movies and all
> sorts of directions for making clothespin guns:
>
> <http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=how+to+make+a+clothespin+gun&aq=1m&aqi=g1g-m3g-v1&aql=&oq=clothespin+gun&pbx=1&fp=d9008d84f286047>
Thet looked very similar from what I can remember some 50 years back.