[Hallicrafters] Enough, already

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Tom,

"A penny for your thoughts"? (Chuckle!) Can't even get your moneys worth 
there anymore. Sigh. With all of that Tin and Zinc in the composition and 
only a Copper plating job amounting to 2.4% of the total volume, the poor 
penny does not even make a good fuse in a DX crisis! But on the positive 
flip side of the coin, it seems that I heard that one of the big chocolate 
manufacturing companies still produces a piece of their candy for a penny.

So when it comes to common cents, all is not lost, even if it appears to 
make no cents at all to our senses.

I wonder Tom, just how many of we vintage rig devotees have purchased one 
used and found some kind of treasure lurking on the inside of the cabinet? 
Be it a rare baseball card, Lincoln Wheat cent (better yet, a pre 1965 dime, 
quarter or half containing 90% Silver and currently worth twenty times its 
face value), business card from one that is no more, a piece of still 
wrapped candy, unsharpened pencil or? Yes, even a dead rodent counts!

I do not remember which of you it was, but one of you wrote years back to 
tell me that you unknowingly had purchased back a RX that you had sold 
decades before! Sort of like writing your name on a circulating bill and one 
day getting that very bill back in your change from the corner grocery store 
or filling station! That is, if any filling station still gives customers 
change back!

Any of you young enough to remember when the maximum dollar amount that you 
could purchase from a filling station pump was $9.99?

Truthfully: I do remember one Friday night when I had all of thirty-five 
cents to my name and wanted to go to downtown Flint to hangout at the A&W 
joint. I stopped at the norner gas station and got a buddy who worked there 
to pump me twenty-five cents of regular! I got almost a gallon, as the price 
of gas in June of 1964 was at $.299 I used the remaining dime I had to buy a 
mug of rootbeer! Darn good thing the 1929 model A Ford tudor sedan with the 
serious modified 213 CI mill did not breakdown on the way home! As I had no 
money left to call my father to come get me with his Chevy pickup and tow 
chain! Ah yes Tom, those were the days my friend. We thought they would 
never end...

 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:37 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Enough, already


> Hey, pennies are a good NO BLOW fuse, if I remember - there - back to
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