[Heathkit] Sixer mod - whar is it?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

I recall that some of those inner tube rafts were filled with Nitrous Oxide, 
AKA Laughing Gas. Every few minutes you used the pointed end of a stick to 
let some gas out of the tube's valve stem, took a sniff and cruised on down 
the river, or floated across the lake, laughing at anything until every 
muscle from your big toe to your ear lobes hurt from over use! If the tube 
developed a leak and let the Nitrous Oxide bubble out into the water, many a 
school of fish threw themselves onto the rocky shores and died laughing! 
Turtles threw themselves over the dam spillway and rode the wild surf to 
their death splattered all over the huge boulders where the fall of water 
ended, kicking their feet and roaring with laughter as they were recycled! A 
shell of a way to go!



Duane Fischer, W8DBF
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
http://hhrp.w9wze.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>
To: <Heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Sixer mod - whar is it?


> Duane said: "Don't you remember OM? All sorts of things were "floating"
> during the sixties and seventies".
>
> Hmmmm, I do remember floating a few times myself, down the Jersey shore
> during the summer months in the late 60's and early 70's. What was in
> that bag??
>
> Pete, wa2cwa
> Surf Club Member
>
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:53:07 -0500 "Duane Fischer, W8DBF"
> <dfischer at usol.com> writes:
>> Hey Pete,
>>
>> Don't you remember OM? All sorts of things were "floating" during
>> the
>> sixties and seventies. Suspended speakers or was it air suspension?
>> Floating
>> grounds, not the electronic type, but the islands sold to people off
>> the
>> coast of Florida and southern California that were 'migratory'! A
>> Whale of a
>> way to waste money ...
>>
>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
>> dfischer at usol.com
>> HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
>> http://www.w9wze.net
>> HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
>> http://hhrp.w9wze.net
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