Yes!  The Gilbert chemistry set also had instructions on how to work & weld your own glass tubing using an air tube to run the lamp hotter.  Fire!  Molten glass!!  Chemicals!!!  Apparently, they credited kids with more common sense &/or more parental oversight than today.  Maybe it's no wonder kids have little interest in science, etc., when it's been watered down & made fool-proof.  There's less excitement & sense of "I can DO things!"

Wayne

WB4OGM

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Smar via Milsurplus <milsurplus@mailman.qth.net>
To: scr287@att.net; milsurplus@mailman.qth.net <milsurplus@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Dec 5, 2022 1:02 pm
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] A bit of trivia

I recall playing with a Gilbert chemistry set that included reagents like sodium ferrocyanide along with an alcohol lamp. What could possibly go wrong?

73 de 

Gene Smar AD3F 

Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 laptop

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 1:55 PM, Jack Antonio

<scr287@att.net> wrote:

For what its worth,

I think we've all seen radio components made by Lionel,

such as their keys, and I have a couple of audio transformers

with their stylish "L" logo on the side.

But I just woke up a PP-281 power supply, which

I could call an "American Flyer".

Made by the A.C Gilbert Company.

Jack Antonio

WA7DIA

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