[NJARC] A Blast from the past...

[John Ruccolo]

Hi Tom/Folks,

How many of *these* do you remember?

Solder burns

Missing knobs

Frozen shafts

Burned-out power transformers

Transformers oozing tar or wax

Paper caps oozing wax

Electrolytics oozing borax (of whatever it is)

Botched repairs from long-ago that look like they were
done by Edward Scissorhands

Spliced line cords

Line cords that are serious shock (or fire!) hazards

Loose asbestos

Mouse droppings

Loose screws (we all have them)

Tight screws -- but ONLY on IF transformers

Loose veneer

100K resistors measuring 2 meg

5U4's substituting for 5Y3's

Dim eye tubes

Scratchy controls

Squirrely band switches

HUMMMMMMMM

Open 35Z5's

Open "hot" cords (now cold)

Open voice coils

Open IF transformers

Open output transformers

Opening your wallet and paying too much for an old
radio

Rust, dust, and dirt

Rubber-covered wire crumbling

Burned-out dial lights

Damaged VOM or VTVM meter movements

Fingers through the speaker cone

Shocks

Smoke

Shorts (pow!)

Crumbling dial scales

No B+

Snap, crackle, pop

"It worked the last time I tried it" (When was that?
1948?)

The "WHY the <bleep> did I buy this???" feeling


If you can remember most or all of these, then you
have lived -- as a RADIO COLLECTOR!!!!!!! ;-)






--- Thomas Lee <thomas_v_lee at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> How many of these do you remember?
> 
> Candy cigarettes
> 
> Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> inside
> 
> Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
> 
> Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes
> 
> Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum
> 
> Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard
> stoppers
> 
> Newsreels before the movie
> 
> P.F. Fliers
> 
> Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond
> 4-601). Party lines
> 
> Peashooters
> 
> Howdy Dowdy
> 
> 45 RPM records
> 
> 78 RPM records!
> 
> Green Stamps
> 
> Metal ice cubes trays with levers
> 
> Mimeograph paper
> 
> Beanie and Cecil
> 
> Roller-skate keys
> 
> Cork pop guns
> 
> Drive ins
> 
> Stud ebakers
> 
> Washtub wringers
> 
> The Fuller Brush Man
> 
> Reel-To-Reel tape recorders
> 
> Tinkertoys
> 
> Erector Sets
> 
> The Fort Apache Play Set
> 
> Lincoln Logs
> 
> 15 cent McDonald hamburgers
> 
> 5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful
> pink slab of bubble gum
> 
> Penny candy
> 
> 25 cent a gallon gasoline
> 
> Jiffy Pop popcorn
> 
> Do you remember a time when...
> 
> Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
> 
> Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do
> Over!'?
> 
> 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the
> fastest?
> 
> Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an
> entire evening?
> 
> It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
> 
> The worst thing you could catch from the opposite
> sex was 'cooties'?
> 
> Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a
> slingshot?
> 
> 'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
> 
> Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was
> cause for giggles?
> 
> The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a
> team?
> 
> War was a card game?
> 
> Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike
> into a motorcycle?
> 
> Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
> 
> Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
> 
> If you can remember most or all of these, then you
> have lived!!!!!!!
> 
> 
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