[NJARC] A Blast from the past...

[JOE CRO]

John,
       Have you been down in my basement "Hamshack" looking over the 
condition of my radios, or just analyzing the stuff I buy at the auctions?

You'd be correct in both instances!

Mod-U-Later,
                     Joe Cro N3IBX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ruccolo" <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com>
To: "New Jersey Antique Radio Club" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [NJARC] A Blast from the past...


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> _______________________________________________
> 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:
>
>> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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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