Toy I would like to have when a child.

[lg325]

To be honest I think me and my friends were responsible to handle it and the end of the article said it was like being exposed to the sun a full day. MSN

 

[petro]

You can be sure it also carried the Made in the USA lable.

 

[martybegan]

View attachment 1050791To be honest I think me and my friends were responsible to handle it and the end of the article said it was like being exposed to the sun a full day. MSN

I had chemistry sets as a kid, and this blows those out of the water.


Of course the greatest present I ever got was this.

 

[toobfreak]

To be honest I think me and my friends were responsible to handle it and the end of the article said it was like being exposed to the sun a full day.

Is that the one that came with uranium to carry out radioactive experiments! Cool! THat is even better than my Gilbert chemistry set with 50 or 100 different chemicals! Add to that, I used to buy up all kinds of tubes and flasks and burners at the drug store! Complete with asbestos pad to keep the hot flame from cracking the bottom of my glass containers. Almost as good as the hunks of raw lead my dad used to melt to pour into molds to make his own army soldiers.

But to date, my favorite toy as a kid has to be this one!

When you turned it on, the dish rotated, the lights blinked and there was something tracked on the screen.

 

[martybegan]

Is that the one that came with uranium to carry out radioactive experiments! Cool! THat is even better than my Gilbert chemistry set with 50 or 100 different chemicals! Add to that, I used to buy up all kinds of tubes and flasks and burners at the drug store! Complete with asbestos pad to keep the hot flame from cracking the bottom of my glass containers. Almost as good as the hunks of raw lead my dad used to melt to pour into molds to make his own army soldiers.

But to date, my favorite toy as a kid has to be this one!

When you turned it on, the dish rotated, the lights blinked and there was something tracked on the screen.

Please tell me it was able to really track something, like the family cat or dog if you wrapped them in aluminum foil.

 

[toobfreak]

Please tell me it was able to really track something, like the family cat or dog if you wrapped them in aluminum foil.

Sorry, that is sensetive national defense secret information I am not at liberty to divulge.

 

[MisterBeale]

View attachment 1050791To be honest I think me and my friends were responsible to handle it and the end of the article said it was like being exposed to the sun a full day. MSN

That sort of reminds my of my dad's deluxe motorized Erector set I used to tinker around with as a kid. That box weighed like 50lbs. They just don't make toys like that anymore.

 

[martybegan]

Sorry, that is sensetive national defense secret information I am not at liberty to divulge.

In the Toobfreak childhood household.

TOOBFREAK WHY THE HELL IS THE DOG COVERED IN REYNOLDS WRAP!!!!!!!

 

[martybegan]

That sort of reminds my of my dad's deluxe motorized Erector set I used to tinker around with as a kid. That box weighed like 50lbs. They just don't make toys like that anymore.

We had the metal/plastic combo erector set in the 80's.

That, and Constructx

 

[MisterBeale]

We had the metal/plastic combo erector set in the 90's.

That, and Constructx

Yeah, my dad started me with a set made in the 80's.

Most of it was junk compared to when he picked up his old set from Gma's.

I think the only plastic building set other than Legos that I used quite a bit was an old Girder and Panel set from the 70s.

Used with a Godzilla toy?

Hours of fun.

 

[Unkotare]

That sort of reminds my of my dad's deluxe motorized Erector set ...

They have pills for that now.

 

[martybegan]

Yeah, my dad started me with a set made in the 80's.

Most of it was junk compared to when he picked up his old set from Gma's.

Whoops I meant 80's as well.

By the 90's I was in High school and College and working on actual engineering and science things.

 

[toobfreak]

In the Toobfreak childhood household.
TOOBFREAK WHY THE HELL IS THE DOG COVERED IN REYNOLDS WRAP!!!!!!!

Actually, as a young teen (maybe 13?) I got involved in a crazier toy of my own, my dad helped me build a plywood console with sloped front that you sat at with knees inside, and I made it into a planetarium. It had a star projector and other lights and projectors on top, and a bunch of knobs and switches on the front. But inside the thing where I connected all of the AC power, I ran all the wiring with lamp cord stapled to the underside of the plywood, and all of the connections were exposed, twisted bare wire that was left uncovered by electrical tape just arranged so that nothing touched and shorted. It was an electrical fire or electrocution just waiting to happen.

The best part was one switch I took out of an old canister vacuum cleaner of my mom's, it was a SPSL switch with two terminals. I had no idea yet how electricity worked or how to wire up a switch when I started all this, so I looked at the switch-- two terminals, two AC wires (+ and -), so I connected one wire to each terminal. And when I threw the switch, sparks went everywhere! That was how I learned how electricity first worked.

 

[martybegan]

Actually, as a young teen (maybe 13?) I got involved in a crazier toy of my own, my dad helped me build a plywood console with sloped front that you sat at with knees inside, and I made it into a planetarium. It had a star projector and other lights and projectors on top, and a bunch of knobs and switches on the front. But inside the thing where I connected all of the AC power, I ran all the wiring with lamp cord stapled to the underside of the plywood, and all of the connections were exposed, twisted bare wire that was left uncovered by electrical tape just arranged so that nothing touched and shorted. It was an electrical fire or electrocution just waiting to happen.

The best part was one switch I took out of an old canister vacuum cleaner of my mom's, it was a SPSL switch with two terminals. I had no idea yet how electricity worked or how to wire up a switch when I started all this, so I looked at the switch-- two terminals, two AC wires (+ and -), so I connected one wire to each terminal. And when I threw the switch, sparks went everywhere! That was how I learned how electricity first worked.

I was better at taking stuff apart. Old Radios, phones, tools, etc.

The best thing we built was a hockey net made of wood when the plastic ones broke too much in the cold.

 

[rightwinger]

 

[MisterBeale]

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[martybegan]

OK, this wins for post of the year on this board.

Rightwinger gets the assist.

 

[Thunk]

 

[Unkotare]

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They still make those, and their arms still get stuck together.

 

[Thunk]

their arms still get stuck together.

They did when I was a kid as well. The blue guy always wins.