Posted on 09/20/2015 3:32:50 PM PDT by 4yourcountry
You didn’t build that clock...
Ditto. Sugar-nitrate - great stuff. I'd make it in 2 lb. batches on the kitchen stove (electric).
I also made a AM radio transmitter from scratch. Had a 6L6 final.
When I was seventeen, it was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We’d hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen
When I was twenty-one, it was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stairs
With all that perfumed hair
That came undone
When I was twenty-one
When I was thirty-five, it was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
We’d ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
But now the days are short, I’m in the autumn of my years
And I think of my life as vintage wine
From fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
It poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year
Songwriters: ERVIN DRAKE
Yes I made a lot of model airplanes and also model ships. Never made a car model tho.
I remember how impressed I was with the U.S.S. Iowa. What a powerful ship.
For seventh grade science class, I built a plaster of Paris volcano. It had about 3 pounds of saltpeter, sulfur and sugar. I set it off in the grass between the science wing and the cafeteria.
The smoke full of sulfur dioxide filled the cafeteria through all the open windows during a lunch period. Then the wind changed and gassed the crowd from the school office.
I got an A for gassing the school.
And now that song will play in my head all evening. :)
You were raped at 14?
Glass Tube (GT), or metal?
Thank you!! That made me LOL...really loud.
Since I like to exit the evening on a humorous note...guess I’ll go get ready for work tomorrow.
When I was 17 (1964) the hottest girl in school drove a new 64 Galaxy 4 door hardtop. It also had a 352 with a four barrel. Actually she only drove it when her daddy let her, it was the family car.
I thought it was a beauty. Yellow which seemed to go with her black hair and black eyes. She looked like a French girl. I noticed her Mother had a French maiden name and was also a beauty so maybe that is where she got her looks.
My best friend had a 62 also with a 352 but with a two barrel. Believe it or not, my old 55 Ford with a 272 and a two barrel beat him quite easily in a drag.
Digital clock I built when I was in my younger day. It has a blown electrolytic capacitor now so it doesn't work.
When I was fourteen, I enjoyed being a huge PITA at school. Oh how I wish building a bomb-ish clock would have produced this kind of hubbub. I would have built two!
Glass
Sorry. Here's a possible cure:
At 14 I hacked a Casio keyboard with photoelectric diodes from Radio Shack so that I could play it by waving my hand over he keys.
This kid is a complete fraud.
LOL!
The kid is a fraud, a puppet. His handlers only wanted to create circumstances to file a discrimination lawsuit.
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