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To: 21twelve

I am duly impressed. A real homebuilt car.


25 posted on 06/14/2019 8:43:55 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Me and Mike built lots of goofy stuff as kids. We used to put on a carnival in the neighborhood. It started off with a “Kit” from Muscular Dystrophy or something the first year - but then we just figured we would do it ourselves and keep the money! Had to pay to enter, and then tickets for the various events. Mom’s would bake cakes for the cake walk, etc. It was probably 10 of us neighborhood kids working on it, and hundreds of kids would come every summer.

Rigged up the garage as a haunted house with strings to dummy’s arms and coffin doors. Made a roulette wheel out of a bike wheel mounted on a piece of plywood.

For the pond we built a raft out of four pallets, two sections of plywood, and then stuffed full of wood inside the pallets! It was so heavy we put the sections together in the pond. It survived about 5 Minnesota winters stuck in the ice.

We built a pinball machine out of wood. To get the marble started it was a bolt on a spring. I forget how we operated the “flappers” - just two of them right near the bottom of the exit. Maybe with bolts on springs? I do recall the flappers had rubber bands around them.

The wood base had holes in it with the point values written for each hole. Various walls and obstacles were made with nails driven into the wood floor and then wrapped with rubber bands.

We sure had a lot of fun with that stuff.

Rest in Peace Mike!


36 posted on 06/14/2019 8:58:08 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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