To: niteowl77
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There is still a toy like this in the Czech Republic! I've seen at a toystore that specializes in technical/educational toys. I'll have to check it out the next time I go downtown. I can't even imagine something like this in the USA anymore; a functioning crucible that gets up to 400 F? The CPSC would never allow it.
11 posted on
12/25/2011 4:13:22 AM PST by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
Reminds me of Creepy Crawlers.
Same concept except rubber instead of metal.
12 posted on
12/25/2011 4:30:25 AM PST by
2111USMC
(Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
a functioning crucible that gets up to 400 F? The CPSC would never allow it. And they were melting LEAD! Ahhh! None of you kids are going to live to tell about it!
When I was a kid, I used to go down the street to a gas station and pick up all the lead tire weights they tossed at the side of the building. I would melt them down on the kitchen stove and eventually had a chunk the size of a softball.
I'm still alive and functioning 50 some years later!
20 posted on
12/25/2011 5:16:53 AM PST by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
I had a lead casting (Kasting?) set as a child. It was a lot of fun. I tried to find one on ebay recently. Only saw used ones. I guess this is a banned toy these days.
65 posted on
12/25/2011 2:02:31 PM PST by
Don@VB
(Power Corrupts)
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