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LouSWPA 
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 Topic: OK, I'm really bummed!
Posted: 09 Dec 2024 at 5:38pm |
I just discovered I again, missed out on all the neat toys as a child! Although we DID have lawn darts, voted the no 1 most dangerous toy of all time, I missed out on the no 2 most dangerous toy, Gilbert (maker of the original erector set) U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory. It included: a Gieiger -Muller counter Electroscope Spinthariscope (I always wanted one of those!) Wilson Cloud chamber w/short lived alpha source (Po-210) Four glass jars containing natural uranium, including U-238, and other radiation sources
I'm laughing so hard I can barely type this. Some of the suggested activities with this lab in promotional material included playing hide-n-seek with the glowing radioactive material!!!!
seems I always miss out on the cool stuff.
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I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 09 Dec 2024 at 5:50pm |
Lou, if you have 'orange' in your garage you HAVE 'cool stuff' !!!!!!!
That being said, I've been acquiring MECCANO for the past 2 years as I really,really am bummed out that I was con-vinced to sell it 3 decades ago ( paid 2 months of the mortgage back then so $3K).
yup 71 going on 7....
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dr p
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Posted: 09 Dec 2024 at 7:08pm |
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Dad once gave me a used refrigerator, even put the door back on .
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HudCo
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Posted: 09 Dec 2024 at 7:21pm |
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i spent a lot of time playing with a half pint mason jar half full of mercury
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desertjoe
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Posted: 09 Dec 2024 at 9:02pm |
As a kid back then,,,when we were REALLY "plugged up" my mother knew a lady in town that would come out to farm and give us a drop or two of shiny mercury,,,sometimes she would let us play with the bottle and slosh it around,,,,, That stuff was gauranteed to go right thru your innards and open up a trail,,,,,have no idea what happened to it, tho,,, 
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 10 Dec 2024 at 5:13am |
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Reminds me of our science teacher Mr. Martin
He always let us play with mercury.
When he needed to use a Brunson burner in the science room, he kept a 12 volt car battery in there.
He’d ark two wires to gather to light the burner.
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desertjoe
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Posted: 10 Dec 2024 at 7:20am |
Well heck,,Thad,,,and here I thought our Shop teacher was pretty sharp and somewhat "thrifty" for saving the school system some dollars in having the same cost cutting measure in the shop class,,,,,
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Ray54
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Posted: 10 Dec 2024 at 12:10pm |
 No wonder there are so many crazies on here. We all played in the mercury. Well here where they dug it out of the ground, most just called it Quick Silver.
So Lou you must have missed out on Chemistry set that Mercury in it too?
Mercury not the super danger it is made out to be today.................until you start heating it , then having vapor floating around to breath in. 
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ekjdm14
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Posted: 10 Dec 2024 at 4:31pm |
 LouSWPA wrote:
...(Po-210)...
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Just don't brew up some tea with that & pass it to your Russian friend 
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Walker
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Posted: 10 Dec 2024 at 5:52pm |
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It sure makes old tarter stained tooth fillings shine like new again. The main reason for Blackbeard holding Charleston hostage with his ship broadside and cannons aimed at it was because his crew needed Mercury to treat their VD. Of course, that was 300 years ago, and I seriously doubt if too many of them went to medical school.
Edited by Walker - 11 Dec 2024 at 1:59am
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