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      06-15-2024, 06:47 PM   #8097
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When kids toys involving scalding hot wax was legal
The hot wax was a good learning opportunity.
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The hot wax was a good learning opportunity.
A wood burning kit was almost as much fun.
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A wood burning kit was almost as much fun.
I had one. Burned my fingers more than once.
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I had one. Burned my fingers more than once.
Yeah, same here.
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When kids toys involving scalding hot wax was legal
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A wood burning kit was almost as much fun.
I had one also. I ran out of wood and proceeded to "decorate" the hardwood floor in my bedroom. I got in significant trouble and never saw that wood-burning set again!
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      06-16-2024, 05:02 PM   #8106
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I had one also. I ran out of wood and proceeded to "decorate" the hardwood floor in my bedroom. I got in significant trouble and never saw that wood-burning set again!
That'll teach ya.
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I had one. Burned my fingers more than once.
Pinocchio?????
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When I was a kid we would walk up to the Texaco gas station with a specially modified bottle opener and a plastic cup for a free Coke. You only got half the bottle and had to be fast before the attendant caught you.
Man, you did it the hard way. There was a "slider" soda machine at the local airport. We'd take a bottle opener and some straws, drink in place!
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...There was a "slider" soda machine at the local airport. We'd take a bottle opener and some straws, drink in place!
I've got one in the garage...the "Ideal 55" slider...
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I've got one in the garage...the "Ideal 55" slider...
There was a Coca-Cola branded one at the YMCA I swam at when I was a kid. (Cool old place, had a banked wooden running track around the top of the swimming pool wing. Got torn down, alas.) The bottles hang in refigerated water. I imagine the machine was (is!) pretty cheap to run.
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Still have my "Burn-Rite"...
I had one of those. My hand got pretty hot by the end of the project. Never forget the smell.
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There was a Coca-Cola branded one at the YMCA I swam at when I was a kid. (Cool old place, had a banked wooden running track around the top of the swimming pool wing. Got torn down, alas.) The bottles hang in refigerated water. I imagine the machine was (is!) pretty cheap to run.
Not the Ideal 55 slider...it's refrigerated using a Tecumseh compressor. Manufactured from the late 40's to the early 60's (mines a '48 ).
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