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Fast1075
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 04:23 pm: | 
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Here is another blast from the past...I'm sure it will sound strange to some....but when I was a kid...I liked to go to the dump and find stuff...back in the day, dumps were nothing like they are now...around here, they were old sand, clay or borrow pits...each one had a caretaker that (usually) lived on the property...you could take the trash or junk in for free, but if you found a treasure, he would charge you a buck or two to take it out.
I got whole bicycles with nothing wrong, widgets and whatnots, tools and pipe...the first color tv I ever had came from the dump...dragged it home in a wagon behind my bicycle...took all the tubes out and tested them at the hardware store (where they had a tube tester and tubes for sale)...used money from recovered pop bottles to buy a new tube....went home and put it back together....it worked for years...the local citrus plant used great big rubber bands to tie off plastic bags...I found a box of 2,000 that had been thrown out...I sold them in school for a dime each....until the teacher took a dim view of my enterprise....it was like being one of the little rascals sort of.... |
Sayitaintso
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 04:29 pm: |
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Fast,
I had quite the little business, building bikes from the pieces and parts I found at the dump. $20 a pop for a bike that cost me nothing, then $5-10 to fix them when they broke them trying to be Evil Keneval(sp?) It paid for a whole bunch of space invaders, movies, bowling, and so on. |
Spdrxb
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 04:43 pm: |
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I loved riding the 5hp go-cart!
Funny story... I started driving the go cart at around 6 or 7years old.
My knowledge of small engines was limited.I hung around my dad as he worked on snowblowers lawnmowers etc.. I learned the importance of at least checking the oil regularly.
After school was a normal riding time,so after an hour or so of riding I decided that it should be checked.
Problem is I didn't want to shut it off,it was somewhat of a pain to get going again.
I got nice and close as I pulled the cap off to look at the Black gold level...... Well I never expected to take a shower in it. The look on my moms face when I went running into the house was Priceless! |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 05:14 pm: |
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I bagged an apollo 5 speed with a bannana seat high sissybar and slick today!!!!!!!!! |
99savage
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 07:10 pm: |
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* Slide Rules (mine was a Pickett log-log & expensive to hell, like 3 days pay @ minimum wage - Still have it just in case some moron drops the bombs)
* Interpolating tables - trig tables, hyperbolic trig tables, log tables, . . .
* Alignment charts
* And especially analog computers |
Cowboy
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 07:18 pm: |
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hey 99 strange you mention slide frles in my early days in the oil field there were no other way but slide rule I just wonder how many are left that operate that tool. he he |
Cowboy
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 07:19 pm: |
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they were called slip stick back then. |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 10:15 pm: |
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I remember when communism, marxism, and soviet think was overseas. |
Milt
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2011 - 11:32 pm: |
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99Savage - Ever used a circular slide rule?
Check this.... http://www.hpmuseum.org/prehp.htm |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 07:03 pm: |
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I am faster, and more accurate for speeds, routes, and mission planning with slide rule than with calculator or packaged software.
and when the software crashes.... because it did frequently - guess who got called in to do the planning and ops brief ?
the linguist with the slide rule. |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 07:19 pm: |
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slide rule envy? |
99savage
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2011 - 09:50 pm: |
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Milt;
Have seen & used circular slide rules
Found something the other day - A circular slide rule kit that can be customized for a particular application.
If anybody is interested in engineering antiquities will sent it to 1st PM.
Will take your word that you will compensate me for the postage.
Not quite as old as I am but close - check out the phone #
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Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Sunday, February 06, 2011 - 10:13 pm: |
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I have a mini HP that my grandfather gave to me, he taught me to do ballistics with it. It made geometry sooooo easy it was disgusting. It is a pity we never really blew anything up in math class, but in my head I was sinking ships and bombing coastlines with every problem. |
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