Anything from your childhood

DannyDoughboy

DannyDoughboy

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Okay, here's the question, and I'll go first, try to limit to one answer, let's have some fun! If you could have something back from your younger years, what would it be? ME/ my Daisy BB gun my grandmother bought me for my 10th birthday, 1955!
 

Skip the toys.

I want: A bookend set that I made out of good Cherry wood. It was actually quite beautiful. My youngest brother was even better with wood and made a number of items that were first rate in my opinion.

I also made a very neat Bow out of Elm wood. I was never able to make any good arrows. I had to buy them.

The most interesting thing I ever made was a vacuum tube radio, but I don't want it as the internal work is embarrassing and its performance was dismal. But it started my career in Electronics.
 
My Gilbert Chem Set.

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Of course it would be my Dad or my Mother but, are we allowed to say a person? If it has to be a thing,I'd say the paper dolls my Mother drew. My parents couldn't afford them,so she drew the paper dolls and drew little tabs on the clothes. I would color them and play with them when I was 4 or 5, I guess.
My Mother was extremely talented. She could design and make anything! Had she the money, she could have put CoCo out of business!
Sorry, I don't mean to brag but I was pretty proud of her!
 
Keesha said:
What exactly is this? I’ve never heard of it before.
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It was great! All sort of chemicals in it. Had a little blowtorch you powered by breath:

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I had the one on the left. You hooked a rubber tube to it and gently blew through it.

Part of it was a hydroponics set:

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You made the food with the chemicals dissolved in the water.

I didn't blow anything up, but I did learn what sulfur smelled like when heated ;)

Can you imagine giving this to a kid these days? You'd be violating at least a dozen EPA regs.

Maybe my parents were trying to get rid of me. Six kids were quite a few mouths to feed...
 
In The Sticks said:
It was great! All sort of chemicals in it. Had a little blowtorch you powered by breath:

ALCOLAMP_fig06_full.jpg


I had the one on the left. You hooked a rubber tube to it and gently blew through it.

Part of it was a hydroponics set:

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You made the food with the chemicals dissolved in the water.

I didn't blow anything up, but I did learn what sulfur smelled like when heated ;)

Can you imagine giving this to a kid these days? You'd be violating at least a dozen EPA regs.
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How cool is that. Teach your kid how to blow up the house and grow hydro! 😅🤣
 
In The Sticks said:
It was great! All sort of chemicals in it. Had a little blowtorch you powered by breath:

ALCOLAMP_fig06_full.jpg


I had the one on the left. You hooked a rubber tube to it and gently blew through it.

Part of it was a hydroponics set:

View attachment 100907

You made the food with the chemicals dissolved in the water.

I didn't blow anything up, but I did learn what sulfur smelled like when heated ;)

Can you imagine giving this to a kid these days? You'd be violating at least a dozen EPA regs.

Maybe my parents were trying to get rid of me. Six kids were quite a few mouths to feed...
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How old were you when you got this and did it influence you later in your course selection ?
Did you take Chemistry later in high school ?
Did you make anything cool from it?
 
peppermint said:
Mom and Dad....Mom was a seamstress her whole life....She was born in NYC and had to go to work because her Mom and Dad,
needed the money...They had 10 kids....Mom made my clothes up until the 6th grade....I wish she was still here to make me
clothes....I never took after her....I never even sew a button....
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reminds me of my mom who made all of our Halloween costumes for us kids year after year.
 
In The Sticks said:
It was great! All sort of chemicals in it. Had a little blowtorch you powered by breath:

ALCOLAMP_fig06_full.jpg


I had the one on the left. You hooked a rubber tube to it and gently blew through it.

Part of it was a hydroponics set:

View attachment 100907

You made the food with the chemicals dissolved in the water.

I didn't blow anything up, but I did learn what sulfur smelled like when heated ;)

Can you imagine giving this to a kid these days? You'd be violating at least a dozen EPA regs.

Maybe my parents were trying to get rid of me. Six kids were quite a few mouths to feed...
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You heat up enough sulfur and you can clear out most of the classrooms on the second floor of my high school.
 

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