Look at what I found

[Cyco]

Nice! I had one of those when I was a kid, great fun.

 

[destrekor]

was this the set you had Rubycon?

puts tainted Chinese toys to shame if you ask me. I want one.

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[Rubycon]

was this the set you had Rubycon?

puts tainted Chinese toys to shame if you ask me. I want one.

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No mine was more chemistry oriented but that one is also very nice! I agree all the new stuff is boring. Kids these days just want little video games or social sites on their pc, watching TV, etc. Stuff that dulls the mind IMO.

 

[Locut0s]

was this the set you had Rubycon?

puts tainted Chinese toys to shame if you ask me. I want one.

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Wow that would be a really neat collectors item! Amazing how lax people were with radioactivity in the 50s. It was part of the new culture, free energy, nuclear power was going to change the world (too cheap to meter). Everything was going to be glorious and happy thanks to the good guys in white lab coats.

My father has told me of playing around with a Spinthariscope as a child:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinthariscope

 

[Rubycon]

Perhaps the neatest spinthariscope of them all!

http://cgi.ebay.com/KIX-CEREAL-ATOM...Fast_Food_Cereal_Premiums?hash=item4a9d44a211

Just to think back in the 1940's one could find that in a box of cereal!

 

[Locut0s]

Perhaps the neatest spinthariscope of them all!

http://cgi.ebay.com/KIX-CEREAL-ATOM...Fast_Food_Cereal_Premiums?hash=item4a9d44a211

Just to think back in the 1940's one could find that in a box of cereal!

Wow nice. If I had the extra cash to throw away I might actually buy that.

 

[destrekor]

Perhaps the neatest spinthariscope of them all!

http://cgi.ebay.com/KIX-CEREAL-ATOM...Fast_Food_Cereal_Premiums?hash=item4a9d44a211

Just to think back in the 1940's one could find that in a box of cereal!

"Japanese kid tested, mother approved!"

 

[Rubycon]

"Japanese kid tested, mother approved!"

Oh the ironing given the OP's name.

 

[l0cke]

A few months ago my dad found a few Heathkit boxes in my grandpa's house. It turns out that they are the multimeter and 5MHz oscilloscope kits that were used in at-home electronics repair courses. My dad gave them to me and they were never opened until I got to them. The kits are dated from 1975 and everything, including the CRT for the oscilloscope, is still intact.

I'm slowly putting the multimeter together. I haven't made much progress due to the holidays, though.

I have a heathkit oscilloscope in my basement that was left here when we got the house. I think it still works. Maybe we have the same one?

 

[Rubycon]

Damn...just like a geek...finding holes in an otherwise perfectly fun story!


I had a similar electronics kit back in the mid-60's when transformers were about the size of a dime. Still MUCH more compact than the vacuum tubes that were still very common in tv's and radios.
It wasn't made out of a nice piece of formed plastic though...IIRC, the board was something like masonite with holes in it and diagrams drawn on the "shiny" surface.

Tubes are awesome as they can be freaky sometimes!

There is nothing like the experience of turning up the gain so high on a tube amp where you can hear the music coming from the tubes! Well maybe there is but it's certainly not appropriate for this forum. :twisted:

 

[lxskllr]

Tubes are awesome as they can be freaky sometimes!

There is nothing like the experience of turning up the gain so high on a tube amp where you can hear the music coming from the tubes! Well maybe there is but it's certainly not appropriate for this forum. :twisted:

Vacuum tubes rock. I used to love the way old TVs smelled once the tubes got cooking in the back :^D They're still the finest electronics for guitar amps :^)

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember me and a friend found an old vacuum tube radio in his house. We turned it on and it still worked and all, was cool to see the glow from the inside. I did not know what vacuum tubes were back then so I wondered why they put a light bulb inside a radio.

 

[frostedflakes]

I remember me and a friend found an old vacuum tube radio in his house. We turned it on and it still worked and all, was cool to see the glow from the inside. I did not know what vacuum tubes were back then so I wondered why they put a light bulb inside a radio.

Combination radio/flashlight.

 

[BoomerD]

Combination radio/flashlight.

Plus they made a nice room heater.

 

[Rubycon]

It would be neat to have a glass bottom bathtub with tubes beneath - their gentle warmth keeping the water just a tad above the temperature of the Caribbean Sea!

 

[AMCRambler]

I had that short wave receiver one myself. It was actually pretty cool. You didn't need to screw anything down or solder anything. It had these little coil springs on each connection and you bent the spring sideways, stuck the bare wire end into it and let it snap back on the wire to hold it.

 

[Rubycon]

I had that short wave receiver one myself. It was actually pretty cool. You didn't need to screw anything down or solder anything. It had these little coil springs on each connection and you bent the spring sideways, stuck the bare wire end into it and let it snap back on the wire to hold it.

Those springs you describe are exactly what the nnn-in-one kits used.