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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Not exactly the same but I often use the term "Whistle britches" when referring to young kids at work
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When did Goalies in hockey and soccer become "goal tenders" and "net minders" ? And does anyone still use the term "Boob Tube" when referring to a TV?
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    Seemingly insignificant things that connect you to the past

    The smell of hot brakes or molten metal reminds me of a foundry that my father worked at when I was a little kid. I was really little when he worked there and cant even figure why I would remember such a thing but every time I smell it I'm transported back to that small foundry with my dad...
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    1930's and 1940's Household Products

    In the "Lustron" homes of the 50's (Pre-fab all metal homes made with porcelain enameled steel) they had an interesting gizmo made by Thor that was both a dishwasher and a clothes washer. All you had to do is add or remove a rack designed to hold your dishes. I've heard it didn't work very well...
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    Movie Theater luxuries

    We've got a place here in Columbus that serves meals but the seats are more like roll around computer chairs and not recliners. It's still nice to get a decent meal at a theater though and you're right it isn't cheap but if you figure how much you would spend on a separate dinner and then a...
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    Blacksmithing

    Do those of you that are currently smithing have any advice for those of us that would like to get into this? Such as where to start, what tools to purchase first, stuff like that?
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    Blacksmithing

    Awesome I've always wanted to learn how to do some blacksmithing, every once and a while I start thinking about what all it would take to convert a portion of my garage to a blacksmith shop. One of these days I'll get around to it.
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Well it looks like that is the end of the throttle shaft, the shaft that the butterfly is mounted to. I would think that your leak is from something fartherr up in the carb that's not working quite right. Maybe your float is not seating properly and it's causing some excess fuel to flow by. You...
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Excellent, I hope they can help you out.
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Big Man, you should look on Hemmings.com to see if there is a Austin motors club or registry. They might be able to point you in the right direction for the information that you are looking for.
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    Cost of quality then and now.

    Ha Lizzy you have no idea how happy it makes me that you or anyone would have a "Random" Fall and Winter 1938-39 catalog on the shelf. I thought I was the only one with weird old catalogs and maps laying around.
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    The general decline in standards today

    Good grief, just when you think you have heard it all. What are they going to do when boots go out of style and big calves come in to style? Why are people so willing to act like sheep and follow the heard. Probably some beautiful woman with some very attractive legs and not one single ounce of...
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    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    Thats because of all the crumple zones, safety zones, sound deadening, and emissions equipment. All that adds weight but it does make the car safer in the event of an accident.
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    Is Christmas Ruined Forever?

    Charlie Brown has been complaining about the commercialization of Christmas and people loosing the reason for the season since 1965, unfortunately I don't think you're gong to make any waves in societies actions by telling your son Santa isn't real.
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    What do you use to shave?

    You guys are all way to modern for me I learned my technique from Fred Flintstone, Just put a bumble bee in a clam-shell and shave away. lol
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    Question about old printing press

    Thanks, I was so busy keeping a curious 5 year old from getting in trouble that I didn't even notice the press until I was downloading them on my computer. It seems like overkill since that one plate looks like an old add page from a newspaper. Would have loved to have had an opportunity to see...
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    Question about old printing press

    So I spent some time this fall in Baltimore Maryland because of a conference my wife attended. While she was at the conference me and my boy spent the day exploring the area. On one of our last days there we stopped by the Baltimore museum of industry, while enjoying the museum and taking...
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    Vintage trains

    Some pics I took at the B&O railroad museum the other day. One of my favorites: Ignore the creepy kid, I kept trying to shake him but everywhere I went there he was. Cost me a lot of money at the gift shop to. lol
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Looks like a pig staring at a wristwatch, is something my old supervisor used to say that I always got a chuckle out of.
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    The general decline in standards today

    Isnt that also where the Center for Disease Control is located?

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