Posted on 03/10/2012 4:47:05 AM PST by expat1000
Link only - Courtesy Sultan Knish
Why is that? It's just a blog.
If you want to do all the work to post the complete page with all the links and all the photos and all that, be my guest.
I have no idea how to do that.
I have a set of lawn Jarts in my garage. Great fun LOL!!
Bangsite...still available...cannons still available, although priced out of the market for childs toy.
The casting and vacu forming sets were neat. but they also assumed that kids back then had a more sensible upbringing and mom and dad knew what they got up to.
As for the arrows, well my dad survived many a day firing non suction cup arrows straight up into the air and then running like h*ll so he didn’t get hit.
Also should have been included, were these little stamped sheet metal guns that look like an aircraft carrier and fired small sheet metal jet aircraft (darts), something my dad told me about called a “car bomb” which was a pyrotechnic charge you would wire under someones car hood, it would pop and smoke would pour out (relatively harmless), and one from my own childhood, Shogun warriors the big 3 foot variety with lots of rocket and missile launchers.
Neat stuff! Also, cap pistols, BB guns, potato guns, - none were on this list.
Also chemistry sets, which I was really into. My father did not even get upset when my bottles of hydrogen exploded blowing their rubber stoppers which had glass tubes in them - they shattered on the ceiling.
Snow sleds were great! Broke my wrist on one, but it was worth it. :-)
Oh, man, I would have held my breath for an hour to get one of those. ;-) How cool!
is this Kurt Russell???
MATTEL SONIC BLASTER FOR SPYS ONLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E1JO6bADeQ&NR=1&feature=endscreen
The car things were called Auto Foolers.
When we were kids, my brothers and I sent away for the ‘mixer special’. It was a kit to make large firecrackers. It came with three different sized cardboard tubes, wooden end plugs, and some bags of chemicals that were mixed together and then loaded into the tubes. A roll of fuse was also included.
The three sizes: the “Junior” - 3 inches long and 1/2 inch in diameter, the “Intermediate” - 4 1/2 inches long and 3/4 of an inch in diameter, and the “Professional” was 6 1/2 inches long and 1 inch in diameter.
We blew 15 feet of sheet metal off of the side of an abandoned trailer! It is amazing that we survived. We also sent away for a great smoke bomb kit. Each smoke bomb could fill a walk-in theater (never did that, though).
When my oldest son went down the basement to fool around with my husbands tools, he made a blow gun and several long sharp darts...we had fun putting balloons on the garage wall and blowing darts at them to practice accuracy....
Ah, yes, blow guns and pea shooters!
And pellet guns (pistols) - both pump and CO2 cartridge - forgot about those. I used to have one that shot 1/2” needle-like darts. Whew - those really were dangerous!
I loved my water-air rockets, even had the two stage version. Never got a concussion or lost a tooth from them, and I don’t know anyone who did.
although I was a girl, Iloved pea shooters and cap guns. Also getting a stone with a sharp edge and blowing up the caps on the sidewalk..
Well certainly you did the whole roll at once with a hammer, didn’t you?
:)
Gee, I never thought of that but it was fun finding just the right stone...it took someone with testosterone to think hammer....:O)
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