Posted on 01/11/2019 11:11:08 AM PST by Red Badger
1. Atomic Energy Laboratory
Cool Toy!
I had something like that and made my own cloud chamber!
Yeah, I liked that one, too!..............
I wonder just how many engineers and scientists got started on their career paths thanks to A.C. Gilbert
My bro and I had #6. The Belt Buckle Gun. No “serious burns” to report. At 9 and 10, we both suspected that the caps were designed to explode and handled them accordingly.
I wonder just how many engineers and scientists got cancer thanks to A.C. Gilbert?.......................
Mattel could have saved the Spanish Barbie if they had come with a coupon for a Big Mac.
Ping...
Silly
I proudly sported number 6, the belt buckle gun. Never once got burned by a cap. Not by a greenie stick-um, or red rolled caps.
My kids had Sky Dancers. Never had an incident.
I wonder how Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, with a list of ingredients straight out of a Superfund Toxic Waste Site, managed to avoid the list?
I have a set of clackers in my desk drawer. Nothing better than handing them to my grandkids.
Even a simple Super Ball carries some risk. Flying at you at Mach 2 from some crazy angle after bouncing off two walls and your brother’s head...
I saw one of those craft kits that I still have trouble believing was real. A glass blowing kit.
#9...alleging copyright infringement....lol
yeah, I guess it’s a close call. maybe somehow it isn’t
Had the Clacker, had the Nichols derringer belt buckle, but I discount the cap claim as you put a round sticker cap on the back of the spring loaded cartridge into which you stuffed a plastic bullet, so there was no large roll of caps to catch fire and burn, eschewed lawn darts because I saw the danger and refused the entreaties of my kids to buy them.
Do you remember the original slate grey Superball? If you could throw one hard enough against concrete they’d explode, sending Superball shrapnel everywhere! Pulled from the market until the formula was changed to avoid it.
My brother and I decided to find out if we could bounce a superball over the house. Slammed it down on the driveway as hard as possible ... watched it arc off into space ... spent an hour searching the back yard before finding it.
Yes: we could indeed bounce a superball over the house.
Lesson: Next time, put an observer down-range to spot the impact.
Feh ... the danger of Jarts was only to idiots.
YEP! Had one!..................
One set has never been out of the box, and the box has been kept in a footlocker in the shed since the lawn darts were purchased ...
This is akin to saying no one was ever hurt falling from tall buildings. . . It’s the very sudden ending of the fall that results in the injuries!
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