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1 hour ago, railfancwb said:

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For awhile when I smoked cigarettes, I thought it was cool to light them one handed with book matches of this design.

If in the process one set the entire book aflame, things suddenly became exciting.

That game ended when the books were redesigned to put the striker strip on the back side.


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Who remembers using the matchbook cover to set the gap on these?

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When I was a little kid I always got a kick out of matchbook ads, whether they were selling drawing lessons, insurance, job training or whatever. Who exactly was their targeted audience? Just fill out the little form and improve your life. Here's an example.

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"DO NOT MAIL MATCHES"

 

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11 hours ago, Eric said:

I must have met a hundred people when I was young, that collected matchbooks. People will collected the damnedest things. 

The older man behind our house was a traveling salesman. He had a card table covered with match book covers from his travels. tom. :fred:

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I had some of those exact wind-up cars when I was pretty little (England).

The spring was very powerful and would run for a full minute.  The exhaust pipe (on the other side) was a hidden screw to set the front wheels for turns.

I remember seeing tracks at the seaside(!) where kids would race them in huge circles.

The strength of the mechanism and the grippiness of the wheels would make the cars climb over each other and sometimes throw the other car over the wall in it's roostertail.

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2 minutes ago, Bish1309 said:

I still have a set of feeler gauge specifically for this purpose. Of course they are all rusted together so the gap could be a bit off.

Points had a way of crapping out when you weren't in proximity to your tools. I used feeler gauges for such things when available, but more often than not, I was changing them in a parking lot with whatever I had on hand. There was always a matchbook handy.

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14 minutes ago, Eric said:

Points had a way of crapping out when you weren't in proximity to your tools. I used feeler gauges for such things when available, but more often than not, I was changing them in a parking lot with whatever I had on hand. There was always a matchbook handy.

A man's gots to know his options.

 

One early morning on the way to work I lost the center coil wire, it burned back from the connector so, no spark.

I had to repair it with a straightened out paper clip jammed down the center and folded over the end to make connection.

Finished my day and fixed it at home.

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37 minutes ago, janice6 said:

A man's gots to know his options.

 

One early morning on the way to work I lost the center coil wire, it burned back from the connector so, no spark.

I had to repair it with a straightened out paper clip jammed down the center and folded over the end to make connection.

Finished my day and fixed it at home.

Plenty of pennies in the fuse box

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Just now, xromad said:

I thought these were going to be old pictures, not future pictures from Bernietopia??

Few will believe that this is the result of the benevolence of Socialism.  They will lie to you and claim history is wrong, but it won't change the reality!

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My grandparents had a toaster, just sitting on the kitchen table, that was just a little A-frame with exposed wires criss-crossing it.  You plugged it in (no on/off switch) and the wires glowed red and you leaned two pieces of bread against the frame.  Had to turn the toast to get both sides.

No one was ever shocked by trying to jam a butter knife into it.

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31 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said:

My grandparents had a toaster, just sitting on the kitchen table, that was just a little A-frame with exposed wires criss-crossing it.  You plugged it in (no on/off switch) and the wires glowed red and you leaned two pieces of bread against the frame.  Had to turn the toast to get both sides.

No one was ever shocked by trying to jam a butter knife into it.

Made a good story though.  Like water attracting electricity.

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