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FiF said:
Back on a laundry day theme. We had a photo of the topload washing machine complete with 'luxury power mangle' earlier, now our first spin dryer was one of these Creda Debonair spin dryer.
We bought it second hand out of the paper, couple who were selling it were so anxious to demonstrate it, they soaked some towels, fired it up, but forgot to put a bucket under the outlet, see pics.Couple of gallons of water over their new carpet, didn't like to not buy it, seeing as it was so good at extracting water.
Thems was the dayses. We had one of those too.We bought it second hand out of the paper, couple who were selling it were so anxious to demonstrate it, they soaked some towels, fired it up, but forgot to put a bucket under the outlet, see pics.Couple of gallons of water over their new carpet, didn't like to not buy it, seeing as it was so good at extracting water.
Roofless Toothless said:
Shelling peas.
I cant actually remember it, but my mother told me recently that when I was a kid back in the early 70s she used to buy mushroom stalks from the local greengrocer. For recipes where you needed some chopped up mushroom they were a cheap alternative to buying whole mushrooms. Times were hard back then. 
FiF said:
Back on a laundry day theme. We had a photo of the topload washing machine complete with 'luxury power mangle' earlier, now our first spin dryer was one of these Creda Debonair spin dryer.
We bought it second hand out of the paper, couple who were selling it were so anxious to demonstrate it, they soaked some towels, fired it up, but forgot to put a bucket under the outlet, see pics.Couple of gallons of water over their new carpet, didn't like to not buy it, seeing as it was so good at extracting water.
I'll have you know that we still put any laundry which is going to be tumble drier through a spin dryer like that first as it spins about 3 times faster than a washing machine which cuts the expensive drying time down drastically ! It's not as old as the one in your link - was bought from ao a couple of years ago :-)We bought it second hand out of the paper, couple who were selling it were so anxious to demonstrate it, they soaked some towels, fired it up, but forgot to put a bucket under the outlet, see pics.Couple of gallons of water over their new carpet, didn't like to not buy it, seeing as it was so good at extracting water.
Randy Winkman said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Shelling peas.
I cant actually remember it, but my mother told me recently that when I was a kid back in the early 70s she used to buy mushroom stalks from the local greengrocer. For recipes where you needed some chopped up mushroom they were a cheap alternative to buying whole mushrooms. Times were hard back then. Morningside said:
Bit early but gummed edged paper chain Christmas decorations.
Parents always put them away for the following year but were squashed.
Yes! I was a paper chain licker Parents always put them away for the following year but were squashed.
Usually started around November and completed what felt like half a mile by Christmas eve.
Just make sure you don't get two colour the same next to each other.
julianm said:
I always worried about getting a direct hit on that soft bit in the centre of your skull.
Just chuck them up in the air as high as you could and if they landed on either end... "BANG!!!"
An alternative was a large hollow key filled with the same red match-heads, and a nail pushed in the end, both joined with a piece of string.
Whirl it round and strike it on a hard surface.... some very satisfying loud bangs, but a lot of split keys.
This paved the way to more adventurous work with ever more advanced explosive technology.
Amazing how most of us survived our pre- and early teen years.
These days we would have been rounded up as terrorist suspects.
glenrobbo said:
My mates and I used to make our own "aerial bombs" by screwing two bolts facing each other into a single nut with the void filled with red match heads carefully scraped off the matchsticks.
Just chuck them up in the air as high as you could and if the landed on either end... "BANG!!!"
Yes, remember doing that as well Just chuck them up in the air as high as you could and if the landed on either end... "BANG!!!"
Bluedot said:
glenrobbo said:
My mates and I used to make our own "aerial bombs" by screwing two bolts facing each other into a single nut with the void filled with red match heads carefully scraped off the matchsticks.
Just chuck them up in the air as high as you could and if the landed on either end... "BANG!!!"
Yes, remember doing that as well Just chuck them up in the air as high as you could and if the landed on either end... "BANG!!!"
Who remembers the control line model planes. Glow plug engine and a handle that you held as you rotated, facing the model?
Big bro had one while I preferred the rubber band kind.
One kid tried running in a circle, chasing the plane. He did a faceplant and the plane munched its way up his back before being stalled by his hair. Stitches were needed.
Big bro had one while I preferred the rubber band kind.
One kid tried running in a circle, chasing the plane. He did a faceplant and the plane munched its way up his back before being stalled by his hair. Stitches were needed.
davhill said:
Who remembers the control line model planes. Glow plug engine and a handle that you held as you rotated, facing the model?
Big bro had one while I preferred the rubber band kind.
One kid tried running in a circle, chasing the plane. He did a faceplant and the plane munched its way up his back before being stalled by his hair. Stitches were needed.
Yes, I flew them and crashed them too! Mine were diesel engined and I mixed my own fuel from ether, paraffin, and Castrol RBig bro had one while I preferred the rubber band kind.
One kid tried running in a circle, chasing the plane. He did a faceplant and the plane munched its way up his back before being stalled by his hair. Stitches were needed.
LordGrover said:
FiF said:
Back on a laundry day theme. We had a photo of the topload washing machine complete with 'luxury power mangle' earlier, now our first spin dryer was one of these Creda Debonair spin dryer.
We bought it second hand out of the paper, couple who were selling it were so anxious to demonstrate it, they soaked some towels, fired it up, but forgot to put a bucket under the outlet, see pics.Couple of gallons of water over their new carpet, didn't like to not buy it, seeing as it was so good at extracting water.
Thems was the dayses. We had one of those too.We bought it second hand out of the paper, couple who were selling it were so anxious to demonstrate it, they soaked some towels, fired it up, but forgot to put a bucket under the outlet, see pics.Couple of gallons of water over their new carpet, didn't like to not buy it, seeing as it was so good at extracting water.
Ahh nostalgia! When we were first married, the old lady in the flat below said she had a washing machine in the cellar that she couldn't use any more. It was a single tub affair with an impeller inside it that could mangle (pun alert) clothes if you tried to put too much in. I'd carried it up to our flat and cleaned it up a bit. The pump used to leak but I could fix it by packing the gland with greased string. We were posh students!
On explosives, I had a pal at school who experimented with sodium chlorate and sugar - a potentially lethal mixture. We'd put some in an empty aerosol can, wrap the can in a paper bag and set fire to it then run. That made quite a bang!
On explosives, I had a pal at school who experimented with sodium chlorate and sugar - a potentially lethal mixture. We'd put some in an empty aerosol can, wrap the can in a paper bag and set fire to it then run. That made quite a bang!
On the question of matches down those tubular cabinet keys, did anyone else have one of those toy cannons, a bit like the design of pirate cannons, that had a spring loaded firing mechanism. Ever have a mishap when using matches as ammunition and non safety match inserted the wrong way catching light as it was launched across the lounge at a squad of plastic soldiers. Wonder we didn't burn the place down.
FiF said:
On the question of matches down those tubular cabinet keys, did anyone else have one of those toy cannons, a bit like the design of pirate cannons, that had a spring loaded firing mechanism. Ever have a mishap when using matches as ammunition and non safety match inserted the wrong way catching light as it was launched across the lounge at a squad of plastic soldiers. Wonder we didn't burn the place down.
I had one of them... a green painted 'field canon' part of the matchbox military collection IIRC.
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