ORIGINAL: DocYates
Hey Doc, such a drill used for winding rubber models is a rather expensive drill. Most had the big gear wheel with just gear on it. After a bit of winding the gears would loosen up and slip off the outside of the wheel. The only ones that worked well for any time had a ridge around the gear wheel. They were expensive. (OTOH I found one in a garage sale some years ago and got it for a few bucks, but don't have anything to use it for.) Funny how little things like that I can remember but now where did I lay my electric drill down? [:-]
It prolly was expensive, he had migrated down to the South from Ohio
(my dad always thought he was just another funny Yankee).
And I too sold Grit when I was kid, along with Rosebud salve and Christmas cards. Sold enough salve one summer to get a model rocket set. I was king for a day....
Funny when you think about all the things AMA needs, it is really hard to put a finger on what got us interested in these things to start with. It really was a different time, I mean remember when we were kids (some of us) everything stopped so we could watch the moon shots, and now they hardly even show the shuttle launchs on TV. Society becomes desensitized to some things, not that that is bad, but in reality times do change and sometimes we have to change along with them or we will get left behind.
Tommy
We didn't have the Rosebud salve, but we did have Clover Brand salve, along with Grit newspapers, and the all occasion cards whose company would send you a catalog so that you could select the prize that you wanted for selling an entire carton of boxes of cards. I remember picking a P-40 model airplane for selling a carton of 24 boxes of cards. Clover brand salve let you win prizes as well, but nothing as good as a glow engined plane. I mowed lawns with a homemade power mower (used a Maytag twin cylinder 2 stroke washing machine engine) that used a belt drive to a spindle that had a blade made from a car spring. The damn thing must have weighed 100 pounds, but it was better than a reel push mower. I picked up bottles and returned them for the deposit, collected scrap metal and most anything a kid could do to earn a little money to spend on model airplanes. I bought so many, that I'm surprised that Comet and Megow went out of business. I ordered tons of kits from America's Hobby Center in New York, and when I could get to Nashville (one hour on the bus), I would always go to Burk's which had a hobby shop on the second floor. No, kids today, don't know what it means to scrimp and save to be able to pursue this hobby. Most of them haven't a clue what a longeron is, much less what it does. Sad to say.
Bill, AMA 4720