Erector Sets and Radio Shack

[Reephdweller]

When I was a kid I used to like to build all kinds of weird vehicles and things with erector sets. I don't even know if these things even exist anymore. Below is a picture I just found on a google search, but I used to be fascinated with building something new and usual.

I also used to love to go to Radio Shack and hobby shops and get all kinds of electronic parts and add motors and other things to make the weird inventions I'd make even more interesting.

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[mdr55]

I also used to love to go to Radio Shack and hobby shops and get all kinds of electronic parts and add motors and other things to make the weird inventions I'd make even more interesting.

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[reeshy]

Reef,
Do you remember Heathkit electronic kits? When I was a kid, I would save my money and buy the shortwave radio kits that they sold. The amazing thing is that these things really worked and the manuals that came with them actually taught you how a radio ( electronics in general) worked. In fact, my mother has one of my radios in her basement- I got to check it out one of these days!!!!

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[Reephdweller]

Reef,
Do you remember Heathkit electronic kits? When I was a kid, I would save my money and buy the shortwave radio kits that they sold. The amazing thing is that these things really worked and the manuals that came with them actually taught you how a radio ( electronics in general) worked. In fact, my mother has one of my radios in her basement- I got to check it out one of these days!!!!



Yeah, I believe my brother actually had one of those kits. I didn't have one myself, but I remember the kits. Now that I think of it, I'd really like to get into making one.


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[Duke]

reef or anyone else does anyone rember ham radio they are like shortwave but can reach China they also have kits for them but they are like $200

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[Reephdweller]

Duke, my mother's aunts husband was blind but he knew people from all around the world through his ham radio. When I'd visit him I'd see him talking to various people and all the different accents and just to be in touch with these people from all over it was really cool. The internet is great in that respect as well in that we can talk to and meet people from all over.

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[SatCam]

Of course these are still around. Most of them come with a motor included.

BTW Duke, Ham radio is still around, although a lot of companies stopped making transistors.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I was born in 1967.

I remember when my dad would bring TV TUBES to the Radio Shack to get tested.

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Might remember this too! :)

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[Reephdweller]

I remember when my dad would bring TV TUBES to the Radio Shack to get tested.



I remember tv tubes, but mostly from watching The Munsters and Herman swallowing them like candy.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Damn syndication!!! :)

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[A.J.]

I remember when my dad would bring TV TUBES to the Radio Shack to get tested.

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[hyperspace]

wasn't there a porno magazine box set also know as the Erector Set?? and alice i was born in 1969 and i remember the tubes thing!

[KCfromDC]

I remember when my dad would bring TV TUBES to the Radio Shack to get tested.

I was born ten years later, so I don't remember tube testers at Radio Shack, but I do have one at my house. My old man got a bunch of surplus electronics from the navy. They come in really handy, now that I am an FM radio engineer.

Speaking of Radio Shack, I used to love that place when I was a kid. They're was always some nerdy guy who knew a thing or two about electronics, and who could actually answer questions. Every time I go now, its some teenager trying to sell me a cell phone.

[high fly]

The erector set I had as a kid was poorly stamped out of the molds and had little shards of metal on the edges of a bunch of the pieces which cut my little fingers when I wasn't getting painful splinters from them.
The set I had wasn't the bigass deluxe set so there wasn't a hell of a lot to build with it.
I had much more fun with the Tinkertoys.

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[KC2OSO]

There's a radio forum (http://antiqueradios.com/cgi-bin/forums/index.cgi) that discusses all this and more. Mostly old timers (with alot of knowledge) but some younguns (38) like me.

I like to restore old radios and these dudes have been a ton of help over the past few years. Really nice guys.


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[mikeyboy]

I remember when my dad would bring TV TUBES to the Radio Shack to get tested.
I'm thinking...
Reeshy
Jafter
Perhaps, mikeyboy.
Tall James
Gvac
HECKLER
Mike_Teacher
Might remember this too!



I sure do.



Do you remember Heathkit electronic kits?


Our family TV growing up was a Heathkit that my dad put together.


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