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Philco 40-180 seven-tube AM radio from 1940, being sold for parts but I'm sure someone could figure out which vacuum tube to change to get it back into gear.

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So of your tech youve accrued, have you considered restoring any to working conditions or do you deem it more important to maintain the parts it already came with?

Who said I didn't use the stuff I have? ;-) Most of the stuff I have accrued is in working condition, sometimes by my having to unscrew and fiddle with it but others there wasn't anything a little WD-40 and a can of compressed air couldn't spiff up.

The Boomers aren't kidding when they say stuff was made better in yesteryear. There is only ONE thing I own that isn't up to the level I want it to be, and that is my mother's Lionel train set, which dates back to the early 1950s. Yes, it does run, but since it's not been run in decades you have to throw the switch all the way up to full throttle to get it to move, and then it tries to re-enact a scene from Back To The Future 3... there is no in-between of pulling out of the station slowly and moving around the tracks at a normal pace. Yet.

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First off: No.

Okay, I am adequately moved into the new place (not entirely done but to the point that I have Internet and my computer assembled), so I should be a bit more visible again. Thanks for your patience!

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Expo '86 tea set! With display platforms.

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Hop on the Disney Railway!

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Greetings, all. I'm in the process of moving -- still have the old place until the end of the month, but am in the new place as of yesterday so about to start transporting things from A to B -- so that's why I've been so quiet and will have to be for a little while longer. That and Comcast seems to have boned something because the modem at the new place isn't synching, so must call them.

Anyhow, found this Ace 'Cadet Liftop 302' from the 1960s yesterday. As you can see, the top is an amazing marbled blood red. Interesting putting papers together with something that looks like raw steak.

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Another competetor in the Tinkertoy, Lego/Elgo, and Lincoln Logs category in the 1950s was Fox Blox. A number of other people and companies are using this name in this spelling so finding more info on this is possible but in a sea of other results.

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Pulp fiction!

Sci-Fi books from STD flea market in Springfield MO

I got my fighting bonnet on and I mean business

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How we toted two dozen cassette tapes around back in the day, or stored all the music we really liked neatly.

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Tumblr LOVES cameras, and my lovely model is holding a Polaroid 420 camera. I had to figure out how to open -- then close, which was more challenging -- the bellows, but no equipment was harmed in the making of this photo. This was produced 1971-1977 and you could still get film for it until 2016. The flash unit is really interesting because what you see at the top right is just a holder for a FlashCube, which filters the light more evenly.

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Neat old projector at the thrift the other day!

A Brownie 500 8mm projector from the 1950s, which hopefully has a good bulb in it because that machine is the gold standard. And so clean!!

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Oh look, I found Pan's Labyrinth on HD-DVD!

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Recent purchase: the 1/2 & 1/4 key of a circa 1900-1910 typewriter.

For the record: I am against keycutting, but as someone pointed out to me... what if it is NOT a "perfectly-working machine"? Don't want beautiful pieces like this to go to waste. (Ignore the bit of lint. I cleaned the glass with a Q-tip and apparently a little floss got off.)

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That IS pretty awesome, and in its original box and shipping! I knew it had to be late 1960s to the 1970s due to the fact there was a ZIP code on the address (first used on shipping boxes in 1967), then the postmark confirmed 1969. "sausage rolls"??

Seems to basically be in the hotplate style of the era, but with serving trays that hinge down on its sides. I like how the sides attempt to look like wood window shutters, complete with engraving and handles; I found another photo in a different door style, LOL:

Branded by Gerber though made by Jaxton. I initially thought since you have dark wood on yours these doors were metallic and had heating coils inside, like a waffle iron, but I found a picture of yet another model with a different tray layout where it's clear this is just wood being used as bowls:

Thank you for sharing your baby food warmer with me!

@vintage-tech Here's the food warmer in the baby food box I mentioned in the tags!

My husband and I bought it a good while ago so I got some of the details messed up, my bad. The stamp on the box says '69 so I suppose that's where I got my 70s time frame from and the shipping label says Ohio to Mississippi.

The wood doors are thick and sound so nice and the plant patterns on the metal is so pretty <3 I'll never use it, but I just like to admire it from time to time

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Discovered this thing at the local antique shop. Early portable camera!

Sweet, a Polaroid 150! Not the oldest instant but one of the best.

Camera was made in 1957-1960 but you could still get film for it until 1992, which didn't have its finisher built into the film so you had to manually wipe the picture with an included tube of liquid to fix it.

Sweet that this one has a case and a Wink flash!

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And you know what you can cook on your Black & Decker "Sizzle Lean" grill? Sizzlean!!

Sizzlean was a cured meat product manufactured throughout the 1970s and 1980s and marketed as a healthier alternative to bacon. Swift & Co. originally produced the product and rolled it out to major United States markets in 1977. In 1990, ConAgra Foods acquired Swift from Beatrice Foods and continued to market the product until about 2005. Although the product contained less fat than bacon, it was still 37% fat by weight, causing complaints that the "lean" name was not accurate.

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To the person a year or two ago that said they wanted to find 8mm film projectors in thrifts: today is a banner day for that.

16mm B&H Filmosound too!