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Subject: Re: Killer - chapter 3 erector set

Author:
Jim Scott

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Date Posted: 19:14:04 07/31/15 Fri
In reply to: Mikey 's message, "Re: Killer - chapter 3 erector set" on 07:45:59 07/31/15 Fri

Search the web like I did last night and you will find they are still made. Amazon has competitive prices on them. I am about 65 years too old for a set but I still wish I had a set when I was a kid. Maybe wanting one led to me getting an electronics engineering degree in 1966. I am still the chief equipment maintenance person for the FCC's HF Radio Direction Finding System. Besides repairing and tweaking the computer and RF equipment I also implement the installation of any new equipment including rack mounts and any lathe, milling machine, metal fabrication, etc. that is needed. Sort of like being a one-man band but I can't even hum much less sing on key.

Jim

>>Brings back memories of the erector sets that I had
>>when I was a kid! For years later, my parts box still
>>had some of the screws and bolts and small stamped
>>metal pieces from the sets.
>
>Ditto. My top dresser drawer still has a small
>stamped piece of an Erector set.... in the same
>box as a couple of tie tacks, a set of cufflinks,
>etc. I keep it as a memory jog of my grandfather.
>I also have my mom's RN pin from her nursing cap.
>
>If I remember correctly there were three sizes
>of Erector Sets. I was given the middle size
>one Christmas or birthday - I must have been 6
>or 7 and my birthday is near Christmas. My
>grandfather stumbled across one of the high
>end Sets at a garage sale a month or so later
>and I got it as a late present.
>I had more fun with those sets... and I really
>think they were what developed my interest in
>engineering.
>But the Heathkit Crystal Set kit and soldering
>iron that I got for my 8th birthday is what got
>me into amateur radio, serious electronics,
>public safety two-way radio (i.e. police and
>fire), and from there into computers and
>information technology. It's a shame that
>today's kids don't have Erector Sets.

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[> [> Subject: Re: Killer - chapter 3 erector set
Author: Lordshipmayhem [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 16:03:48 08/01/15 Sat >It's a shame that >today's kids don't have Erector Sets. Yes, something like this. http://www.erector.us/

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Author: Wes [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 00:03:56 08/02/15 Sun > >>It's a shame that >>today's kids don't have Erector Sets. > >Yes, something like this. > >href="http://www.erector.us/">http://www.erector.us/ >> These are very different from the '50s/60's style AC Gilbert Erector sets. -- Wes

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Author:
Pete
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Date Posted: 23:02:14 08/02/15 Sun

>>Yes, something like this.
>> >>href="http://www.erector.us/">http://www.erector.us/ >a
>>>
>
>These are very different from the '50s/60's style AC
>Gilbert Erector sets.
I had a friend in high school (late 1950's) who had british family, and had both the Gilbert and Meccano sets (yes, Meccano dates back that far). They aren't easily compatible but both nice.

-- Pete

>
>-- Wes