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I like the "Stop Light" themed candle set! -kevin

A clarification. In re-reading my last post, I realized that some people might think I was implying that the religious members here at AW.org were grouped in with they hypocrites that I went on to discuss. I did not intend for that impresstion to be conveyed. I was just establishing that this...

Westtexman, you astonish me. Christians, both on this board and in this country in general, are overwhelmingly tolerated. In fact, "tolerated" is a vast understatement. In reading the threads on this board, I'm actually a bit surprised by the preponderance of (primarily christian) religious...

I agree with almost everything you have to say, pturo. I agree with your ideas about what constitutes 'real issues' and what should be 'non-issues.' However, politicians like Larry Craig and Joey DiFatta are the ones who are misdirecting the voters. They are speechifying loudly about family...

Delightful yet creepy, and very amateurishly drawn. I like i The huge, startled woman (who's still dialing the telephone) is communicating with the bemused, middle-aged stockboy in the All-Tide Grocery Store. It seems that her miniature washing machine just can't get her bizarrely huge basket...

I'm glad I'm easy-going and a joy to live with. As l Why is it so difficult for people to activate their turn signals, and THEN step on the brakes? There are other drivers on the road, and it'd be nice to give us a clue as to what's going on in your little pin-head. Why do people think it's...

Sorry, this isn't really forced-air Here are some shots of the boiler in the building where I work. It hasn't been used in many, many years, but it's still there. It has to be -- there's really no way to get it out of the building. You'd have to remove the building from around it. Our shop is...

B&H Autoload Filmosounds Jeff, The Bell and Howell machines were always my favorites as an A/V type. Most of the machines in our school system were Graflex (Yuck!), some few were RCA 500-series machines, and the rest were Bell and Howell. I never worked with Kodak Pageants until relatively...

Very impressive. And you wouldn't have to worry about your roast escaping -- the oven-door latch looks like it means business! -kevin

Very cool. A great collection of well-known brands from the late '50s (many of which are still household names). I like the absurdity of the ScotTowels detail. She seems to be falling off of her low stepladder, grasping frantically at the cabinet door to keep from crashing to the ground...

Ceiling heat is definitely a bad idea. The house has electric baseboard heat, and when I bought it, it also had air-conditioning upstairs with ductwork in the attic. After the first few years, when rusty, dusty water would drip out of the vents all winter (yes, the ducts were insulated, but...

Thanks to the link that reminds me how overpriced my heat is Due to some unexpected bills, etc., I was unable to go forward with my plan to install some sort of Propane-fired heat in my home for this winter. I still favor in-floor water heat, but that's quite a bit of investment -- and the...

I haven't tried this, so I can't say whether it' Here's a link to an Online Titlestrip Maker. -kevin http://www.pinballrebel.com/archive/other/onlinenew/index.html

UV Toilet Seat thingamajigs The UV toilet seat lamps I recall were mounted in a metal box on the wall, above the toilet. The toilet seats were of the "U" shaped, spring-loaded variety which would flip up automatically when you stood up. There was a switch somewhere that would automatically...

Removing Stickers Stickers can usually be removed from anything -- including fairly delicate paper stock -- using lighter fluid. Forget about Goo-Gone, which is smelly and oily and hard to clean up. I know it sounds completely wrong, but plain, old Zippo-type lighter fluid (I get it cheap from...

UV Bulbs I have a late-1960s Jet-Spray beverage dispenser (the kind that lemonade, etc. is marketed in and dispensed from in restaurants) in my bar. Below the nozzle is a drip-tray which is not connected to a drain, so any beverage which drips into it just sort of stays there. Behind the front...

Luckily, not much goes wrong with filmstrip projectors. Of course, the cassette decks are another matter. Belts and rollers and dirty heads and guides can all cause endless headaches. Filmstrips are nice, but I always prefer 16mm film. We didn't use a lot of TV when I was in school, but we did...

I think Jamison Handy would be pleased. Nice job -- I would have thought that a lot of the work would involve filling in scratches and cleaning up spices. These old strips (and also movies) certainly do fade with age and poor storage. I'm glad to see projects like this (and of course...

Ralph, Have you tried slamming the receiver down on the counter? This usually cures the fuzzy sound -- for a while. -kevin

I'd like to see a picture, if you have one. My favorite jukebox, the Seeburg LPC-1, won an industrial design award for Sundberg-Ferar in 1963. -kevin