blokepieces are now on facebook !
- cjk
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Re: blokepieces are now on facebook !
Pssh. You're joking. Anyone can edit Wikipedia.bloke wrote:( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal )
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besides my interests in tubas, I also like restoring micro-cars from the 1950s - there are many charlatans and "pot metal" fakers in that area too! However, sometimes the original items were made of that same "pot metal" and it is the best we can expect...
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Chrome trim pieces for full-size cars of that era were sometimes chrome-plated pot metal -- easy and cheap to make. They looked good, too, for a year or two (until the chrome started peeling and flaking off ... looked pretty nasty after that).David Richoux wrote:besides my interests in tubas, I also like restoring micro-cars from the 1950s - there are many charlatans and "pot metal" fakers in that area too! However, sometimes the original items were made of that same "pot metal" and it is the best we can expect...
"Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent." -- Pogo (via Walt Kelly)
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If you are even in Nashville, you need to visit the Lane Motor Museum. He has quite a few of those cars.David Richoux wrote:besides my interests in tubas, I also like restoring micro-cars from the 1950s - there are many charlatans and "pot metal" fakers in that area too! However, sometimes the original items were made of that same "pot metal" and it is the best we can expect...
http://lanemotormuseum.org/
- David Richoux
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Re: blokepieces are now on facebook !
MartyNeilan wrote:If you are even in Nashville, you need to visit the Lane Motor Museum. He has quite a few of those cars.David Richoux wrote:besides my interests in tubas, I also like restoring micro-cars from the 1950s - there are many charlatans and "pot metal" fakers in that area too! However, sometimes the original items were made of that same "pot metal" and it is the best we can expect...
http://lanemotormuseum.org/
This museum is my favorite: http://microcarmuseum.com/
My current project is the only microcar that can hold two people and a Sousaphone without too much difficulty: the BMW 600 "Limousine".
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thank you for posting the link have just spent an hour taking the tour my father and Uncle shared an engine between a Heinkel Tourist and a Bubble car in the late 50's he went on his honeymoon in one
Cant carry a tune but I can carry a tuba.
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Re: blokepieces are now on facebook !
Is "Facebook" that thing everyone used before G+?
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I prefer Gsus myself.sloan wrote:Is "Facebook" that thing everyone used before G+?
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EIGHT tracks??? I'm lucky if my Betty lamp doesn't melt the cylinder.bloke wrote:I'm not sure, but I have had NO luck getting facebook to work on my 8-track player...sloan wrote:Is "Facebook" that thing everyone used before G+?
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