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bloke wrote:( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal )

Pssh. You're joking. Anyone can edit Wikipedia.

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...

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...

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...

If you are even in Nashville, you need to visit the Lane Motor Museum. He has quite a few of those cars.
http://lanemotormuseum.org/

MartyNeilan wrote:

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...

If you are even in Nashville, you need to visit the Lane Motor Museum. He has quite a few of those cars.
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".

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

Is "Facebook" that thing everyone used before G+?

sloan wrote:Is "Facebook" that thing everyone used before G+?

I prefer Gsus myself.

bloke wrote:

sloan wrote:Is "Facebook" that thing everyone used before G+?

I'm not sure, but I have had NO luck getting facebook to work on my 8-track player...

EIGHT tracks??? I'm lucky if my Betty lamp doesn't melt the cylinder.