Old School

Old Mud said:
You might be Old School if you ever had to rebuild one of these. :)
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Wait a min, I still have one of those on an old Wisconsin engine in the back yard. finding the parts is the fun part. And we use to call it monkey blood,, it made you jump around like a monkey. Old glass bottle with a glass dobber in it to smear the stuff around on with.
 
you might be old school if the accumulator man came round once a week to swap the 1.5V large glass cell accumulator (battery) for your radio that used it for the heater circuit and 90V dry cell pack.
This was in my grandfathers house in the early 50's and it also had gas lights whos hissing scared me at night..
 
I KNOW I'M OLD SCHOOL, WITH TWO CARBON-TETRA-CHLORIDE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS IN THE HOUSE.
MOST OF THE CHEMICAL IN MY SHOP ARE NOW CONSIDERED HAZARDOUS WASTE .
MY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS HANDBOOK DESCRIBES TRANSISTORS AND A NEWLY DEVELOPED ITEM WITH LITTLE POTENTIAL DUE TO ITS LOW POWER CAPACITY.
 
Might be old school if;

: a milkman used to deliver to your house.
: you got the strap at school and hoped your dad never found out ... because he wouldn't go to the school and raise a stink about them hurting his little Johnny .. he would just make sure little Johnny wouldn't do it again. (sure produced a more respectful generation).
: used to sit around listening to the radio for entertainment ........ before the invention of the B&W television.
: know who Ed Sullivan and Red Skelton are
: watched Howdy Doody (sp)
: went to a gas station and had attendants run out to fill your tank and wash your windows
: you paid $3.50 for an all day chair lift ticket at the ski resort (just called the ski hill back then)
 
Bob Korves said:
A spring reverb used a spring in a metal case to run an audio signal through to make echos of the music, voice, or whatever. Sounds like you are in an hard walled empty room with echos only much more so if you turned it up. Most of my experience is with guitar amplifiers, where reverb is still very common, but usually electronically generated today. We called the old ones "reverb tanks." The ones in the cars would make crashing noises if you went over some rough bumps or tracks and the spring(s) crashed into the box or each other. Same with music amplifiers. Back in the day we would kick or rock the amplifier about to make the reverb crash. "Heavy metal." Actually, I was (and am) more into blues and jump.
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VibraSonic! 50 Chev coupe with a 270 Jimmy, 3 deuces and lakers!
 
You might be old school if you still use one of these.


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MrDan said:
You might be old school if you belong to this forum! Most of the new generation have no idea how to work with their hands anymore. Sadly....
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True that, but the emergence of CNC put a lot of old iron out there at reasonable prices for us old farts to play wiyh
 
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