Anyone here have any of these toys?

[Archae]

I had two of them, both from Gilbert.

The chemistry set (made some impressive bangs!) :-) and the atomic lab.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19481_the-8-most-wildly-irresponsible-vintage-toys.html

[HopeHoops]

1. I had the PowerMite tools - at least the reciprocating saw, circular saw, and drill.

I'm not sure that was the brand name but it looks just like the ones I had - the worked too!

I also had a much more elaborate chemistry set in a metal case with all kinds of fun shit to hurt yourself with.

[HappyMe]

2. I had an awesome chemistry set.

Not the one pictured though. I had a few pretty good Blams! myself. :D Good times.

I had a make wax people set too. Melt wax, dump into mold, paint them up. I also had a Mattel fun flowers, bug maker thingy.

[frogmarch]

3. I had the iron.

Survival of the fittest was the name of the game for us olden day kids.

[MilesColtrane]

4. Strange Change Machine

http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/str.html

What could go wrong with molten plastic?!

[BrendaBrick]

5. I didn't have anything by Gilbert

But I loved my Creepy Crawlers...

[pacalo]

6. Not exactly an irresponsible toy -- until the electric cord shorted out...

I had one of these electric ovens when I was 9 or 10 & it was powerful enough to fry french fries. It got to the point where every time I opened the oven door I'd get a shock.

[AngryOldDem]

18. I remember those. n/t

[Brickbat]

7. My in-laws have an antique toy lead smelter. What could possibly go wrong?

[pinniped]

8. Gilbert's consistent in their pursuit of scientific research.

That steam locomotive sounds pretty cool.

[sakabatou]

9. Nope

[pokerfan]

10. I had Baby's first meth lab

AKA the Gilbert Chemistry Set. I discovered that potassium and water makes a kaboom and yeah, ammonium nitrate is the first half of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO">ANFO.

[csziggy]

11. I got my sister's Gilbert Chemistry Set as a hand me down

She'd used most of the interesting chemicals doing cool stuff. With what was left I managed to make blue ink, but that wasn't very exciting so I checked out some chemistry ideas in some books. The only one I could find the ingredients for was how to make a small "bomb" with baking soda and vinegar. I used the test tube that had the blue ink in it. The "explosion" was very satisfactory and the foam that came out was a lovely shade of blue.

On retrospect, I should have tried it outside. Mom was not happy with a big blue spot on the ceiling of the Florida room. The blue ink was indelible and it managed to show through the first two coats of paint Dad put over it.

I never saw that chemistry set again.

[Bake]

12. I had an Erector Set ... and a microscope.

I had fun with them.

:hi:

Bake

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[Bake]

16. Come to think of it, I had a Gilbert chemistry set too!

Never tried to build a nuke though. Never crossed my mind.

:hi:

Bake

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[trof]

15. I had the chemistry set. Made impressive stink bombs.

[trof]

17. I made spoke guns.

Anybody else?

[AngryOldDem]

19. No, but I had something kind of lethal ...oops, I mean similar...

...a woodburning set. I was 9 or 10. Blocks of wood with designs that the soldering-like stylus would etch. Somehow when I playing with it the tip of the stylus somehow came in contact with the cord, and a spark flared up and hit me straight in the glasses, enough to make a small pit. If I had not been wearing them, I most likely would be blind in my left eye. I still remember seeing a flash coming toward my face, and me screaming.

What the point of that toy was, I can't say. It was a Christmas gift, and I have to wonder WTF were my folks thinking, and whether or not there was any kind of subliminal message in there somewhere.

[hifiguy]

20. I had a chemistry set that allowed me to

make some pretty bad stenches and small explosions.

Preferred my big Erector Set (another Gilbert toy), this one:



Gads I spent countless hours building cars and cranes with that thing.

[surrealAmerican]

21. It's probably a good thing ...

... that I never knew about the glass blowing kit. I so would have wanted that.

[begin_within]

22. I had a Gilbert chemistry set, a geology set, a microscope set, and the American Basic Science Club

kits, with which you could construct a lot of projects. It even had 2 radioactive parts, a pin painted with radium paint and a small bag of sand with uranium in it! We also had the great Bell System science projects Energy from the Sun, From Sun to Sound, Crystals and Light and Speech Synthesis.