Old Forgotten Ways

They're made for making ice.

Along with those we use a chest freezer. Besides the cold not spilling out all over the floor when you open it the other huge benefit of a chest freezer is it builds frost much much slower for the same reason.

Upright freezers are made for the same reason frostfree is.

i did not know that sears at some point branded ranges coldspot, by the time i was around they were only using it on refrigeration equipment, the ranges were branded kenmore or the oh so progressive "lady kenmore".

I think we had the same Dunlop drill press back in the early 70s at the oil company I worked for.

They had an old guy who worked there for 40 years who was a real wheeler dealer. While he was working, he picked up tools by the side of the road or discarded stuff or stuff from a scrap yard and brought them back to the shop and fixed them up in his spare time. Never met him he passed before I started working there.

We had a drill press, bench grinder, washing machine motor with a wire brush on it, and a table saw he had built out of an air conditioner frame and an air compressor made from an old York open drive compressor.

They were pretty frugal (actually cheap) in those days. I bought the first Sawzall they ever had and had to prove to the boss that we really needed it.

Cartridge fuses are expensive, think oh all the money they saved osing left oxer copper pipr.

My first drill press was a mail order special with a couple of lengths of 2" pipe and some castings for the head, table and motor mount. The motor was scavenged from an old Norge washing machine yjat used vacuum tro extract water from the rubber tub. A similar motor drove a Sears grinder head that I used to grind drill bits with,

'My uncle Joe had a small hand powered grinder with a vert fine stone on it.

Bob

Penny's have been copper plated zinc for a long, long time. Early 80s I think.

As far as what would happen, nothing, it would behave basically the same under those conditions. It certainly won't heat up / open soon enough, that's for sure.

These are the only penny's I'd consider to be safe to put under fuses. Well, these, and similar ones material wise.

Please please…no penny should be placed in with a plugged fuse. 😯😉😲

It looks like the screenshot I posted had 1 bad review.

The person probably tried to use them with fuses and didn't realize they were plastic.

how big are they? i'm pretty sure you have to make them much bigger or much smaller for it to not be considered counterfeiting.

I have no idea, but they're plastic, and say SCHOOL MONEY on them and look fake.

This is an odd thing to discuss honestly.

as a side note, looking in that 1940 sears catalog there is some stuff in there that looks very modern and other stuff that looks almost incomprehensibly from a different world. The socket sets and wrenches and a lot of tools look like modern tools but another page has a chemical toilet to install in your home to pretend like you have indoor plumbing and another page has kerosene cook stoves to install in your kitchen. (also probably the answer to how did they cook in my house when it didn't get natural gas until about 1950 and there was no sign of a breech of the chimney on the first floor for a cook stove or potbelly stove or something of that sort)

i tore down the chimney to the floor of the first floor, there was no breech or patched breech in it. all of the breeches or patched breeches are in the basement. one for the coal (and maybe converted to oil) floor furnace that was under the dining room in more or less the center of the house, one for the water heater, and one for the gas furnace that was installed around 1950.