Thread Number: 70833
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 5/13/2017 |
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Post# 938281 , Reply# 2   5/13/2017 at 12:36 (2,537 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Tons of these machines came in as trades but unlike later Maytags they were all destined for the scrap guy. I became an expert at taking apart the lid and removing the mercury filled glass tubes which I cracked open like a freshly-laid egg. I soon had a Best Foods Mayonnaise jar full of the stuff which my friends and I had fun playing with...I'm still alive, not sure where they are.
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Post# 938305 , Reply# 3   5/13/2017 at 15:28 (2,537 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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I take it they weren't popular to tweak and re-sell? I rember us kids playing with mercury. I remember being told to wash my hands well after playing with it because it is poison. Maybe all the years drinking whiskey cleaned out my liver. |