Sunday's Show and Tell...1/1/17..Happy New Year!

[Robertriley]

A friend dropped this off this weekend. I'm going to teach my 10 year old girl and possibly my 16 ear old boy how to run them. I stopped running them in High School and my best time as a 16 year old was in the top 20 in the state and was a school record for close to 20 years. I tried again in collage but really lost interest.

 

[Robertriley]

I also picked up my Rollfast yesterday from Brian, who drove it down from NorCal. Thanks brother!

 

[bikewhorder]

I bought a ladies post war Columbia last week (Wow there's a sentence I never thought I'd write). And I also got these rims from "husky bicycles". They have been listed as out of stock for the past year but I ordered them anyway and they shipped out the next day.

 

[bentwoody66]

New ring for the Colson and a Miami badge came home to Middletown Ohio.

 

[CWCMAN]

Nothing bike related but I did pick up this cool German made penny tin garage and I had a couple Barndoor buses to park in it.

Also the amazing Tom Clark hand applied the graphics and pins on my small parts box.

 

[Joe Buffardi]

Damn Tom!! Nice work!!

 

[Clark58mx]

Picked up this is original Schwinn Cotton Picker with the owners manual. It will clean up nice.

 

[morton]

I've been moaning since spring about not finding any bike stuff but last week managed to pickup a nice pair of s-7s with pretty decent Westwinds for a good price. Maybe my luck is changing.

Earlier this year I posted a Lionel tender I picked up. Didn't work so I took it apart, re-soldered, replaced some wire, reglued/relaced some of the plastic "whistle box," and cleaned the brushes and lubed the pivot points. Works like a charm now.

I was stuck by how complicated it was inside and the fact the we (USA} were able to produce and sell a toy that was so well engineered that with a little bit of work would perform like it did 60 years ago. And I think this one was dropped as the plastic is cracked in numerous places but a little filler and some work with my air brush I will turn it into a very practical "runner." I love fixin' things instead of replacing.

Today's version is probably filled with electronics, mother boards, etc. and couldn't be repaired even if you tried cause parts aren't available.

And they call that progress.

 

[PCHiggin]

I bought a ladies post war Columbia last week (Wow there's a sentence I never thought I'd write). And I also got these rims from "husky bicycles". They have been listed as out of stock for the past year but I ordered them anyway and they shipped out the next day.

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They look heavy duty,Are they "tubular" like the old Schwinns?

 

[Barkeep]

No bikes this week but did find this 1957 ford custom 300 sedan. Been sitting in the same spot since 1971. Going to be a great little cruiser.

Cleaning up good already...