Interesting photos I have run across.

[RNR1957NYer]

14 minutes ago, Dave72dt said:

There's no reason for using that method and I hope no one does that anymore.  Why post that "tip" without a disclaimer?

Wow.....

 

And that's why the owner's manual for my P12 is 56 pages long and my '22 Challenger is 332 pages long.....

[FlashBuddy]

14 minutes ago, Dave72dt said:

There's no reason for using that method and I hope no one does that anymore.  Why post that "tip" without a disclaimer?

Huh? I don't think it was a suggested solution for disposing of used oil, more of a look back. But who would pour in into a  hole when it can be poured along your house's perimeter to help with weed abatement. Or one could do the more popular method of taking it to an auto parts store and using their free oil recycling service.

[Dave72dt]

That's why I asked "why no disclaimer".  If it was supposed to be a look back, say it.

[JBNeal]

On 1/15/2025 at 1:39 PM, Dave72dt said:

There's no reason for using that method and I hope no one does that anymore.  Why post that "tip" without a disclaimer?

I reckon the disclaimer was implied with the January 1963 notation at the bottom of that excerpt...the world was a different place before the Reorganization Plan #3 of 1970...Dad said that kids would chase the DDT fogging truck while on their bikes, and fling leaded gasoline on yellowjacket nests 👀

[JBNeal]

Buffing out the extra in the Tucker body shop

[Young Ed]

On 1/21/2025 at 6:05 AM, JBNeal said:

I reckon the disclaimer was implied with the January 1963 notation at the bottom of that excerpt...the world was a different place before the Reorganization Plan #3 of 1970...Dad said that kids would chase the DDT fogging truck while on their bikes, and fling leaded gasoline on yellowjacket nests 👀

There was a manufacturing plant of some sort near my Mom's childhood home. They had a mountain of asbestos for use in the plant that apparently kids would play on and sled down.

[Dan Hiebert]

My brother and I used to do that, chase the skeeter fogger through the neighborhood when we were visiting our grandparents in Illinois.  They didn't do that mobile fogging thing in south Texas where we lived, so we thought it was an exclusive thing that we could brag about when we went back to school.  One of the culture shocks we experienced when  we moved from Dallas to the Rio Grande Valley was no closed hallways in the elementary school, so the classrooms would fill with mosquitos, and the teachers would have to set off those DDT bomb foggers in the rooms.  MOST of the time they would usher us out of the room until the haze subsided.  I remember the hubbub about DDT on the news, but no one seemed to think anything of it where we were.

[Los_Control]

I'm all for safer and better building practices .... sometimes I think it gets overplayed.

 

 

 

This house built in 1948 still has the original siding on it. The tiles are a mixture of cement and asbestos.

Paint is a nice feature, these tiles do not care if they have paint or not ... they are fire proof .... I love my asbestos tiles 

 

 

Again 75 years ago we could build a product to last a lifetime ... we are no longer allowed to use it.

They say it can cause cancer ..... I wonder if that has ever been realistically scientifically proven to be traced to asbestos ... it does have small fibers that can get in the lungs and cause issues.

Could we just find better ways to work with the product? .... Or is it the fact it last forever it was banned?

 

Lead paint is another .... last a long time .... They found out early the more lead you put in paint, the longer it would last.

They figured out they could put more lead into red paint and maintain the color, thus most old barns were painted red because it would last the longest.

 

Lead paint is still used today on commercial projects like bridges .... it was canceled for home use because it taste sweet, small children could eat loose flaking paint and get sick from it .... small children can eat many things and get sick.

 

Of course we do not want to dump our used engine oil on the front yard .... where does oil come from?

 

Mark me Grumpy 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Eneto-55]

11 hours ago, Dan Hiebert said:

My brother and I used to do that, chase the skeeter fogger through the neighborhood when we were visiting our grandparents in Illinois.  They didn't do that mobile fogging thing in south Texas where we lived, so we thought it was an exclusive thing that we could brag about when we went back to school.  One of the culture shocks we experienced when  we moved from Dallas to the Rio Grande Valley was no closed hallways in the elementary school, so the classrooms would fill with mosquitos, and the teachers would have to set off those DDT bomb foggers in the rooms.  MOST of the time they would usher us out of the room until the haze subsided.  I remember the hubbub about DDT on the news, but no one seemed to think anything of it where we were.

I think that Brazil has also moved away from DDT use, but when we lived there the health department would come through the mission center and do the fogging thing. Yes, it was DDT. In fact, the 'word' they used to refer to spraying was DDTisacao. (Pronounced as de de chi za sao.)  Earlier in our years there they would come into every house and spray all of the walls, everywhere.  It was the government policy that every house must be sprayed unless you had an official doctor's order against it. But the fogging was nearly as bad, because we had large 'windows', but no glass or shutters.  So there was no way to prevent it from drifting through the whole house (unless you saw them coming, and managed to hang sheets of something in the window openings on the up wind side of the house).

 

Asbestos - The roof on our house in Brazil was made of that same cement-asbestos material, and I also built our shower walls out of sheets of that stuff, so I've cut or sawed a fair bit of it.  (That was around 35 years ago when I built that shower in the house.)  Some people there also used it for counter tops, because the termites and wood borers didn't mess with it.

Edited Saturday at 01:16 PM by Eneto-55

[DonaldSmith]

When I was a boy and had my Marx electric train set, I made the mountain out of asbestos furnace cement.  Smooth and white.  I guess I'm still alive. 

 

As an architect, I was exposed to asbestos information, and somehow survived.  One fact - there  are different kinds of asbestos fibers, some really nasty.  The smooth white fibers are not so bad.

 

Legal cases and laws do not always recognize scientific subtilties.  After the Flint, Michigan lead (pronounced ledd) water service debacle, our city offered free testing service.  For a few years, I filled the jars with first water of the morning and they tested them - no appreciable lead. 

 

See, in use, the lead pipes develop a coating which keeps the lead from dissolving.  My 90 year old water service pipe was safe.  The city of Flint had screwed up their water treatment, and it dissolved the coatings.  

 

Being good protectors of public health, (and vote-conscious,) the State  mandated the cities to replace all the lead service lines to houses.  So I have a safe copper service line, at no cost to me.  (Some year they will find the copper is bad and has to be replaced.)     

 

  

[Dan Hiebert]

Judging by all the "bad" things that have been banned or their use minimized, my brother and I should be dead.  DDT, asbestos, mercury, lead, etc.  I remember saccharin being banned because it caused problems with lab rats, but the folks who were ostensibly looking out for us never mentioned that a human would have to drink ten cases of diet soda per day for several months to equal the amounts given the lab rats.  All well and good in the long run I guess.  Too much of anything can kill you.  As they say, "The odds of being killed by a cow are low, but never zero."  

[RNR1957NYer]

Many years ago I recall seeing a photo of a tumor that formed around a dime that a researcher surgically implanted in a lab rat, thus proving money causes cancer.

[JBNeal]

Tucker two tone

[RNR1957NYer]

11 minutes ago, JBNeal said:

Tucker two tone

Who wore it better? (thanks, Reg!)

[JBNeal]

Deciding which is better is like asking me to choose between Mom's peach cobbler and Mom's german chocolate cake...both are decadent winners !! 🏆

 

Tucker two tone, aft view