The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys

[mybike]

or just set things on fire with meths

A school friend used to dip his fags in meths.

 

[User169]

Reminds me of this article I read earlier in the year...

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/19/experience-blindness-no-sense-of-time

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Reminds me of this article I read earlier in the year...

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/19/experience-blindness-no-sense-of-time

What a sad story.

 

[Paulus]

I had this as a youngster c 1973, it was quite amazing what what you could make with it, and the instructions to make gunpowder and homemade grenades were the stuff of terrorists.

 

[mybike]

From your use of the past tense, I'm guessing alas he is no more

We lost contact shortly after leaving school, so I've no idea.

 

[Piemaster]

I had this as a youngster c 1973, it was quite amazing what what you could make with it, and the instructions to make gunpowder and homemade grenades were the stuff of terrorists.

I had one of those too. I also remember it quietly disappeared, shortly after my Dad, after bending a few glass tubes, connected them up in via corked test tubes neglecting to allow for any expansion of gases. The resulting explosion scattered glass liberally around the kitchen.
Come to think of it, the chemistry set may have been hidden by my Mum from him, not me.

 

[speccy1]

I had this as a youngster c 1973, it was quite amazing what what you could make with it, and the instructions to make gunpowder and homemade grenades were the stuff of terrorists.

I had one of these, I think the holes are still in my mum and dads kitchen ceiling 25 years later!!

 

[mybike]

I wonder why I was never allowed a chemistry set.

 

[User169]

Yes, my dad had one too. He always had a damp cloth on hand in case the thing set on fire

Mine is boxed up in the shed and has a pair of my dad's old underpants in the box from circa 1975 which were used for the same purpose.

 

[Drago]

I vaguely really kids chemistry set a with some rather unpleasant ingredients.

 

[sidevalve]

A TOY firm has axed a vibrating replica of Harry Potter's broomstick after mums complained their daughters spent too long riding it. Makers Mattel advertised the battery operated toy as having "a grooved stick and handle for easy riding"

Not vintage, but probably irresponsible!...

Drat you - now the wife is out searching for one [says she's a great Harry Potter fan or something].

 

[vernon]

I never got Mamods.

They didn't do anything except sit there with something going round.

I moved onto bigger things that sit still with something going round...



While not neglecting smaller things that sit still with something going round...



And things that sit still and just make a noise

 

[Brains]

I have a Mamod steam engine, given to me when I was about 9 or 10, it was a steam roller, so it moved as well.
I built a shoe polisher and a Ferris wheel out of mechano that were driven by it in static mode.

It's still up in the attic somewhere

 

[classic33]

Drat you - now the wife is out searching for one [says she's a great Harry Potter fan or something].

http://www.amazon.com/Rubies-9700-Potter-Flying-Broomstick/dp/B000FCUS14

 

[tyred]

I never got Mamods.

They didn't do anything except sit there with something going round.

Try using a belt to drive a bottle dynamo and then you can have something that sits still and lights a 2.4W bulb