State potential for lawsuit if swallowed. In a similar move, US Steel is stopping production of all screws and bolts smaller than 1/2" in diameter.
“It’s just not worth the risk,” says a spokesman for the Treasury Department.
Penny and nickels will not be affected.
LOL, that seems like what is going on lately. Its a wonder us guys older then 25 didn’t die from all those little marbles, dinly cars, etc that we played with as kids. Don’t forget about those electrical plugs, it won’t be long before the power is shut off in every house that has a 10 year old kid, lol.
I still remember the “car keys in the electrical socket” game as a kid…talk about a good buzz and a light show!..chuck
It’s just another sign of the dimes[:-^]
Anyone else?
A penny for your thoughts
Just my [2c]
Car keys? Heck, I just shoved my fingers in there. And then there was the time I ate the whole tube of toothpaste. Funny how some things just stick in your memory, isn’t it?
How about hiding under the CN trestle while a steam engine stopped above you, no one ever told us a LOT of crap falls, drips, pours, oozes, blasts, from a steam locomotive, why weren’t there notices to protect us little darlings?( I really think the hogger knew we were there) Mind you, we never did it again.
How did I ever live to reach 43 years of age, and how will I possibly make 44 (less than 2 months away). All these lethal hazards and so little time.
Then there was the mercury I had as a kid - and my Gilbert Chemistry Set …
But my favorites were my copies of “The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments”, where you learned to produce hydrogen and chlorine gas - THAT book isn’t on the market anymore (but I still have a copy), and the Amateurs Rocketry Handbook, where you found the formulas for rocket fuels - for METAL rockets !!!
Well, despite an explosion (thanks to a formula I found in a Robert Heinlein novel, actually), I’m still alive … and a chemist !!!
Thank a lawyer when you get the chance. They (and greedy clients) brought us here.
I can dig up some addresses of suppliers over here that are willing to ship such things (the screws/bolts/etc obviously, not the dimes!)… Will it still be legal to order them in from overseas or will incoming shipments be searched?
has visions of “bolt smuggling” becoming a big money industry…
My brothers and I used to play darts allot! We couldn’t afford a target so we just used each other as moving targets. We still have all of our eyes and body parts however we have these little black specs all over that don’t seem to go away. We also played Army allot (we were army brats) we couldn’t get real grenades so we used a box of Army pad locks our dad had “borrowed” from the Army. We gave that up pretty quick when we had to explain the bumps, bruises, cuts and blood. It is amazing we all are alive today fairly intact. Nowadays they have anticeptic towels, soap, disinfectant for the air and you are no longer allowed to eat dirt of any kind. Kids have it easy nowdays. No wonder they get so bored. I must admit however none of us ever thought of eating DImes. ***!
It’s sad. Kids nowaways will NEVER experience the thrill and the dangers of the “old days” like we did. These so-called “mandates” are probably one of the leading causes for the proliferation of many of the video games that are out these days.
In the meantime, if it makes any of you feel any better, mail all your “discarded” and unwanted dimes to me. I’ll find some way to get rid of them for you. [:)]
Tom
I think we had better all stock up on rail conectors and 2/56 screws.Oh and all layouts will soon need to be enclosed in a hermatically sealed room with an electronic lock with retina scanner. that way only you can get hurt. LOL Rob
grandeman,
You’re very welcome. Of course I think I may need to change the jurisdiction I practice in. Where I am it is the juries that decide the amount of an award to a plaintiff. I need to go practice in a state where I can decide how much my client gets. Where would that be?
Be nice… my wife might read this. We don’t have children yet, but she’s determined that when we do, my layout will be in a room that has a closable and lockable door.
I’m surprised they haven’t stopped production of gasoline. At age 10, I thought it would be really cool to simulate a nuclear explosion over some ‘junk’ Revell battleships in my backyard sandbox. What an interesting learning experience that was! My friends and I were able to run far enough away without getting hurt, but I was grounded for a month…
See how safe it is today, since our kids can’t afford the price of gasoline to simulate anything, let alone a Nuclear explosion.
First the dimes, and off course the penny would follow because the rules and danger will continue to change as we get smarter about this.
A good example of this danger is the stack extension on the BLI Santa Fe engine, 3751. I would hope the government does not notice how easy it would be to choke on it. Oh, the dangers of model railroading.
Maybe we need a warning label for everything.
Guess I’d better cut off my index finger 'cause I’m starting to gag on it… (Whoa!..what a dilemma!)
Tom
gbailey - those were two GREAT books! I wasn’t as interested in the hydrogen as I was in making the synthetic fiber. It seemed like it took forever to save up the money needed for all the ingredients but I did it and the experiment worked as advertised.
I tried to put together the money needed for building a rocket as per the handbook but Dad put the kibosh on that project when he pointed out we didn’t have sufficient room to launch and recover without risk of the expended rocket slamming into something other than dirt. However, all was not lost - since I didn’t believe him he taught me the basics of computation of area needed for a safe impact for an object falling from a distance of X feet in the presence of wind of varying velocities.
So between the book on chemistry, and the handbook on rockets and my trains I managed to learn about chemistry, mathematics, and electricity - not too bad for the pastimes of my childhood. [:)]
All I can say is you guys had a lot more fun growing up than I did!
Tom