Collector ? What do you collect ?

[lookindown]

My son named it the "Adventure Shelf"...we find something worthy and it goes on the shelf.

 

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[Keppy]

I am not a collector i never was .. The finds i can not sell will go to some place like goodwill .. And the metal goes to the scrap yards….To me collecting just means junk sitting around taking up space … And cluttering up the place … And then what do you do every now and then look at it … WOW that sounds like fun……….Just take a picture of it then get rid of it….

 

[Limitool]

I didn't set out to be .... but I guess I'm a horseshoe collector as that's about all I ever find.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Mainly Coins, and any old cooking wares, Crocks, Mason jars, Cast Irons....Thou I keep all my finds like Bottles, tokens, Butttons etc. I usally try and find people to give that stuff to that collects them

 

[roaddust66]

In my younger days, I use to race slots both 1/24 & 1/32. I use to rebuild the power supplies for a track owner.
I would rewind the stock motors. At first by removing a couple of raps from each pole of the armagher. Later on I just rewound them with larger wire. The motors would get so hot the commentators would melt. I even custom built controls. They use to call me pushbutton. My controllers had a speed dial that I would set for the fastest I could take the worst curve. I had two other buttons, full throttle and breaks. I built another with a voltage doubler circuit, but it was outlawed. Oh, the old days!
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I am out of the hobby
now days but I remember the glory days of hand wound armatures. In the last 20 years or so you could buy custom wound armatures. The secret to a good armature was that the readings from a meter on all three poles were equal , thus meaning the number of winds were equal. we used to make a joke and call that a hand wound ..." a half a pound of hand wound ! " ...We banks of batteries where we control the amps and voltage. I had one track with 3200 amps and 16 volts and a hand controller burst into flames during a race... hahahah we knew we went too far. On smaller kiddie tracks we like adjustable power supplies like they use in amateur radio. Slot Car racing is still around ...maybe a hundred tracks in the U.S.