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Q7: Does anyone have information on this item?
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Q6: Recently I purchased an early Gilbert 1947 No. 8 1/2 set with these green inserts in the box. The layout is exactly as it should be but they are green rather than mustard yellow or blue. Also, there are slits rather than holes for "T" clipping parts to the insert. Did Gilbert at anytime produce some 8 1/2 sets with green inserts? Dan Scheer; email: dkscheer@hutchtel.net; phone: 320-587-9249.
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Q5: These are various wrenches (one screwdriver) that were in sets that I have purchased. I know they were not for the purchased sets. I would like to know if they are Gilbert products or not; maybe from some other manufacture. They have been in a box I use for unidentified items.
A5: In regard to 3 ended wrench is for Aurora AFX HO racing cars circa 1970-80. The open end wrench fits the axle jam nuts. The pin end wrench was supposed to help to assemble and disassemble the track. Definitely not Gilbert... Regards - Fred Hachmeyer 330 Concord Drive Maywood, NJ 
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Q4: I was hoping to find more about the Gilbert Set I have down here in the office. Back in 1959 this was the "rage" of the day. I don't have the box - long gone, but I still have most of the parts, including the manual which came from the set. Below is the parts list from page 18. Can you tell me anything further about this interesting set? A4: I don?t know if it was made by Gilbert or not?I had one back in the mid fifties?maybe ?56 or so. A Christmas gift from my dad, who wanted to get my mind off aviation and into his hobby: electronics. It was a wonderful set?you could build about 14 or 15 different circuits, ranging from a simple crystal set though a code practice oscillator and transmitter. The great thing about this little set was that it explained how the circuit worked as well as how to assemble it. I actually learned quite a bit from playing with that set ?when I could pry it away from dad?who was always trying to modify it a bit, adding a different value capacitor, winding different coils, etc. I learned morse code using the oscillator: with a lot of antenna, I could actually transmit across the street to my best friend?s house. The vacuum tube was a 6AT7 pentode,I think. Since the 1 ? ?A? battery only gave the grid about ? of the current it could handle, it should have lasted forever?until I figured out I could increase the voltage a bit. The 45V ?B? battery supplied the grid voltage to the tube and I went through quite a few of those(both the tubes and batteries). The light bulb was actually a fuse. If it lit up?you had a short circuit somewhere in the filament circuit. If it blew?you had the ?b? supply fouled up somehow. That?s how I blew my tube the first time?I had already blown the bulb?and put a bit of foil under it. Needless to say?it never got my mind fully off aviation?I spent a long and rewarding career as an adult in Naval Aviation, including a tour with the Blue Angels, back in the early seventies. But?it did open my mind up to the wonderful world of electronics?which I still tinker with to this day. I even built my own computer, back in the days before Apple and IBM: 1 K of memory, and everything had to be written in machine language?yourself. Still lurks in the back of a closet out in the garage. I progressed through vacuum tubes to transistors and on to integrated circuits over the years as I continued to be an electronics experimenter. I wish I still had that set?by the time my younger brothers went through it, there wasn?t much left of it. Lost parts, broken stuff lost pages to the manual?all tookit?s toll over the ten years the set lived in our house. One of the best toys I ever owned?right up there with the microscope, chemistry set and Lionel train. Hang on to it?play with it.
Rob
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Q3: What year is this #4 set? Note that parts label is upside down on lid. The parts list has a P51 motor, I have an early P53 motor with it and the decal on the box top is late 1915 or 1916  
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Q2: I believe that I have been using this wrench for at least 50 years for building Erector models. Does anyone know where it came from?
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Q1: This came with a 10 1/2 set I purchased on ebay. It looks just like a Gilbert screwdriver, however it is stamped Hong Kong. Is it Gilbert? 
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