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Do You Remember Bakelite?

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Posted 06/06/2011   11:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vacuum man to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ajnabii,

I think it was E Germany that had a death trap of a car built of a bakelite substance at one point
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Posted 06/06/2011   12:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ajnabii to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Oh yes, was that the trabant or the wartburg? I remember that they seemed to have a golf-cart or washingmachine engine in them. :)
After reunification, alot of people from the east got into traffic accidents because they couldn't "handle the power" of the more powerful western cars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
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Posted 06/06/2011   9:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add huckles888 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
would be showing my age if I said I knew bakelite - lol

the word brings back memories of a different time and different place
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Posted 06/06/2011   10:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add I_Love_Stamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I know what Bakelite is only from my great grandmother's house and some of her things was made out of it and of course from the antique stores! Nice watermark detector too, Very cool!
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Posted 06/07/2011   05:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rohumpy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I just re-read the thread and was struck by the ad claiming that dad always said keep your "hinges clean and dust free"

Yeah right. I really doubt that any dad would ever have said that.

As far as the "baby brownie" goes, I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think it is kinda neat.
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