Just a very quick update. I found a lovely crystal radio kit on Ebay that needed some attention. Some bits were missing and the connection springs were all corroded. The good news with this kit was that the main components seemed fine and the corrosion hadn’t yet spread to the component leads. It also came…

I’ve been really busy this week with work related projects, but I still found 15 minutes or so to start cleaning some bits of old chemistry set glassware, starting with the test tubes. Don’t you hate people that get toast crumbs in the butter? Well, the same things happen with old chemistry sets. The chemicals…

I have many hobbies and interests. Electronics, computers (vintage and new), engineering, wood work (which I’m terrible at), anything science and chemistry in particular. Like many a young person, I really wanted a chemistry set. I wanted to make smoke bombs, stink bombs, blow stuff up, showers of exciting sparks and possibly invent a new…

There wasn’t going to be a part 3, but now I’ve completed the refurbishment of the 6 kits that I’ve recently obtained, I thought it worth a summary. The kits all came from different sources and are of different ages and conditions. The one thing that was constant throughout all the kits however was corrosion.…