In schools those machines were usually in small rooms. Woe to you if you
spilled some of the fluid while refilling the reservoir.
W. D. Hoy
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Robert McNay <CptMatt@...> wrote:
>
> My first job, after high school in the mid-70s, was working for the
> accounting department at Marshall Field's on State St. My biggest job was
> running the monthly sales/financial reports. Eighty-five copies of 80 to 100
> pages each, 2 sided, all run off of a "ditto" machine.
>
> The messy liquid, the stencils that were more fragile than a crystal goblet,
> laying out the individual pages to dry before running the second side but
> being careful that they wouldn't wrinkle or stick together. I ruined more
> shirts......
>
> The Xerox corporation should be granted sainthood.
>
> Rob McNay
> Chicago IL
>
> --- On Wed, 1/26/11, califconure <jonathanharris@...> wrote:
>
> > From: califconure <jonathanharris@...>
> > Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Trip February 19, 1966 - St. Louis to Hannibal
> > Behind 4960
> > To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 10:48 PM
> > I believe what you mean is methanal
> > (=formaldehyde). I vividly recall the sickly sweet smell
> > from school (elementary school through college). Methanol is
> > methyl alcohol (so-called "wood alcohol"). Both are nasty
> > and toxic.
> > jonathan
> >
> > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com,
> > "dieselpop1" <dieselpop1@> wrote:
> > >
> > > The solvent was methanol.
> > > W. D. Hoy
> > >
> > > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com,
> > Jpslhedgpeth@ wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'll bet nobody, or maybe just a few "old coots"
> > know what Ted means when re refers to "Ditto Flyers....they
> > smelled so good".
> > > >
> > > > The "jelly" used in the "ditto" process had a
> > very unique and special odor...Kind of sweet and very
> > pleasant...I can't describe it, but I would recognize it
> > instantly..
> > > >
> > > > Right Ted
> > > >
> > > > Pete
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Theo <hi_jeanx@>
> > > > To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> > > > Sent: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 3:43 pm
> > > > Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Trip February 19, 1966 -
> > St. Louis to Hannibal Behind 4960
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Way back, three Wesleyan students rode what was
> > billed as the Last Steam Excursion Via the CB&Q out of
> > St. Louis Union Station. The date was February 19, 1966.
> > Handing out ditto fliers (they smelled so good) and getting
> > $.50 dues, they recruited 110 others on the trip to fight to
> > save CB&Qs steam, with their ultimate effort what became
> > the Monticello Railway Museum. I don't remember much of the
> > rest of the trip, but the early action was spectacular on a
> > nearly windless, grey day that allowed the 4960's plume to
> > rise majestically perhap 400 feet, with hundreds of people
> > on the top of the levee in a
> > > > strictly-enforced photo run-by line getting a
> > thousand shots and movies (there were 800 people on the
> > train at least).
> > > >
> > > > The museum needs a slide or photo of that event
> > to use in its PowerP show history being put together.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone can find something they could use, it
> > will be to great thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Ted Lemen
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> > removed]
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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