Anyone Remember 'Wordless Workshop'??

I subscribed to PopSci for four years, 62-65.

Stupidly, I discarded them 20 years ago, when cleaning out one of the out-buildings on the farm.

Many good memories from that time.

I remember all the science, technology, and how too magazines we had back in high school in the early 90's.

I spent weeks of my life reading those magazines in class and in my spare time!

Unfortunately I had the displeasure of reading a few of them that were still in existence today and not one is worth the paper they are printed on.

All nonsensical political and feel good based garbage now.

Well remembered from my father's subscription, when I was about 8!!

Wowsers! Thanks for awakening that memory! My dad used to get all the Pop Mags.

I installed a light in the ceiling of my garage. Remembering one of the Wordless workshops, I installed a regular wall switch in the ceiling, saving me hours of wire-fishing time. I drilled a small hole thru the toggle and a hole thru a short piece of PVC pipe. I connected the two with a loop of wire and bingo! had a reachable light switch in the ceiling.

Thanks again for the memories. Hadn't thought about the WWS for years!

Sounds like a retro wiring job. Have you ever seen the old "knob and tube" wiring technique? Pretty frightening.

My dad never tried very hard to encourage anything that wasn't about his entertainment, but I did run across some of those older magazines in my time.

It seems like some of those ideas followed the clear thinking stratiges of "KISS" or "keep it simple stupid" or cleaver little tricks of the various trade.

I'm frequently amused at what non-electrical types think of as "safe verses dangerous". But it really is amazing how well some of those ideas were communicated through the WWS.

I remember little of those days, I do remember a show on TV called 21st Century where and how they said we will be living like. Well we are here, and not living any where like they said we would be.

As for working with wood, I've always worked with steels and aluminums. Never worked with wood till 1989 when we built a house. Talk about a learning curve and a 1/2. Steel so much more forgiving than wood. Now, wood is easier but took many a years to deal with it. Still trying to figure out how to tig it though. Damn stuff just won't weld yet.

You weld wood with adhesives, but it's often a good idea to include some kind of joint for strength. Otherwise wood is good.

Still trying to figure out how to tig it though. Damn stuff just won't weld yet.

Yeah, my idea for a board stretcher keeps running in the same obstacles as my drive in barbershop idea.

Nice blog, many thanks, lovely memories.

I look through the magazines at the local library on a regular basis. Someone still does these I thought it was in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science but it could be one of the home improvement magazines. I have a tendency to look at many different types of them. They may not do it every month but they still pop up once in a while.

This is the complete 140 year archive of popular science

http://www.popsci.com/archives

But, I did a search for "Roy Doty" and "wordless workshop", and didn't come up with anything.

I clicked on your link and searched only for the word 'wordless'

Brought up quite a few magazines and the top line even tells you and takes you to that page (first one I looked at I remember reading as a kid!)

http://www.popsci.com/archive-search?query=wordless

strange. I searched for just roy doty and got 115 results.

It is great science magzine. Even we used to get in India way back in 1958. I learnt many DIY items from my school days.

Roy Doty wrote a book "wordless workshop 120 of the best"

I don't know if it's still available tho.......

WOW! Memories! I grew up in the 50's with a 2 story garage behind my house, the top story was full of all the original popular electronic, popular science, popular mechanics, Life, from the start of their publication and we put each month's new copies in place. I grew up reading all the old stuff, and the current, which is old now. I became an engineer and loved the memories of many of the things I read. While a lot of it was a person's idea that never made it to production, some being impractical, some being superceded by something better, some were simply ahead of their time and could not be produced because of available materials or processes. My father-in-law in his later years after retirement, used to comb old expired patents for useful ideas that could be produced with more modern techniques and materials. He never made a tremendous amount of money at it, but did all right. I bet you could do the same thing with some of the early magazines or even the current magazines and internet. A lot of good ideas are out there and could be developed, if you have the capability of knowledge to separate the possibilities from the impossibilities. I did enjoy the "Wordless Workshop" and got ideas but the memory jogged my thoughts of the other things I read about and used during my carreer as an engineer.

Looks like I found it at Amazon.....

http://www.amazon.com/Wordless-Workshop-Easy-To-Make-Projects-Monthly/dp/0312000618/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373571846&sr=8-1&keywords=roy+doty

Yup! Short answer, but the last three times I took the time to type in a longer answer I get a 'cannot process form' error. Sooooo....Yes, many good memories.

This happens a lot recently on CR4, but you can always page "back" with most browsers, do a Control Copy of what you have written after marking it with the mouse, and save it on the paste board, or even in an editor if you are worried that you might lose it, before starting again and pasting it with a Control V.

No need to re-write it each time.

I expect someone "clever" on CR4 has changed some settings/code and caused the problems.....

Thanks for the tip, I'll experiment.