{"id":868,"date":"2012-08-27T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=868"},"modified":"2012-09-16T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:52:06","slug":"1951-mechanix-illustrated-found-in-antique-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/1951-mechanix-illustrated-found-in-antique-store\/","title":{"rendered":"1951 Mechanix Illustrated found in antique store."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on vacation traveling through Vermont, I found an old Mechanix Illustrated from 1951 in an antique store. It was in a box along with other old issues but this one stood out because of the how-to projects that were inside. I paid $4 for it and had a nice talk with the shop keeper about how we both loved looking through these old magazines. As a kid I would look through them and stare at the project plans for hours. I knew I could never really build most of the stuff due to a lack of materials but they sparked my imagination and I would sometimes try to make my own version of the project with what I had on hand. These magazines were very influential in developing the inventor mind set I now have. <\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m away from the workbench this week I thought it would be fun to shoot a video about this particular issue while on the road. As we were rolling along through Maine headed south, Lisa took over the driver&#8217;s seat and I shot this video in the passenger seat. I even did the editing there and later uploaded it to YouTube!<\/p>\n<p>Next week I&#8217;ll be back home at the ol&#8217; workbench so til then, enjoy the video and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>keep on hackin!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qX0KVXJHsWI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on vacation traveling through Vermont, I found an old Mechanix Illustrated from 1951 in an antique store. It was in a box along with other old issues but this one stood out because of the how-to projects that were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/1951-mechanix-illustrated-found-in-antique-store\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}