Comments on Puzzle #21563: Which is it? #25.
By Aldege Cholette (Aldege)
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Puzzle Description:
An old fashioned spirit duplicator..OR..a pasta maker about to make some linguini.
#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 1, 2013
A package tape dispenser, coffee grinder, jack in the box, organ grinder box (just needs the monkey), meat grinder#2: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Apr 2, 2013
I thought of all of these also Norma. I wanted to make the spirit duplicator to see if anyone would remember what one is. All schools had them for making copies. You put a stencil on a drum,inverted the plastic bottle of alcohol with a bird feeder valve,and cranked the handle and your copies came out.:)#3: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 2, 2013
We called then mimeograph machines.#4: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Apr 2, 2013 [SPOILER]
For those too young to know, here's how to use a spirit duplicator:#5: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 2, 2013
1. catch a spirit
2. put it in the box
3. press "duplicate"
Seems like we just can't get enough spirits.#6: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Apr 3, 2013
Lol Norma and John. The mimeograph is the same principle but uses ink that's in the drum or cylinder which has tiny holes throughout it. The ink seeps thru the holes. The spirit duplicator uses alcohol and the ink is on the stencil then is transferred to paper.:)#7: Tonia Bergh (tonia) on Apr 3, 2013 [SPOILER]
I can recall that mimeograph smell from the olden days - yuk! That's why my vote is for the pasta maker! ;)#8: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Apr 4, 2013
Tonia,I use to repair spirit duplicators,mimeograph,printing presses and photocopiers,so I got use to the smell.:)#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 4, 2013 [SPOILER]
Star-On -- Star-Off machine.#10: Jota (jota) on Apr 5, 2013
For those too young ... http://eraccommons.ca/bobfrench/2011/06/20/my-history-of-technology/#11: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 6, 2013 [SPOILER]
When I started teaching 25 years ago,we still made copies with spirit duplicators (electric, not hand crank). About 15 years ago I taught at a school that got a Risograph. It was a spirit type machine that made the master for you. It was faster than a photocopier and cheaper for more than about 30 copies. It also had many fewer break downs since it was a pretty simple technology.#12: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 6, 2013
Classic movie scene. Watch to the very end for the connection.#13: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 6, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtdrKIdDgE
That's funny, Brian.#14: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Apr 7, 2013
I remember that scene. :)#15: Leimamo Kubo (Leimamo) on May 30, 2016
I can go back even further. When I was in the 6th grade, my teacher used the hectograph method of making copies. She had a tray of gelatin and put an inked copy on it. She had us making copies by applying clean sheets of paper on the gelatin, smoothing them and then pulling them off.
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