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Title: 4" W & B Hercules
Post by: eddie hudson on October 04, 2011, 08:18:47 AM

This ones for Bob

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Whitman-Barnes-Hercules-Bicycle-Wrench-4-Loop-Handle-Steampunk-/200659635649?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb83f0dc1

Title: Re: 4" W & B Hercules
Post by: amertrac on October 04, 2011, 09:09:14 AM

I have this on watch  bob w.

Title: Re: 4" W & B Hercules
Post by: Papaw on October 05, 2011, 02:16:00 AM

It has a Buy It Now price, so watching is needless, someone else might just hit that Buy button before you do, Bob!

Title: Re: 4" W & B Hercules
Post by: amertrac on October 05, 2011, 07:07:16 AM

I got so involved in that english wrench with the money difference that i did not notice that buy it now was the only way   . I did buy it, now to pay for it   LOL  thanks noel   bob w.

Title: Re: 4" W & B Hercules
Post by: eddie hudson on October 09, 2011, 02:39:53 PM

What is Steampunk?

Title: Re: 4" W & B Hercules
Post by: rusty on October 09, 2011, 02:57:41 PM

>What is Steampunk?

It is apparently becoming the new catch word for 'old antique like object', like 'vintage' used to be.

Before that it referred to a kind of culture fascination with steam era things and victorian deco style.
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Ever seen the remake wild wild west movie? With the steam powered wheel chair?

Title: Re: 4" W & B Hercules
Post by: Papaw on October 09, 2011, 04:58:39 PM

Wikipedia-

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Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain—that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne.

Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical engine.

Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.

(http://www.robotvsbadger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Steampunk_Abe_Lincoln_2008.jpg)

Title: Re: 4" W & B Hercules
Post by: eddie hudson on October 12, 2011, 03:17:37 PM

Sold for $29.99