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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 02:48 AM
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Super Ball
Loved these high powered missiles as a kid. The thing is that you usually dont have them for too long. They'd just bounce or fly right out of your life.
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 03:04 AM
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1. Ahhh ...the mystical allure of space age Zectron™
I remember them well from the mid 60s.
Thank God and J Edgar that the Ruskies never discovered the secret formula.

I think they claimed they would bounce to 80% of the height they were dropped from.

If you bounced them on pavement too hard pieces would break off though. Must have been that 50,000 lbs of compressed energy.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 03:09 AM
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2. I used to hit them with a baseball bat.
Hit like Harmon Killerbrew! 500 feet!
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-09-05 08:49 AM
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3. Hahaha ... I did that with my old man's golf balls.
You must have had a bigger allowance than me.
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