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Chapter Five For the Man Who is Mechanically Inclined CONSTRUCT MINIATURE MODELS—The man or boy who is handy with tools can convert his spare time and talents into considerable profits, by constructing miniature models of airplanes, boats, and a host of other models. He will find an immediate market for such models among his friends, or by exhibiting them in parks and thoroughfares where parents are most likely to be walking or motoring with their children. In a great many cases models constitute excellent window display material. With a growing appreciation of the value of window display, progressive retailers are often at their wits' end to devise new window attractions, especially if they cannot afford to employ a display man. It should not be difficult to rent to dealers for display purposes such models as "Lindbergh's Monoplane," the transatlantic liner "Bremen," or the battleship "U.S.S. Texas," or a Roman galley, or Columbus' "Santa Maria," or the "Mayflower," etc. After you succeed in renting a model for a week or more it will pay you to visit other stores in nearby towns and offer to rent it for display publicity to one retailer in each community at $3 a week. With ten models as a working basis for renting purposes, regardless of direct sales that you may be able to make, you will be able to earn a substantial income. Blueprints, containing working drawings of the above and several other models, can be purchased for 25 and 50 cents by writing to Popular Science Monthly, 381 Fourth Ave., New York City. MAKING MODERNISTIC FURNITURE—If you have had some experience with tools and have an attic, a basement, or a shed with average equipment available, you can doubtless make a fair amount of money by constructing and selling modernistic furniture, for which there seems to be a considerable demand at the present time in the larger cities. It is very easy to obtain blueprints containing working drawings of a number of well-tested modernistic projects. The Popular Science Monthly, at 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City, offers the following blueprints, size 15 x 22 inches, at 25 cents apiece: Bookshelf and Book Ends. It is not necessary, of course, to concentrate exclusively on modernistic items. You can make up simpler pieces, such as book cases, hanging book shelves, book troughs, mahogany cedar chests, rush bottom chairs, grandfather clocks, gate leg tables, radio cabinets, and a large variety of other salable articles. Blueprints are available for these and a number of other pieces of furniture at 25 cents each at Popular Science Monthly, 381 Fourth Ave., New York City. MAKING CEMENT PRODUCTS—During the summer time there is a great demand for garden and lawn furniture made of cement. This is a very profitable summer business and requires practically no investment or expert knowledge. There is a demand for bird baths, aquariums, benches, lily pond seats, and other forms of lawn and garden furniture. Forms for these items can be bought ready made of metal. They can also be made by hand from wood. After the forms are secured there is little to do, except mixing the cement and pouring it into forms. The cement companies are always glad to furnish instructions on just how the cement is to be handled to produce the best results Photograph your finished products. Then make the rounds. If you have a car call at the various estates, country homes, suburban homes. Point out places in the garden or open porch that may be enhanced in beauty by one of your cement products. RADIO REPAIR SERVICE-If you are technically inclined with some elementary knowledge of electricity, you can earn a good living by acting as the radio repair man of your community. The majority of people know little about repairing radios. They know even less about removing, installing, and adjusting parts. Charge $1 a month for a weekly inspection and free repair service. Call on every radio owner in town. It should be easy to find at least fifty people who will subscribe to your service. |
Note: To account for inflation, multiply prices by 8 to 10. |
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