We’ve been having a lot of fun with Tinkertoys lately. Leo got a set for his 4th birthday and it came at just the right time. Today I found an old “Direction and Idea Book” from 1959 (made by The Toy Tinkers, a Division of A.G. Spalding & Bros. Inc., Evanston, Illinois). The little drawings are hilarious. It tells you, in a humorous way, not to get them wet how you can fix them when they break.
I’ve got three different sets of instructions that I’m posting (each is four pages long — clicking on the images should give you a bigger-than-screensize image that you can build from).
The full basic manual is below
http://leojames.blogspot.com/2007/11/vintage-tinkertoy-manual.html
The intermediate-level manual is here
http://leojames.blogspot.com/2008/12/tinkertoy-more-instruction-manuals-and.html
and the advanced manual is here
http://leojames.blogspot.com/2008/12/tinkertoy-more-instruction-manuals-and_31.html
(click on photos to link to larger images from the basic manual)
