Originally Posted by
ThayerRags
They were as brittle as could be, and I broke all of them with my hands by simply snapping them like a cracker. The plastic just crumbled off of the metal hub.
When I read "probably new in the 1980s" I thought they might be a bit fragile but all of them crumbling to bits is shocking. They must have been stored in a lit oven since the '80s: Even in a T+S they'll usually last 40 years.