General Dynamics Toy

At the “company store” of General Dynamics Convair in San Diego, I was delighted to find all manner of high precision parts that had become obsolete or been ‘Downgraded” to a status that would not allow them to be used in spaceflight equipment. There are two environmentally sealed ball bearings in the above toy that probably cost GD hundreds of dollars. I remember how happy I was to pay $5 for a small plastic bag of them. I still have a few.