Word: do-it-yourself
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...do-it-yourself buffs, there are few projects too difficult to try. Examples...
...Pleasantville, N.Y., the Easi-Bilt Patterns Co. puts out nine different blueprints for do-it-yourself home builders. Since the war it has sold 250,000 plans, estimates that 70,000 of its do-it-yourself customers have managed to build their own homes...
...yourself flyers to make their own airplanes. So far, the group has 600 members spread around the U.S. who have flown 500 of their creations. One man is working on a combination plane and car with a pusher propeller and folding wings; another hopes to sell a do-it-yourself small plane...
Seattle's McVicar Hardware Co. goes even further. Each Friday night the store clears its counters and holds a "do-it-yourself clinic" for 100 people on such subjects as gardening and interior decorating, with a manufacturer's representative on hand to lecture. Owner McVicar has set up a free coffee dispenser so that customers can help themselves while making up their minds on what to buy. "The coffee stimulates their brains," says Mc Vicar. "There isn't any place to set a cup down, so they just go round and round, getting warmer and more receptive...
This year U.S. industry will put out millions of do-it-yourself kits, print up plans for hundreds of thousands more projects. Milwaukee has a Rentit store that will rent out a big power saw ($35 a week) or a small electric drill ($10 a week). California's Glasspar Co., which started off with $1,000 capital in 1950, is up to $585,000 annual sales selling knockdown Fiberglas sports cars for $1,466.50, without engine. Michigan's Chris-Craft Corp. has 21 different do-it-yourself boat kits ranging from a $49 pram...