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10-11-2009, 21:14 #1Senior Member
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Meccano (James May now on)
Worm gear.
Phwoar!"As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye."
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10-11-2009, 21:20 #2Senior Member
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The Number 10 kit!
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10-11-2009, 21:27 #3Senior Member
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lego every time :P,,
sometimes all i have to wait,, some pr@t turns up.
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Fleece stockings? I’m with you there...........
Bugger you said worm not warm.
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10-11-2009, 21:32 #5Senior Member
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Possibly a generation thing but- I had the Army kit , still the same Meccano but painted green , all still in the loft somewhere .
Originally Posted by ABrighter2006
Clock work motors too !
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10-11-2009, 21:36 #6Senior Member
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The bar stewards that owned a No 10 kit can boil their heads! Middle class ********s :D Originally Posted by ABrighter2006
"As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye."
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10-11-2009, 21:45 #7Senior Member
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It'll get nicked.
And the chief architect seems to be a pikey "D'ya like dags, Jim?"
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10-11-2009, 21:52 #8Senior Member
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Originally Posted by plaster
lego every time :P,,
Fu ckin' poof !!!
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11-11-2009, 22:48 #9Senior Member
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...and look where it got us. :D Originally Posted by plaster
lego every time :P,,
as 12volts has so eloquently put it!
...take it you never had the joy of big boy's Meccano plaster(?) - or Bridging as the Gods of Bridging would phrase it - I wonder how many have joined the RE having started their love of engineering from playing with their Meccano kits?
Lego? - It's Danish ffs and it's not alcoholic.
[walks away muttering]
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11-11-2009, 23:43 #10Senior Member
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Lightweight! I made much bigger structures with my kids using Duplo. Originally Posted by plaster
lego every time :P,,
(Meccano was best but does anyone still use Bako?)In 1953 the UK Defence Budget was 11.3% of GDP. By 1966 it had been reduced to 6.6%. In 2011 it is hovering around 2%. Good job we're no longer expected to fight any wars, isn't it?
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12-11-2009, 00:02 #11Senior Member
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Sir, please Sir, SIR, I remember Bako. Not as good as Meccano by any means, but those metal rods had a certain lethality about them, so 6/10 for the two fingers up to HSE.
Meccano was ace. Kids these days (harrrumph) don't even know what a differential drive shaft is, let alone build one (double harrrrumph)
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12-11-2009, 00:09 #12Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Dunservin
Lightweight! I made much bigger structures with my kids using Duplo. Originally Posted by plaster
lego every time :P,,
(Meccano was best but does anyone still use Bako?)
Wah sheild up: Duplo is Lego. Wah sheild downThis should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle — broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would… But I’m a man of 30 — of 20 again. The rain on my chest is a baptism. I’m born again
http://www.holidays4heroes.org/
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"As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye."
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12-11-2009, 17:40 #14Senior Member
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My elder brother had one of those for his 8th birthday.. Originally Posted by BoomShackerLacker
When I was 8 I knew not to put it straight into the mains.
I suspect the two are relatedFor Flag & Empire !
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Yesss ... Bayko, or whichever. Irritating plasticky stuff. And you could never get the sodding roof to slot into place. Originally Posted by 12volts
AND ... BrickPlayer, with trowel and floury-cement. That was serious. Proper bricks and metal window frames.
Meccano was the Daddy, but my Daddy tended to monopolise it for himself.
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