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Post by prof20 on Jan 27, 2018 22:24:45 GMT
(Posted ages ago) CLICK FOR LINKFree archive of the complete (1916-1981) scanned English Meccano Magazines collection - Online indexed access to individual pages, or full issue download in PDF format.
www.nzmeccano.com/MMjump.php
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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Jan 27, 2018 22:40:00 GMT
Wonderful. This will be a 'Favourite" that I'll dip into occasionally, like a rainy Sunday afternoon. It's what I did when I was a kid on a rainy Sunday afternoon - play with my Meccano.
What a tragedy it didn't survive as the original concept and got overtaken by Lego. I believe it may still exist, though, but in a cheaper form, made by a French company??
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Post by Joe66 on Jan 27, 2018 23:28:51 GMT
There is a block who regularly post loads of Meccano bits on ebay.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Jan 28, 2018 10:52:38 GMT
I never progressed beyond Lego. I think at an early age I discovered mechanics and engineering was not for me.
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Post by fatwelshbuddha on Jan 28, 2018 14:52:13 GMT
Meccano drove me nuts as a kid - too bloody fiddly with the nuts and bolts so never fell in love with it. Like Baz that's probably why I didn't become an engineer, but conversely, I had great fun with the chemistry sets which may have led me to getting a degree in Biochemistry.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Jan 28, 2018 15:01:06 GMT
My pal lived in a big house near us (fecking huge) and in the cellar which actually contained and still does a full size pub bar and pub lounge there was also a proper Chemistry lab. I dunno how we survived to adulthood really. We used to make home made bombs and fireworks and blow stuff up in either his back yard or a nearby building site. We did blow one of our own mates up when we blew up a den we had made out of breeze blocks and didnt realise he was still inside it.
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Post by nicholsong on Jan 28, 2018 15:51:19 GMT
I never progressed beyond Lego. I think at an early age I discovered mechanics and engineering was not for me. Those skills had a lucky escape - they could have been turned inside out and then where would the rest of us be?
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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Jan 28, 2018 16:21:36 GMT
A mate and I used to make bombs... He got the makings (charcoal and saltpetre, or similar if I remember) and we'd stuff it into the cracks of some huge felled oaks in a nearby park. Made a very satisfying KERRRUMP! and moved the tree stumps.
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Post by prof20 on Jan 28, 2018 18:55:18 GMT
Me and my pals used to make bombs - sodium chlorate & sugar in jam jars with fuses made from blotting paper soaked in potassium nitrate, or using a 'penny banger' inserted into the jam-jar lid. That is until a couple of them thought the bangs weren't loud enough, and thought that packing the explosive mixture into bits of bike-frame tube was an exceedingly good idea. They cut the bike frame into 6 inch lengths and flattened one end with a hammer on the path outside one of their houses. They then packed in the explosive. Everything was alright until one of them started flattening the other end of the tube on the concrete path whist holding the other end steady with his left hand, not thinking about the grains of explosive that became trapped in the end that was being flattened. Yes.....The result was an enormous BOOM! A sizeable chunk of my mates left hand including his thumb was either atomised or went into orbit - it was never found. He was also blown backwards over the fence into next door's garden. The hammer also disappeared. Probably still up on a roof somewhere. The other lad was blown ten feet backwards into the outhouse wall, suffering deafness and concussion and quite a few bruises. Both were lucky not to suffer any worse injuries. A hard lesson to learn
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Post by Joe66 on Jan 28, 2018 20:12:15 GMT
A typical fruitcake thread, start of about Meccano Magazines and end up with a chemistry lesson on bomb making, you lot will have the anti terrorist squad knocking on Bazza's door. Bye Baz, it was nice knowing you
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