Meccano

[JollyJim]

Hi all,

By accident, I just came across a Meccano page on a popular auction site.

Wow, magic stuff - my memory immediately dropped back
to 60 years or so ago, making odd vehicles and things. My
favourite was a pulley arrangement thingie that bore
no resemblance to anything, but when I turned the motor
on and it gradually came up to speed, it sounded exactly
like a London Underground train !!!!!

I always got the impression that my Dad would have liked
to spend time building stuff, but he was too good a bloke
to devoid me of it.....I always wanted that big one in the wooden box
but it was far too out of reach.

Absolute magic stuff...

Best wishes - Jim

[Bryan Milham]

I was a meccano child, I had boxes of the stuff. Swear blind it's what gave me my digital manipulative capability.

I needed to thin some things out only a few years back and much against my better judgement, my meccano collection was something that went. But I made sure it went to a collector who would care for and use it properly.

Like you I aspired to set 10 in the oak chest, but never got above set 7, but I'm still only a young 60, so maybe one day!

[JollyJim]

I can't remember what mine was. I remember Dad used to buy
bits and pieces at the local toy shop rather than kits.

When I graduated to a railway set (Triang), and made a
fixed layout, I used Meccano bits and bobs  to build point
changeover gizmos cos the electric ones were way too
expensive....a real Heath Robinson jobbie but
it worked, and although I've never been in an engineering
job, it gave me an interest that I'm now kinda fulfilling with
woodwork/turning.

I've heard so many engineers on telly saying that Meccano
was their starting point. I know it's still made, but it
does'nt seem to me to give youngsters that inventiveness
or exploration that it used to.

Thanks for the reply, regards - Jim

[Les Symonds]

Count me in  as a member of the Meccano briggade, although I was also in to Bayko! (Who needs Lego!)

Les

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

You blokes were obviously richer than I was as a kid, I had a stick in the garden.

[JollyJim]

.....and lived in a hole in the ground........

hahahaha

[Derek]

No Meccano for me just Lego. brought in boxes of the same type bricks not like now where it is a box with all the parts to make something like a truck or whatever