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| Rob |
Meccano Parts Wantedi have now got some money to buy some parts. im looking for:http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2047956526&size=o looking for most parts apart from: the electric motor parts 37a and b im not sure of the others yet, if anyone has a picture of parts which are numbered, that would help me a lot as im not too sure which parts i have. i am trying to make this: http://sizygie.free.fr/manuals/set_10.en/200dpi/m10_12_1.jpg cheers Rob |
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| tmuir |
Ahh the supermodel 10 train. 
Best start watching ebay for job lots as that uses a lot of Meccano. The hard to get bits you can buy from 'The Meccano Man' if you can't find his website PM me and I will give it to you. Expect to spend a lot to get everything to make it. My fire truck is only a set 9 model and even though I had 80% of the parts all the hard to get bits still cost me nearly $180 (75 pounds) |
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| Cranko |
Hows the fire truck coming along Tony 
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| tmuir |
Cab is finished ladder has started and I have all the parts now but it has stalled due to all the repairs I'm doing around the house now its not raining outside. 
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| Rob |
just been on meccano mans site for a while pricing up a set 10 from parts, and if you buy a set 10 made to order in green and red, it costs £1250!!!, if you buy it in second quality it costs £699, and if you buy them all individually in second quality, it only costs £417.46 excluding the motor (out of stock) and 1 of part 23 and 1 of part 50 which i cant find on there. so can anyone guess what im saving for now??? lots and lots of meccano to build this:
http://sizygie.free.fr/manuals/set_10.en/200dpi/m10_12_1.jpg meccano mans site for those who dont have it: http://meccanoman.co.uk/catalog/ Rob |
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| tmuir |
Told not cheap but they do look good the super models.
I would still watch ebay and buy job lots to save money and sometimes you can get lucky and have rare expensive bits in amongst cheap job lots. |
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| Cranko |
OOOOOOOOh that looks rather nice
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| Rob |
yeh got some bits yesterday, missed out by £1 for 9 12 1/2 x 2 1/2 strips to make the boiler, they went for £10.50.
Rob |
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| tmuir |
Yeah they are the hard to get second hand in good condition. I got lucky and got a packet of 6 new for $16 (£6) from my local hobby shop a year or so back. It was their last packet and had been on the shelf for years. They are yellow so I've had to strip them before I could use them as I needed red ones but were still a good buy for OZ. |