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Gears, cogs and sprockets
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Just won these - should be very useful . . .

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAP...agename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1


Nice MIke, very cheap too

Looks to have the axle with the "slot" in it too. If it does, then very handy and a extra bonus
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wallace wrote:
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Just won these - should be very useful . . .

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAP...agename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1


Nice MIke, very cheap too

Looks to have the axle with the "slot" in it too. If it does, then very handy and a extra bonus


Hope so!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1958 gears outfit B. Should prove to be a very useful aquisition.



Excellent instructions for ideas to incorporate gear mechanisms.




Safe to say this clean cut young chap hasn't got a £300 a day crack
habit . . .
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LMAO. Yup they always used photos or drawings of the perfect child for meccano booklet instructions.

Though the father always had a pipe hanging out of his mouth.

Great set there Mike, very nice. I see the dog clutch in the instructions I tried out
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Will be trying out a few mechs there thats for sure.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I looked like that in 1958
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Makes me wish i still had my mechano sets from christmas 69, but alas as most things,they dissapeared

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yeh that would be good nice things in there
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been messing around with the gears set, will try and work my way thru the Manual.

A differential . . .



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wouldn't like to get my fingers caught in that bugger

Nice work Mike anything else in the manual of any interest?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

looks very complicated...
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Wouldn't like to get my fingers caught in that bugger

Nice work Mike anything else in the manual of any interest?


Loads - I'll be trying them all!

PS it work very well!
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice Mike.

Simple idea too. Almost exactly as a real diff.
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