So talented! I grew up (60's - 70's) always dreaming of getting a No10 set in its wooden box. I had a No 8 for Xmas 1968?, not sure what that would have cost in today's money, but I do remember a No10 being just over 50 pounds back then. Thanks for posting your block crane!
@@tresparivet6348 Thank you for your comments. I only made it up to about a set 6 back in the 60s. I didnt do any Meccano again for many many years until the early 1990s when my 6 year old had a set but wasnt greatly interested but I was! I was particularly surprised that at that time that the parts were still numbered the same after all those years. The Number 8 set is a good standard to get to, sadly the No10 was out of reach to all but the very wealthy. I understand if you wanted to buy one it would normally have to be made to order rather than a thing that even the factory had in stock. Sadly the No10 set is still a very expensive item, all second hand now, varying between £1000 and £2000 pounds depending on colour and condition. Thanks again for your comments.
Sadly I sold it before I made a video. It did run nicely……I put the gearbox out of the No 10 bus in it as it is a better gearbox than official Meccano Combine box.
@@davidterry2038 Yes I got hacked so had to remove it. It was only a short video. There is some more detail here though. southwestmeccano.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Block-Setter-detail.pdf
Thanks for watching and commenting. There is some more film of this loco in action on a local club layout in this short video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QmtpnL083QE.htmlsi=qr2hF0MKdFpAXqjY
Princess Elizabeth was a favourite locomotive of mine. As a 5 year old I was given a green Triang OO Prince Elizabeth as a christmas present it came along with a shop window display on a base of 7 ply.. It had moulded bakerlite scenery. A great presant for a young lad. Now at almost 76 years of age I am still collecting model railway locomotives/coaches/wagons. I have over 350 beer wagons.
Thank you for doing this - it has given me some very useful tips for finishing my BSC, not least in using pulleys rather than flanged wheels on the circular girders which give too much play for the gear on the toothed quadrants (which I managed to find ‘new’!
Thank you for your comment and good luck with construction. Further detail can be found on the South West Meccano website southwestmeccano.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Block-Setter-detail.pdf
I ran them 4 hours continuous when first fitted and by now they have done about 6 hours with no change in brightness. So I dont know but in excess of 6 hours.
Tory government have been a disaster in office, they should make train travel Affordable for the people, like Italian and Spain, it cost a fortune to go anywhere on the UK on the rail network
Regulations are literally the only thing that keeps those faceless corporations from shipping brits around in carriages that are fit for livestock. but there you go - I guess there's a reason that Brits are getting fucked so hard by their masters.
Brilliant, I found you from your comments on Oscars video to which I have answered. My Dad drove Diamond T’s around Palestine in the late 40’s for the R.E. Carrying these machines. That gave me my interest in DiamondT’s as you may see on my channel . However if this ling works here are a couple of dozers I filmed at War and Peace in Kent. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HdXcv7DaJeU.html Thanks for sharing. David.
Oh yes wonderful scraper on your video. When I made the crawler tractor I was intending to make a cable operated scraper to go with it but couldnt find readily available plans of the prototype. However, never say never and your video may have just given me the impetus to do a bit more research!
Each vehicle carries a magnet which operates a switch on the track the switch operates a electronic device which flashes a led. In this case the electronic device is a kit provided by MERG www.merg.org.uk/ but already assembled electronics are available from other suppliers I believe. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for this video and the nice message telling me you released it. I've been busy though I look forward to giving it a try. Thanks again for the video, I've studied it a few times. It looks like a fun build and you did a very nice job.
Thank You. As I said not my design so cant take credit for the ingenious use of Meccano just for getting it to work. Unfortunately I can never dismantle it!
I think Meccano is can be more sophisticated for building large models. There are also not so many specialist parts in Meccano as there are in Lego so imagination and innovation plays a bigger part! Thanks for your comment.
It isn't so much that Mecanno is more sophisticated than Lego. You can get Lego parts that do what can't be done with Mecanno. But Mecanno parts are more generic, more fundamental, so building something out of Mecanno requires a lot more technical understanding of mechanisms, and considerably better imagination and ability to think. I very much believe that my experience with Mecanno as a small child is what led me to develop sufficient intelligence to go to university and become a professional engineer - the first in my extended family of farmers and farm hands to do so. Mecanno was conceived at a time when small boys constructed their own hill trolleys out of scrap wood and pram wheels, made their own slingshots and other weapons - things that are beyond what modern children can do. Modern toys are things that children just watch - their imagination and thinking is not tested. Lego is somewhere between, more on the "just watch" side. Mothers prefer their children to have Lego, because children are not frustrated as they can be when a Mecanno model doesn't work out. and because it is plastic and comes in pretty colours. Mecanno was just "industrial" green, red, and brass. When my generation attempted a Mecanno model a bit too ambitious and it didn't work, if he cried it was "tough it up, dopey - it's your own fault" - These days it is thought to be bad parenting to stress kids like that. When my generation (born 70 to 80 years ago) were children, we were praised for technical skill. Today, technical skill is somehow looked down upon.
@@keithammleter3824 hi only just noticed you comment for some reason. Whole heartedly agree. The scrap wood and pram wheel trollies (called Dobbins in this part of the world!) particularly resonates. Thanks for comment.
Thank You. The basic design was by a sadly deceased Meccano enthusiast Eric Taylor. His design was outlined in Constructor Quarterly issue 2, 3 and 4. Biggest issue is obtaining enough 103 F 2 1/2” flat girders for the tracks…….second hand is the best bet. It was a while back I made the video and I have made some improvements since then so it is my intention to do an update video in the near future on the crawler tractor. Are you in the UK? If so I occasionally exhibit it at Meccano exhibitions. I am pleased you like it as I think its a brilliant design and all credit to its designer Eric Taylor.
@@sanspareil3018 Thank you for the nice reply. No, sadly in the in north central US. I have 50 pounds of Maccano/Erector which I really want to get out again. I think my set is just enough to have a pretty good go at something like this. Thanks for the contact. I'll have to reach out to you if I get stated on something.
