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Offline Raggle

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Meccano bridge
« on: November 16, 2009, 09:07:01 AM »
Anybody see James May crossing the canal on this last night on BBC2? Nice to see half a ton of the stuff being used in one project even if it wasn't green.
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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2009, 12:00:41 PM »
Green? Most of my handed-down Meccano was older than tha:  blue (for plates) and gold (for girders). Yes, I saw the show. I had hoped they were going all the way across the Mersey to Birkenhead. Even so, a 40 (?) foot bridge must have involved zillions of little screws. An heroically futile eandeavour, but great fun to watch!

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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2009, 12:53:34 PM »
i watched it and loved it!

you never know kids might even start playing with proper toys again :scratch:
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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2009, 06:34:19 PM »
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you never know kids might even start playing with proper toys again

Ah yes!  Something new (?) the toy you don't throw away. So, if you know a budding young engineer that's your Christmas present solved. And next year's too with an upgrade.

They are still a bargain and with the modern wheels and the socket head bolts now provided make it look "the business". The 3 CD set of Meccano Magazines is worth a look too. Get someone else to buy him/her a Unimat1 and he'll be making stepper motor mounts from the PC junk his mates and neighbours have thrown away to power his creations.

Is this too much to dream?

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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2009, 07:41:40 PM »
Dam ........... missed it ........ but I'm on the lookout for a re-run  :thumbup: ......... Mecano was my "Computer Games" back in the late 50's early 60's ...... and it still wins imho  :bow:

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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2009, 08:08:01 PM »
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Crewcab: Dam ........... missed it ........ but I'm on the lookout for a re-run 

Maybe it's on the Beeb's i-player?

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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2009, 08:16:58 PM »
Quote from: andyf on November 17, 2009, 08:08:01 PM
Maybe it's on the Beeb's i-player?

Thanks for that Andy ................. I've now downloaded it and looking forward to watching it soon  :thumbup:

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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2009, 08:26:18 PM »
OMG .......... the guy has a Mecano No:10 set ........... that's a bit like a 10k lottery win these days  :bow: .............. I'm still watching  :dremel:

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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2009, 08:11:51 AM »
Meccano Bridge!
Brilliant program, I wish my Grandsons were here.
I just hope it will be still available when they next visit.
I do not know of a way to download and save the programs from the BBC, does anyone.
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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2009, 05:32:03 PM »
Is there a direct link to that BBC program? Can it be viewed through the net?

If interested, at http://pdfmm.free.fr/ ,you can download Meccano Magazines from years 1916-1981. But be warned, there is lot of them.
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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2009, 05:42:18 PM »
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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2009, 07:33:25 PM »
Darren

Thanks for posting the link. I would love to watch it and also the one about the Scalelectrix (SP) race car track. The problem is that unless you are in the UK it won't allow you to download or view them. Does anybody have ideas on how to get around this?  :doh: :doh:

Cheers  :beer:

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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2009, 03:40:37 AM »
Hi Don, I have downloaded the file/program, but I suspect even if I emailed it to you it would still not work?

You would need the BBC player, will they let you download that?
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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2009, 04:23:20 AM »
Hello Darren
Thanks for the link, that I had already used, but I have yet to find a way to download and keep a BBC feed.
It is a flash file as I can see, but not like any other,  such as utube and the like,most other Flash feeds I can download and convert to most types of file format.
The reason I would like to do it with the BBC feeds are not only for the Grandsons but to make a DVD for one off showing to our local Model Engineering Club.
As usual the BBC are as useful as a lead poker in a blacksmiths forge.
and  :worthless:    :doh:
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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2009, 05:02:45 AM »
Quote from: Darren on November 24, 2009, 03:40:37 AM
Hi Don, I have downloaded the file/program, but I suspect even if I emailed it to you it would still not work?

You would need the BBC player, will they let you download that?

Hi Darren

I thank you for the offer and would take you up on it but unless I have the BBC player it wouldn't work. I clicked onto their site before posting this and it doesn't look like their is any way to get the player unless you log in from a UK site and even then I am not sure that you could download the player. Thanks for trying anyway.  :lol: :lol:

Cheers  :beer:

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Re: Meccano bridge
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2009, 08:40:26 AM »
some of you may be intrested in this

http://www.erectorsets.net/chrisBurden3.htm
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