Didn't there used to ne a poster on here with a trained ferret for that job?
Didn't there used to ne a poster on here with a trained ferret for that job?
memories... David
Oh, mine were regularly used for various NSPCC-unfriendly tasks till they got too big... best one was fishing bits off the bottom of an internally self-destructed concealed loo cistern which had been rendered totally inaccessible to all but a tiny arm by a joiner/plasterer combo many years previously. Saved me a day's work I reckon (or should I say, postponed, as it will no doubt happen again sometime)
SWMBO knew nothing about it!
David
Anyone remember Lott's Bricks? Stone blocks used to build almost arts-and-craft-style cottages.
Richard
Mary
You can still get them - or something very similar, from Hawkins Bazaar, no doubt among others.
www./hawkin.com
- search on bricks.
Mary
I seem to recall going though a progression from "Bilofix" - a sort of nicely made wooden meccano, with plastic nuts (red) and bolts (blue), then a brief but ultimately unsatisfying experience with the plastic Jr meccano, before a moving on to the years of bliss with the "real thing"!
Made me think of "Linka" though:-
You sure it wasn't a remedy for an upset tummy? :-)
Yes it was good. I had a small set for a long time and did a lot with it and then was presented at about age 7 with (I think it was) a number 6 or 7 set that a doting uncle without kids of his own had given me for a christening present or something like that. Talk about eyes like saucers.
I'm convinced that the manual dexterity learned from Meccano as well as simply creating things was something that just doesn't happen so much any more.
.andy
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There was something very similar to that, that was on the market when I was a kid - late 50s early 60s. It was advertised in Meccano Magazine and some of the DIY magazines IIRC. There was a picture of a boy of about 8 or 9 with his father (smoking the obligatory pipe of the era) making the bricks and then building houses with a tiny trowel to put on the cement. The models could be taken apart by dunking them in water - but the bricks remained intact for re-use
I can't remember the name though.
.andy
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Hi Mary,
yes, well they are similar. But Lott's Brick are a lovely smooth, dense white/cream stone. The roof boards are printed paper etc etc. Must get up in the AP's loft an exhume the set.
Crumbs aint nostalgia great
Richard.
Presumably the same Lott's that did chemistry sets?
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Bako? Google said a wooden wiggling caterpillar... but that doesnt sound anything to get exicted about.
NT
Bako? Google said a wooden wiggling caterpillar... but that doesnt sound anything to get exicted about.
NT
Or something to cure red and blue nuts perhaps... ;-)
6 or 7 was a quite "serious" set IIRC!I got a set No 4 from my godfather.... it seemed to be positioned so as to have just too few of all the best bits to make the really good things in the project book :-((
However I twisted enough arms to get bought a No.5 expansion kit, and that made it far more useful.
In fact reading through the meccano catalogue then, was an experiance not unlike reading the Axminster one now ;-)
(always wanted, but never got, the posh motor set with the opto source and sensor)
Yes, but it's not what it used to be ...
I bet I'm not first with that one though.
Mary>
Well, if you want exictment you need to be able to spell :-)
It should be Bayko.
Mary
I think that that was a bit later. I had an E15R motor with gear set and then later a Meccano Elekrikit.
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The kitchen foil is Baco (British Aluminium Company). I remember Bayko but never had any myself so I hadn't a clue how it was spelled.
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