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Bits and pieces
These pages bring together all sorts of notes and articles from my years with Meccano - I hope you may find something interesting among them! Some have appeared in one or more of our Club Magazines, while others are just passing comments, ideas, reactions and discoveries.
Here for once I am free from the constraints of page size, publication schedules and even mechanical correctness!
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Tag Archives: Truck
Finishing a project …….
The last 10% of a project always seems the hardest – or is that just me? Months – even years – can be spent on a model only to run into the sand on the home straight. It might be … Continue reading
Posted in Trucks
Tagged Kenworth, Meccano, model, Model Plan, Reefer. refrigerated trailer, trailer, Truck
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An Australian Kenworth Truck and Trailer
Now here is a model which has been a long time coming. Some bits of it like the design for the sleeper cab and the seats have been around for a while, and so has much of the running gear. … Continue reading
Posted in Trucks
Tagged automotive, Drake, Flickr, Kenworth, lorry, low loader, Meccano, sleeper bay, swing-wing, trailer, transportation, Truck
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One step backwards, two steps forwards ….
That’s just the way it is sometimes. You reach a point in a model where you realise that lots of careful work will need to be undone and rebuilt if you want to get it right. Ah well! You have … Continue reading
By popular request
I’ve produced a couple of manuals now for people wanting to build a 1/10th scale trailer in Meccano, but that begs the question – when will we see a truck to pull them? My publisher has been encouraging me to … Continue reading
Posted in Trucks, Workbench
Tagged airbag suspension, differentials, inter-axle differential, Kenworth, Meccano, Truck
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High sided
With gales last night reaching 112mph on the western edges of our island it was no surprise to see news this morning of all sorts of damage. With the wind whipping the branches of the many trees in my garden … Continue reading
Posted in Trucks
Tagged articulated, cabover, lorry, Meccano, Pete, Peterbilt, reefer, refrigerated, Semi-trailer truck, trailer, Truck
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“We just ain’t a-gonna pay no toll…”
So goes the line in the old song “Convoy” by the fictional C.W. McCall. Well, there was certainly a GMC in that convoy of trucks, (driven by “Pig-Pen“, haulin’ hogs) but possibly the driver didn’t look as cheerful as the … Continue reading
Posted in Trucks
Tagged C. W. McCall, Convoy, Erector Set, GMC, Meccano, Pig-Pen, Stokys, Truck
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An Automotive Gearbox
This is back to an old favourite subject. I’ve built loads of these in my time, and many of them appeared in “Everything Automotive III”, a compilation of gearbox designs that I edited a few years back (still available from … Continue reading
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