This will work very well in a project I'm working on. Thanks for this video Brian. And thanks to Mr. Grady too. Full building instructions in Meccano magazine January 1974.

So SWEET! (the gesture, that is, not the cake!) Happy Birthday matey

Happy Birthday. Excellent cake.

Belated birthday wishes.😃

Good mechanical fwd

I like it 🙂

This is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!

Love your videos and builds! Where do you buy your meccano? I live in USA, not sure if that's why I'm struggling or not.

Nice model. You going to Skegness ?

Meccano in name only.

Wouldnt two gears do the same thing?

Nice builds but. For the model 3.7 you have pointed the fact that there is no indication on how to attach the rope . Can you make a little sketch or a video on how to do it ? I have start it but i am deling with that problem since 2 days now.

I dare say I've a MEC1 you could borrow Brian.

Love Him! For the next challenge, can you make him breathe real fire ?? 😁😁👍🏻👍🏻

Man, I love meccano! Had all kinds of sets when i was a kid and still have them. My nephews loved building stuff with them when they were kids too!

Surely the vibration of the arm is caused by the circuit breaker on the right? When the arm moves down, the tension on the cord increases and pulls the 3-inch pulley slightly in the direction of the pull. Then the circuit breaker causes the electromagnet to be switched off, and the spring-loaded arm moves back upwards. During this brief phase, the tension in the cord is reduced, so the friction is reduced and there is no turning effect on the pulley, So the net movement is in the direction the cord pulls in for the split second the electromagnet is energised. It would, in fact, work just as well with DC.

Get it to sound a higher note when the wind speeds up so you can compare it with a keyboard and have a table note->wind speed. :D

beau travail.

Great to see this in action, thanks for posting this up. A great build 🙂

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice setup

Let's see it running Brian - please !

It will be good to see it in full operation

Love your channel!

0:52 The garden seat was the first model I made when I was about 7 years old in 1950. It was in red and green in those days.

Brilliant - it's like a cross between 70s games Cascade and Avalanche !!!

Thats a CVT gearbox meaning continuously variable transmission which is what you made

Qué bonito!! Yo tuve un Meccano cuando era niño. Fue, junto a mi tren eléctrico y mi primera bicicleta 🚲, uno de los regalos que más recuerdo y con más cariño, hoy día en que soy un adulto. Con el Meccano construí un sinnúmero de mecanismos y modelos y disfruté enormemente la experiencia infanfil de sentirme un gran constructor. Bonito barco 🚢, Felicitaciones 👏👏👏

Little late to the party here. If I get set 5, do I have all the parts I need to build these? Or do I need more parts?

Simplifies machines lead to learning complex machines.

Worth at least one point, surely?

There's this one from Robin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKG8aZmwpJKpsNE

Really nice!

Brilliant! The film was pretty good too 😊

Really enjoying your channel Brian! Lots of great ideas. Thanks :)

Hi, do you have any dimensions available for the roller sizes please?

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Nice

I'm intrigued by the rowers, as to when they first appeared in the instruction books. Some models only stayed for an edition or two, others went on for decades. The general style of that little fellow sugests 1920's to me, but I could be wrong.

I got hold of the prewar 'Supermodels' leaflets, buying the extra parts I needed to make ones which particularly interested me, ending up with roughly a No 10 + collection. Having grown up with Meccano, which taught me a great deal of my engineering know-how, I would never part with it. As for the instructions saying something was 'simple' (a very relative term) I recall the guidance for the pre-war No 8 RNLI lifeboat and tractor - "Construction of the lifeboat is obvious from the photograph......." a slight understatement if ever there was one...... (But a lovely, and very different model....)

The hook cage as you call it is known as a crab, particularly in traditional Meccano terminology

Thank you for going to the trouble of creating this to explain how it was done.

Very well done - I had actually never thought about how they produced that scene; such an iconic one too. Very interesting to watch how you did it, I'm sure you've hit on how the original was filmed too. Just as an aside, I'm watching your clip on 02/04/2023 which according to the Wiki P is the day 2001 premiered in 1968. Loved the video, thanks!

It was cheaper to build this set than to try and simulate freefall with wires, and ultimately more convincing as well.

Outstanding!

11 years and KZbin sends me to this video.. It either knows me way to well or is running out of stuff to show me. Either way, great video!

Buen video: Recomendación innecesaria pero buena, explicación clara y corta, con ejemplos y un monito que camina. 10/10

I went to see this film on first release in 1969, it became my favourite film. Thank you for the video. Very well explained.

With that much time and bolts you coulda built your own space rocket! I am kidding, interesting and very cool to see. Thanks for sharing. I bought a tattoo design course buy Guy Aitchison and he showed how to build diaramas and light them with absolutely magical lighting just using a few basic rules of composition and keeping your contrast between textures and colors, light and dark. He was building biomechanical contraptions much like HR Gieger but building em around a lightbulb where the light became a central vanishing point. You should all look up his courses and ignore the tattoo part, just look at the clay and chicken wire prop building and lighting, and design theories, the guy is a revolutionary. He changed tattooing forever.

i had no idea meccano was like this, i wish i had this instead of lego

Fantastic with much durismo!