"Andy Champ" wrote in message
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Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:05:56 UTC, "nightjar" cpb@insert my surname
here.me.uk wrote:

I suspect that only means that you didn't follow them step by step, so
didn't discover the errors. That works fine with the simpler projects,
but for something like this

http://www.dalefield.com/mwes/dragline/dragline1pg.html

which is a model I built too, you needed to follow the instructions as
far as possible and that is when you found they were not reliable.

I built that model in 1963! And yes, I remember having to modify bits of
it...


... and I remember looking at the plans for things like that, and never
having enough bits to make them. Not like you rich B***rs!

My father bought a huge box of mixed Meccano parts, along with a couple of
books of projects, off a street market stall. It wasn't as pretty as a boxed
set and I had to buy extra nuts and bolts, but I don't recall ever running
out of parts.

Colin Bignell