On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 20:01:18 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:


On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 18:20:39 +0000, Max Demian wrote:


....but as you say, I loved Meccano, and longed for extra kits.


I inherited my older brother's Meccano.


I used to dream of having enough Meccano to actually build more than
a basic "car". We couldn't afford it. Nor any of electronics
construction kits, had to make do with stripping old boards of bits
that me Dad skip dived for. Still have alot of those pasrts...


I also had Brickplayer, kits of clay tiles you stuck together with
flour-and-water paste. There were plastic doors and windows and roofs of
card you stuck together. You could disassemble the bricks by soaking the
building in water to make something else.


Ah, precursor to Lego? Had lot's of Lego.


Ah Meccano! Every year my mother bought me an upgrade to convert the
set into the next one up. I got to No.9, but the 10 set was a no-no,
being twice as expensive as No.9.

I also had (and still have) Minibrix, like Lego but made of
brick-coloured rubber bricks which were snapped together or apart with
no messy cement like Brickplayer.
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Dave W