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I will try my hand with the boys during the half term break next week. Might keep them quiet for a while?
I made a lot of Meccano things when I was a lad, We lived in a pub and my bedroom was over the dining room. I needed a power source but didn't have an electric motor for the Meccano so I improvised and made a drum winch in reverse like a clock weight drive. I hung a can of paint on some string wound around the drum and it slowly unwound and was lowered as the string unwound from the drum. The can of paint went up and down past the dining room window causing huge amusement among the guests dining below.
I used this mechanism through gears and clutches with ratchets and brakes to operate a crane in my bedroom.
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Robert.