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In the second picture, are those hot wires hooked under the ground screws?

Ian A.

Meccano*???!! Rod, are they still selling that crap? I had a 'Tricitytrix' set which was German, too I think. Probably made by Krupps after the howitzer business went tits up. I made a crossbow and nearly pinioned our neighbor, Mrs Woodley.

* Meccano, for the uninitiated, was [is?] a toy modular construction kit, c/w garishly painted, [ but cunningly sharpened ], perforated strips, plates, nuts+bolts, gears, motors etc., with which the aspiring young engineer was supposedly guided smoothly through the intricacies of building, say, a 1/96 scale model of the Empire State Building. Then opting for Accountancy as a career when his parents refused to cough up the $20,000 for the necessary kits.

What is THAT?
Wow I have seen some interesting contraptions but that takes the cake!
That junk looks like its been kicking around for a while, those receptacles appear to be old " smith and stone" ( junk to start with). and I havent seen those sold in a LONG time.
Aside from the wiring and the duct tape special.. I HAVE seen two switches side by side in the same box similar to that...( Boss has one in his house in the office) G.E used to make an adapter and plate that allowed two of their old school rocker switches get mounted side by side in a 1 gang box... Puzzles me though why you would want to do that when you could just go buy a device that has two switches on one mounting strap!

A.D




[This message has been edited by electure (edited 09-11-2006).]

I don't see what the rest of ya'll are freakin' out for. They they put enough elec. tape around that contraption, and also, there was ducttape involved in the making of this. So...one can therefore rest assured that it's, GOOD TO GO!!

One second thought, they could have used a little bit more ducttape...haha

At least they did sell some similar stuff some 10 years ago. As I said, I had a tractor kit back then, with parts looking exactly like the ones pictured above.

I had a set when I was a kid too.

It's fun to watch folks that are going to be future winners at the Darwin Awards.

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Almost as good as the infamous Joy soap bottle receptacle floating in the pool ... almost

Sorry to digress from the topic here, but speaking of that "famous" floating recp in a swimming pool pic' was that actually for real??

The picture was not a joke.